Benin | Imports and Exports | World | ALL COMMODITIES | Value (US$) and Value Growth, YoY (%) | 2012 - 2023

Exports structure from Benin in 2023 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 48% (515 million US$): 52 - Cotton
• 12.5% (131 million US$): 12 - Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruits; industrial or medicinal plants; straw and fodder
• 11.1% (116 million US$): 08 - Edible fruit and nuts; peel of citrus fruit or melons
• 4.75% (49 million US$): 23 - Residues and waste from the food industries; prepared animal feed
• 4.41% (46 million US$): 72 - Iron and steel
• 3.87% (40 million US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 2.05% (21 million US$): 44 - Wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal
• 2% (21 million US$): 15 - Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes
• 1.95% (20 million US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 0.978% (10.2 million US$): 73 - Articles of iron or steel

What did Benin export in 2023?

Benin's Top Exports in 2023:

• 47% ($504 million): 5201 - Cotton, not carded or combed.
• 10.6% ($112 million): 0801 - Coconuts, Brazil nuts and cashew nuts, fresh or dried, whether or not shelled or peeled
• 8.69% ($91 million): 1201 - Soya beans, whether or not broken
• 3.84% ($40 million): 2710 - Petroleum oils and oils from bituminous minerals, not crude; preparations n.e.c. containing by weight 70% or more of petroleum oils or oils from bituminous minerals; these being the basic constituents of the preparations; waste oils
• 3.63% ($38 million): 1207 - Other oil seeds and oleaginous fruits, whether or not broken, n.e.s. in chapter 12
• 2.47% ($26 million): 2304 - Oil-cake and other solid residues, whether or not ground or in the form of pellets, resulting from the extraction of soyabean oil
• 1.94% ($20 million): 2306 - Oil-cake and other solid residues, whether or not ground or in the form of pellets, resulting from the extraction of vegetable fats or oils, other than those of heading 23.04 or 23.05.
• 1.92% ($20 million): 7214 - Other bars and rods of iron or non-alloy steel, not further worked than forged, hot-rolled, hot-drawn or hot-extruded, but including those twisted after rolling
• 1.73% ($18.2 million): 7213 - Bars and rods, hot-rolled, in irregularly wound coils, of iron or non-alloy steel
• 1.16% ($12.2 million): 8429 - Self-propelled bulldozers, angledozers, graders, levellers, scrapers, mechanical shovels, excavators, shovel loaders, tamping machines and road rollers

Imports structure to Benin in 2023 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 17.7% (691 million US$): 10 - Cereals
• 17% (665 million US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 6.99% (272 million US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 6.43% (251 million US$): 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
• 5.43% (212 million US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• 3.91% (152 million US$): 15 - Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes
• 3.74% (146 million US$): 30 - Pharmaceutical products
• 3.72% (145 million US$): 73 - Articles of iron or steel
• 3.2% (125 million US$): 31 - Fertilizers
• 3.18% (124 million US$): 02 - Meat and edible meat offal

What did Benin import in 2023?

Benin's Top Imports in 2023:

• 16.7% ($652 million): 1006 - Rice
• 12.6% ($493 million): 2710 - Petroleum oils and oils from bituminous minerals, not crude; preparations n.e.c. containing by weight 70% or more of petroleum oils or oils from bituminous minerals; these being the basic constituents of the preparations; waste oils
• 3.81% ($149 million): 1511 - Palm oil and its fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified
• 3.28% ($128 million): 3004 - Medicaments (excluding goods of heading 30.02, 30.05 or 30.06) consisting of mixed or unmixed products for therapeutic or prophylactic uses, put up in measured doses (including those in the form of transdermal administration systems) or in forms or packings for retail sale
• 3.17% ($123 million): 0207 - Meat and edible offal, of the poultry of heading 01.05, fresh, chilled or frozen.
• 3.04% ($118 million): 2716 - Electrical energy. (optional heading)
• 2.59% ($101 million): 0303 - Fish, frozen, excluding fish fillets and other fish meat of heading 03.04.
• 2.18% ($85 million): 3808 - Insecticides, rodenticides, fungicides, herbicides, anti-sprouting products and plant-growth regulators, disinfectants and similar products, put up in forms or packings for retail sale or as preparations or articles (for example, sulphur-treated bands, wicks and candles, and fly-papers)
• 1.8% ($70 million): 7308 - Structures (excluding prefabricated buildings of heading 94.06) and parts of structures (for example, bridges and bridge-sections, lock-gates, towers, lattice masts, roofs, roofing frame-works, doors and windows and their frames and thresholds for doors, shutters, balustrades, pillars and columns), of iron or steel; plates, rods, angles, shapes, sections, tubes and the like, prepared for use in structures, of iron or steel
• 1.65% ($64 million): 3103 - Mineral or chemical fertilisers, phosphatic.