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

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

• 77% (6.18 billion US$): 74 - Copper and articles thereof
• 1.96% (157 million US$): 25 - Salt; sulfur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement
• 1.69% (136 million US$): 17 - Sugars and sugar confectionery
• 1.55% (124 million US$): 81 - Other base metals; cermets; articles thereof
• 1.5% (120 million US$): 49 - Printed books, newspapers, pictures and other products of the printing industry; manuscripts, typescripts and plans
• 1.27% (102 million US$): 71 - Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metals, metals clad with precious metal and articles thereof; imitation jewelry; coin
• 1.25% (100 million US$): 10 - Cereals
• 1.2% (96 million US$): 28 - Inorganic chemicals; organic or inorganic compounds of precious metals, of rare earth metals, of radioactive elements or of isotopes
• 1.1% (88 million US$): 24 - Tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes
• 0.997% (80 million US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof

What did Zambia export in 2017?

Zambia's Top Exports in 2017:

• 45% ($3.64 billion): 7402 - Unrefined copper; copper anodes for electrolytic refining
• 30% ($2.45 billion): 7403 - Refined copper and copper alloys, unwrought.
• 1.55% ($124 million): 8105 - Cobalt mattes and other intermediate products of cobalt metallurgy; cobalt and articles thereof, including waste and scrap
• 1.5% ($120 million): 4907 - Unused postage, revenue or similar stamps of current or new issue in the country in which they have, or will have, a recognised face value; stamp-impressed paper; banknotes; cheque forms; stock, share or bond certificates and similar documents of title.
• 1.47% ($118 million): 1701 - Cane or beet sugar and chemically pure sucrose, in solid form
• 1.22% ($98 million): 1005 - Maize (corn)
• 1.19% ($95 million): 7108 - Gold (including gold plated with platinum) unwrought or in semi-manufactured forms, or in powder form
• 1.09% ($87 million): 2401 - Unmanufactured tobacco; tobacco refuse
• 1.06% ($85 million): 7408 - Copper wire.
• 0.913% ($73 million): 2807 - Sulphuric acid; oleum

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

• 16.7% (1.34 billion US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 14% (1.12 billion US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 11.8% (950 million US$): 26 - Ores, slag and ash
• 6.84% (548 million US$): 31 - Fertilizers
• 6.01% (480 million US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• 5.61% (449 million US$): 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
• 3.41% (273 million US$): 73 - Articles of iron or steel
• 2.91% (233 million US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
• 2.49% (199 million US$): 88 - Aircraft, spacecraft, and parts thereof
• 2.28% (182 million US$): 38 - Miscellaneous chemical products

What did Zambia import in 2017?

Zambia's Top Imports in 2017:

• 9.7% ($776 million): 2603 - Copper ores and concentrates
• 8.69% ($696 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
• 5.35% ($428 million): 2709 - Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, crude
• 4.83% ($387 million): 3102 - Mineral or chemical fertilisers, nitrogenous
• 2.18% ($174 million): 2716 - Electrical energy. (optional heading)
• 2.13% ($170 million): 2605 - Cobalt ores and concentrates
• 2.09% ($168 million): 8474 - Machinery for sorting, screening, separating, washing, crushing, grinding, mixing or kneading earth, stone, ores or other mineral substances, in solid (including powder or paste) form; machinery for agglomerating, shaping or moulding solid mineral fuels, ceramic paste, unhardened cements, plastering materials or other mineral products in powder or paste form; machines for forming foundry moulds of sand
• 1.85% ($148 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
• 1.83% ($146 million): 8704 - Motor vehicles for the transport of goods
• 1.72% ($138 million): 8431 - Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the machinery of headings 84.25 to 84.30