Benin | Imports and Exports | World | ALL COMMODITIES | Value (US$) and Value Growth, YoY (%) | 2007 - 2018

Exports structure from Benin in 2018 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 48% (459 million US$): 52 - Cotton
• 15% (142 million US$): 08 - Edible fruit and nuts; peel of citrus fruit or melons
• 5.49% (52 million US$): 12 - Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruits; industrial or medicinal plants; straw and fodder
• 5.03% (47 million US$): 15 - Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes
• 4.55% (43 million US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 3.4% (32 million US$): 72 - Iron and steel
• 3.23% (30 million US$): 02 - Meat and edible meat offal
• 2.71% (25 million US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 2.08% (19.8 million US$): 25 - Salt; sulfur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement
• 1.52% (14.4 million US$): 23 - Residues and waste from the food industries; prepared animal feed

What did Benin export in 2018?

Benin's Top Exports in 2018:

• 46% ($443 million): 5201 - Cotton, not carded or combed.
• 14.5% ($138 million): 0801 - Coconuts, Brazil nuts and cashew nuts, fresh or dried, whether or not shelled or peeled
• 4.6% ($43 million): 1207 - Other oil seeds and oleaginous fruits, whether or not broken, n.e.s. in chapter 12
• 3.74% ($35 million): 8411 - Turbo-jets, turbo-propellers and other gas turbines
• 3.23% ($30 million): 0207 - Meat and edible offal, of the poultry of heading 01.05, fresh, chilled or frozen.
• 2.67% ($25 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
• 2.48% ($23 million): 1512 - Sunflower-seed, safflower or cotton-seed oil and fractions thereof, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified
• 2.08% ($19.8 million): 2523 - Portland cement, aluminous cement, slag cement, supersulphate cement and similar hydraulic cements, whether or not coloured or in the form of clinkers
• 1.37% ($13 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.
• 1.36% ($12.9 million): 7108 - Gold (including gold plated with platinum) unwrought or in semi-manufactured forms, or in powder form

Imports structure to Benin in 2018 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 26% (879 million US$): 10 - Cereals
• 18% (604 million US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 7.26% (242 million US$): 15 - Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes
• 6.33% (211 million US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• 3.58% (120 million US$): 85 - Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles
• 3.44% (115 million US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 3.36% (112 million US$): 30 - Pharmaceutical products
• 3.31% (111 million US$): 02 - Meat and edible meat offal
• 3.14% (105 million US$): 03 - Fish and crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates
• 2.41% (80 million US$): 17 - Sugars and sugar confectionery

What did Benin import in 2018?

Benin's Top Imports in 2018:

• 26% ($875 million): 1006 - Rice
• 12.7% ($424 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
• 7.07% ($236 million): 1511 - Palm oil and its fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified
• 4.26% ($142 million): 2716 - Electrical energy. (optional heading)
• 3.31% ($110 million): 0207 - Meat and edible offal, of the poultry of heading 01.05, fresh, chilled or frozen.
• 2.86% ($95 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
• 2.85% ($95 million): 0303 - Fish, frozen, excluding fish fillets and other fish meat of heading 03.04.
• 2.36% ($79 million): 1701 - Cane or beet sugar and chemically pure sucrose, in solid form
• 2% ($67 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
• 1.61% ($54 million): 1101 - Wheat or meslin flour