Mauritania | Imports and Exports | World | ALL COMMODITIES | Value (US$) and Value Growth, YoY (%) | 2008 - 2019

Exports structure from Mauritania in 2019 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 48% (1.09 billion US$): 26 - Ores, slag and ash
• 42% (955 million US$): 03 - Fish and crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates
• 5.93% (134 million US$): 23 - Residues and waste from the food industries; prepared animal feed
• 1.77% (40 million US$): 15 - Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes
• 1.1% (25 million US$): 28 - Inorganic chemicals; organic or inorganic compounds of precious metals, of rare earth metals, of radioactive elements or of isotopes
• 0.415% (9.41 million US$): 16 - Preparations of meat, of fish or of crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates
• 0.147% (3.34 million US$): 31 - Fertilizers
• 0.142% (3.22 million US$): 25 - Salt; sulfur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement
• 0.028% (651 thousand US$): 41 - Raw hides and skins (other than fur skins) and leather
• 0.024% (549 thousand US$): 08 - Edible fruit and nuts; peel of citrus fruit or melons

What did Mauritania export in 2019?

Mauritania's Top Exports in 2019:

• 39% ($895 million): 2601 - Iron ores and concentrates, including roasted iron pyrites
• 22% ($515 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
• 17.4% ($395 million): 0303 - Fish, frozen, excluding fish fillets and other fish meat of heading 03.04.
• 8.63% ($195 million): 2603 - Copper ores and concentrates
• 5.93% ($134 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.
• 1.77% ($40 million): 1504 - Fats and oils and their fractions, of fish or marine mammals, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified
• 1.1% ($25 million): 2821 - Iron oxides and hydroxides; earth colours containing 70 % or more by weight of combined iron evaluated as Fe2O3
• 0.936% ($21 million): 0302 - Fish, fresh or chilled, excluding fish fillets and other fish meat of heading 0304
• 0.72% ($16.3 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
• 0.232% ($5.27 million): 1604 - Prepared or preserved fish; caviar and caviar substitutes prepared from fish eggs

Imports structure to Mauritania in 2019 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 29% (1.04 billion US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 10.8% (381 million US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 7.33% (258 million US$): 89 - Ships, boats and floating structures
• 5.98% (210 million US$): 10 - Cereals
• 5.29% (186 million US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• 4.56% (160 million US$): 73 - Articles of iron or steel
• 3.65% (128 million US$): 85 - Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles
• 3.36% (118 million US$): 04 - Dairy produce; birds eggs; natural honey; edible products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included
• 2.11% (74 million US$): 82 - Tools, implements, cutlery, spoons and forks, of base metal; parts thereof of base metal
• 1.7% (59 million US$): 17 - Sugars and sugar confectionery

What did Mauritania import in 2019?

Mauritania's Top Imports in 2019:

• 28% ($987 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
• 5.05% ($177 million): 8905 - Light-vessels, fire-floats, dredgers, floating cranes and other vessels the navigability of which is subsidiary to their main function; floating docks; floating or submersible drilling or production platforms
• 4.3% ($151 million): 8431 - Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the machinery of headings 84.25 to 84.30
• 4.19% ($147 million): 1001 - Wheat and meslin.
• 2.66% ($93 million): 0402 - Milk and cream, concentrated or containing added sugar or other sweetening matter.
• 1.98% ($69 million): 8207 - Interchangeable tools for hand tools, whether or not power-operated, or for machine-tools (for example, for pressing, stamping, punching, tapping, threading, drilling, boring, broaching, milling, turning or screw driving), including dies for drawing or extruding metal, and rock drilling or earth boring tools
• 1.71% ($60 million): 1006 - Rice
• 1.66% ($58 million): 1701 - Cane or beet sugar and chemically pure sucrose, in solid form
• 1.62% ($57 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
• 1.59% ($56 million): 8904 - Tugs and pusher craft