The Republic of Cameroon is a Central African country on the west coast of the African continent.

Exports

In 2022, Cameroon exported $6.25 billion worth of products to the world. This figure represents a 44.7% increase in exports compared to $4.3 billion in 2021.

Cameroon's five main exports are crude oil, LPG, cocoa beans, sawn timber and bananas (including plantains). Together, these five major Cameroonian exports account for 81.9% of the country's export sales.

Cameroon's top 10 exports

1. fossil fuels including petroleum: $3.9 billion (62.5% of total exports)

2. Cocoa: $735 million (11.8%)

3. Wood: $701.9 million (11.2%)

4. Fruits, nuts: $279.1 million (4.5%)

5. aluminum: $97.8 million (1.6%)

6. machinery including computers: $95.5 million (1.5%)

7. Rubber, rubber products: $88.6 million (1.4%)

8. Cotton: $46.5 million (0.7%)

9. Coffee, tea, spices: US$31.1 million (0.5%)

10. Copper: $19.7 million (0.3%)

Copper is the fastest growing of the top ten export categories, growing 454.3% from 2021 to 2022. The second highest growth in export sales was in the fruit and nut products category, which grew by 425.6%. Cameroon's machinery shipments, including computers, ranked third in terms of growth, up 228.5 percent.

The only decline in Cameroon's top 10 export categories was cotton, down -82% year-on-year.

More detailed HTS codes show that Cameroon's ten most valuable exports are crude oil (35.5% of the country's total revenues), petroleum gas (26.2%), cocoa beans (8%), sawn timber (7.8%), bananas including plantain (4.4%), logs (2.2%), cocoa butter, fats, and oils (1.9%), cocoa paste (1.8%), unwrought aluminum (1.5%), and natural rubber (1.5%). 1.5%) and natural rubber (1.3%).

Cameroon's main trading partners

The latest Tendata iTrader data shows that Cameroon's exports are mainly purchased by importers from the following countries: mainland China (25.8% of Cameroon's total), the Netherlands (12.4%), India (9.6%), Italy (7.1%), Spain (6.1%), Bangladesh (4%), Chad (3.8%), Belgium (3.6%), France (3%), the United States (2.6%), Vietnam (2.2%) and South Korea (2%). 3.6%), France (3%), the United States (2.6%), Viet Nam (2.2%), and South Korea (2.1%).

Imports

Top 10 Imported Products from Cameroon

1.Mineral fuels, oils, distillation products (18%)

2.Cereals (10%)

3.Machinery, nuclear reactors, boilers (7.8%)

4.Vehicles other than railway, tramway (6.4%)

5. Iron and steel (5.6%)

6. Pharmaceutical products (4.9%)

7. Electrical, electronic equipment (4.4%)

8.Plastics (3.7%)

9.Fish, crustaceans, molluscs, aquatics invertebrates (3.5%)

10. salt, sulphur, earth, stone, plaster, lime and cement (3.4%)

Cameroon's main sources of imports

The latest Tendata iTrader data shows that Cameroon imports are mainly purchased from exporters in the following countries:

1. China (17%)

2. France (9%)

3. India (7.3%)

4. Russia (6.9%)

5.Belgium (3.9%)

6.Turkey (3.5%)

7. Germany (3.1%)

8. United States (2.9%)

9. Netherlands (2.8%)

10. Ukraine (2.1%)