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Samoa Trade Summary

2012

Samoa exports, imports, tariff by year.

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TRADE SUMMARY FOR SAMOA 2012

Overall Exports and Imports for Samoa 2012

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

  • The total value of exports (FoB) was 76 million.
  • The total value of imports (CIF) was 346 million.
  • At the HS6 digit level, 446 products were exported to 37 countries and 2,620 products were imported from 81 countries.

Samoa top 5 Export and Import partners 2012

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

  1. Samoa exports to Australia worth US$ 39 million, with a partner share of 50.70 percent.
  2. Samoa exports to Unspecified worth US$ 18 million, with a partner share of 23.16 percent.
  3. Samoa exports to New Zealand worth US$ 7 million, with a partner share of 9.66 percent.
  4. Samoa exports to American Samoa worth US$ 5 million, with a partner share of 6.02 percent.
  5. Samoa exports to United States worth US$ 2 million, with a partner share of 2.27 percent.

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

  1. Samoa imports from New Zealand worth US$ 84 million, with a partner share of 24.22 percent.
  2. Samoa imports from Singapore worth US$ 80 million, with a partner share of 23.17 percent.
  3. Samoa imports from United States worth US$ 43 million, with a partner share of 12.54 percent.
  4. Samoa imports from China worth US$ 34 million, with a partner share of 9.88 percent.
  5. Samoa imports from Australia worth US$ 28 million, with a partner share of 8.07 percent.

Samoa Top 5 Productsexports imports at HS 6 digit level 2012

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

  1. Samoa exported Ignition wiring sets&oth wiring sets of a kind , worth 35,792.98 (US$ Thousands).
  2. Samoa exported Petroleum oils, etc, (excl. crude); preparation , worth 17,625.12 (US$ Thousands).
  3. Samoa exported Fresh or chilled albacore or longfinned tunas , worth 3,622.66 (US$ Thousands).
  4. Samoa exported Frozen albacore or longfinned tunas , worth 3,499.74 (US$ Thousands).
  5. Samoa exported Crude coconut (copra) oil and fractions thereof , worth 3,385.08 (US$ Thousands).

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

  1. Samoa imported Petroleum oils, etc, (excl. crude); preparation , worth 76,409.31 (US$ Thousands).
  2. Samoa imported Frozen cuts and offal of chicken (excl. livers) , worth 13,740.38 (US$ Thousands).
  3. Samoa imported Fresh or chilled poultry cuts and offal (excl. , worth 6,096.36 (US$ Thousands).
  4. Samoa imported Wheat or meslin flour , worth 5,032.10 (US$ Thousands).
  5. Samoa imported Broken rice , worth 4,796.04 (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 Samoa in 2012 are below

  • The maximum rate of tariff in percentage on any product was 86.01 percent.
  • The simple average tariff across all products was 11.86 percent.
  • The trade weighted average tariff was 9.86 .
  • The total duty free imports in thousands of US dollars were 40,065.08 and duty free tariff line items share was 5.21 percent.

Development Indicators 2012

Key Development Indicators of Samoa in 2012 are below

  • Samoa GDP in current US dollar was 773 million.
  • GNI per capita, Atlas method (current US$) was 3,560.00 .
  • Samoa Trade balance: as % of GDP was -25.69.
  • Trade balance in current US$ was -199.00 million.
  • Trade as percentage of GDP was 81.55 .
  • Trade in services as percentage of GDP was 36.25 .

Trade Indicators 2012

Trade Indicators for Samoa in 2012 are below

  • Hirschman Herfindahl market concentration index was 0.27.
  • Index of export market penetration was 1.21.
  • World Growth in percentage was 0.17 and Samoa Country Growth was 6.41 .