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

Exports structure from São Tomé and Principe in 2021 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 60% (11.5 million US$): 18 - Cocoa and cocoa preparations
• 32% (6.31 million US$): 15 - Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes
• 2.38% (457 thousand US$): 88 - Aircraft, spacecraft, and parts thereof
• 0.967% (185 thousand US$): 09 - Coffee, tea, matT and spices
• 0.783% (150 thousand US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 0.403% (77 thousand US$): 73 - Articles of iron or steel
• 0.286% (55 thousand US$): 85 - Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles
• 0.27% (51 thousand US$): 08 - Edible fruit and nuts; peel of citrus fruit or melons
• 0.23% (44 thousand US$): 30 - Pharmaceutical products
• 0.22% (42 thousand US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof

What did São Tomé and Principe export in 2021?

São Tomé and Principe's Top Exports in 2021:

• 59% ($11.3 million): 1801 - Cocoa beans, whole or broken, raw or roasted
• 30% ($5.77 million): 1511 - Palm oil and its fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified
• 2.78% ($533 thousand): 1513 - Coconut (copra), palm kernel or babassu oil and fractions thereof, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified
• 2.34% ($449 thousand): 8803 - Parts of goods of heading 88.01 or 88.02
• 1.2% ($230 thousand): 1806 - Chocolate and other food preparations containing cocoa
• 0.893% ($171 thousand): 0904 - Pepper of the genus Piper; dried or crushed or ground fruits of the genus Capsicum or of the genus Pimenta
• 0.354% ($68 thousand): 8409 - Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the engines of heading 84.07 or 84.08
• 0.268% ($51 thousand): 7323 - Table, kitchen or other household articles and parts thereof, of iron or steel; iron or steel wool; pot scourers and scouring or polishing pads, gloves and the like, of iron or steel
• 0.263% ($50 thousand): 0801 - Coconuts, Brazil nuts and cashew nuts, fresh or dried, whether or not shelled or peeled
• 0.221% ($42 thousand): 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

Imports structure to São Tomé and Principe in 2021 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 19.6% (32 million US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 7.98% (13.2 million US$): 22 - Beverages, spirits and vinegar
• 6.68% (11.1 million US$): 85 - Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles
• 6.14% (10.2 million US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• 5.59% (9.3 million US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 4.8% (7.98 million US$): 10 - Cereals
• 3.54% (5.88 million US$): 11 - Products of the milling industry; malt; starches; inulin; wheat gluten
• 3.27% (5.44 million US$): 25 - Salt; sulfur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement
• 2.48% (4.14 million US$): 02 - Meat and edible meat offal
• 2.41% (4 million US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof

What did São Tomé and Principe import in 2021?

São Tomé and Principe's Top Imports in 2021:

• 19.2% ($32 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
• 4.77% ($7.93 million): 1006 - Rice
• 3.34% ($5.55 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
• 3.23% ($5.37 million): 2204 - Wine of fresh grapes, including fortified wines; grape must other than that of heading 20.09.
• 3% ($4.99 million): 2523 - Portland cement, aluminous cement, slag cement, supersulphate cement and similar hydraulic cements, whether or not coloured or in the form of clinkers
• 2.58% ($4.3 million): 1101 - Wheat or meslin flour
• 2.54% ($4.23 million): 2202 - Waters, including mineral waters and aerated waters, containing added sugar or other sweetening matter or flavoured, and other non-alcoholic beverages, not including fruit or vegetable juices of heading 20.09.
• 2.33% ($3.88 million): 0207 - Meat and edible offal, of the poultry of heading 01.05, fresh, chilled or frozen.
• 1.86% ($3.1 million): 2309 - Preparations of a kind used in animal feeding.
• 1.57% ($2.62 million): 6309 - Worn clothing and other worn articles