Annual International Trade Statistics by Country (HS)
Publication date: 2024-01-28
Reporting period: 2002 - 2022
Timeseries: 194 million
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Central African Republic | Imports and Exports | World | ALL COMMODITIES | Value (US$) and Value Growth, YoY (%) | 2009 - 2020

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TOTAL. ALL COMMODITIESCentral African RepublicWorldExportsValue (US$)80,531,817.0089,815,644.00103,936,772.00114,177,981.0048,510,006.0020,701,225.0096,853,681.0088,451,252.00196,990,937.2154,264,098.00123,969,756.2540,532,170.03
Value Growth, YoY (%)-29.4811.5215.729.85-57.51-57.32367.86-8.67122.71-72.45128.45-67.30
ImportsValue (US$)211,713,557.00209,945,572.00214,703,270.00217,528,639.00129,726,502.00308,030,080.00456,596,903.00401,319,710.00418,721,339.43384,386,438.00567,831,533.82544,916,439.29
Value Growth, YoY (%)14.42-0.832.261.31-40.36137.4448.23-12.104.33-8.1947.72-4.03

The value of merchandise exports from Central African Republic totalled $ 40 million in 2020. Overall commodity exports from Central African Republic decreased by 67% compared to 2019. Merchandise exports decreased by $ 83 million (the value of merchandise exports from Central African Republic amounted to $123 million in 2019)

Central African Republic's exports 2020 by country

Top export destinations of commodities from Central African Republic in 2020:

  • United Arab Emirates with a share of 24% (9.97 million US$)
  • Sweden with a share of 15.4% (6.24 million US$)
  • France with a share of 10.3% (4.19 million US$)
  • Switzerland with a share of 8.05% (3.26 million US$)
  • Uganda with a share of 7.03% (2.85 million US$)
  • China with a share of 6.96% (2.82 million US$)
  • Cameroon with a share of 4.09% (1.65 million US$)
  • Benin with a share of 3.65% (1.48 million US$)
  • Chad with a share of 2.92% (1.18 million US$)
  • Vietnam with a share of 2.76% (1.11 million US$)

Exports structure from Central African Republic in 2020 represented by the following main commodity groups:

  • 40% (16.5 million US$): 71 - Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metals, metals clad with precious metal and articles thereof; imitation jewelry; coin
  • 25% (10.1 million US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
  • 18.4% (7.48 million US$): 44 - Wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal
  • 9.4% (3.81 million US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
  • 1.62% (659 thousand US$): 86 - Railway or tramway locomotives, rolling-stock and parts thereof; railway or tramway track fixtures and fittings and parts thereof; mechanical (including electro-mechanical) traffic signaling equipment of all kinds
  • 0.722% (292 thousand US$): 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
  • 0.619% (251 thousand US$): 94 - Furniture; bedding, mattresses, mattress supports, cushions and similar stuffed furnishings; lamps and lighting fittings, n.e.s.; illuminated signs, illuminated name-plates and the like; prefabricated buildings
  • 0.618% (250 thousand US$): 52 - Cotton
  • 0.54% (219 thousand US$): 11 - Products of the milling industry; malt; starches; inulin; wheat gluten
  • 0.451% (182 thousand US$): 70 - Glass and glassware

What did Central African Republic export in 2020?

Central African Republic's Top Exports in 2020:

  • 24% ($9.82 million): 7108 - Gold (including gold plated with platinum) unwrought or in semi-manufactured forms, or in powder form
  • 21% ($8.57 million): 8704 - Motor vehicles for the transport of goods
  • 16.6% ($6.74 million): 7102 - Diamonds, whether or not worked, but not mounted or set
  • 11.2% ($4.56 million): 4403 - Wood in the rough, whether or not stripped of bark or sapwood, or roughly squared
  • 6.89% ($2.79 million): 4407 - Wood sawn or chipped lengthwise, sliced or peeled, whether or not planed, sanded or end-jointed, of a thickness exceeding 6 mm
  • 6.02% ($2.44 million): 8429 - Self-propelled bulldozers, angledozers, graders, levellers, scrapers, mechanical shovels, excavators, shovel loaders, tamping machines and road rollers
  • 1.62% ($659 thousand): 8609 - Containers (including containers for the transport of fluids) specially designed and equipped for carriage by one or more modes of transport
  • 1.11% ($452 thousand): 8701 - Tractors (other than tractors of heading 87.09)
  • 0.99% ($401 thousand): 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
  • 0.849% ($344 thousand): 8705 - Special purpose motor vehicles, other than those principally designed for the transport of persons or goods (for example, breakdown lorries, crane lorries, fire fighting vehicles, concrete-mixer lorries, road sweeper lorries, spraying lorries, mobile workshops, mobile radiological units)

The value of merchandise imports to Central African Republic totalled $ 544 million in 2020. Overall commodity imports to Central African Republic decreased by 4.03% compared to 2019. Merchandise imports decreased by $ 22 million (the value of merchandise imports to Central African Republic was equal to $567 million in 2019)

Central African Republic's imports 2020 by country

Top trading partners (import sources) of Central African Republic in 2020:

  • Cameroon with a share of 26% (142 million US$)
  • China with a share of 17.1% (93 million US$)
  • France with a share of 14% (76 million US$)
  • Belgium with a share of 7.05% (38 million US$)
  • Italy with a share of 5.06% (27 million US$)
  • USA with a share of 3.59% (19.5 million US$)
  • India with a share of 3.35% (18.2 million US$)
  • Chad with a share of 2.83% (15.4 million US$)
  • Denmark with a share of 2.72% (14.8 million US$)
  • Portugal with a share of 2.67% (14.5 million US$)

Imports structure to Central African Republic in 2020 represented by the following main commodity groups:

  • 18.2% (99 million US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
  • 12.9% (70 million US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
  • 10% (54 million US$): 85 - Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles
  • 9.66% (52 million US$): 30 - Pharmaceutical products
  • 6.86% (37 million US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
  • 3.17% (17.3 million US$): 63 - Other made up textile articles; sets; worn clothing and worn textile articles; rags
  • 2.73% (14.9 million US$): 94 - Furniture; bedding, mattresses, mattress supports, cushions and similar stuffed furnishings; lamps and lighting fittings, n.e.s.; illuminated signs, illuminated name-plates and the like; prefabricated buildings
  • 2.65% (14.4 million US$): 21 - Miscellaneous edible preparations
  • 2.38% (13 million US$): 90 - Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof
  • 2.37% (12.9 million US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof

What did Central African Republic import in 2020?

Central African Republic's Top Imports in 2020:

  • 12.5% ($68 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
  • 7.98% ($43 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
  • 5.8% ($31 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
  • 3.71% ($20 million): 8704 - Motor vehicles for the transport of goods
  • 3.67% ($20 million): 3002 - Human blood; animal blood for therapeutic, prophylactic or diagnostic uses; antisera, other blood fractions, immunological products, modified or obtained by biotechnological processes; vaccines, toxins, cultures of micro-organisms (excluding yeasts) etc
  • 2.95% ($16.1 million): 8710 - Tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, motorised, whether or not fitted with weapons, and parts of such vehicles
  • 2.5% ($13.6 million): 8517 - Electrical apparatus for line telephony or line telegraphy, including line telephone sets with cordless handsets and telecommunication apparatus for carrier-current line systems or for digital line systems; videophones
  • 2.39% ($13 million): 8502 - Electric generating sets and rotary converters
  • 2.03% ($11 million): 1006 - Rice
  • 1.88% ($10.2 million): 2106 - Food preparations not elsewhere specified or included

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