Lebanon | Imports and Exports | World | ALL COMMODITIES | Value (US$) and Value Growth, YoY (%) | 2007 - 2018

Exports structure from Lebanon in 2018 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 21% (648 million US$): 71 - Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metals, metals clad with precious metal and articles thereof; imitation jewelry; coin
• 5.99% (177 million US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
• 5.75% (169 million US$): 85 - Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles
• 5.13% (151 million US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 4.17% (123 million US$): 72 - Iron and steel
• 4.12% (121 million US$): 33 - Essential oils and resinoids; perfumery, cosmetic or toilet preparations
• 3.54% (104 million US$): 20 - Preparations of vegetables, fruit, nuts or other parts of plants
• 3.17% (93 million US$): 74 - Copper and articles thereof
• 3.07% (90 million US$): 48 - Paper and paperboard; articles of paper pulp, of paper or of paperboard
• 2.63% (77 million US$): 08 - Edible fruit and nuts; peel of citrus fruit or melons

What did Lebanon export in 2018?

Lebanon's Top Exports in 2018:

• 9.8% ($289 million): 7108 - Gold (including gold plated with platinum) unwrought or in semi-manufactured forms, or in powder form.
• 9.71% ($286 million): 7102 - Diamonds, whether or not worked, but not mounted or set.
• 3.99% ($118 million): 7204 - Ferrous waste and scrap; remelting scrap ingots of iron or steel.
• 2.99% ($88 million): 7404 - Copper waste and scrap.
• 2.97% ($87 million): 8502 - Electric generating sets and rotary converters.
• 2.21% ($65 million): 3103 - Mineral or chemical fertilisers, phosphatic.
• 2.05% ($60 million): 4901 - Printed books, brochures, leaflets and similar printed matter, whether or not in single sheets.
• 2.01% ($59 million): 3901 - Polymers of ethylene, in primary forms.
• 1.85% ($54 million): 7113 - Articles of jewellery and parts thereof, of precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal.
• 1.81% ($53 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.

Imports structure to Lebanon in 2018 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 20% (4.06 billion US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 8.05% (1.6 billion US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• 6.65% (1.32 billion US$): 30 - Pharmaceutical products
• 6.25% (1.24 billion US$): 71 - Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metals, metals clad with precious metal and articles thereof; imitation jewelry; coin
• 6.19% (1.23 billion US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 5.39% (1.07 billion US$): 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
• 3.34% (667 million US$): 72 - Iron and steel
• 3.19% (638 million US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
• 2.09% (418 million US$): 01 - Live animals
• 1.8% (359 million US$): 04 - Dairy produce; birds eggs; natural honey; edible products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included

What did Lebanon import in 2018?

Lebanon's Top Imports in 2018:

• 19% ($3.8 billion): 2710 - Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, other than crude; preparations not elsewhere specified or included, containing by weight 70 % or more of petroleum oils or of oils obtained from bituminous minerals, these oils being the basic constituents of the preparations; waste oils.
• 5.74% ($1.14 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.
• 4.82% ($963 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.
• 3.44% ($687 million): 7108 - Gold (including gold plated with platinum) unwrought or in semi-manufactured forms, or in powder form.
• 2.01% ($402 million): 7102 - Diamonds, whether or not worked, but not mounted or set.
• 1.91% ($382 million): 0102 - Live bovine animals.
• 1.77% ($353 million): 7214 - Other bars and rods of iron or non-alloy steel, not further worked than forged, hot-rolled, hot-drawn or hot-extruded, but including those twisted after rolling.
• 1.7% ($340 million): 3002 - Human blood; animal blood prepared for therapeutic, prophylactic or diagnostic uses; antisera and other blood fractions and modified immunological products, whether or not obtained by means of biotechnological processes; vaccines, toxins, cultures of micro-organisms (excluding yeasts) and similar products.
• 1.3% ($260 million): 8502 - Electric generating sets and rotary converters.
• 1.18% ($236 million): 8708 - Parts and accessories of the motor vehicles of headings 87.01 to 87.05.