Ghana | Imports and Exports | World | ALL COMMODITIES | Value (US$) and Value Growth, YoY (%) | 2006 - 2017

Exports structure from Ghana in 2017 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 40% (5.86 billion US$): 71 - Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metals, metals clad with precious metal and articles thereof; imitation jewelry; coin
• 25% (3.63 billion US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 16.9% (2.43 billion US$): 18 - Cocoa and cocoa preparations
• 2.85% (409 million US$): 08 - Edible fruit and nuts; peel of citrus fruit or melons
• 2.57% (370 million US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
• 1.31% (189 million US$): 44 - Wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal
• 1.3% (187 million US$): 15 - Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes
• 1.29% (186 million US$): 26 - Ores, slag and ash
• 0.986% (141 million US$): 16 - Preparations of meat, of fish or of crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates
• 0.64% (92 million US$): 25 - Salt; sulfur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement

What did Ghana export in 2017?

Ghana's Top Exports in 2017:

• 40% ($5.85 billion): 7108 - Gold (including gold plated with platinum) unwrought or in semi-manufactured forms, or in powder form
• 25% ($3.61 billion): 2709 - Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, crude
• 11.4% ($1.64 billion): 1801 - Cocoa beans, whole or broken, raw or roasted
• 2.83% ($407 million): 1803 - Cocoa paste, whether or not defatted.
• 2.07% ($298 million): 0801 - Coconuts, Brazil nuts and cashew nuts, fresh or dried, whether or not shelled or peeled
• 1.92% ($276 million): 1804 - Cocoa butter, fat and oil
• 1.48% ($213 million): 3924 - Tableware, kitchenware, other household articles and toilet articles, of plastics
• 1.08% ($155 million): 2602 - Manganese ores and concentrates, including ferruginous manganese ores and concentrates with a manganese content of 20 % or more, calculated on the dry weight
• 0.98% ($140 million): 1604 - Prepared or preserved fish; caviar and caviar substitutes prepared from fish eggs
• 0.852% ($122 million): 3917 - Tubes, pipes and hoses, and fittings therefor (for example, joints, elbows, flanges), of plastics

Imports structure to Ghana in 2017 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 14.7% (1.87 billion US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• 10.9% (1.39 billion US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 7.7% (980 million US$): 25 - Salt; sulfur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement
• 6.17% (785 million US$): 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
• 5.63% (716 million US$): 10 - Cereals
• 4.12% (524 million US$): 48 - Paper and paperboard; articles of paper pulp, of paper or of paperboard
• 4.06% (517 million US$): 73 - Articles of iron or steel
• 3.68% (468 million US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
• 3.24% (412 million US$): 72 - Iron and steel
• 2.68% (341 million US$): 15 - Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes

What did Ghana import in 2017?

Ghana's Top Imports in 2017:

• 7.85% ($998 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
• 7.19% ($915 million): 2523 - Portland cement, aluminous cement, slag cement, supersulphate cement and similar hydraulic cements, whether or not coloured or in the form of clinkers
• 4.27% ($544 million): 8704 - Motor vehicles for the transport of goods
• 3.15% ($401 million): 1006 - Rice
• 2.38% ($303 million): 1001 - Wheat and meslin.
• 2.25% ($286 million): 1511 - Palm oil and its fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified
• 1.99% ($253 million): 4911 - Other printed matter, including printed pictures and photographs
• 1.85% ($235 million): 0303 - Fish, frozen, excluding fish fillets and other fish meat of heading 03.04.
• 1.65% ($210 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
• 1.53% ($194 million): 3808 - Insecticides, rodenticides, fungicides, herbicides, anti-sprouting products and plant-growth regulators, disinfectants and similar products, put up in forms or packings for retail sale or as preparations or articles (for example, sulphur-treated bands, wicks and candles, and fly-papers)