Malawi - Foreign trade



Malawi mostly exports tobacco (66%). Other commodity exports include tea (7.6%), sugar (6.0%), coffee (4.0%), and woven cotton fabrics (2.5%). Tea is sold primarily to the United Kingdom while sugar exports go to the EU and the United States. In 1995 Malawi's imports were distributed among the following categories:

Malawi

Consumer goods 12.5%
Food 7.7%
Fuels 11.1%
Industrial supplies 39.2%
Machinery 13.7%
Transportation 15.0%
Other 0.8%

Principal trading partners in 1998 (in millions of US dollars) were as follows:

Malawi

COUNTRY EXPORTS IMPORTS BALANCE
South Africa 99 308 -209
United States 59 16 43
Germany 57 19 38
Netherlands 49 6 43
Japan 42 32 10
United Kingdom 16 24 -8
Zambia 11 25 -14
France 8 8 0
Zimbabwe 7 156 -149
Botswana 6 10 -4
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