Bhutan | Imports and Exports | World | ALL COMMODITIES | Value (US$) and Value Growth, YoY (%) | 2005 - 2012

Exports structure from Bhutan in 2012 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 34% (184 million US$): 72 - Iron and steel
• 32% (174 million US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 11.1% (59 million US$): 25 - Salt; sulfur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement
• 5.73% (30 million US$): 28 - Inorganic chemicals; organic or inorganic compounds of precious metals, of rare earth metals, of radioactive elements or of isotopes
• 4.56% (24 million US$): 74 - Copper and articles thereof
• 1.9% (10 million US$): 08 - Edible fruit and nuts; peel of citrus fruit or melons
• 1.62% (8.65 million US$): 09 - Coffee, tea, matT and spices
• 1.28% (6.84 million US$): 07 - Edible vegetables and certain roots and tubers
• 1.23% (6.54 million US$): 44 - Wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal
• 1.13% (6.05 million US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof

What did Bhutan export in 2012?

Bhutan's Top Exports in 2012:

• 32% ($170 million): 2716 - Electrical energy. (optional heading)
• 24% ($127 million): 7202 - Ferro-alloys.
• 5.56% ($29 million): 2849 - Carbides, whether or not chemically defined
• 5.09% ($27 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
• 4.72% ($25 million): 2523 - Portland cement, aluminous cement, slag cement, supersulphate cement and similar hydraulic cements, whether or not coloured or in the form of clinkers
• 4.55% ($24 million): 7408 - Copper wire.
• 4.06% ($21 million): 7207 - Semi-finished products of iron or non-alloy steel
• 3.31% ($17.5 million): 2518 - Dolomite, whether or not calcined or sintered, including dolomite roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape
• 1.94% ($10.3 million): 2520 - Gypsum; anhydrite; plasters (consisting of calcined gypsum or calcium sulphate) whether or not coloured, with or without small quantities of accelerators or retarders
• 1.59% ($8.46 million): 0805 - Citrus fruit, fresh or dried.

Imports structure to Bhutan in 2012 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 18.4% (182 million US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 12.4% (123 million US$): 72 - Iron and steel
• 11.2% (111 million US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 6.78% (67 million US$): 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
• 5.41% (53 million US$): 73 - Articles of iron or steel
• 4.68% (46 million US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• 2.93% (29 million US$): 25 - Salt; sulfur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement
• 2.79% (27 million US$): 74 - Copper and articles thereof
• 2.58% (25 million US$): 10 - Cereals
• 2.34% (23 million US$): 44 - Wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal

What did Bhutan import in 2012?

Bhutan's Top Imports in 2012:

• 13.1% ($130 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
• 4.1% ($40 million): 7203 - Ferrous products obtained by direct reduction of iron ore and other spongy ferrous products, in lumps, pellets or similar forms; iron having a minimum purity by weight of 99.94 %, in lumps, pellets or similar forms
• 3.05% ($30 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
• 2.67% ($26 million): 7408 - Copper wire.
• 2.36% ($23 million): 1006 - Rice
• 2.16% ($21 million): 7204 - Ferrous waste and scrap; remelting scrap ingots of iron or steel.
• 2.15% ($21 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
• 1.87% ($18.5 million): 4402 - Wood charcoal (including shell or nut charcoal), whether or not agglomerated
• 1.84% ($18.3 million): 8410 - Hydraulic turbines, water wheels, and regulators therefor
• 1.75% ($17.4 million): 8429 - Self-propelled bulldozers, angledozers, graders, levellers, scrapers, mechanical shovels, excavators, shovel loaders, tamping machines and road rollers