Laos | Imports and Exports | World | ALL COMMODITIES | Value (US$) and Value Growth, YoY (%) | 2010 - 2021

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

• 22% (1.64 billion US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 13.6% (980 million US$): 71 - Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metals, metals clad with precious metal and articles thereof; imitation jewelry; coin
• 8.82% (632 million US$): 26 - Ores, slag and ash
• 7.38% (528 million US$): 48 - Paper and paperboard; articles of paper pulp, of paper or of paperboard
• 4.49% (322 million US$): 07 - Edible vegetables and certain roots and tubers
• 4.31% (309 million US$): 08 - Edible fruit and nuts; peel of citrus fruit or melons
• 4.14% (297 million US$): 47 - Pulp of wood or of other fibrous cellulose material; waste and scrap of paper or paperboard
• 4.01% (287 million US$): 40 - Rubber and articles thereof
• 3.78% (270 million US$): 85 - Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles
• 3.58% (256 million US$): 01 - Live animals

What did Laos export in 2021?

Laos's Top Exports in 2021:

• 22% ($1.63 billion): 2716 - Electrical energy. (optional heading)
• 13.4% ($961 million): 7108 - Gold (including gold plated with platinum) unwrought or in semi-manufactured forms, or in powder form
• 7.33% ($525 million): 4805 - Uncoated paper and paperboard n.e.s., in rolls or sheets
• 4.61% ($330 million): 2603 - Copper ores and concentrates
• 3.96% ($283 million): 0714 - Manioc, arrowroot, salep, Jerusalem artichokes, sweet potatoes and similar roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, fresh, chilled, frozen or dried, whether or not sliced or in the form of pellets; sago pith.
• 3.9% ($280 million): 4001 - Natural rubber, balata, gutta-percha, guayule, chicle and similar natural gums, in primary forms or in plates, sheets or strip
• 3.76% ($269 million): 4702 - Chemical wood pulp, dissolving grades.
• 3.43% ($246 million): 2601 - Iron ores and concentrates, including roasted iron pyrites
• 3.32% ($238 million): 0803 - Bananas, including plantains, fresh or dried
• 3.1% ($222 million): 0102 - Live bovine animals

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

• 14.4% (845 million US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 10.3% (606 million US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• 8.58% (503 million US$): 85 - Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles
• 8.34% (489 million US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 4.8% (282 million US$): 71 - Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metals, metals clad with precious metal and articles thereof; imitation jewelry; coin
• 4.42% (259 million US$): 01 - Live animals
• 4.27% (250 million US$): 22 - Beverages, spirits and vinegar
• 4.12% (242 million US$): 47 - Pulp of wood or of other fibrous cellulose material; waste and scrap of paper or paperboard
• 3.21% (188 million US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
• 3.09% (182 million US$): 73 - Articles of iron or steel

What did Laos import in 2021?

Laos's Top Imports in 2021:

• 11.1% ($653 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
• 4.55% ($267 million): 7108 - Gold (including gold plated with platinum) unwrought or in semi-manufactured forms, or in powder form
• 3.86% ($227 million): 2202 - Waters, including mineral waters and aerated waters, containing added sugar or other sweetening matter or flavoured, and other non-alcoholic beverages, not including fruit or vegetable juices of heading 20.09.
• 3.69% ($217 million): 4707 - Recovered (waste and scrap) paper or paperboard
• 3.6% ($211 million): 0102 - Live bovine animals
• 3.29% ($193 million): 8704 - Motor vehicles for the transport of goods
• 2.97% ($174 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
• 2.49% ($146 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
• 1.76% ($103 million): 8529 - Transmission apparatus; parts suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of heading no. 8524 to 8528
• 1.44% ($84 million): 8701 - Tractors (other than tractors of heading 87.09)