Zambia | Imports and Exports | World | ALL COMMODITIES | Value (US$) and Value Growth, YoY (%) | 2008 - 2019

Exports structure from Zambia in 2019 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 71% (5.03 billion US$): 74 - Copper and articles thereof
• 3.31% (233 million US$): 71 - Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metals, metals clad with precious metal and articles thereof; imitation jewelry; coin
• 3.31% (233 million US$): 25 - Salt; sulfur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement
• 2.38% (168 million US$): 28 - Inorganic chemicals; organic or inorganic compounds of precious metals, of rare earth metals, of radioactive elements or of isotopes
• 2.02% (142 million US$): 17 - Sugars and sugar confectionery
• 1.94% (137 million US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 1.34% (94 million US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 1.15% (81 million US$): 72 - Iron and steel
• 1.01% (71 million US$): 24 - Tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes
• 1% (70 million US$): 22 - Beverages, spirits and vinegar

What did Zambia export in 2019?

Zambia's Top Exports in 2019:

• 53% ($3.76 billion): 7402 - Unrefined copper; copper anodes for electrolytic refining
• 16% ($1.13 billion): 7403 - Refined copper and copper alloys, unwrought.
• 2.09% ($147 million): 2807 - Sulphuric acid; oleum
• 2.05% ($144 million): 7103 - Precious stones (other than diamonds) and semi-precious stones, whether or not worked or graded but not strung, mounted or set; ungraded precious stones (other than diamonds) and semi-precious stones, temporarily strung for convenience of transport
• 1.64% ($116 million): 1701 - Cane or beet sugar and chemically pure sucrose, in solid form
• 1.59% ($112 million): 2523 - Portland cement, aluminous cement, slag cement, supersulphate cement and similar hydraulic cements, whether or not coloured or in the form of clinkers
• 1.23% ($86 million): 2716 - Electrical energy. (optional heading)
• 1.03% ($73 million): 7108 - Gold (including gold plated with platinum) unwrought or in semi-manufactured forms, or in powder form
• 0.993% ($69 million): 2401 - Unmanufactured tobacco; tobacco refuse
• 0.927% ($65 million): 7405 - Master alloys of copper

Imports structure to Zambia in 2019 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 17.5% (1.25 billion US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 15.1% (1.08 billion US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 8.12% (583 million US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• 6.13% (439 million US$): 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
• 4.78% (343 million US$): 31 - Fertilizers
• 4.24% (304 million US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
• 4.07% (292 million US$): 73 - Articles of iron or steel
• 3.17% (227 million US$): 38 - Miscellaneous chemical products
• 2.86% (205 million US$): 30 - Pharmaceutical products
• 2.74% (196 million US$): 72 - Iron and steel

What did Zambia import in 2019?

Zambia's Top Imports in 2019:

• 9.76% ($700 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
• 7.02% ($504 million): 2709 - Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, crude
• 2.49% ($178 million): 8704 - Motor vehicles for the transport of goods
• 2.36% ($169 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
• 2.28% ($163 million): 3102 - Mineral or chemical fertilisers, nitrogenous
• 2.14% ($153 million): 2603 - Copper ores and concentrates
• 2.09% ($149 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
• 1.88% ($135 million): 2503 - Sulphur of all kinds, other than sublimed sulphur, precipitated sulphur and colloidal sulphur.
• 1.85% ($133 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
• 1.62% ($116 million): 8431 - Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the machinery of headings 84.25 to 84.30