Zambia | Imports and Exports | World | ALL COMMODITIES | Value (US$) and Value Growth, YoY (%) | 2012 - 2023

Exports structure from Zambia in 2023 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 64% (6.72 billion US$): 74 - Copper and articles thereof
• 4.89% (510 million US$): 25 - Salt; sulfur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement
• 3.98% (415 million US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 2.38% (248 million US$): 26 - Ores, slag and ash
• 1.85% (193 million US$): 72 - Iron and steel
• 1.75% (182 million US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• 1.61% (168 million US$): 28 - Inorganic chemicals; organic or inorganic compounds of precious metals, of rare earth metals, of radioactive elements or of isotopes
• 1.59% (166 million US$): 24 - Tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes
• 1.59% (165 million US$): 71 - Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metals, metals clad with precious metal and articles thereof; imitation jewelry; coin
• 1.57% (164 million US$): 17 - Sugars and sugar confectionery

What did Zambia export in 2023?

Zambia's Top Exports in 2023:

• 48% ($5.03 billion): 7402 - Unrefined copper; copper anodes for electrolytic refining
• 15.6% ($1.63 billion): 7403 - Refined copper and copper alloys, unwrought.
• 3.8% ($397 million): 2716 - Electrical energy. (optional heading)
• 2.72% ($284 million): 2503 - Sulphur of all kinds, other than sublimed sulphur, precipitated sulphur and colloidal sulphur.
• 1.58% ($164 million): 2401 - Unmanufactured tobacco; tobacco refuse
• 1.52% ($159 million): 8704 - Motor vehicles for the transport of goods
• 1.42% ($148 million): 2523 - Portland cement, aluminous cement, slag cement, supersulphate cement and similar hydraulic cements, whether or not coloured or in the form of clinkers
• 1.37% ($143 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.
• 1.27% ($132 million): 2604 - Nickel ores and concentrates
• 1.23% ($128 million): 7202 - Ferro-alloys.

Imports structure to Zambia in 2023 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 19.3% (1.95 billion US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 14.6% (1.48 billion US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• 12.2% (1.23 billion US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 6.84% (693 million US$): 31 - Fertilizers
• 4.38% (444 million US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
• 3.92% (397 million US$): 25 - Salt; sulfur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement
• 3.55% (360 million US$): 85 - Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles
• 2.84% (287 million US$): 38 - Miscellaneous chemical products
• 2.74% (277 million US$): 72 - Iron and steel
• 2.64% (268 million US$): 30 - Pharmaceutical products

What did Zambia import in 2023?

Zambia's Top Imports in 2023:

• 17.7% ($1.8 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
• 5.86% ($593 million): 8704 - Motor vehicles for the transport of goods
• 4.45% ($451 million): 3102 - Mineral or chemical fertilisers, nitrogenous
• 3.36% ($340 million): 2503 - Sulphur of all kinds, other than sublimed sulphur, precipitated sulphur and colloidal sulphur.
• 2.94% ($298 million): 8701 - Tractors (other than tractors of heading 87.09)
• 2.65% ($269 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
• 2.12% ($214 million): 3105 - Mineral or chemical fertilisers containing two or three of the fertilising elements nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium; other fertilisers; goods of this Chapter in tablets or similar forms or in packages of a gross weight not exceeding 10 kg
• 1.75% ($177 million): 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
• 1.6% ($162 million): 0303 - Fish, frozen, excluding fish fillets and other fish meat of heading 03.04.
• 1.5% ($152 million): 8429 - Self-propelled bulldozers, angledozers, graders, levellers, scrapers, mechanical shovels, excavators, shovel loaders, tamping machines and road rollers