Burkina Faso | Imports and Exports | World | ALL COMMODITIES | Value (US$) and Value Growth, YoY (%) | 2012 - 2023

Exports structure from Burkina Faso in 2023 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 78% (3.51 billion US$): 71 - Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metals, metals clad with precious metal and articles thereof; imitation jewelry; coin
• 5.68% (253 million US$): 52 - Cotton
• 3.32% (148 million US$): 12 - Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruits; industrial or medicinal plants; straw and fodder
• 3.32% (148 million US$): 08 - Edible fruit and nuts; peel of citrus fruit or melons
• 2.41% (107 million US$): 25 - Salt; sulfur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement
• 1.31% (58 million US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 0.808% (36 million US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• 0.639% (28 million US$): 15 - Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes
• 0.58% (25 million US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 0.447% (19.9 million US$): 72 - Iron and steel

What did Burkina Faso export in 2023?

Burkina Faso's Top Exports in 2023:

• 78% ($3.51 billion): 7108 - Gold (including gold plated with platinum) unwrought or in semi-manufactured forms, or in powder form
• 5.59% ($249 million): 5201 - Cotton, not carded or combed.
• 3.04% ($135 million): 1207 - Other oil seeds and oleaginous fruits, whether or not broken, n.e.s. in chapter 12
• 2.67% ($119 million): 0801 - Coconuts, Brazil nuts and cashew nuts, fresh or dried, whether or not shelled or peeled
• 2.36% ($105 million): 2523 - Portland cement, aluminous cement, slag cement, supersulphate cement and similar hydraulic cements, whether or not coloured or in the form of clinkers
• 0.62% ($27 million): 0804 - Dates, figs, pineapples, avocados, guavas, mangoes and mangosteens, fresh or dried
• 0.591% ($26 million): 1515 - Fixed vegetable or microbial fats and oils n.e.s. in chapter 15 (including jojoba oil) and their fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified
• 0.58% ($25 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
• 0.568% ($25 million): 8429 - Self-propelled bulldozers, angledozers, graders, levellers, scrapers, mechanical shovels, excavators, shovel loaders, tamping machines and road rollers
• 0.518% ($23 million): 8704 - Motor vehicles for the transport of goods

Imports structure to Burkina Faso in 2023 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 39% (2.32 billion US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 6.86% (403 million US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 5.81% (342 million US$): 85 - Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles
• 5.13% (301 million US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• 4.24% (249 million US$): 25 - Salt; sulfur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement
• 4.23% (249 million US$): 30 - Pharmaceutical products
• 3.85% (226 million US$): 10 - Cereals
• 3.37% (198 million US$): 73 - Articles of iron or steel
• 2.42% (142 million US$): 72 - Iron and steel
• 1.99% (117 million US$): 31 - Fertilizers

What did Burkina Faso import in 2023?

Burkina Faso's Top Imports in 2023:

• 34% ($2 billion): 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
• 3.48% ($204 million): 2523 - Portland cement, aluminous cement, slag cement, supersulphate cement and similar hydraulic cements, whether or not coloured or in the form of clinkers
• 3.33% ($196 million): 2716 - Electrical energy. (optional heading)
• 3.07% ($181 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
• 2.04% ($120 million): 1006 - Rice
• 1.79% ($105 million): 1001 - Wheat and meslin.
• 1.65% ($97 million): 2711 - Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons
• 1.53% ($90 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
• 1.53% ($90 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
• 1.07% ($63 million): 1701 - Cane or beet sugar and chemically pure sucrose, in solid form