Zambia | Imports and Exports | World | ALL COMMODITIES | Value (US$) and Value Growth, YoY (%) | 2010 - 2021

Exports structure from Zambia in 2021 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 75% (7.67 billion US$): 74 - Copper and articles thereof
• 2.71% (274 million US$): 25 - Salt; sulfur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement
• 2.07% (209 million US$): 72 - Iron and steel
• 1.75% (177 million US$): 71 - Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metals, metals clad with precious metal and articles thereof; imitation jewelry; coin
• 1.44% (146 million US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 1.32% (133 million US$): 26 - Ores, slag and ash
• 1.21% (122 million US$): 22 - Beverages, spirits and vinegar
• 1.14% (115 million US$): 24 - Tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes
• 1.14% (115 million US$): 17 - Sugars and sugar confectionery
• 1.05% (106 million US$): 23 - Residues and waste from the food industries; prepared animal feed

What did Zambia export in 2021?

Zambia's Top Exports in 2021:

• 55% ($5.6 billion): 7402 - Unrefined copper; copper anodes for electrolytic refining
• 19.4% ($1.96 billion): 7403 - Refined copper and copper alloys, unwrought.
• 1.5% ($151 million): 7202 - Ferro-alloys.
• 1.29% ($130 million): 2716 - Electrical energy. (optional heading)
• 1.26% ($127 million): 2523 - Portland cement, aluminous cement, slag cement, supersulphate cement and similar hydraulic cements, whether or not coloured or in the form of clinkers
• 1.17% ($118 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.
• 1.11% ($112 million): 2401 - Unmanufactured tobacco; tobacco refuse
• 0.971% ($98 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
• 0.962% ($97 million): 2503 - Sulphur of all kinds, other than sublimed sulphur, precipitated sulphur and colloidal sulphur.
• 0.812% ($82 million): 2304 - Oil-cake and other solid residues, whether or not ground or in the form of pellets, resulting from the extraction of soyabean oil

Imports structure to Zambia in 2021 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 14.1% (908 million US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 9.97% (641 million US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 9.89% (636 million US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• 6.14% (395 million US$): 31 - Fertilizers
• 5.68% (366 million US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
• 5.26% (338 million US$): 30 - Pharmaceutical products
• 4.38% (282 million US$): 85 - Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles
• 4.22% (271 million US$): 38 - Miscellaneous chemical products
• 3.16% (203 million US$): 72 - Iron and steel
• 3.13% (201 million US$): 26 - Ores, slag and ash

What did Zambia import in 2021?

Zambia's Top Imports in 2021:

• 8.35% ($537 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
• 3.93% ($253 million): 3102 - Mineral or chemical fertilisers, nitrogenous
• 3.35% ($215 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
• 3.05% ($196 million): 2603 - Copper ores and concentrates
• 2.97% ($191 million): 8704 - Motor vehicles for the transport of goods
• 1.88% ($121 million): 4011 - New pneumatic tyres, of rubber
• 1.88% ($121 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
• 1.82% ($117 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
• 1.82% ($117 million): 8431 - Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the machinery of headings 84.25 to 84.30
• 1.69% ($109 million): 8701 - Tractors (other than tractors of heading 87.09)