EAC Trade statistics

1) EAC trade with the rest of the world

Total exports: 9.592 mio in 2013.
Total imports: 31.271 mio in 2013.
Trade balance with the rest of the world: -21.679 mio in 2013.
Main EAC trade partners
EAC exports main destination partners

Evolution of EAC exports to main partners

EAC imports main origin partners

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Evolution of EAC imports from main partners

2) EU trade with EAC

Total EU exports to EAC: 3.512 mio in 2013.
Total EU imports from EAC: 2.173 mio in 2013.
EU Trade balance with EAC: 1.339 mio in 2013.

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Composition of trade between the EU and EAC (Source: Eurostat 2013)

Main EU exports to EAC

Product description
Nuclear Reactors, Boilers,
Machinery And Mechanical
Appliances; Parts Thereof
Vehicles Other Than Railway Or
Tramway Rolling-Stock, And Parts
And Accessories Thereof
Pharmaceutical Products
Electrical Machinery And
Equipment And Parts Thereof;
Sound Recorders And
Reproducers, Television Image
And Sound Recorders And
Reproducers, And Parts And
Accessories Of Such Articles
Optical, Photographic,
Cinematographic, Measuring,
Checking, Precision, Medical Or
Surgical Instruments And
Apparatus; Parts And Accessories
Thereof
Mineral Fuels, Mineral Oils And
Products Of Their Distillation;
Bituminous Substances; Mineral
Waxes
Miscellaneous Chemical Products
Plastics And Articles Thereof
Paper And Paperboard; Articles
Of Paper Pulp, Of Paper Or Of
Paperboard
Other Made-Up Textile Articles;
Sets; Worn Clothing And Worn
Textile Articles; Rags
Other Products
Essential Oils And Resinoids;
Perfumery, Cosmetic Or Toilet
Preparations
Articles Of Iron Or Steel

Volume (1,000 )

Share in the
total

Cumulative
share

774.454

22,0%

22,0%

448.749

12,8%

34,8%

379.226

10,8%

45,6%

338.884

9,6%

55,3%

136.204

3,9%

59,1%

104.946

3,0%

62,1%

102.995

2,9%

65,1%

95.493

2,7%

67,8%

93.541

2,7%

70,4%

91.550

2,6%

73,1%

82.095

2,3%

75,4%

66.860

1,9%

77,3%

65.492

1,9%

79,2%

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Main EU imports from EAC

Product description
Coffee, Tea, Mat And Spices
Live Trees And Other Plants;
Bulbs, Roots And The Like; Cut
Flowers And Ornamental Foliage
Edible Vegetables And Certain
Roots And Tubers
Tobacco And Manufactured
Tobacco Substitutes
Fish And Crustaceans, Molluscs
And Other Aquatic Invertebrates
Nuclear Reactors, Boilers,
Machinery And Mechanical
Appliances; Parts Thereof
Ores, Slag And Ash
Preparations Of Vegetables, Fruit,
Nuts Or Other Parts Of Plants
Raw Hides And Skins (Other Than
Furskins) And Leather
Edible Fruit And Nuts; Peel Of
Citrus Fruits Or Melons
Natural Or Cultured Pearls,
Precious Or Semi-Precious
Stones, Precious Metals, Metals
Clad With Precious Metal, And
Articles Thereof; Imitation
Jewellery; Coin
Oil Seeds And Oleaginous Fruits;
Miscellaneous Grains, Seeds And
Fruit; Industrial Or Medicinal
Plants; Straw And Fodder
Cocoa And Cocoa Preparations
Copper And Articles Thereof
Salt; Sulphur; Earths And Stone;
Plastering Materials, Lime And
Cement
Other Products
Sugars And Sugar Confectionery

601.484

Share in the
total
27,7%

Cumulative
share
27,7%

476.272

21,9%

49,6%

167.872

7,7%

57,3%

161.693

7,4%

64,8%

140.082

6,4%

71,2%

95.587

4,4%

75,6%

91.331

4,2%

79,8%

88.514

4,1%

83,9%

45.035

2,1%

85,9%

39.739

1,8%

87,8%

39.604

1,8%

89,6%

37.082

1,7%

91,3%

32.723
21.252

1,5%
1,0%

92,8%
93,8%

16.577

0,8%

94,6%

16.201
14.617

0,7%
0,7%

95,3%
96,0%

Volume (1,000 )

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