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

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

• 81% (3.56 billion US$): 71 - Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metals, metals clad with precious metal and articles thereof; imitation jewelry; coin
• 6.05% (265 million US$): 52 - Cotton
• 2.66% (116 million US$): 12 - Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruits; industrial or medicinal plants; straw and fodder
• 2.41% (105 million US$): 26 - Ores, slag and ash
• 2.18% (95 million US$): 08 - Edible fruit and nuts; peel of citrus fruit or melons
• 0.824% (36 million US$): 15 - Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes
• 0.713% (31 million US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 0.708% (31 million US$): 25 - Salt; sulfur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement
• 0.638% (27 million US$): 10 - Cereals
• 0.378% (16.5 million US$): 72 - Iron and steel

What did Burkina Faso export in 2020?

Burkina Faso's Top Exports in 2020:

• 81% ($3.56 billion): 7108 - Gold (including gold plated with platinum) unwrought or in semi-manufactured forms, or in powder form
• 5.98% ($261 million): 5201 - Cotton, not carded or combed.
• 2.5% ($109 million): 1207 - Other oil seeds and oleaginous fruits, whether or not broken, n.e.s. in chapter 12
• 2.41% ($105 million): 2608 - Zinc ores and concentrates
• 1.55% ($68 million): 0801 - Coconuts, Brazil nuts and cashew nuts, fresh or dried, whether or not shelled or peeled
• 0.766% ($33 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
• 0.625% ($27 million): 0804 - Dates, figs, pineapples, avocados, guavas, mangoes and mangosteens, fresh or dried
• 0.615% ($26 million): 2523 - Portland cement, aluminous cement, slag cement, supersulphate cement and similar hydraulic cements, whether or not coloured or in the form of clinkers
• 0.477% ($20 million): 1005 - Maize (corn)
• 0.287% ($12.5 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

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

• 26% (1.11 billion US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 10.7% (450 million US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 7.61% (318 million US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• 6.12% (255 million US$): 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
• 5.8% (242 million US$): 30 - Pharmaceutical products
• 4.71% (196 million US$): 25 - Salt; sulfur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement
• 3.71% (155 million US$): 72 - Iron and steel
• 3.44% (143 million US$): 10 - Cereals
• 3.01% (125 million US$): 73 - Articles of iron or steel
• 2.27% (95 million US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof

What did Burkina Faso import in 2020?

Burkina Faso's Top Imports in 2020:

• 20% ($871 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
• 4.77% ($199 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
• 4.01% ($167 million): 2523 - Portland cement, aluminous cement, slag cement, supersulphate cement and similar hydraulic cements, whether or not coloured or in the form of clinkers
• 3.39% ($141 million): 2716 - Electrical energy. (optional heading)
• 2.45% ($102 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
• 2.42% ($101 million): 1006 - Rice
• 2.12% ($88 million): 2711 - Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons
• 2.03% ($84 million): 8704 - Motor vehicles for the transport of goods
• 1.95% ($81 million): 8429 - Self-propelled bulldozers, angledozers, graders, levellers, scrapers, mechanical shovels, excavators, shovel loaders, tamping machines and road rollers
• 1.52% ($63 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