Rwanda | Imports and Exports | World | ALL COMMODITIES | Value (US$) and Value Growth, YoY (%) | 2010 - 2021

Exports structure from Rwanda in 2021 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 23% (364 million US$): 71 - Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metals, metals clad with precious metal and articles thereof; imitation jewelry; coin
• 12.3% (192 million US$): 09 - Coffee, tea, matT and spices
• 9.16% (143 million US$): 26 - Ores, slag and ash
• 7.01% (109 million US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 5.69% (88 million US$): 90 - Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof
• 5.44% (85 million US$): 11 - Products of the milling industry; malt; starches; inulin; wheat gluten
• 4.13% (64 million US$): 19 - Preparations of cereals, flour, starch or milk; bakers' wares
• 3.92% (61 million US$): 15 - Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes
• 2.33% (36 million US$): 10 - Cereals
• 2.19% (34 million US$): 17 - Sugars and sugar confectionery

What did Rwanda export in 2021?

Rwanda's Top Exports in 2021:

• 23% ($363 million): 7108 - Gold (including gold plated with platinum) unwrought or in semi-manufactured forms, or in powder form
• 6.99% ($109 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
• 6.66% ($104 million): 0902 - Tea, whether or not flavoured
• 5.61% ($87 million): 9018 - Instruments and appliances used in medical, surgical, dental or veterinary sciences, including scintigraphic apparatus, other electro-medical apparatus and sight-testing instruments
• 5.42% ($84 million): 0901 - Coffee, whether or not roasted or decaffeinated; coffee husks and skins; coffee substitutes containing coffee in any proportion.
• 3.23% ($50 million): 2611 - Tungsten ores and concentrates
• 3.16% ($49 million): 2609 - Tin ores and concentrates
• 3.13% ($49 million): 1511 - Palm oil and its fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified
• 3.12% ($48 million): 1901 - Malt extract; food preparations of flour, groats, meal, starch or malt extract, not containing cocoa or containing less than 40 % by weight of cocoa calculated on a totally defatted basis, not elsewhere specified or included; food preparations of goods of headings 04.01 to 04.04, not containing cocoa or containing less than 5 % by weight of cocoa calculated on a totally defatted basis, not elsewhere specified or included.
• 2.69% ($42 million): 2615 - Niobium, tantalum, vanadium or zirconium ores and concentrates

Imports structure to Rwanda in 2021 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 11% (411 million US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 10.6% (398 million US$): 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
• 9.86% (368 million US$): 71 - Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metals, metals clad with precious metal and articles thereof; imitation jewelry; coin
• 5.59% (208 million US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 4.83% (180 million US$): 15 - Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes
• 4.66% (174 million US$): 10 - Cereals
• 4.33% (161 million US$): 72 - Iron and steel
• 3.42% (128 million US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
• 3.32% (124 million US$): 73 - Articles of iron or steel
• 3.21% (119 million US$): 17 - Sugars and sugar confectionery

What did Rwanda import in 2021?

Rwanda's Top Imports in 2021:

• 9.85% ($368 million): 7108 - Gold (including gold plated with platinum) unwrought or in semi-manufactured forms, or in powder form
• 9.55% ($357 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
• 3.62% ($135 million): 1511 - Palm oil and its fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified
• 2.96% ($110 million): 8502 - Electric generating sets and rotary converters
• 2.86% ($107 million): 8517 - Electrical apparatus for line telephony or line telegraphy, including line telephone sets with cordless handsets and telecommunication apparatus for carrier-current line systems or for digital line systems; videophones
• 2.86% ($106 million): 1701 - Cane or beet sugar and chemically pure sucrose, in solid form
• 2.37% ($88 million): 1006 - Rice
• 2.34% ($87 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
• 2.01% ($75 million): 7210 - Flat-rolled products of iron or non-alloy steel, of a width of 600 mm or more, clad, plated or coated
• 1.63% ($60 million): 1001 - Wheat and meslin.