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

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

• 89% (3.8 billion US$): 71 - Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metals, metals clad with precious metal and articles thereof; imitation jewelry; coin
• 2.31% (98 million US$): 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
• 1.04% (44 million US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 0.942% (40 million US$): 01 - Live animals
• 0.94% (40 million US$): 28 - Inorganic chemicals; organic or inorganic compounds of precious metals, of rare earth metals, of radioactive elements or of isotopes
• 0.62% (26 million US$): 26 - Ores, slag and ash
• 0.576% (24 million US$): 25 - Salt; sulfur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement
• 0.559% (23 million US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• 0.54% (23 million US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
• 0.459% (19.5 million US$): 02 - Meat and edible meat offal

What did Botswana export in 2020?

Botswana's Top Exports in 2020:

• 88% ($3.75 billion): 7102 - Diamonds, whether or not worked, but not mounted or set.
• 1.91% ($81 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.
• 1.08% ($46 million): 7108 - Gold (including gold plated with platinum) unwrought or in semi-manufactured forms, or in powder form.
• 0.94% ($40 million): 0102 - Live bovine animals.
• 0.94% ($40 million): 2836 - Carbonates; peroxocarbonates (percarbonates); commercial ammonium carbonate containing ammonium carbamate.
• 0.62% ($26 million): 2603 - Copper ores and concentrates.
• 0.572% ($24 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.
• 0.37% ($15.7 million): 2701 - Coal; briquettes, ovoids and similar solid fuels manufactured from coal.
• 0.357% ($15.2 million): 3917 - Tubes, pipes and hoses, and fittings therefor (for example, joints, elbows, flanges), of plastics.
• 0.331% ($14.1 million): 0202 - Meat of bovine animals, frozen.

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

• 30% (2 billion US$): 71 - Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metals, metals clad with precious metal and articles thereof; imitation jewelry; coin
• 13% (848 million US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 8.41% (547 million US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• 6% (390 million US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 5.13% (333 million US$): 85 - Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles
• 2.21% (144 million US$): 10 - Cereals
• 1.91% (124 million US$): 30 - Pharmaceutical products
• 1.86% (121 million US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
• 1.81% (118 million US$): 73 - Articles of iron or steel
• 1.68% (109 million US$): 22 - Beverages, spirits and vinegar

What did Botswana import in 2020?

Botswana's Top Imports in 2020:

• 30% ($1.99 billion): 7102 - Diamonds, whether or not worked, but not mounted or set.
• 9.56% ($622 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.
• 3.03% ($197 million): 2716 - Electrical energy. (optional heading)
• 2.33% ($151 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.
• 2.32% ($151 million): 8710 - Tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, motorised, whether or not fitted with weapons, and parts of such vehicles.
• 1.81% ($117 million): 8704 - Motor vehicles for the transport of goods.
• 1.48% ($96 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.
• 1.35% ($87 million): 8525 - Transmission apparatus for radio-telephony, radio-telegraphy, radio-broadcasting or television, whether or not incorporating reception apparatus or sound recording or reproducing apparatus; television cameras; still image video cameras and other video camera recorders; digital cameras.
• 0.973% ($63 million): 8708 - Parts and accessories of the motor vehicles of headings 87.01 to 87.05.
• 0.915% ($59 million): 1005 - Maize (corn).