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

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

• 46% (449 million US$): 24 - Tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes
• 10.6% (102 million US$): 12 - Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruits; industrial or medicinal plants; straw and fodder
• 10.3% (100 million US$): 07 - Edible vegetables and certain roots and tubers
• 7.55% (72 million US$): 09 - Coffee, tea, matT and spices
• 5.46% (52 million US$): 23 - Residues and waste from the food industries; prepared animal feed
• 4.45% (43 million US$): 17 - Sugars and sugar confectionery
• 2.08% (20 million US$): 08 - Edible fruit and nuts; peel of citrus fruit or melons
• 1.21% (11.7 million US$): 28 - Inorganic chemicals; organic or inorganic compounds of precious metals, of rare earth metals, of radioactive elements or of isotopes
• 1.07% (10.3 million US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 1.03% (10 million US$): 44 - Wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal

What did Malawi export in 2023?

Malawi's Top Exports in 2023:

• 46% ($447 million): 2401 - Unmanufactured tobacco; tobacco refuse
• 7.3% ($70 million): 0902 - Tea, whether or not flavoured
• 7.06% ($68 million): 0713 - Dried leguminous vegetables, shelled, whether or not skinned or split
• 5.61% ($54 million): 1202 - Ground-nuts, not roasted or otherwise cooked, whether or not shelled or broken.
• 5.06% ($48 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
• 4.37% ($42 million): 1701 - Cane or beet sugar and chemically pure sucrose, in solid form
• 4.17% ($40 million): 1201 - Soya beans, whether or not broken
• 3.08% ($29 million): 0712 - Dried vegetables, whole, cut, sliced, broken or in powder, but not further prepared
• 1.77% ($17 million): 0802 - Other nuts, fresh or dried, whether or not shelled or peeled
• 1.21% ($11.7 million): 2811 - Inorganic acids and other inorganic oxygen compounds of non-metals; n.e.s. in heading no. 2806 to 2810

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

• 19.2% (603 million US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 10.7% (337 million US$): 31 - Fertilizers
• 6.91% (217 million US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 5.74% (180 million US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• 5.38% (169 million US$): 30 - Pharmaceutical products
• 5.34% (167 million US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
• 5% (157 million US$): 85 - Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles
• 3.91% (123 million US$): 49 - Printed books, newspapers, pictures and other products of the printing industry; manuscripts, typescripts and plans
• 3.45% (108 million US$): 63 - Other made up textile articles; sets; worn clothing and worn textile articles; rags
• 2.96% (93 million US$): 38 - Miscellaneous chemical products

What did Malawi import in 2023?

Malawi's Top Imports in 2023:

• 18.5% ($582 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
• 5.54% ($174 million): 3102 - Mineral or chemical fertilisers, nitrogenous
• 4.83% ($151 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
• 3.52% ($110 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.
• 3.15% ($99 million): 6309 - Worn clothing and other worn articles
• 2.98% ($93 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
• 2.51% ($78 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
• 1.97% ($62 million): 3002 - Human blood; animal blood for therapeutic, prophylactic or diagnostic uses; antisera, other blood fractions, immunological products, modified or obtained by biotechnological processes; vaccines, toxins, cultures of micro-organisms (excluding yeasts) etc
• 1.91% ($60 million): 1001 - Wheat and meslin.
• 1.63% ($51 million): 3901 - Polymers of ethylene, in primary forms