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Malawi Trade Summary

2012

Malawi exports, imports, tariff by year.

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TRADE SUMMARY FOR MALAWI 2012

Overall Exports and Imports for Malawi 2012

Exports and imports of Malawi in 2012 are below, along with number of countries and products

  • The total value of exports (FoB) was 1,203 million.
  • The total value of imports (CIF) was 2,728 million.
  • At the HS6 digit level, 1,240 products were exported to 123 countries and 3,540 products were imported from 144 countries.

Malawi top 5 Export and Import partners 2012

Top five countries to which Malawi exported in 2012 are below, along with the percent of total exports that went to that country:

  1. Malawi exports to Canada worth US$ 124 million, with a partner share of 10.35 percent.
  2. Malawi exports to South Africa worth US$ 91 million, with a partner share of 7.57 percent.
  3. Malawi exports to Belgium worth US$ 84 million, with a partner share of 7.01 percent.
  4. Malawi exports to Switzerland worth US$ 82 million, with a partner share of 6.82 percent.
  5. Malawi exports to Germany worth US$ 67 million, with a partner share of 5.59 percent.

Top five countries from which Malawi imported goods in 2012 are below, along with percent of total imports that came from the country :

  1. Malawi imports from South Africa worth US$ 573 million, with a partner share of 21.00 percent.
  2. Malawi imports from India worth US$ 472 million, with a partner share of 17.32 percent.
  3. Malawi imports from China worth US$ 249 million, with a partner share of 9.12 percent.
  4. Malawi imports from Mozambique worth US$ 248 million, with a partner share of 9.07 percent.
  5. Malawi imports from United Arab Emirates worth US$ 114 million, with a partner share of 4.18 percent.

Malawi Top 5 Productsexports imports at HS 6 digit level 2012

The top five exported HS 6 digit level products to world by Malawi along with trade value are:

  1. Malawi exported Tobacco, partly or wholly stemmed/stripped , worth 436,273.08 (US$ Thousands).
  2. Malawi exported Tobacco, not stemmed/stripped , worth 183,243.11 (US$ Thousands).
  3. Malawi exported Uranium ores and concentrates , worth 130,413.24 (US$ Thousands).
  4. Malawi exported Black tea (fermented) and partly fermented tea, , worth 69,137.91 (US$ Thousands).
  5. Malawi exported Coffee substitutes containing coffee , worth 40,933.16 (US$ Thousands).

The top five imported HS 6 digit level products from world by Malawi along with trade value are

  1. Malawi imported Other medicaments of vitamins or other products , worth 327,873.84 (US$ Thousands).
  2. Malawi imported Petroleum oils, etc, (excl. crude); preparation , worth 320,390.04 (US$ Thousands).
  3. Malawi imported Urea , worth 134,869.44 (US$ Thousands).
  4. Malawi imported Other medicaments of mixed or unmixed products, , worth 106,286.67 (US$ Thousands).
  5. Malawi imported Other hydraulic cements, etc , worth 78,031.25 (US$ Thousands).

Exports and Imports of Product Groups 2012

Exports and imports of products by stages of processing in 2012 are below along with their corresponding Product Share as percent of total export or import

Tariffs 2012

Tariffs imposed by Malawi in 2012 are below

  • The maximum rate of tariff in percentage on any product was 25 percent.
  • The simple average tariff across all products was 11.51 percent.
  • The trade weighted average tariff was 5.73 .
  • The total duty free imports in thousands of US dollars were 1,466,498.72 and duty free tariff line items share was 36.51 percent.

Development Indicators 2012

Key Development Indicators of Malawi in 2012 are below

  • Malawi GDP in current US dollar was 8,773 million.
  • GNI per capita, Atlas method (current US$) was 630.00 .
  • Malawi Trade balance: as % of GDP was not available.
  • Trade balance in current US$ was not available.
  • Trade as percentage of GDP was not available .
  • Trade in services as percentage of GDP was 3.79 .

Trade Indicators 2012

Trade Indicators for Malawi in 2012 are below

  • Hirschman Herfindahl market concentration index was 0.04.
  • Index of export market penetration was 1.57.
  • World Growth in percentage was 0.17 and Malawi Country Growth was -2.91 .