Annual International Trade Statistics by Country (HS02)
Publication date: 2021-11-14
Reporting period: 2002 - 2020
Timeseries: 177 million
Source:UN Comtrade
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Zimbabwe | Imports and Exports | World | ALL COMMODITIES | Value (US$) and Value Growth, YoY (%) | 2009 - 2020
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| Commodity | Reporter | Partner | Trade flow | Indicator | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 |
| TOTAL. ALL COMMODITIES | Zimbabwe | World | Exports | Value (US$) | 2,268,897,696.00 | 3,199,231,156.00 | 3,512,125,476.00 | 3,882,429,092.00 | 3,507,296,016.00 | 3,063,741,360.00 | 2,704,095,948.00 | 3,341,151,095.00 | 3,480,381,866.00 | 4,037,267,069.00 | 4,279,383,537.00 | 4,394,837,096.00 |
| Value Growth, YoY (%) | 33.94 | 41.00 | 9.78 | 10.54 | -9.66 | -12.64 | -11.73 | 23.55 | 4.16 | 16.00 | 5.99 | 2.69 | ||||
| Imports | Value (US$) | 3,526,779,920.00 | 5,852,266,737.00 | 8,599,250,917.00 | 7,362,538,677.00 | 7,704,177,972.00 | 6,379,758,045.00 | 6,002,231,852.00 | 5,335,636,736.00 | 4,962,102,713.00 | 6,450,201,802.00 | 4,787,446,790.00 | 5,047,868,606.00 | |||
| Value Growth, YoY (%) | 24.54 | 65.93 | 46.93 | -14.38 | 4.64 | -17.19 | -5.91 | -11.10 | -7.00 | 29.98 | -25.77 | 5.43 |
The value of merchandise exports from Zimbabwe totalled $ 4.39 billion in 2020. Merchandise exports from Zimbabwe increased by 2.69% compared to 2019. Goods exports grew up by $ 115 million in 2020 (the value of merchandise exports from Zimbabwe amounted to $4.27 billion in 2019)
Zimbabwe's exports 2020 by country
Top export destinations of commodities from Zimbabwe in 2020:
- South Africa with a share of 39% (1.73 billion US$)
- Special Categories with a share of 22% (967 million US$)
- United Arab Emirates with a share of 20% (891 million US$)
- Mozambique with a share of 9.27% (407 million US$)
- Uganda with a share of 2.89% (127 million US$)
- Belgium with a share of 1.65% (72 million US$)
- Zambia with a share of 1.19% (52 million US$)
- Kenya with a share of 1.12% (49 million US$)
- Botswana - 39 million US$
- Hong Kong - 17.6 million US$
Exports structure from Zimbabwe in 2020 represented by the following main commodity groups:
- 30% (1.34 billion US$): 71 - Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metals, metals clad with precious metal and articles thereof; imitation jewelry; coin
- 22% (985 million US$): 75 - Nickel and articles thereof
- 18% (794 million US$): 24 - Tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes
- 15% (662 million US$): 26 - Ores, slag and ash
- 3.28% (144 million US$): 72 - Iron and steel
- 1.75% (76 million US$): 17 - Sugars and sugar confectionery
- 1.09% (48 million US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
- 0.876% (38 million US$): 25 - Salt; sulfur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement
- 0.705% (30 million US$): 41 - Raw hides and skins (other than fur skins) and leather
- 0.684% (30 million US$): 52 - Cotton
What did Zimbabwe export in 2020?
Zimbabwe's Top Exports in 2020:
- 22% ($985 million): 7501 - Nickel mattes, nickel oxide sinters and other intermediate products of nickel metallurgy.
- 22% ($982 million): 7108 - Gold (including gold plated with platinum) unwrought or in semi-manufactured forms, or in powder form.
- 16.8% ($741 million): 2401 - Unmanufactured tobacco; tobacco refuse.
- 13.9% ($611 million): 2604 - Nickel ores and concentrates.
- 3.2% ($140 million): 7102 - Diamonds, whether or not worked, but not mounted or set.
- 3.18% ($140 million): 7202 - Ferro-alloys.
- 3.05% ($134 million): 7110 - Platinum, unwrought or in semi-manufactured forms, or in powder form.
- 1.92% ($84 million): 7113 - Articles of jewellery and parts thereof, of precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal.
- 1.71% ($75 million): 1701 - Cane or beet sugar and chemically pure sucrose, in solid form.
- 1.03% ($45 million): 2610 - Chromium ores and concentrates.
The value of merchandise imports to Zimbabwe totalled $ 5.04 billion in 2020. Merchandise imports to Zimbabwe increased by 5.43% compared to 2019. Goods imports grew up by $ 260 million in 2020 (the value of merchandise imports to Zimbabwe was equal to $4.78 billion in 2019)
Zimbabwe's imports 2020 by country
Top trading partners (import sources) of Zimbabwe in 2020:
- South Africa with a share of 49% (2.48 billion US$)
- Singapore with a share of 10.8% (548 million US$)
- China with a share of 9.32% (470 million US$)
- India with a share of 3.21% (162 million US$)
- Mauritius with a share of 3.2% (161 million US$)
- Mozambique with a share of 2.7% (136 million US$)
- Zambia with a share of 2.2% (111 million US$)
- United Kingdom with a share of 1.8% (91 million US$)
- United Arab Emirates with a share of 1.41% (71 million US$)
- USA with a share of 1.09% (55 million US$)
Imports structure to Zimbabwe in 2020 represented by the following main commodity groups:
- 16.1% (817 million US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
- 12.7% (642 million US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
- 10.3% (524 million US$): 10 - Cereals
- 6.46% (326 million US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
- 4.66% (235 million US$): 31 - Fertilizers
- 4.47% (226 million US$): 85 - Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles
- 3.85% (194 million US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
- 3.73% (188 million US$): 30 - Pharmaceutical products
- 3.72% (187 million US$): 38 - Miscellaneous chemical products
- 3.51% (177 million US$): 73 - Articles of iron or steel
What did Zimbabwe import in 2020?
Zimbabwe's Top Imports in 2020:
- 12.1% ($613 million): 2710 - Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, other than crude; preparations not elsewhere specified or included, containing by weight 70 % or more of petroleum oils or of oils obtained from bituminous minerals, these oils being the basic constituents of the preparations; waste oils.
- 5.91% ($298 million): 1005 - Maize (corn).
- 3.04% ($153 million): 2716 - Electrical energy. (optional heading)
- 2.65% ($134 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.
- 2.54% ($128 million): 1507 - Soya-bean oil and its fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified.
- 2.4% ($121 million): 8704 - Motor vehicles for the transport of goods.
- 2.15% ($108 million): 3102 - Mineral or chemical fertilisers, nitrogenous.
- 2.1% ($106 million): 1006 - Rice.
- 2.05% ($103 million): 8701 - Tractors (other than tractors of heading 87.09).
- 2.03% ($102 million): 1001 - Wheat and meslin.
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