Burundi - Foreign trade
In 2000, Burundi's imports exceeded its exports by 200%. Burundi's export income is highly volatile and fluctuates sharply with shifts in world coffee prices. Burundi's most important cash crop is coffee (73.3%), which is the most exported commodity. Tea (7.0%), hides (6.7%), gold (5.6%), and sugars (4.9%) encompass practically all of Burundi's remaining exports. Important imports include capital goods, petroleum products, foodstuffs, and chemicals.
Principal trading partners in 2000 (in millions of US dollars) were as follows:
| COUNTRY | EXPORTS | IMPORTS | BALANCE |
| Switzerland | 11 | 1 | 10 |
| Belgium | 5 | 18 | -13 |
| United Kingdom | 5 | 2 | 3 |
| Netherlands | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| Spain | 3 | n.a. | n.a. |
| Kenya | 3 | 8 | -5 |
| Germany | 1 | 5 | -4 |
| Zambia | 1 | 7 | -8 |
| Tanzania | n.a. | 23 | n.a. |
| France | n.a. | 20 | n.a. |
| Japan | n.a. | 4 | n.a. |
| China (inc. Hong Kong) | n.a. | 6 | n.a. |