Botswana | Imports and Exports | World | Salt; sulphur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement | Value (US$) and Value Growth, YoY (%) | 2012 - 2023
The value of exports of commodity group 25 "Salt; sulfur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement" from Botswana totalled $ 25 million in 2023. Sales of commodity group 25 from Botswana decreased by 50% in value terms compared to 2022. exports of commodity group 25 "Salt; sulfur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement" decreased by $ 25 million (cumulative exports of commodity group 25 from Botswana amounted $51 million in 2022)
Exports of commodity group 25 "Salt; sulfur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement" amounted to 0.457% of total exports from Botswana (cumulative merchandise exports from Botswana totalled $ 5.5 billion in 2023). The share of commodity group 25 in total exports from Botswana increased by 0.154 p.p. compared to 2022 (it was 0.303% in 2022 and cumulative exports from Botswana were equal to $ 16.8 billion).
Where does Botswana export Salt; sulfur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement?
Top export destinations of "Salt; sulfur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement" from Botswana in 2023:
- Zambia with a share of 38% (9.76 million US$)
- Zimbabwe with a share of 35% (9.04 million US$)
- South Africa with a share of 21% (5.35 million US$)
- Tanzania with a share of 3.46% (873 thousand US$)
- Mozambique - 82 thousand US$
- Anguilla - 34 thousand US$
- Malawi - 13.6 thousand US$
- Congo - 7.85 thousand US$
- Dem. Rep. Congo - 2.61 thousand US$
- Namibia - 1.09 thousand US$
Exports structure of 25 - Salt; sulfur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement - from Botswana in 2023 represented by the following main commodity groups:
- 99% (24 million US$): 2501 - Salt (including table salt and denatured salt) and pure sodium chloride, whether or not in aqueous solution or containing added anti-caking or free-flowing agents; sea water
- 0.608% (153 thousand US$): 2523 - Portland cement, aluminous cement, slag cement, supersulphate cement and similar hydraulic cements, whether or not coloured or in the form of clinkers
- 0.329% (82 thousand US$): 2512 - Siliceous fossil meals (for example, kieselguhr, tripolite and diatomite) and similar siliceous earths, whether or not calcined, of an apparent specific gravity of 1 or less
- 0.009% (2.47 thousand US$): 2530 - Mineral substances not elsewhere specified or included.
- 0.009% (2.33 thousand US$): 2515 - Marble, travertine, ecaussine and other calcareous monumental or building stone of an apparent specific gravity of 2.5 or more, and alabaster, whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape
- 0.007% (1.81 thousand US$): 2505 - Natural sands of all kinds, whether or not coloured, other than metalbearing sands of Chapter 26.
- 0.004% (1.19 thousand US$): 2517 - Pebbles, gravel, broken or crushed stone, of a kind commonly used for concrete aggregates, for road metalling or for railway or other ballast, shingle and flint, whether or not heat-treated; macadam of slag, dross or similar industrial waste, whether or not incorporating the materials cited in the first part of the heading; tarred macadam; granules, chippings and powder, of stones of heading 25.15 or 25.16, whether or not heat-treated
- 0.002% (505 US$): 2529 - Feldspar; leucite, nepheline and nepheline syenite; fluorspar
- 0.002% (504 US$): 2520 - Gypsum; anhydrite; plasters (consisting of calcined gypsum or calcium sulphate) whether or not coloured, with or without small quantities of accelerators or retarders
- 0.001% (285 US$): 2516 - Granite, porphyry, basalt, sandstone and other monumental or building stone, whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape
The value of imports of commodity group 25 "Salt; sulfur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement" to Botswana totalled $ 59 million in 2023. Sales of commodity group 25 to Botswana decreased by 51% in value terms compared to 2022. imports of commodity group 25 "Salt; sulfur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement" decreased by $ 63 million (the value of imports of commodity group 25 to Botswana was equal to $123 million in 2022)
Imports of commodity group 25 "Salt; sulfur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement" accounted for 0.93% of total import flow to Botswana (in 2023, total imports to Botswana amounted to $ 6.41 billion). The share of commodity group 25 in total imports to Botswana increased by 0.171 p.p. compared to 2022 (it was 0.758% in 2022 and cumulative imports to Botswana were equal to $ 16.2 billion).
Where does Botswana import Salt; sulfur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement from?
Top trading partners (import of "Salt; sulfur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement") of Botswana in 2023:
- South Africa with a share of 81% (48 million US$)
- Namibia with a share of 18.4% (11 million US$)
- China - 122 thousand US$
- United Kingdom - 45 thousand US$
- Pakistan - 20 thousand US$
- USA - 19.3 thousand US$
- India - 15.6 thousand US$
- Canada - 7.51 thousand US$
- Lesotho - 7.5 thousand US$
- Zimbabwe - 2.64 thousand US$
Imports structure of 25 - Salt; sulfur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement - to Botswana in 2023 represented by the following main commodity groups:
- 93% (56 million US$): 2523 - Portland cement, aluminous cement, slag cement, supersulphate cement and similar hydraulic cements, whether or not coloured or in the form of clinkers
- 1.28% (765 thousand US$): 2501 - Salt (including table salt and denatured salt) and pure sodium chloride, whether or not in aqueous solution or containing added anti-caking or free-flowing agents; sea water
- 0.964% (575 thousand US$): 2520 - Gypsum; anhydrite; plasters (consisting of calcined gypsum or calcium sulphate) whether or not coloured, with or without small quantities of accelerators or retarders
- 0.849% (507 thousand US$): 2521 - Limestone flux; limestone and other calcareous stone, of a kind used for the manufacture of lime or cement
- 0.654% (390 thousand US$): 2522 - Quicklime, slaked lime and hydraulic lime, other than calcium oxide and hydroxide of heading 28.25.
- 0.57% (340 thousand US$): 2505 - Natural sands of all kinds, whether or not coloured, other than metalbearing sands of Chapter 26.
- 0.492% (293 thousand US$): 2516 - Granite, porphyry, basalt, sandstone and other monumental or building stone, whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape
- 0.392% (234 thousand US$): 2517 - Pebbles, gravel, broken or crushed stone, of a kind commonly used for concrete aggregates, for road metalling or for railway or other ballast, shingle and flint, whether or not heat-treated; macadam of slag, dross or similar industrial waste, whether or not incorporating the materials cited in the first part of the heading; tarred macadam; granules, chippings and powder, of stones of heading 25.15 or 25.16, whether or not heat-treated
- 0.207% (124 thousand US$): 2512 - Siliceous fossil meals (for example, kieselguhr, tripolite and diatomite) and similar siliceous earths, whether or not calcined, of an apparent specific gravity of 1 or less
- 0.16% (96 thousand US$): 2519 - Natural magnesium carbonate (magnesite); fused magnesia; dead-burned (sintered) magnesia, whether or not containing small quantities of other oxides added before sintering; other magnesium oxide, whether or not pure
