São Tomé and Principe | Imports and Exports | World | ALL COMMODITIES | Value (US$) and Value Growth, YoY (%) | 2013 - 2023

Exports structure from São Tomé and Principe in 2023 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 61% (10.1 million US$): 18 - Cocoa and cocoa preparations
• 33% (5.59 million US$): 15 - Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes
• 1.96% (325 thousand US$): 09 - Coffee, tea, matT and spices
• 0.326% (53 thousand US$): 88 - Aircraft, spacecraft, and parts thereof
• 0.32% (53 thousand US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 0.295% (48 thousand US$): 08 - Edible fruit and nuts; peel of citrus fruit or melons
• 0.278% (46 thousand US$): 04 - Dairy produce; birds eggs; natural honey; edible products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included
• 0.211% (34 thousand US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• 0.196% (32 thousand US$): 38 - Miscellaneous chemical products
• 0.186% (30 thousand US$): 12 - Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruits; industrial or medicinal plants; straw and fodder

What did São Tomé and Principe export in 2023?

São Tomé and Principe's Top Exports in 2023:

• 60% ($10 million): 1801 - Cocoa beans, whole or broken, raw or roasted
• 33% ($5.47 million): 1511 - Palm oil and its fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified
• 1.53% ($254 thousand): 0904 - Pepper of the genus Piper; dried or crushed or ground fruits of the genus Capsicum or of the genus Pimenta
• 0.788% ($130 thousand): 1806 - Chocolate and other food preparations containing cocoa
• 0.743% ($123 thousand): 1513 - Coconut (copra), palm kernel or babassu oil and fractions thereof, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified
• 0.326% ($53 thousand): 8803 - Parts of goods of heading 88.01 or 88.02
• 0.278% ($46 thousand): 0402 - Milk and cream, concentrated or containing added sugar or other sweetening matter.
• 0.23% ($38 thousand): 0901 - Coffee, whether or not roasted or decaffeinated; coffee husks and skins; coffee substitutes containing coffee in any proportion.
• 0.192% ($31 thousand): 0905 - Vanilla
• 0.188% ($31 thousand): 0801 - Coconuts, Brazil nuts and cashew nuts, fresh or dried, whether or not shelled or peeled

Imports structure to São Tomé and Principe in 2023 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 29% (53 million US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 8.51% (15.6 million US$): 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
• 8.26% (15.1 million US$): 10 - Cereals
• 4.84% (8.9 million US$): 22 - Beverages, spirits and vinegar
• 4.77% (8.76 million US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 4.64% (8.51 million US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• 3.37% (6.19 million US$): 11 - Products of the milling industry; malt; starches; inulin; wheat gluten
• 2.47% (4.53 million US$): 15 - Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes
• 2.35% (4.32 million US$): 25 - Salt; sulfur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement
• 2.09% (3.84 million US$): 02 - Meat and edible meat offal

What did São Tomé and Principe import in 2023?

São Tomé and Principe's Top Imports in 2023:

• 28% ($52 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
• 8.16% ($14.9 million): 1006 - Rice
• 3.18% ($5.85 million): 8502 - Electric generating sets and rotary converters
• 2.94% ($5.4 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
• 2.36% ($4.34 million): 1101 - Wheat or meslin flour
• 2.12% ($3.9 million): 2204 - Wine of fresh grapes, including fortified wines; grape must other than that of heading 20.09.
• 2.06% ($3.78 million): 2523 - Portland cement, aluminous cement, slag cement, supersulphate cement and similar hydraulic cements, whether or not coloured or in the form of clinkers
• 1.93% ($3.54 million): 0207 - Meat and edible offal, of the poultry of heading 01.05, fresh, chilled or frozen.
• 1.45% ($2.67 million): 1507 - Soya-bean oil and its fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified
• 1.42% ($2.61 million): 3401 - Soap; organic surface-active products and preparations for use as soap, in the form of bars, cakes, moulded pieces or shapes, whether or not containing soap; organic surface-active products and preparations for washing the skin, in the form of liquid or cream and put up for retail sale, whether or not containing soap; paper, wadding, felt and nonwovens, impregnated, coated or covered with soap or detergent