Kenya | Imports and Exports | World | Organic chemicals | Value (US$) and Value Growth, YoY (%) | 2009 - 2023
The value of exports of commodity group 29 "Organic chemicals" from Kenya totalled $ 7.38 million in 2023. Sales of commodity group 29 from Kenya decreased by 26% in value terms compared to 2022. exports of commodity group 29 "Organic chemicals" decreased by $ 2.71 million (cumulative exports of commodity group 29 from Kenya amounted $10 million in 2022)
Exports of commodity group 29 "Organic chemicals" amounted to 0.103% of total exports from Kenya (cumulative merchandise exports from Kenya totalled $ 7.15 billion in 2023). The share of commodity group 29 in total exports from Kenya decreased by 0.05 p.p. compared to 2022 (it was 0.153% in 2022 and cumulative exports from Kenya were equal to $ 6.58 billion).
Where does Kenya export Organic chemicals?
Top export destinations of "Organic chemicals" from Kenya in 2023:
- Uganda with a share of 38% (2.83 million US$)
- Tanzania with a share of 19.3% (1.43 million US$)
- Rwanda with a share of 13.3% (981 thousand US$)
- Ethiopia with a share of 7.04% (519 thousand US$)
- Dem. Rep. Congo with a share of 4.98% (367 thousand US$)
- Malawi with a share of 2.3% (169 thousand US$)
- Somalia with a share of 2.28% (168 thousand US$)
- USA with a share of 1.88% (139 thousand US$)
- Netherlands with a share of 1.53% (113 thousand US$)
- China with a share of 1.5% (110 thousand US$)
Exports structure of 29 - Organic chemicals - from Kenya in 2023 represented by the following main commodity groups:
- 27% (2.05 million US$): 2915 - Saturated acyclic monocarboxylic acids and their anhydrides, halides, peroxides and peroxyacids; their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives
- 11% (817 thousand US$): 2905 - Acyclic alcohols and their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives
- 8.27% (610 thousand US$): 2901 - Acyclic hydrocarbons
- 6.77% (500 thousand US$): 2918 - Carboxylic acids with additional oxygen function and their anhydrides, halides, peroxides and peroxyacids; their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives
- 5.02% (370 thousand US$): 2936 - Provitamins and vitamins, natural or reproduced by synthesis (including natural concentrates), derivatives thereof used primarily as vitamins, and intermixtures of the foregoing, whether or not in any solvent
- 4.29% (317 thousand US$): 2902 - Cyclic hydrocarbons
- 4.05% (299 thousand US$): 2941 - Antibiotics
- 4% (295 thousand US$): 2932 - Heterocyclic compounds with oxygen hetero-atom(s) only
- 3.03% (224 thousand US$): 2921 - Amine-function compounds
- 2.81% (207 thousand US$): 2922 - Oxygen-function amino-compounds
The value of imports of commodity group 29 "Organic chemicals" to Kenya totalled $ 196 million in 2023. Sales of commodity group 29 to Kenya decreased by 16.5% in value terms compared to 2022. imports of commodity group 29 "Organic chemicals" decreased by $ 38 million (the value of imports of commodity group 29 to Kenya was equal to $234 million in 2022)
Imports of commodity group 29 "Organic chemicals" accounted for 1.05% of total import flow to Kenya (in 2023, total imports to Kenya amounted to $ 18.6 billion). The share of commodity group 29 in total imports to Kenya decreased by 0.058 p.p. compared to 2022 (it was 1.11% in 2022 and cumulative imports to Kenya were equal to $ 21 billion).
Where does Kenya import Organic chemicals from?
Top trading partners (import of "Organic chemicals") of Kenya in 2023:
- China with a share of 39% (76 million US$)
- India with a share of 25% (49 million US$)
- Saudi Arabia with a share of 6.15% (12 million US$)
- Korea with a share of 5.85% (11.4 million US$)
- Germany with a share of 2.13% (4.19 million US$)
- Malaysia with a share of 2.08% (4.09 million US$)
- South Africa with a share of 1.6% (3.15 million US$)
- Other Asia, nes with a share of 1.5% (2.95 million US$)
- Switzerland with a share of 1.25% (2.46 million US$)
- Austria with a share of 1.15% (2.25 million US$)
Imports structure of 29 - Organic chemicals - to Kenya in 2023 represented by the following main commodity groups:
- 14.9% (29 million US$): 2929 - Compounds with other nitrogen function, n.e.s. in chapter 29
- 11.8% (23 million US$): 2941 - Antibiotics
- 9.16% (17.9 million US$): 2917 - Polycarboxylic acids, their anhydrides, halides, peroxides and peroxyacids; their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives
- 7.43% (14.5 million US$): 2933 - Heterocyclic compounds with nitrogen hetero-atom(s) only
- 7.31% (14.3 million US$): 2915 - Saturated acyclic monocarboxylic acids and their anhydrides, halides, peroxides and peroxyacids; their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives
- 6.52% (12.7 million US$): 2905 - Acyclic alcohols and their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives
- 4.98% (9.78 million US$): 2922 - Oxygen-function amino-compounds
- 3.24% (6.35 million US$): 2935 - Sulphonamides
- 3.15% (6.18 million US$): 2936 - Provitamins and vitamins, natural or reproduced by synthesis (including natural concentrates), derivatives thereof used primarily as vitamins, and intermixtures of the foregoing, whether or not in any solvent
- 3.11% (6.1 million US$): 2924 - Carboxyamide-function compounds; amide-function compounds of carbonic acid
