Saudi Arabia | Imports and Exports | World | ALL COMMODITIES | Value (US$) and Value Growth, YoY (%) | 2007 - 2018

Exports structure from Saudi Arabia in 2018 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 78% (231 billion US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 7.09% (20 billion US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
• 4.85% (14.3 billion US$): 29 - Organic chemicals
• 0.895% (2.63 billion US$): 89 - Ships, boats and floating structures
• 0.777% (2.29 billion US$): 28 - Inorganic chemicals; organic or inorganic compounds of precious metals, of rare earth metals, of radioactive elements or of isotopes
• 0.766% (2.25 billion US$): 76 - Aluminum and articles thereof
• 0.659% (1.94 billion US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 0.462% (1.36 billion US$): 72 - Iron and steel
• 0.439% (1.29 billion US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• 0.427% (1.25 billion US$): 31 - Fertilizers

What did Saudi Arabia export in 2018?

Saudi Arabia's Top Exports in 2018:

• 3.86% ($11.3 billion): 3901 - Polymers of ethylene, in primary forms
• 2.12% ($6.26 billion): 3902 - Polymers of propylene or of other olefins, in primary forms
• 1.7% ($5.02 billion): 2909 - Ethers, ether-alcohols, ether-phenols, ether-alcohol-phenols, alcohol peroxides, ether peroxides, ketone peroxides (chemically defined or not); halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated, nitrosated derivative
• 1% ($2.94 billion): 2905 - Acyclic alcohols and their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives
• 0.858% ($2.52 billion): 2902 - Cyclic hydrocarbons
• 0.637% ($1.87 billion): 2814 - Ammonia, anhydrous or in aqueous solution.
• 0.423% ($1.24 billion): 3907 - Polyacetals, other polyethers and epoxide resins, in primary forms; polycarbonates, alkyd resins, polyallyl esters and other polyesters, in primary forms
• 0.418% ($1.23 billion): 3102 - Mineral or chemical fertilisers, nitrogenous
• 0.374% ($1.1 billion): 8904 - Tugs and pusher craft

Imports structure to Saudi Arabia in 2018 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 11.4% (15.4 billion US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 10.1% (13.6 billion US$): 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
• 8.78% (11.8 billion US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• 6.3% (8.52 billion US$): 99 - Commodities not specified according to kind
• 4.09% (5.53 billion US$): 30 - Pharmaceutical products
• 3.2% (4.33 billion US$): 89 - Ships, boats and floating structures
• 3% (4.06 billion US$): 71 - Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metals, metals clad with precious metal and articles thereof; imitation jewelry; coin
• 2.93% (3.97 billion US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 2.91% (3.94 billion US$): 73 - Articles of iron or steel
• 2.63% (3.56 billion US$): 90 - Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof

What did Saudi Arabia import in 2018?

Saudi Arabia's Top Imports in 2018:

• 6.58% ($8.89 billion): 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
• 4.7% ($6.36 billion): 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
• 3.13% ($4.23 billion): 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
• 2.7% ($3.66 billion): 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
• 2.32% ($3.13 billion): 7108 - Gold (including gold plated with platinum) unwrought or in semi-manufactured forms, or in powder form
• 1.79% ($2.43 billion): 8803 - Parts of goods of heading 88.01 or 88.02
• 1.75% ($2.36 billion): 8905 - Light-vessels, fire-floats, dredgers, floating cranes and other vessels the navigability of which is subsidiary to their main function; floating docks; floating or submersible drilling or production platforms
• 1.25% ($1.69 billion): 8481 - Taps, cocks, valves and similar appliances for pipes, boiler shells, tanks, vats or the like, including pressure-reducing valves and thermostatically controlled valves
• 1.1% ($1.49 billion): 8471 - Automatic data processing machines and units thereof; magnetic or optical readers, machines for transcribing data onto data media in coded form and machines for processing such data, not elsewhere specified or included