São Tomé and Principe | Imports and Exports | World | ALL COMMODITIES | Value (US$) and Value Growth, YoY (%) | 2011 - 2022

Exports structure from São Tomé and Principe in 2022 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 37% (8.49 million US$): 15 - Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes
• 36% (8.26 million US$): 18 - Cocoa and cocoa preparations
• 22% (4.98 million US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 0.713% (161 thousand US$): 09 - Coffee, tea, matT and spices
• 0.686% (155 thousand US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• 0.538% (121 thousand US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 0.425% (96 thousand US$): 08 - Edible fruit and nuts; peel of citrus fruit or melons
• 0.201% (45 thousand US$): 38 - Miscellaneous chemical products
• 0.201% (45 thousand US$): 72 - Iron and steel
• 0.198% (44 thousand US$): 82 - Tools, implements, cutlery, spoons and forks, of base metal; parts thereof of base metal

What did São Tomé and Principe export in 2022?

São Tomé and Principe's Top Exports in 2022:

• 36% ($8.17 million): 1511 - Palm oil and its fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified
• 35% ($8.09 million): 1801 - Cocoa beans, whole or broken, raw or roasted
• 22% ($4.98 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
• 1.43% ($324 thousand): 1513 - Coconut (copra), palm kernel or babassu oil and fractions thereof, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified
• 0.637% ($144 thousand): 1806 - Chocolate and other food preparations containing cocoa
• 0.595% ($134 thousand): 0904 - Pepper of the genus Piper; dried or crushed or ground fruits of the genus Capsicum or of the genus Pimenta
• 0.51% ($115 thousand): 8711 - Motorcycles (including mopeds) and cycles fitted with an auxiliary motor, with or without side-cars; side-cars.
• 0.414% ($93 thousand): 0801 - Coconuts, Brazil nuts and cashew nuts, fresh or dried, whether or not shelled or peeled
• 0.201% ($45 thousand): 3823 - Industrial monocarboxylic fatty acids; acid oils from refining; industrial fatty alcohols
• 0.197% ($44 thousand): 7204 - Ferrous waste and scrap; remelting scrap ingots of iron or steel.

Imports structure to São Tomé and Principe in 2022 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 29% (57 million US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 10% (19.7 million US$): 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
• 5.75% (11.2 million US$): 22 - Beverages, spirits and vinegar
• 4.66% (9.16 million US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• 4.36% (8.57 million US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 3.67% (7.2 million US$): 11 - Products of the milling industry; malt; starches; inulin; wheat gluten
• 3.61% (7.09 million US$): 10 - Cereals
• 2.64% (5.19 million US$): 25 - Salt; sulfur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement
• 2.57% (5.05 million US$): 15 - Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes
• 2.17% (4.27 million US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof

What did São Tomé and Principe import in 2022?

São Tomé and Principe's Top Imports in 2022:

• 28% ($55 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
• 3.59% ($7.05 million): 1006 - Rice
• 3.59% ($7.04 million): 8502 - Electric generating sets and rotary converters
• 2.79% ($5.49 million): 1101 - Wheat or meslin flour
• 2.66% ($5.23 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
• 2.45% ($4.82 million): 2204 - Wine of fresh grapes, including fortified wines; grape must other than that of heading 20.09.
• 2.43% ($4.77 million): 2523 - Portland cement, aluminous cement, slag cement, supersulphate cement and similar hydraulic cements, whether or not coloured or in the form of clinkers
• 1.97% ($3.87 million): 8503 - Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the machines of heading 85.01 or 85.02
• 1.64% ($3.23 million): 2309 - Preparations of a kind used in animal feeding.
• 1.61% ($3.17 million): 1507 - Soya-bean oil and its fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified