Papua New Guinea | Imports and Exports | World | ALL COMMODITIES | Value (US$) and Value Growth, YoY (%) | 2001 - 2012

Exports structure from Papua New Guinea in 2012 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 33% (1.5 billion US$): 71 - Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metals, metals clad with precious metal and articles thereof; imitation jewelry; coin
• 16% (726 million US$): 26 - Ores, slag and ash
• 13% (588 million US$): 15 - Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes
• 5.94% (268 million US$): 44 - Wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal
• 5.83% (263 million US$): 09 - Coffee, tea, matT and spices
• 3.88% (175 million US$): 29 - Organic chemicals
• 3.04% (137 million US$): 03 - Fish and crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates
• 3.02% (136 million US$): 25 - Salt; sulfur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement
• 2.92% (132 million US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 2.34% (105 million US$): 16 - Preparations of meat, of fish or of crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates

What did Papua New Guinea export in 2012?

Papua New Guinea's Top Exports in 2012:

• 33% ($1.49 billion): 7111 - Base metals, silver or gold, clad with platinum, not further worked than semi-manufactured
• 11.2% ($506 million): 1511 - Palm oil and its fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified
• 8.99% ($406 million): 2603 - Copper ores and concentrates
• 7.09% ($320 million): 2616 - Precious metal ores and concentrates
• 5.62% ($254 million): 0901 - Coffee, whether or not roasted or decaffeinated; coffee husks and skins; coffee substitutes containing coffee in any proportion.
• 5.32% ($240 million): 4403 - Wood in the rough, whether or not stripped of bark or sapwood, or roughly squared
• 3.88% ($175 million): 2921 - Amine-function compounds
• 2.98% ($134 million): 2530 - Mineral substances not elsewhere specified or included.
• 2.27% ($102 million): 1604 - Prepared or preserved fish; caviar and caviar substitutes prepared from fish eggs
• 2.15% ($97 million): 7204 - Ferrous waste and scrap; remelting scrap ingots of iron or steel.

Imports structure to Papua New Guinea in 2012 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 24% (2.05 billion US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 17.3% (1.44 billion US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 8.53% (711 million US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• 7.06% (589 million US$): 73 - Articles of iron or steel
• 6.37% (532 million US$): 85 - Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles
• 3.45% (287 million US$): 10 - Cereals
• 2.01% (168 million US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
• 1.92% (160 million US$): 88 - Aircraft, spacecraft, and parts thereof
• 1.81% (151 million US$): 40 - Rubber and articles thereof
• 1.71% (143 million US$): 02 - Meat and edible meat offal

What did Papua New Guinea import in 2012?

Papua New Guinea's Top Imports in 2012:

• 10.1% ($845 million): 2709 - Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, crude
• 6.72% ($561 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
• 3.45% ($288 million): 8704 - Motor vehicles for the transport of goods
• 2.87% ($239 million): 8431 - Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the machinery of headings 84.25 to 84.30
• 2.63% ($219 million): 8414 - Air or vacuum pumps, air or other gas compressors and fans; ventilating or recycling hoods incorporating a fan, whether or not fitted with filters
• 2.61% ($218 million): 1006 - Rice
• 2.58% ($215 million): 8418 - Refrigerators, freezers and other refrigerating or freezing equipment, electric or other; heat pumps other than air conditioning machines of heading 84.15
• 2.31% ($193 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
• 2.23% ($186 million): 8481 - Taps, cocks, valves and similar appliances for pipes, boiler shells, tanks, vats or the like, including pressure-reducing valves and thermostatically controlled valves
• 1.79% ($149 million): 8702 - Motor vehicles for the transport of ten or more persons, including the driver