Annual International Trade Statistics by Country (HS)
Publication date: 2024-01-28
Reporting period: 2002 - 2022
Timeseries: 194 million
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Lebanon | Imports and Exports | World | ALL COMMODITIES | Value (US$) and Value Growth, YoY (%) | 2006 - 2017

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TOTAL. ALL COMMODITIESLebanonWorldExportsValue (US$)2,282,513,738.002,816,320,674.003,478,305,474.003,484,154,763.004,254,184,915.004,266,856,015.004,446,163,434.003,937,065,938.003,312,205,568.002,953,388,639.632,976,561,583.002,844,446,138.10
Value Growth, YoY (%)21.4723.3823.500.1622.100.294.20-11.45-15.87-10.830.78-4.43
ImportsValue (US$)9,395,085,285.0011,814,556,538.0016,136,466,067.0016,231,585,205.0017,969,734,783.0020,162,637,390.0021,146,549,423.0021,234,205,985.0020,487,427,600.0018,599,766,657.8318,702,745,744.0019,586,709,383.01
Value Growth, YoY (%)0.7325.7536.580.5810.7012.204.870.41-3.51-9.210.554.72

The value of merchandise exports from Lebanon totalled $ 2.84 billion in 2017. Overall commodity exports from Lebanon decreased by 4.43% compared to 2016. Merchandise exports decreased by $ 132 million (the value of merchandise exports from Lebanon amounted to $2.97 billion in 2016)

Lebanon's exports 2017 by country

Top export destinations of commodities from Lebanon in 2017:

  • South Africa with a share of 11% (315 million US$)
  • United Arab Emirates with a share of 9.34% (265 million US$)
  • Syrian Arab Republic with a share of 8.65% (246 million US$)
  • Saudi Arabia with a share of 8.55% (243 million US$)
  • Iraq with a share of 6.05% (172 million US$)
  • Switzerland with a share of 4.69% (133 million US$)
  • Turkey with a share of 4.2% (119 million US$)
  • Qatar with a share of 3.46% (98 million US$)
  • Kuwait with a share of 3.22% (91 million US$)
  • Jordan with a share of 3.14% (89 million US$)

Exports structure from Lebanon in 2017 represented by the following main commodity groups:

  • 20% (586 million US$): 71 - Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metals, metals clad with precious metal and articles thereof; imitation jewelry; coin
  • 6.16% (175 million US$): 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
  • 5.17% (147 million US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
  • 4.98% (141 million US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
  • 4.39% (124 million US$): 33 - Essential oils and resinoids; perfumery, cosmetic or toilet preparations
  • 3.8% (108 million US$): 20 - Preparations of vegetables, fruit, nuts or other parts of plants
  • 3.67% (104 million US$): 72 - Iron and steel
  • 3.31% (94 million US$): 21 - Miscellaneous edible preparations
  • 2.92% (83 million US$): 74 - Copper and articles thereof
  • 2.58% (73 million US$): 49 - Printed books, newspapers, pictures and other products of the printing industry; manuscripts, typescripts and plans

What did Lebanon export in 2017?

Lebanon's Top Exports in 2017:

  • 15.1% ($429 million): 7108 - Gold (including gold plated with platinum) unwrought or in semi-manufactured forms, or in powder form
  • 3.51% ($99 million): 7204 - Ferrous waste and scrap; remelting scrap ingots of iron or steel.
  • 3.07% ($87 million): 8502 - Electric generating sets and rotary converters
  • 2.86% ($81 million): 7102 - Diamonds, whether or not worked, but not mounted or set
  • 2.83% ($80 million): 7404 - Copper waste and scrap
  • 2.37% ($67 million): 4901 - Printed books, brochures, leaflets and similar printed matter, whether or not in single sheets.
  • 1.93% ($55 million): 1701 - Cane or beet sugar and chemically pure sucrose, in solid form
  • 1.83% ($52 million): 2106 - Food preparations not elsewhere specified or included
  • 1.79% ($51 million): 7113 - Articles of jewellery and parts thereof, of precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal
  • 1.75% ($49 million): 3103 - Mineral or chemical fertilisers, phosphatic.

The value of merchandise imports to Lebanon totalled $ 19.5 billion in 2017. Merchandise imports to Lebanon increased by 4.72% compared to 2016. Goods imports grew up by $ 883 million in 2017 (the value of merchandise imports to Lebanon was equal to $18.7 billion in 2016)

Lebanon's imports 2017 by country

Top trading partners (import sources) of Lebanon in 2017:

  • China with a share of 9.59% (1.87 billion US$)
  • Italy with a share of 9.04% (1.77 billion US$)
  • USA with a share of 7.36% (1.44 billion US$)
  • Greece with a share of 7.01% (1.37 billion US$)
  • Germany with a share of 6.27% (1.22 billion US$)
  • Turkey with a share of 3.96% (777 million US$)
  • France with a share of 3.91% (766 million US$)
  • Russia with a share of 3.81% (746 million US$)
  • Egypt with a share of 3.02% (593 million US$)
  • Spain with a share of 2.83% (555 million US$)

Imports structure to Lebanon in 2017 represented by the following main commodity groups:

  • 21% (4.2 billion US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
  • 9.38% (1.83 billion US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
  • 6.57% (1.28 billion US$): 30 - Pharmaceutical products
  • 5.88% (1.15 billion US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
  • 5.07% (994 million US$): 71 - Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metals, metals clad with precious metal and articles thereof; imitation jewelry; coin
  • 3.99% (781 million US$): 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
  • 3.27% (640 million US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
  • 3.25% (637 million US$): 72 - Iron and steel
  • 1.65% (324 million US$): 10 - Cereals
  • 1.64% (321 million US$): 62 - Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, not knitted or crocheted

What did Lebanon import in 2017?

Lebanon's Top Imports in 2017:

  • 20% ($3.97 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
  • 6.66% ($1.3 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
  • 5.35% ($1.04 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
  • 3.3% ($646 million): 7108 - Gold (including gold plated with platinum) unwrought or in semi-manufactured forms, or in powder form
  • 1.47% ($288 million): 0102 - Live bovine animals
  • 1.45% ($285 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
  • 1.26% ($248 million): 8708 - Parts and accessories of the motor vehicles of headings 87.01 to 87.05
  • 1.06% ($209 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
  • 1.01% ($198 million): 7102 - Diamonds, whether or not worked, but not mounted or set
  • 0.926% ($181 million): 6907 - Unglazed ceramic flags and paving, hearth or wall tiles; unglazed ceramic mosaic cubes and the like, whether or not on a backing

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Lebanon | Imports and Exports | World | ALL COMMODITIES | Value (US$) and Value Growth, YoY (%) | 2006 - 2017