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Malawi Trade Summary

2021

Malawi exports, imports, tariff by year.

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TRADE SUMMARY FOR MALAWI 2021

Overall Exports and Imports for Malawi 2021

Exports and imports of Malawi in 2021 are below, along with number of countries and products

  • The total value of exports (FoB) was 1,009 million.
  • The total value of imports (CIF) was 3,073 million.
  • At the HS6 digit level, 1,290 products were exported to 117 countries and 3,554 products were imported from 158 countries.

Malawi top 5 Export and Import partners 2021

Top five countries to which Malawi exported in 2021 are below, along with the percent of total exports that went to that country:

  1. Malawi exports to Belgium worth US$ 139 million, with a partner share of 13.76 percent.
  2. Malawi exports to India worth US$ 76 million, with a partner share of 7.58 percent.
  3. Malawi exports to Tanzania worth US$ 71 million, with a partner share of 7.01 percent.
  4. Malawi exports to South Africa worth US$ 67 million, with a partner share of 6.62 percent.
  5. Malawi exports to United Arab Emirates worth US$ 46 million, with a partner share of 4.59 percent.

Top five countries from which Malawi imported goods in 2021 are below, along with percent of total imports that came from the country :

  1. Malawi imports from China worth US$ 560 million, with a partner share of 18.23 percent.
  2. Malawi imports from South Africa worth US$ 546 million, with a partner share of 17.77 percent.
  3. Malawi imports from United Arab Emirates worth US$ 285 million, with a partner share of 9.28 percent.
  4. Malawi imports from India worth US$ 224 million, with a partner share of 7.28 percent.
  5. Malawi imports from Zambia worth US$ 130 million, with a partner share of 4.23 percent.

Malawi Top 5 Productsexports imports at HS 6 digit level 2021

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$ 376,010.59 million.
  2. Malawi exported Soya beans , worth US$ 108,071.23 million.
  3. Malawi exported Raw cane sugar, in solid form , worth US$ 74,125.44 million.
  4. Malawi exported Black tea (fermented) and partly fermented tea, , worth US$ 71,811.96 million.
  5. Malawi exported Tobacco, not stemmed/stripped , worth US$ 61,241.01 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$ 241,495.65 million.
  2. Malawi imported New stamps; stamp-impressed paper; banknotes; c , worth US$ 225,599.87 million.
  3. Malawi imported Human and animal blood; microbial cultures; tox , worth US$ 99,517.37 million.
  4. Malawi imported Mineral or chemical fertilizers with nitrogen, , worth US$ 93,277.83 million.
  5. Malawi imported Urea , worth US$ 90,914.19 million.

Exports and Imports of Product Groups 2021

Exports and imports of products by stages of processing in 2021 are below along with their corresponding Product Share as percent of total export or import

Tariffs 2021

Tariffs imposed by Malawi in 2021 are below

  • The maximum rate of tariff in percentage on any product was 25 percent.
  • The simple average tariff across all products was 9.48 percent.
  • The trade weighted average tariff was 5.95 .
  • The total duty free imports in thousands of US dollars were 1,545,572.44 and duty free tariff line items share was 46.59 percent.

Development Indicators 2021

Key Development Indicators of Malawi in 2021 are below

  • Malawi GDP in current US dollar was 12,602 million.
  • GNI per capita, Atlas method (current US$) was 610.00 .
  • Malawi Trade balance: as % of GDP was not available.
  • Trade balance in current US$ was not available.
  • Trade as percentage of GDP was not available .
  • Trade in services as percentage of GDP was 8.36 .

Trade Indicators 2021

Trade Indicators for Malawi in 2021 are below

  • Hirschman Herfindahl market concentration index was 0.05.
  • Index of export market penetration was 1.72.
  • World Growth in percentage was 12.59 and Malawi Country Growth was 12.83 .