Benin | Imports and Exports | World | ALL COMMODITIES | Value (US$) and Value Growth, YoY (%) | 2009 - 2020

Exports structure from Benin in 2020 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 55% (472 million US$): 52 - Cotton
• 7.24% (61 million US$): 12 - Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruits; industrial or medicinal plants; straw and fodder
• 7.1% (60 million US$): 08 - Edible fruit and nuts; peel of citrus fruit or melons
• 4.46% (37 million US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 3.77% (31 million US$): 23 - Residues and waste from the food industries; prepared animal feed
• 2.92% (24 million US$): 72 - Iron and steel
• 2.64% (22 million US$): 85 - Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles
• 2.5% (21 million US$): 44 - Wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal
• 2.17% (18.3 million US$): 25 - Salt; sulfur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement
• 2.04% (17.2 million US$): 15 - Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes

What did Benin export in 2020?

Benin's Top Exports in 2020:

• 53% ($451 million): 5201 - Cotton, not carded or combed.
• 6.74% ($57 million): 0801 - Coconuts, Brazil nuts and cashew nuts, fresh or dried, whether or not shelled or peeled
• 5.51% ($46 million): 1207 - Other oil seeds and oleaginous fruits, whether or not broken, n.e.s. in chapter 12
• 4.4% ($37 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
• 3.64% ($30 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.
• 2.14% ($18.1 million): 2523 - Portland cement, aluminous cement, slag cement, supersulphate cement and similar hydraulic cements, whether or not coloured or in the form of clinkers
• 1.87% ($15.8 million): 8502 - Electric generating sets and rotary converters
• 1.74% ($14.7 million): 7108 - Gold (including gold plated with platinum) unwrought or in semi-manufactured forms, or in powder form
• 1.57% ($13.3 million): 1201 - Soya beans, whether or not broken
• 1.32% ($11.2 million): 5208 - Woven fabrics of cotton, containing 85 % or more by weight of cotton, weighing not more than 200 g/m2

Imports structure to Benin in 2020 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 18.6% (495 million US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 15% (401 million US$): 10 - Cereals
• 8.14% (216 million US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• 4.73% (125 million US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 4.7% (125 million US$): 30 - Pharmaceutical products
• 4.58% (122 million US$): 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
• 4.16% (110 million US$): 03 - Fish and crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates
• 3.32% (88 million US$): 72 - Iron and steel
• 3.14% (83 million US$): 31 - Fertilizers
• 2.99% (79 million US$): 02 - Meat and edible meat offal

What did Benin import in 2020?

Benin's Top Imports in 2020:

• 14.7% ($393 million): 1006 - Rice
• 13% ($346 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
• 4.14% ($110 million): 0303 - Fish, frozen, excluding fish fillets and other fish meat of heading 03.04.
• 4% ($106 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
• 3.6% ($96 million): 2716 - Electrical energy. (optional heading)
• 2.98% ($79 million): 0207 - Meat and edible offal, of the poultry of heading 01.05, fresh, chilled or frozen.
• 2.83% ($75 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
• 2.62% ($69 million): 1511 - Palm oil and its fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified
• 2.4% ($63 million): 3105 - Mineral or chemical fertilisers containing two or three of the fertilising elements nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium; other fertilisers; goods of this Chapter in tablets or similar forms or in packages of a gross weight not exceeding 10 kg
• 2.17% ($57 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)