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Malawi Trade Summary

2016

Malawi exports, imports, tariff by year.
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TRADE SUMMARY FOR MALAWI 2016

Overall Exports and Imports for Malawi 2016

Exports and imports of Malawi in 2016 are below, along with number of countries and products

  • The total value of exports (FoB) was 1,022 million.
  • The total value of imports (CIF) was 2,254 million.
  • At the HS6 digit level, 1,150 products were exported to 114 countries and 3,631 products were imported from 149 countries.

Malawi top 5 Export and Import partners 2016

Top five countries to which Malawi exported in 2016 are below, along with the percent of total exports that went to that country:

  1. Malawi exports to Belgium worth US$ 173 million, with a partner share of 16.91 percent.
  2. Malawi exports to South Africa worth US$ 85 million, with a partner share of 8.30 percent.
  3. Malawi exports to Mozambique worth US$ 79 million, with a partner share of 7.72 percent.
  4. Malawi exports to United States worth US$ 58 million, with a partner share of 5.63 percent.
  5. Malawi exports to China worth US$ 56 million, with a partner share of 5.45 percent.

Top five countries from which Malawi imported goods in 2016 are below, along with percent of total imports that came from the country :

  1. Malawi imports from South Africa worth US$ 399 million, with a partner share of 17.71 percent.
  2. Malawi imports from India worth US$ 260 million, with a partner share of 11.55 percent.
  3. Malawi imports from China worth US$ 258 million, with a partner share of 11.45 percent.
  4. Malawi imports from United Arab Emirates worth US$ 200 million, with a partner share of 8.86 percent.
  5. Malawi imports from Zambia worth US$ 195 million, with a partner share of 8.63 percent.

Malawi Top 5 Productsexports imports at HS 6 digit level 2016

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 US$ 441,111.80 million.
  2. Malawi exported Tobacco, not stemmed/stripped , worth US$ 93,033.48 million.
  3. Malawi exported Raw cane sugar, in solid form , worth US$ 80,271.25 million.
  4. Malawi exported Black tea (fermented) and partly fermented tea, , worth US$ 66,863.05 million.
  5. Malawi exported Other spirituous beverages, nes , worth US$ 50,523.27 million.

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

  1. Malawi imported Petroleum oils, etc, (excl. crude); preparation , worth US$ 262,129.88 million.
  2. Malawi imported Other medicaments of mixed or unmixed products, , worth US$ 169,793.49 million.
  3. Malawi imported Maize (excl. seed) , worth US$ 131,277.70 million.
  4. Malawi imported New stamps; stamp-impressed paper; banknotes; c , worth US$ 110,584.26 million.
  5. Malawi imported Urea , worth US$ 47,136.20 million.

Exports and Imports of Product Groups 2016

Exports and imports of products by stages of processing in 2016 are below along with their corresponding Product Share as percent of total export or import

Tariffs 2016

Tariffs imposed by Malawi in 2016 are below

  • The maximum rate of tariff in percentage on any product was 25 percent.
  • The simple average tariff across all products was 9.17 percent.
  • The trade weighted average tariff was 4.77 .
  • The total duty free imports in thousands of US dollars were 1,513,846.90 and duty free tariff line items share was 51.06 percent.

Development Indicators 2016

Key Development Indicators of Malawi in 2016 are below

  • Malawi GDP in current US dollar was 7,910 million.
  • GNI per capita, Atlas method (current US$) was 500.00 .
  • Malawi Trade balance: as % of GDP was not available.
  • Trade balance in current US$ was not available.
  • Trade as percentage of GDP was not available .
  • Trade in services as percentage of GDP was 4.59 .

Trade Indicators 2016

Trade Indicators for Malawi in 2016 are below

  • Hirschman Herfindahl market concentration index was 0.05.
  • Index of export market penetration was 1.60.
  • World Growth in percentage was -1.38 and Malawi Country Growth was -1.63 .