Mauritania | Imports and Exports | World | ALL COMMODITIES | Value (US$) and Value Growth, YoY (%) | 2009 - 2020

Exports structure from Mauritania in 2020 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 42% (1.19 billion US$): 26 - Ores, slag and ash
• 26% (738 million US$): 71 - Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metals, metals clad with precious metal and articles thereof; imitation jewelry; coin
• 22% (635 million US$): 03 - Fish and crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates
• 4.85% (137 million US$): 23 - Residues and waste from the food industries; prepared animal feed
• 1.3% (36 million US$): 15 - Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes
• 0.992% (28 million US$): 28 - Inorganic chemicals; organic or inorganic compounds of precious metals, of rare earth metals, of radioactive elements or of isotopes
• 0.47% (13.3 million US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 0.448% (12.7 million US$): 16 - Preparations of meat, of fish or of crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates
• 0.336% (9.52 million US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 0.185% (5.23 million US$): 31 - Fertilizers

What did Mauritania export in 2020?

Mauritania's Top Exports in 2020:

• 34% ($974 million): 2601 - Iron ores and concentrates, including roasted iron pyrites
• 26% ($738 million): 7108 - Gold (including gold plated with platinum) unwrought or in semi-manufactured forms, or in powder form
• 11.3% ($320 million): 0303 - Fish, frozen, excluding fish fillets and other fish meat of heading 03.04.
• 9.86% ($279 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
• 7.62% ($215 million): 2603 - Copper ores and concentrates
• 4.85% ($137 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.
• 1.3% ($36 million): 1504 - Fats and oils and their fractions, of fish or marine mammals, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified
• 0.981% ($27 million): 2821 - Iron oxides and hydroxides; earth colours containing 70 % or more by weight of combined iron evaluated as Fe2O3
• 0.531% ($15 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
• 0.46% ($13 million): 0302 - Fish, fresh or chilled, excluding fish fillets and other fish meat of heading 0304

Imports structure to Mauritania in 2020 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 28% (795 million US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 11.3% (311 million US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 7.39% (202 million US$): 10 - Cereals
• 6.02% (165 million US$): 17 - Sugars and sugar confectionery
• 5.84% (160 million US$): 15 - Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes
• 5.11% (140 million US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• 4.03% (110 million US$): 73 - Articles of iron or steel
• 3.17% (87 million US$): 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
• 2.84% (78 million US$): 04 - Dairy produce; birds eggs; natural honey; edible products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included
• 2.44% (67 million US$): 07 - Edible vegetables and certain roots and tubers

What did Mauritania import in 2020?

Mauritania's Top Imports in 2020:

• 27% ($756 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
• 6.39% ($175 million): 1001 - Wheat and meslin.
• 5.98% ($164 million): 1701 - Cane or beet sugar and chemically pure sucrose, in solid form
• 5.37% ($147 million): 1507 - Soya-bean oil and its fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified
• 4.57% ($125 million): 8431 - Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the machinery of headings 84.25 to 84.30
• 2.14% ($58 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
• 2.01% ($55 million): 0402 - Milk and cream, concentrated or containing added sugar or other sweetening matter.
• 1.51% ($41 million): 8704 - Motor vehicles for the transport of goods
• 1.37% ($37 million): 2523 - Portland cement, aluminous cement, slag cement, supersulphate cement and similar hydraulic cements, whether or not coloured or in the form of clinkers
• 1.36% ($37 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