Annual International Trade Statistics by Country (HS02)
Publication date: 2021-11-14
Reporting period: 2002 - 2020
Timeseries: 177 million
Source:UN Comtrade
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United Arab Emirates | Imports and Exports | World | ALL COMMODITIES | Value (US$) and Value Growth, YoY (%) | 2009 - 2020
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| Commodity | Reporter | Partner | Trade flow | Indicator | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 |
| TOTAL. ALL COMMODITIES | United Arab Emirates | World | Exports | Value (US$) | 174,725,000,000.00 | 198,362,000,000.00 | 252,556,000,000.00 | 350,123,000,000.00 | 379,488,767,867.00 | 380,339,616,263.00 | 333,362,349,875.00 | 295,046,691,148.00 | 313,559,298,498.00 | 387,910,040,562.00 | 389,372,505,148.00 | 335,212,447,095.00 |
| Value Growth, YoY (%) | -16.79 | 13.52 | 27.32 | 38.63 | 8.38 | 0.22 | -12.35 | -11.49 | 6.27 | 23.71 | 0.37 | -13.90 | ||||
| Imports | Value (US$) | 164,251,000,000.00 | 180,726,000,000.00 | 210,945,000,000.00 | 261,022,920,180.00 | 294,966,918,275.00 | 298,611,277,362.00 | 287,024,847,500.00 | 270,779,148,786.00 | 257,686,922,234.00 | 244,645,890,108.00 | 288,397,544,149.00 | 246,879,706,188.00 | |||
| Value Growth, YoY (%) | -6.40 | 10.03 | 16.72 | 23.73 | 13.00 | 1.23 | -3.88 | -5.66 | -4.83 | -5.06 | 17.88 | -14.39 |
The value of merchandise exports from United Arab Emirates totalled $ 335 billion in 2020. Overall commodity exports from United Arab Emirates decreased by 13.9% compared to 2019. Merchandise exports decreased by $ 54 billion (the value of merchandise exports from United Arab Emirates amounted to $389 billion in 2019)
United Arab Emirates's exports 2020 by country
Top export destinations of commodities from United Arab Emirates in 2020:
- Areas, nes with a share of 49% (166 billion US$)
- Saudi Arabia with a share of 6.5% (21 billion US$)
- Iraq with a share of 3.91% (13.1 billion US$)
- India with a share of 3.42% (11.4 billion US$)
- Switzerland with a share of 2.93% (9.84 billion US$)
- Oman with a share of 2.89% (9.68 billion US$)
- China with a share of 2.39% (8.01 billion US$)
- Hong Kong with a share of 2.34% (7.86 billion US$)
- Kuwait with a share of 2.09% (7.02 billion US$)
- Turkey with a share of 1.76% (5.92 billion US$)
Exports structure from United Arab Emirates in 2020 represented by the following main commodity groups:
- 51% (173 billion US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
- 13.4% (45 billion US$): 71 - Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metals, metals clad with precious metal and articles thereof; imitation jewelry; coin
- 8.42% (28 billion US$): 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
- 5% (16.7 billion US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
- 2.99% (10 billion US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
- 2.07% (6.97 billion US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
- 1.32% (4.44 billion US$): 76 - Aluminum and articles thereof
- 1.29% (4.35 billion US$): 24 - Tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes
- 1.08% (3.64 billion US$): 33 - Essential oils and resinoids; perfumery, cosmetic or toilet preparations
- 1.01% (3.4 billion US$): 73 - Articles of iron or steel
What did United Arab Emirates export in 2020?
United Arab Emirates's Top Exports in 2020:
- 31% ($105 billion): 2709 - Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, crude.
- 14.1% ($47 billion): 2710 - Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, other than crude; preparations not elsewhere specified or included, containing by weight 70 % or more of petroleum oils or of oils obtained from bituminous minerals, these oils being the basic constituents of the preparations; waste oils.
- 8.74% ($29 billion): 7108 - Gold (including gold plated with platinum) unwrought or in semi-manufactured forms, or in powder form.
- 6.11% ($20 billion): 2711 - Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons.
- 5.99% ($20 billion): 8525 - Transmission apparatus for radio-telephony, radio-telegraphy, radio-broadcasting or television, whether or not incorporating reception apparatus or sound recording or reproducing apparatus; television cameras; still image video cameras and other video camera recorders; digital cameras.
- 2.58% ($8.67 billion): 7102 - Diamonds, whether or not worked, but not mounted or set.
- 1.92% ($6.45 billion): 7113 - Articles of jewellery and parts thereof, of precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal.
- 1.81% ($6.07 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.
- 1.79% ($6.01 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.
- 1.19% ($3.99 billion): 2402 - Cigars, cheroots, cigarillos and cigarettes, of tobacco or of tobacco substitutes.
The value of merchandise imports to United Arab Emirates totalled $ 246 billion in 2020. Overall commodity imports to United Arab Emirates decreased by 14.3% compared to 2019. Merchandise imports decreased by $ 41 billion (the value of merchandise imports to United Arab Emirates was equal to $288 billion in 2019)
United Arab Emirates's imports 2020 by country
Top trading partners (import sources) of United Arab Emirates in 2020:
- China with a share of 15.9% (39 billion US$)
- Areas, nes with a share of 12.8% (31 billion US$)
- USA with a share of 6.68% (16.5 billion US$)
- India with a share of 6.67% (16.4 billion US$)
- Japan with a share of 3.83% (9.45 billion US$)
- Germany with a share of 3.49% (8.61 billion US$)
- Guinea with a share of 2.76% (6.83 billion US$)
- Saudi Arabia with a share of 2.62% (6.47 billion US$)
- Vietnam with a share of 2.37% (5.85 billion US$)
- United Kingdom with a share of 2.36% (5.85 billion US$)
Imports structure to United Arab Emirates in 2020 represented by the following main commodity groups:
- 21% (52 billion US$): 71 - Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metals, metals clad with precious metal and articles thereof; imitation jewelry; coin
- 17.1% (42 billion US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
- 13.2% (32 billion US$): 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
- 11.1% (27 billion US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
- 6.17% (15.2 billion US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
- 1.8% (4.44 billion US$): 30 - Pharmaceutical products
- 1.72% (4.26 billion US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
- 1.58% (3.91 billion US$): 90 - Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof
- 1.53% (3.78 billion US$): 73 - Articles of iron or steel
- 1.47% (3.64 billion US$): 72 - Iron and steel
What did United Arab Emirates import in 2020?
United Arab Emirates's Top Imports in 2020:
- 15% ($37 billion): 7108 - Gold (including gold plated with platinum) unwrought or in semi-manufactured forms, or in powder form.
- 8.68% ($21 billion): 2709 - Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, crude.
- 8.25% ($20 billion): 8525 - Transmission apparatus for radio-telephony, radio-telegraphy, radio-broadcasting or television, whether or not incorporating reception apparatus or sound recording or reproducing apparatus; television cameras; still image video cameras and other video camera recorders; digital cameras.
- 6.55% ($16.1 billion): 2710 - Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, other than crude; preparations not elsewhere specified or included, containing by weight 70 % or more of petroleum oils or of oils obtained from bituminous minerals, these oils being the basic constituents of the preparations; waste oils.
- 4.18% ($10.3 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.
- 3.42% ($8.46 billion): 7102 - Diamonds, whether or not worked, but not mounted or set.
- 3.04% ($7.51 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.
- 2.46% ($6.08 billion): 7113 - Articles of jewellery and parts thereof, of precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal.
- 1.66% ($4.1 billion): 8411 - Turbo-jets, turbo-propellers and other gas turbines.
- 1.59% ($3.94 billion): 2711 - Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons.
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