Maldives | Imports and Exports | World | ALL COMMODITIES | Netweight (kg); Quantity and Value (US$) | 2007 - 2018

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

• 73% (134 million US$): 03 - Fish and crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates
• 22% (40 million US$): 16 - Preparations of meat, of fish or of crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates
• 1.81% (3.3 million US$): 23 - Residues and waste from the food industries; prepared animal feed
• 1.1% (2.01 million US$): 72 - Iron and steel
• 0.267% (486 thousand US$): 74 - Copper and articles thereof
• 0.15% (272 thousand US$): 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
• 0.149% (272 thousand US$): 89 - Ships, boats and floating structures
• 0.06% (110 thousand US$): 76 - Aluminum and articles thereof
• 0.039% (71 thousand US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
• 0.014% (26 thousand US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes

What did Maldives export in 2018?

Maldives's Top Exports in 2018:

• 40% ($74 million): 0303 - Fish, frozen, excluding fish fillets and other fish meat of heading 03.04.
• 22% ($40 million): 1604 - Prepared or preserved fish; caviar and caviar substitutes prepared from fish eggs.
• 17.1% ($31 million): 0304 - Fish fillets and other fish meat (whether or not minced), fresh, chilled or frozen.
• 12.3% ($22 million): 0302 - Fish, fresh or chilled, excluding fish fillets and other fish meat of heading 03.04.
• 3% ($5.45 million): 0305 - Fish, dried, salted or in brine; smoked fish, whether or not cooked before or during the smoking process; flours, meals and pellets of fish, fit for human consumption.
• 1.81% ($3.3 million): 2301 - Flours, meals and pellets, of meat or meat offal, of fish or of crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates, unfit for human consumption; greaves.
• 1.1% ($2.01 million): 7204 - Ferrous waste and scrap; remelting scrap ingots of iron or steel.
• 0.53% ($964 thousand): 0301 - Live fish.
• 0.267% ($486 thousand): 7404 - Copper waste and scrap.
• 0.15% ($272 thousand): 8548 - Waste and scrap of primary cells, primary batteries and electric accumulators; spent primary cells, spent primary batteries and spent electric accumulators; electrical parts of machinery or apparatus, not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter.

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

• 15.7% (467 million US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 10% (296 million US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 8.66% (256 million US$): 85 - Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles
• 5.81% (172 million US$): 25 - Salt; sulfur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement
• 4.39% (130 million US$): 44 - Wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal
• 4.35% (129 million US$): 94 - Furniture; bedding, mattresses, mattress supports, cushions and similar stuffed furnishings; lamps and lighting fittings, not elsewhere specified or included; illuminated sign illuminated nameplates and the like; prefabricated buildings
• 3.9% (115 million US$): 73 - Articles of iron or steel
• 3.25% (96 million US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
• 2.96% (87 million US$): 72 - Iron and steel
• 2.88% (85 million US$): 88 - Aircraft, spacecraft, and parts thereof

What did Maldives import in 2018?

Maldives's Top Imports in 2018:

• 14.8% ($439 million): 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.
• 2.06% ($61 million): 8525 - Transmission apparatus for radio-telephony, radio-telegraphy, radio-broadcasting or television, whether or not incorporating reception apparatus or sound recording or reproducing apparatus; television cameras; still image video cameras and other video camera recorders; digital cameras.
• 1.93% ($57 million): 8802 - Other aircraft (for example, helicopters, aeroplanes); spacecraft (including satellites) and suborbital and spacecraft launch vehicles.
• 1.91% ($56 million): 2517 - Pebbles, gravel, broken or crushed stone, of a kind commonly used for concrete aggregates, for road metalling or for railway or other ballast, shingle and flint, whether or not heat-treated; macadam of slag, dross or similar industrial waste, whether or not incorporating the materials cited in the first part of the heading; tarred macadam; granules, chippings and powder, of stones of heading 25.15 or 25.16, whether or not heat-treated.
• 1.9% ($56 million): 9403 - Other furniture and parts thereof.
• 1.72% ($51 million): 4407 - Wood sawn or chipped lengthwise, sliced or peeled, whether or not planed, sanded or end-jointed, of a thickness exceeding 6 mm.
• 1.63% ($48 million): 2516 - Granite, porphyry, basalt, sandstone and other monumental or building stone, whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape.
• 1.61% ($47 million): 7213 - Bars and rods, hot-rolled, in irregularly wound coils, of iron or non-alloy steel.
• 1.43% ($42 million): 2523 - Portland cement, aluminous cement, slag cement, supersulphate cement and similar hydraulic cements, whether or not coloured or in the form of clinkers.
• 1.35% ($40 million): 8501 - Electric motors and generators (excluding generating sets).