Merchandise trade by product
Note: Top 10 exporting economies are shown
.Regional specialization patterns
The supply of goods to the world market has a regional pattern. In 2022, economies in Northern and Central America, Europe and Southern, Eastern and South-Eastern Asia exported mainly manufactured goods. Economies primarily exporting fuels were located along the northern coast of South America, in Middle and Northern Africa and Western and Central Asia.
In Africa, primary goods accounted for 79 per cent of merchandise exports in 2022. Fuels made up 42 per cent. Developing Asia and Oceania relied much less on primary goods exports (28 per cent) than developing economies in Africa and the Americas (54 per cent). Among the three developing regions, developing Asia and Oceania recorded the lowest proportion of food exports (5 per cent), far behind developing America (25 per cent) and developing Africa (11 per cent).
Note: Non-allocated products are not considered.
The uptrend continues in all product groups
What do developing regions trade with others?
Note: Non-allocated products are not considered.
Concepts and definitions
The breakdown of merchandise trade by product group is based on the entries in the customs declarations that are coded in accordance with a globally harmonized classification system, called the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System (HSHarmonized Commodity Description and Coding System). The values of the individual customs declarations have been summed up to the level of product group, error-checked and submitted to the United Nations Statistics Division for integration in the UN Comtrade database -—
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The UN Comtrade database contains product breakdowns based on the Standard International Trade Classification (SITCStandard International Trade Classification). These have been obtained by conversion of the raw data coded in HSHarmonized Commodity Description and Coding System and constitute the main source of the figures presented in this section. For correspondence between SITCStandard International Trade Classification codes and the five broad product groups presented in this section, see Classifications page.
Summary tables
References
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