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

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

• 24% (1.46 billion US$): 09 - Coffee, tea, matT and spices
• 10.5% (635 million US$): 06 - Live trees and other plants; bulbs, roots and the like; cut flowers and ornamental foliage
• 6.74% (406 million US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 4.9% (295 million US$): 07 - Edible vegetables and certain roots and tubers
• 3.59% (216 million US$): 08 - Edible fruit and nuts; peel of citrus fruit or melons
• 3.42% (206 million US$): 26 - Ores, slag and ash
• 3.29% (198 million US$): 62 - Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, not knitted or crocheted
• 3.13% (189 million US$): 15 - Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes
• 2.56% (154 million US$): 24 - Tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes
• 2.28% (137 million US$): 20 - Preparations of vegetables, fruit, nuts or other parts of plants

What did Kenya export in 2020?

Kenya's Top Exports in 2020:

• 20% ($1.22 billion): 0902 - Tea, whether or not flavoured
• 9.49% ($572 million): 0603 - Cut flowers and flower buds of a kind suitable for bouquets or for ornamental purposes, fresh, dried, dyed, bleached, impregnated or otherwise prepared
• 6.67% ($402 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
• 3.58% ($215 million): 0901 - Coffee, whether or not roasted or decaffeinated; coffee husks and skins; coffee substitutes containing coffee in any proportion.
• 2.6% ($156 million): 2614 - Titanium ores and concentrates
• 2.4% ($145 million): 0804 - Dates, figs, pineapples, avocados, guavas, mangoes and mangosteens, fresh or dried
• 2.03% ($122 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
• 1.91% ($115 million): 1511 - Palm oil and its fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified
• 1.59% ($96 million): 2402 - Cigars, cheroots, cigarillos and cigarettes, of tobacco or of tobacco substitutes
• 1.42% ($86 million): 7210 - Flat-rolled products of iron or non-alloy steel, of a width of 600 mm or more, clad, plated or coated

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

• 14.1% (2.18 billion US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 9.3% (1.43 billion US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 7.78% (1.19 billion US$): 85 - Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles
• 7.26% (1.11 billion US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• 6.04% (931 million US$): 72 - Iron and steel
• 5.61% (864 million US$): 15 - Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes
• 5.17% (796 million US$): 10 - Cereals
• 4.71% (726 million US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
• 4.47% (690 million US$): 30 - Pharmaceutical products
• 2.48% (382 million US$): 38 - Miscellaneous chemical products

What did Kenya import in 2020?

Kenya's Top Imports in 2020:

• 12.2% ($1.88 billion): 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
• 5.38% ($829 million): 1511 - Palm oil and its fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified
• 3.48% ($536 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
• 2.97% ($458 million): 1001 - Wheat and meslin.
• 2.86% ($442 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
• 2.28% ($351 million): 7208 - Flat-rolled products of iron or non-alloy steel, of a width of 600 mm or more, hot-rolled, not clad, plated or coated
• 1.98% ($305 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
• 1.6% ($246 million): 1006 - Rice
• 1.53% ($236 million): 7207 - Semi-finished products of iron or non-alloy steel
• 1.51% ($232 million): 1701 - Cane or beet sugar and chemically pure sucrose, in solid form