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

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

• 31% (2.25 billion US$): 71 - Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metals, metals clad with precious metal and articles thereof; imitation jewelry; coin
• 17.9% (1.29 billion US$): 24 - Tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes
• 13.6% (989 million US$): 75 - Nickel and articles thereof
• 12.7% (922 million US$): 25 - Salt; sulfur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement
• 10.1% (735 million US$): 26 - Ores, slag and ash
• 5.4% (390 million US$): 72 - Iron and steel
• 2.82% (204 million US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 0.803% (58 million US$): 17 - Sugars and sugar confectionery
• 0.506% (36 million US$): 41 - Raw hides and skins (other than fur skins) and leather
• 0.481% (34 million US$): 52 - Cotton

What did Zimbabwe export in 2023?

Zimbabwe's Top Exports in 2023:

• 24% ($1.8 billion): 7108 - Gold (including gold plated with platinum) unwrought or in semi-manufactured forms, or in powder form
• 16.4% ($1.19 billion): 2401 - Unmanufactured tobacco; tobacco refuse
• 13.6% ($989 million): 7501 - Nickel mattes, nickel oxide sinters and other intermediate products of nickel metallurgy
• 12.2% ($881 million): 2530 - Mineral substances not elsewhere specified or included.
• 8.95% ($647 million): 2604 - Nickel ores and concentrates
• 5.32% ($384 million): 7202 - Ferro-alloys.
• 4.49% ($324 million): 7102 - Diamonds, whether or not worked, but not mounted or set
• 2.17% ($156 million): 2704 - Coke and semi-coke of coal, of lignite or of peat, whether or not agglomerated; retort carbon
• 1.67% ($121 million): 7110 - Platinum, unwrought or in semi-manufactured forms, or in powder form
• 1.2% ($87 million): 2610 - Chromium ores and concentrates

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

• 20% (1.85 billion US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 13.2% (1.21 billion US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 8.34% (767 million US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• 6.38% (587 million US$): 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
• 4.96% (456 million US$): 10 - Cereals
• 4.21% (388 million US$): 31 - Fertilizers
• 3.5% (322 million US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
• 3.12% (287 million US$): 72 - Iron and steel
• 3.11% (286 million US$): 73 - Articles of iron or steel
• 3% (276 million US$): 15 - Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes

What did Zimbabwe import in 2023?

Zimbabwe's Top Imports in 2023:

• 16.8% ($1.55 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
• 3% ($276 million): 8704 - Motor vehicles for the transport of goods
• 2.6% ($239 million): 3102 - Mineral or chemical fertilisers, nitrogenous
• 2.3% ($212 million): 1507 - Soya-bean oil and its fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified
• 2.18% ($200 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
• 1.95% ($180 million): 2716 - Electrical energy. (optional heading)
• 1.95% ($179 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
• 1.91% ($176 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% ($173 million): 1006 - Rice
• 1.65% ($152 million): 1005 - Maize (corn)