Benin | Imports and Exports | World | ALL COMMODITIES | Value (US$) and Value Growth, YoY (%) | 2006 - 2017

Exports structure from Benin in 2017 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 49% (364 million US$): 52 - Cotton
• 13.2% (98 million US$): 08 - Edible fruit and nuts; peel of citrus fruit or melons
• 5.95% (44 million US$): 15 - Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes
• 4.43% (32 million US$): 12 - Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruits; industrial or medicinal plants; straw and fodder
• 4.02% (29 million US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 3.1% (23 million US$): 02 - Meat and edible meat offal
• 3.06% (22 million US$): 71 - Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metals, metals clad with precious metal and articles thereof; imitation jewelry; coin
• 2.92% (21 million US$): 25 - Salt; sulfur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement
• 2.49% (18.4 million US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 2.17% (16.1 million US$): 72 - Iron and steel

What did Benin export in 2017?

Benin's Top Exports in 2017:

• 47% ($352 million): 5201 - Cotton, not carded or combed.
• 11.2% ($83 million): 0801 - Coconuts, Brazil nuts and cashew nuts, fresh or dried, whether or not shelled or peeled
• 3.24% ($24 million): 1512 - Sunflower-seed, safflower or cotton-seed oil and fractions thereof, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified
• 3.22% ($23 million): 1207 - Other oil seeds and oleaginous fruits, whether or not broken, n.e.s. in chapter 12
• 3.08% ($22 million): 0207 - Meat and edible offal, of the poultry of heading 01.05, fresh, chilled or frozen.
• 3.05% ($22 million): 7108 - Gold (including gold plated with platinum) unwrought or in semi-manufactured forms, or in powder form
• 2.71% ($20 million): 2523 - Portland cement, aluminous cement, slag cement, supersulphate cement and similar hydraulic cements, whether or not coloured or in the form of clinkers
• 2.36% ($17.5 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
• 2.03% ($15.1 million): 0802 - Other nuts, fresh or dried, whether or not shelled or peeled
• 1.96% ($14.5 million): 1511 - Palm oil and its fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified

Imports structure to Benin in 2017 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 33% (1.07 billion US$): 10 - Cereals
• 16.5% (530 million US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 6.66% (213 million US$): 15 - Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes
• 5.26% (168 million US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• 3.71% (119 million US$): 85 - Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles
• 3.67% (118 million US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 3.14% (100 million US$): 02 - Meat and edible meat offal
• 3.03% (97 million US$): 30 - Pharmaceutical products
• 2.79% (89 million US$): 03 - Fish and crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates
• 1.87% (60 million US$): 72 - Iron and steel

What did Benin import in 2017?

Benin's Top Imports in 2017:

• 33% ($1.06 billion): 1006 - Rice
• 11.4% ($368 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
• 6.25% ($200 million): 1511 - Palm oil and its fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified
• 3.78% ($121 million): 2716 - Electrical energy. (optional heading)
• 3.13% ($100 million): 0207 - Meat and edible offal, of the poultry of heading 01.05, fresh, chilled or frozen.
• 2.75% ($88 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
• 2.21% ($71 million): 8703 - Motor cars and other motor vehicles principally designed for the transport of persons (other than those of heading 87.02), including station wagons and racing cars
• 1.78% ($57 million): 1701 - Cane or beet sugar and chemically pure sucrose, in solid form
• 1.52% ($48 million): 8711 - Motorcycles (including mopeds) and cycles fitted with an auxiliary motor, with or without side-cars; side-cars.
• 1.49% ($47 million): 0303 - Fish, frozen, excluding fish fillets and other fish meat of heading 03.04.