Botswana | Imports and Exports | World | ALL COMMODITIES | Netweight (kg); Quantity and Value (US$) | 2007 - 2018

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

• 90% (5.95 billion US$): 71 - Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metals, metals clad with precious metal and articles thereof; imitation jewelry; coin
• 2.12% (139 million US$): 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
• 1.44% (94 million US$): 02 - Meat and edible meat offal
• 0.737% (48 million US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 0.703% (46 million US$): 28 - Inorganic chemicals; organic or inorganic compounds of precious metals, of rare earth metals, of radioactive elements or of isotopes
• 0.629% (41 million US$): 25 - Salt; sulfur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement
• 0.591% (38 million US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• 0.367% (24 million US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
• 0.296% (19.4 million US$): 88 - Aircraft, spacecraft, and parts thereof
• 0.27% (17.7 million US$): 49 - Printed books, newspapers, pictures and other products of the printing industry; manuscripts, typescripts and plans

What did Botswana export in 2018?

Botswana's Top Exports in 2018:

• 89% ($5.91 billion): 7102 - Diamonds, whether or not worked, but not mounted or set.
• 1.75% ($115 million): 8544 - Insulated (including enamelled or anodised) wire, cable (including co-axial cable) and other insulated electric conductors, whether or not fitted with connectors; optical fibre cables, made up of individually sheathed fibres, whether or not assembled with electric conductors or fitted with connectors.
• 0.778% ($51 million): 0202 - Meat of bovine animals, frozen.
• 0.693% ($45 million): 2836 - Carbonates; peroxocarbonates (percarbonates); commercial ammonium carbonate containing ammonium carbamate.
• 0.671% ($44 million): 7108 - Gold (including gold plated with platinum) unwrought or in semi-manufactured forms, or in powder form.
• 0.653% ($42 million): 0201 - Meat of bovine animals, fresh or chilled.
• 0.624% ($41 million): 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.
• 0.285% ($18.7 million): 8802 - Other aircraft (for example, helicopters, aeroplanes); spacecraft (including satellites) and suborbital and spacecraft launch vehicles.
• 0.261% ($17.2 million): 4907 - Unused postage, revenue or similar stamps of current or new issue in the country in which they have, or will have, a recognised face value; stamp-impressed paper; banknotes; cheque forms; stock, share or bond certificates and similar documents of title.
• 0.235% ($15.5 million): 3917 - Tubes, pipes and hoses, and fittings therefor (for example, joints, elbows, flanges), of plastics.

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

• 28% (1.77 billion US$): 71 - Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metals, metals clad with precious metal and articles thereof; imitation jewelry; coin
• 13.5% (832 million US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 7.72% (476 million US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 7.08% (437 million US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• 5.53% (341 million US$): 85 - Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles
• 1.94% (119 million US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
• 1.94% (119 million US$): 73 - Articles of iron or steel
• 1.81% (111 million US$): 30 - Pharmaceutical products
• 1.63% (100 million US$): 10 - Cereals
• 1.42% (88 million US$): 22 - Beverages, spirits and vinegar

What did Botswana import in 2018?

Botswana's Top Imports in 2018:

• 28% ($1.77 billion): 7102 - Diamonds, whether or not worked, but not mounted or set.
• 13% ($806 million): 2710 - Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, other than crude; preparations not elsewhere specified or included, containing by weight 70 % or more of petroleum oils or of oils obtained from bituminous minerals, these oils being the basic constituents of the preparations; waste oils.
• 2.51% ($154 million): 8704 - Motor vehicles for the transport of goods.
• 2.48% ($153 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.
• 1.48% ($91 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.
• 1.47% ($91 million): 8431 - Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the machinery of headings 84.25 to 84.30.
• 1.16% ($72 million): 8708 - Parts and accessories of the motor vehicles of headings 87.01 to 87.05.
• 1.02% ($63 million): 8544 - Insulated (including enamelled or anodised) wire, cable (including co-axial cable) and other insulated electric conductors, whether or not fitted with connectors; optical fibre cables, made up of individually sheathed fibres, whether or not assembled with electric conductors or fitted with connectors.
• 0.837% ($51 million): 2523 - Portland cement, aluminous cement, slag cement, supersulphate cement and similar hydraulic cements, whether or not coloured or in the form of clinkers.
• 0.785% ($48 million): 8471 - Automatic data processing machines and units thereof; magnetic or optical readers, machines for transcribing data onto data media in coded form and machines for processing such data, not elsewhere specified or included.