Sierra Leone | Imports and Exports | World | ALL COMMODITIES | Value (US$) and Value Growth, YoY (%) | 2006 - 2017

Exports structure from Sierra Leone in 2017 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 22% (23 million US$): 18 - Cocoa and cocoa preparations
• 18.3% (18.8 million US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• 11.3% (11.6 million US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 8.13% (8.35 million US$): 44 - Wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal
• 8.05% (8.26 million US$): 03 - Fish and crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates
• 6.69% (6.87 million US$): 12 - Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruits; industrial or medicinal plants; straw and fodder
• 5.35% (5.49 million US$): 63 - Other made up textile articles; sets; worn clothing and worn textile articles; rags
• 4.77% (4.9 million US$): 15 - Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes
• 3.68% (3.78 million US$): 26 - Ores, slag and ash
• 2.05% (2.11 million US$): 72 - Iron and steel

What did Sierra Leone export in 2017?

Sierra Leone's Top Exports in 2017:

• 17.4% ($17.9 million): 8704 - Motor vehicles for the transport of goods
• 14% ($14.4 million): 1801 - Cocoa beans, whole or broken, raw or roasted
• 8.66% ($8.89 million): 1802 - Cocoa shells, husks, skins and other cocoa waste
• 8.06% ($8.28 million): 4407 - Wood sawn or chipped lengthwise, sliced or peeled, whether or not planed, sanded or end-jointed, of a thickness exceeding 6 mm
• 6.69% ($6.87 million): 1207 - Other oil seeds and oleaginous fruits, whether or not broken, n.e.s. in chapter 12
• 5.48% ($5.63 million): 0303 - Fish, frozen, excluding fish fillets and other fish meat of heading 03.04.
• 5.35% ($5.49 million): 6309 - Worn clothing and other worn articles
• 3.93% ($4.04 million): 8431 - Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the machinery of headings 84.25 to 84.30
• 3.33% ($3.42 million): 2615 - Niobium, tantalum, vanadium or zirconium ores and concentrates
• 2.9% ($2.98 million): 8429 - Self-propelled bulldozers, angledozers, graders, levellers, scrapers, mechanical shovels, excavators, shovel loaders, tamping machines and road rollers

Imports structure to Sierra Leone in 2017 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 18.1% (194 million US$): 10 - Cereals
• 11.7% (125 million US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 10.8% (116 million US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• 5.81% (62 million US$): 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
• 5.53% (59 million US$): 25 - Salt; sulfur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement
• 3.9% (41 million US$): 73 - Articles of iron or steel
• 3.76% (40 million US$): 72 - Iron and steel
• 3.3% (35 million US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
• 2.18% (23 million US$): 22 - Beverages, spirits and vinegar
• 2.17% (23 million US$): 94 - Furniture; bedding, mattresses, mattress supports, cushions and similar stuffed furnishings; lamps and lighting fittings, n.e.s.; illuminated signs, illuminated name-plates and the like; prefabricated buildings

What did Sierra Leone import in 2017?

Sierra Leone's Top Imports in 2017:

• 17.9% ($193 million): 1006 - Rice
• 6.42% ($68 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
• 5.16% ($55 million): 2523 - Portland cement, aluminous cement, slag cement, supersulphate cement and similar hydraulic cements, whether or not coloured or in the form of clinkers
• 2.52% ($27 million): 8704 - Motor vehicles for the transport of goods
• 2.05% ($22 million): 7214 - Other bars and rods of iron or non-alloy steel, not further worked than forged, hot-rolled, hot-drawn or hot-extruded, but including those twisted after rolling
• 1.83% ($19.7 million): 8429 - Self-propelled bulldozers, angledozers, graders, levellers, scrapers, mechanical shovels, excavators, shovel loaders, tamping machines and road rollers
• 1.78% ($19.1 million): 1101 - Wheat or meslin flour
• 1.76% ($18.9 million): 7308 - Structures (excluding prefabricated buildings of heading 94.06) and parts of structures (for example, bridges and bridge-sections, lock-gates, towers, lattice masts, roofs, roofing frame-works, doors and windows and their frames and thresholds for doors, shutters, balustrades, pillars and columns), of iron or steel; plates, rods, angles, shapes, sections, tubes and the like, prepared for use in structures, of iron or steel
• 1.45% ($15.6 million): 9018 - Instruments and appliances used in medical, surgical, dental or veterinary sciences, including scintigraphic apparatus, other electro-medical apparatus and sight-testing instruments
• 1.45% ($15.6 million): 1701 - Cane or beet sugar and chemically pure sucrose, in solid form