Mauritania | Imports and Exports | World | ALL COMMODITIES | Value (US$) and Value Growth, YoY (%) | 2012 - 2023

Exports structure from Mauritania in 2023 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 37% (1.53 billion US$): 26 - Ores, slag and ash
• 37% (1.51 billion US$): 71 - Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metals, metals clad with precious metal and articles thereof; imitation jewelry; coin
• 16.6% (675 million US$): 03 - Fish and crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates
• 2.29% (93 million US$): 23 - Residues and waste from the food industries; prepared animal feed
• 2.14% (87 million US$): 73 - Articles of iron or steel
• 0.864% (35 million US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 0.487% (19.8 million US$): 15 - Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes
• 0.479% (19.4 million US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 0.415% (16.9 million US$): 90 - Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof
• 0.396% (16.1 million US$): 08 - Edible fruit and nuts; peel of citrus fruit or melons

What did Mauritania export in 2023?

Mauritania's Top Exports in 2023:

• 37% ($1.51 billion): 7108 - Gold (including gold plated with platinum) unwrought or in semi-manufactured forms, or in powder form
• 34% ($1.4 billion): 2601 - Iron ores and concentrates, including roasted iron pyrites
• 9.28% ($377 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
• 6.71% ($272 million): 0303 - Fish, frozen, excluding fish fillets and other fish meat of heading 03.04.
• 3.13% ($127 million): 2603 - Copper ores and concentrates
• 2.29% ($93 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.
• 1.82% ($74 million): 7304 - Tubes, pipes and hollow profiles, seamless, of iron (other than cast iron) or steel.
• 0.531% ($21 million): 8431 - Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the machinery of headings 84.25 to 84.30
• 0.487% ($19.8 million): 1504 - Fats and oils and their fractions, of fish or marine mammals, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified
• 0.479% ($19.4 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

Imports structure to Mauritania in 2023 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 35% (1.73 billion US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 9.38% (452 million US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 7.01% (338 million US$): 15 - Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes
• 6.29% (303 million US$): 17 - Sugars and sugar confectionery
• 5.13% (247 million US$): 10 - Cereals
• 4.82% (232 million US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• 4.08% (196 million US$): 85 - Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles
• 3.5% (169 million US$): 73 - Articles of iron or steel
• 2.73% (131 million US$): 30 - Pharmaceutical products
• 1.68% (81 million US$): 04 - Dairy produce; birds eggs; natural honey; edible products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included

What did Mauritania import in 2023?

Mauritania's Top Imports in 2023:

• 34% ($1.65 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
• 6.26% ($301 million): 1701 - Cane or beet sugar and chemically pure sucrose, in solid form
• 4.64% ($223 million): 1001 - Wheat and meslin.
• 3.7% ($178 million): 1507 - Soya-bean oil and its fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified
• 3.22% ($155 million): 1511 - Palm oil and its fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified
• 3.2% ($154 million): 8431 - Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the machinery of headings 84.25 to 84.30
• 2.15% ($103 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
• 1.83% ($88 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
• 1.31% ($63 million): 2523 - Portland cement, aluminous cement, slag cement, supersulphate cement and similar hydraulic cements, whether or not coloured or in the form of clinkers
• 1.27% ($61 million): 2711 - Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons