Mauritania | Imports and Exports | World | ALL COMMODITIES | Value (US$) and Value Growth, YoY (%) | 2011 - 2022

Exports structure from Mauritania in 2022 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 39% (1.47 billion US$): 26 - Ores, slag and ash
• 30% (1.16 billion US$): 71 - Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metals, metals clad with precious metal and articles thereof; imitation jewelry; coin
• 23% (886 million US$): 03 - Fish and crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates
• 3.31% (125 million US$): 23 - Residues and waste from the food industries; prepared animal feed
• 0.686% (25 million US$): 15 - Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes
• 0.623% (23 million US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 0.396% (14.9 million US$): 16 - Preparations of meat, of fish or of crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates
• 0.253% (9.58 million US$): 73 - Articles of iron or steel
• 0.229% (8.67 million US$): 31 - Fertilizers
• 0.224% (8.49 million US$): 52 - Cotton

What did Mauritania export in 2022?

Mauritania's Top Exports in 2022:

• 35% ($1.33 billion): 2601 - Iron ores and concentrates, including roasted iron pyrites
• 30% ($1.16 billion): 7108 - Gold (including gold plated with platinum) unwrought or in semi-manufactured forms, or in powder form
• 13.8% ($523 million): 0307 - Molluscs; whether in shell or not, live, fresh, chilled, frozen, dried, salted or in brine; smoked molluscs, whether in shell or not, whether or not cooked before or during the smoking process
• 8.56% ($323 million): 0303 - Fish, frozen, excluding fish fillets and other fish meat of heading 03.04.
• 3.52% ($133 million): 2603 - Copper ores and concentrates
• 3.31% ($125 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.
• 0.707% ($26 million): 0306 - Crustaceans; in shell or not, live, fresh, chilled, frozen, dried, salted or in brine; smoked, cooked or not before or during smoking; in shell, steamed or boiled, whether or not chilled, frozen, dried, salted or in brine
• 0.686% ($25 million): 1504 - Fats and oils and their fractions, of fish or marine mammals, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified
• 0.622% ($23 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
• 0.245% ($9.28 million): 1604 - Prepared or preserved fish; caviar and caviar substitutes prepared from fish eggs

Imports structure to Mauritania in 2022 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 39% (2.01 billion US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 8.92% (456 million US$): 73 - Articles of iron or steel
• 7.67% (392 million US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 6.99% (358 million US$): 10 - Cereals
• 5.84% (299 million US$): 17 - Sugars and sugar confectionery
• 4.42% (226 million US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• 3.59% (183 million US$): 15 - Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes
• 2.15% (110 million US$): 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
• 2% (102 million US$): 07 - Edible vegetables and certain roots and tubers
• 1.66% (85 million US$): 04 - Dairy produce; birds eggs; natural honey; edible products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included

What did Mauritania import in 2022?

Mauritania's Top Imports in 2022:

• 37% ($1.91 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
• 6.29% ($322 million): 1001 - Wheat and meslin.
• 5.81% ($297 million): 1701 - Cane or beet sugar and chemically pure sucrose, in solid form
• 2.86% ($146 million): 7304 - Tubes, pipes and hollow profiles, seamless, of iron (other than cast iron) or steel.
• 2.57% ($131 million): 1507 - Soya-bean oil and its fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified
• 2.34% ($120 million): 7305 - Other tubes and pipes (for example, welded, riveted or similarly closed), having circular cross?sections, the external diameter of which exceeds 406.4 mm, of iron or steel
• 2.16% ($110 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
• 2.14% ($109 million): 8431 - Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the machinery of headings 84.25 to 84.30
• 2.05% ($105 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
• 1.59% ($81 million): 2711 - Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons