Burkina Faso | Imports and Exports | World | ALL COMMODITIES | Value (US$) and Value Growth, YoY (%) | 2005 - 2016

Exports structure from Burkina Faso in 2016 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 61% (1.55 billion US$): 71 - Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metals, metals clad with precious metal and articles thereof; imitation jewelry; coin
• 16.9% (428 million US$): 52 - Cotton
• 6.15% (155 million US$): 12 - Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruits; industrial or medicinal plants; straw and fodder
• 5.04% (127 million US$): 08 - Edible fruit and nuts; peel of citrus fruit or melons
• 3.54% (89 million US$): 79 - Zinc and articles thereof
• 1.07% (27 million US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 0.917% (23 million US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• 0.722% (18.2 million US$): 38 - Miscellaneous chemical products
• 0.619% (15.6 million US$): 15 - Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes
• 0.423% (10.6 million US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes

What did Burkina Faso export in 2016?

Burkina Faso's Top Exports in 2016:

• 61% ($1.54 billion): 7108 - Gold (including gold plated with platinum) unwrought or in semi-manufactured forms, or in powder form
• 15.7% ($397 million): 5201 - Cotton, not carded or combed.
• 6.02% ($151 million): 1207 - Other oil seeds and oleaginous fruits, whether or not broken, n.e.s. in chapter 12
• 4.47% ($112 million): 0801 - Coconuts, Brazil nuts and cashew nuts, fresh or dried, whether or not shelled or peeled
• 3.54% ($89 million): 7901 - Unwrought zinc
• 1.05% ($26 million): 5203 - Cotton, carded or combed
• 0.644% ($16.2 million): 3802 - Activated carbon; activated natural mineral products; animal black, including spent animal black
• 0.6% ($15.1 million): 8704 - Motor vehicles for the transport of goods
• 0.557% ($14 million): 0804 - Dates, figs, pineapples, avocados, guavas, mangoes and mangosteens, fresh or dried
• 0.438% ($11 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

Imports structure to Burkina Faso in 2016 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 19.9% (666 million US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 12.3% (413 million US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 7.68% (256 million US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• 6.33% (211 million US$): 30 - Pharmaceutical products
• 6.01% (201 million US$): 85 - Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles
• 4.46% (149 million US$): 72 - Iron and steel
• 4.42% (147 million US$): 10 - Cereals
• 4.06% (135 million US$): 25 - Salt; sulfur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement
• 3.96% (132 million US$): 31 - Fertilizers
• 3.3% (110 million US$): 73 - Articles of iron or steel

What did Burkina Faso import in 2016?

Burkina Faso's Top Imports in 2016:

• 18.5% ($619 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
• 4.99% ($166 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
• 3.2% ($107 million): 2523 - Portland cement, aluminous cement, slag cement, supersulphate cement and similar hydraulic cements, whether or not coloured or in the form of clinkers
• 3.2% ($107 million): 1006 - Rice
• 2.74% ($91 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
• 2.66% ($89 million): 8429 - Self-propelled bulldozers, angledozers, graders, levellers, scrapers, mechanical shovels, excavators, shovel loaders, tamping machines and road rollers
• 1.96% ($65 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
• 1.82% ($60 million): 8704 - Motor vehicles for the transport of goods
• 1.73% ($57 million): 8711 - Motorcycles (including mopeds) and cycles fitted with an auxiliary motor, with or without side-cars; side-cars.
• 1.67% ($55 million): 8431 - Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the machinery of headings 84.25 to 84.30