Kuwait | Imports and Exports | World | ALL COMMODITIES | Value (US$) and Value Growth, YoY (%) | 2008 - 2019

Exports structure from Kuwait in 2019 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 91% (58 billion US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 2.58% (1.66 billion US$): 29 - Organic chemicals
• 1.7% (1.09 billion US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• 0.972% (626 million US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
• 0.479% (309 million US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 0.336% (216 million US$): 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
• 0.247% (159 million US$): 38 - Miscellaneous chemical products
• 0.21% (135 million US$): 71 - Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metals, metals clad with precious metal and articles thereof; imitation jewelry; coin
• 0.176% (113 million US$): 40 - Rubber and articles thereof
• 0.161% (104 million US$): 20 - Preparations of vegetables, fruit, nuts or other parts of plants

What did Kuwait export in 2019?

Kuwait's Top Exports in 2019:

• 72% ($46 billion): 2709 - Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, crude
• 15.3% ($9.92 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
• 3.44% ($2.22 billion): 2711 - Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons
• 1.21% ($786 million): 2904 - Sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives of hydrocarbons, whether or not halogenated
• 1.18% ($767 million): 2905 - Acyclic alcohols and their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives
• 0.987% ($636 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
• 0.864% ($557 million): 3901 - Polymers of ethylene, in primary forms
• 0.6% ($386 million): 8704 - Motor vehicles for the transport of goods
• 0.169% ($109 million): 2902 - Cyclic hydrocarbons

Imports structure to Kuwait in 2019 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 13.1% (4.39 billion US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• 11.6% (3.92 billion US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 10.9% (3.67 billion US$): 85 - Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles
• 5.7% (1.91 billion US$): 73 - Articles of iron or steel
• 4.14% (1.39 billion US$): 30 - Pharmaceutical products
• 3.26% (1.09 billion US$): 71 - Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metals, metals clad with precious metal and articles thereof; imitation jewelry; coin
• 3.1% (1.04 billion US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
• 2.76% (927 million US$): 72 - Iron and steel
• 2.68% (899 million US$): 90 - Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof
• 2.04% (684 million US$): 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 2019?

Kuwait's Top Imports in 2019:

• 9.62% ($3.22 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
• 5.08% ($1.7 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
• 3.07% ($1.02 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
• 2.07% ($696 million): 7113 - Articles of jewellery and parts thereof, of precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal
• 1.93% ($647 million): 7304 - Tubes, pipes and hollow profiles, seamless, of iron (other than cast iron) or steel.
• 1.58% ($532 million): 8481 - Taps, cocks, valves and similar appliances for pipes, boiler shells, tanks, vats or the like, including pressure-reducing valves and thermostatically controlled valves
• 1.55% ($520 million): 7308 - Structures (excluding prefabricated buildings of heading 94.06) and parts of structures (for example, bridges and bridge-sections, lock-gates, towers, lattice masts, roofs, roofing frame-works, doors and windows and their frames and thresholds for doors, shutters, balustrades, pillars and columns), of iron or steel; plates, rods, angles, shapes, sections, tubes and the like, prepared for use in structures, of iron or steel
• 1.44% ($484 million): 8704 - Motor vehicles for the transport of goods
• 1.29% ($435 million): 8431 - Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the machinery of headings 84.25 to 84.30
• 1.09% ($368 million): 8544 - Insulated (including enamelled or anodised) wire, cable (including co-axial cable) and other insulated electric conductors, whether or not fitted with connectors; optical fibre cables, made up of individually sheathed fibres, whether or not assembled with electric conductors or fitted with connectors