Kuwait | Imports and Exports | World | ALL COMMODITIES | Value (US$) and Value Growth, YoY (%) | 2009 - 2021

Exports structure from Kuwait in 2021 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 91% (57 billion US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 2.63% (1.66 billion US$): 29 - Organic chemicals
• 1.7% (1.07 billion US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• 0.652% (412 million US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
• 0.407% (257 million US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 0.344% (217 million US$): 72 - Iron and steel
• 0.251% (159 million US$): 85 - Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles
• 0.16% (101 million US$): 04 - Dairy produce; birds eggs; natural honey; edible products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included
• 0.148% (93 million US$): 33 - Essential oils and resinoids; perfumery, cosmetic or toilet preparations
• 0.147% (93 million US$): 73 - Articles of iron or steel

What did Kuwait export in 2021?

Kuwait's Top Exports in 2021:

• 66% ($41 billion): 2709 - Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, crude
• 20% ($13.1 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
• 4.68% ($2.95 billion): 2711 - Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons
• 1.6% ($1.01 billion): 2904 - Sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives of hydrocarbons, whether or not halogenated
• 1.19% ($754 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
• 1.01% ($642 million): 2905 - Acyclic alcohols and their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives
• 0.401% ($253 million): 3901 - Polymers of ethylene, in primary forms
• 0.286% ($180 million): 8704 - Motor vehicles for the transport of goods
• 0.251% ($158 million): 7207 - Semi-finished products of iron or non-alloy steel
• 0.143% ($90 million): 3902 - Polymers of propylene or of other olefins, in primary forms

Imports structure to Kuwait in 2021 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 12.4% (3.97 billion US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• 9.16% (2.92 billion US$): 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
• 8.14% (2.59 billion US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 7.17% (2.28 billion US$): 71 - Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metals, metals clad with precious metal and articles thereof; imitation jewelry; coin
• 5.22% (1.66 billion US$): 30 - Pharmaceutical products
• 3.08% (983 million US$): 73 - Articles of iron or steel
• 2.9% (927 million US$): 61 - Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, knitted or crocheted
• 2.82% (900 million US$): 72 - Iron and steel
• 2.62% (838 million US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
• 2.42% (773 million US$): 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

What did Kuwait import in 2021?

Kuwait's Top Imports in 2021:

• 9.25% ($2.95 billion): 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
• 4.31% ($1.37 billion): 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
• 3.74% ($1.19 billion): 7113 - Articles of jewellery and parts thereof, of precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal
• 3.5% ($1.11 billion): 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
• 3.24% ($1.03 billion): 7108 - Gold (including gold plated with platinum) unwrought or in semi-manufactured forms, or in powder form
• 1.56% ($497 million): 8704 - Motor vehicles for the transport of goods
• 1.47% ($470 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
• 1.24% ($397 million): 8471 - Automatic data processing machines and units thereof; magnetic or optical readers, machines for transcribing data onto data media in coded form and machines for processing such data, not elsewhere specified or included
• 1.1% ($352 million): 9403 - Other furniture and parts thereof
• 0.961% ($306 million): 7304 - Tubes, pipes and hollow profiles, seamless, of iron (other than cast iron) or steel.