Afghanistan | Imports and Exports | World | ALL COMMODITIES | Value (US$) and Value Growth, YoY (%) | 2008 - 2019

Exports structure from Afghanistan in 2019 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 44% (386 million US$): 08 - Edible fruit and nuts; peel of citrus fruit or melons
• 13.2% (115 million US$): 13 - Lac; gums, resins and other vegetable saps and extracts
• 9.27% (80 million US$): 07 - Edible vegetables and certain roots and tubers
• 7.99% (69 million US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 6.46% (56 million US$): 09 - Coffee, tea, matT and spices
• 4.97% (43 million US$): 12 - Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruits; industrial or medicinal plants; straw and fodder
• 3.16% (27 million US$): 52 - Cotton
• 2.85% (24 million US$): 57 - Carpets and other textile floor coverings
• 2.18% (19 million US$): 25 - Salt; sulfur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement
• 1% (8.78 million US$): 10 - Cereals

What did Afghanistan export in 2019?

Afghanistan's Top Exports in 2019:

• 14.9% ($130 million): 0806 - Grapes, fresh or dried.
• 13.2% ($115 million): 1302 - Vegetable saps and extracts; pectic substances, pectinates and pectates; agar-agar and other mucilages and thickeners, whether or not modified, derived from vegetable products.
• 11.5% ($100 million): 0802 - Other nuts, fresh or dried, whether or not shelled or peeled.
• 9.84% ($85 million): 0804 - Dates, figs, pineapples, avocados, guavas, mangoes and mangosteens, fresh or dried.
• 7.98% ($69 million): 2701 - Coal; briquettes, ovoids and similar solid fuels manufactured from coal.
• 4.08% ($35 million): 0703 - Onions, shallots, garlic, leeks and other alliaceous vegetables, fresh or chilled.
• 3.37% ($29 million): 0909 - Seeds of anise, badian, fennel, coriander, cumin or caraway; juniper berries.
• 3.03% ($26 million): 0910 - Ginger, saffron, turmeric (curcuma), thyme, bay leaves, curry and other spices.
• 2.85% ($24 million): 5701 - Carpets and other textile floor coverings, knotted, whether or not made up.
• 2.77% ($24 million): 0702 - Tomatoes, fresh or chilled.

Imports structure to Afghanistan in 2019 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 22% (1.94 billion US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 6.91% (592 million US$): 11 - Products of the milling industry; malt; starches; inulin; wheat gluten
• 5.31% (455 million US$): 15 - Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their cleavage products prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes
• 5.08% (435 million US$): 85 - Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles
• 4.56% (390 million US$): 68 - Articles of stone, plaster, cement, asbestos, mica or similar materials
• 4.53% (388 million US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• 4.18% (358 million US$): 53 - Other vegetable textile fibers; paper yarn and woven fabric of paper yarn
• 4.18% (358 million US$): 90 - Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof
• 3.65% (313 million US$): 99 - Commodities not specified according to kind
• 2.85% (245 million US$): 72 - Iron and steel

What did Afghanistan import in 2019?

Afghanistan's Top Imports in 2019:

• 9.32% ($799 million): 2703 - Peat (including peat litter), whether or not agglomerated.
• 9.23% ($791 million): 2710 - Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, other than crude; preparations not elsewhere specified or included, containing by weight 70 % or more of petroleum oils or of oils obtained from bituminous minerals, these oils being the basic constituents of the preparations; waste oils.
• 6.59% ($564 million): 1101 - Wheat or meslin flour.
• 4.47% ($383 million): 1518 - Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their fractions, boiled, oxidised, dehydrated, sulphurised, blown, polymerised by heat in vacuum or in inert gas or otherwise chemically modified, excluding those of heading 15.16; inedible mixtures or preparations of animal or vegetable fats or oils or of fractions of different fats or oils of this Chapter, not elsewhere specified or included.
• 4.24% ($364 million): 6801 - Setts, curbstones and flagstones, of natural stone (except slate).
• 4.13% ($354 million): 5309 - Woven fabrics of flax.
• 2.8% ($240 million): 9028 - Gas, liquid or electricity supply or production meters, including calibrating meters therefor.
• 2.77% ($238 million): 2711 - Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons.
• 2.51% ($215 million): 1701 - Cane or beet sugar and chemically pure sucrose, in solid form.