US trade (export - import) with Ethiopia in 2014
Published or Updated: Feb 07, 2017
The report on US foreign trade in goods with Ethiopia in 2014: exports, imports, balance, product types and groups, dynamics.
US Trade with Ethiopia
In 2014, US trade with Ethiopia totaled $1,883.0 million, up 111.72% ($993.6 million) from 2013.
US exports to Ethiopia in 2014 totaled $1,669.0 million, up 142.40% ($980.5 million) from 2013.
US imports from Ethiopia in 2014 totaled $214.0 million, up 6.56% ($13.2 million) from 2013.
US trade surplus with Ethiopia in 2014 was $1,454.9 million, a 198.36% increase ($967.3 million) over 2013.
Ethiopia was the US 86th largest trading partner in 2014 (up from 101st in 2013), accounting for 0.0467% of US total trade (up from 0.0228% in 2013).
Ethiopia was the US 68th largest export market in 2014 (up from 91st in 2013), accounting for 0.1030% of US total exports (up from 0.0436% in 2013).
Ethiopia was the US 110th largest supplier in 2014 (up from 111th in 2013), accounting for 0.0089% of US total imports (up from 0.0086% in 2013).
US Exports to Ethiopia
The major share of US exports to Ethiopia in 2014 (and in 2013) was accounted for the following product types:
- Machinery, equipment and vehicles (HS codes 84-90) - 90.88% of US total exports to Ethiopia (83.18% in 2013);
- Food products and agricultural raw materials (HS codes 01-24) - 4.99% of US total exports to Ethiopia (9.82% in 2013);
- Chemical products (HS codes 28-40) - 1.21% of US total exports to Ethiopia (1.21% in 2013).
The largest gains in US exports to Ethiopia in 2014 over 2013 were recorded for the following product groups:
- Aircraft, spacecraft, and parts thereof (HS code 88) - an increase of $928.0 million;
- 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 (HS code 85) - an increase of $23.3 million;
- Cereals (HS code 10) - an increase of $18.1 million;
- Miscellaneous chemical products (HS code 38) - an increase of $8.5 million;
- Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes (HS code 27) - an increase of $5.7 million.
The largest declines in US exports to Ethiopia in 2014 over 2013 were recorded for the following product groups:
- No product groups with a substantial decrease.
| HS code |
Name of product group | Value of exports in 2014 (USD thousand) |
Share in total export (%) |
Value of exports in 2013 (USD thousand) |
Change in 2014 over 2013 (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Live animals | 10.2 | 0.00 | 8.7 | 17.10 |
| 04 | Dairy produce; birds eggs; natural honey; edible products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included | 27.0 | 0.00 | 0.0 | ∞ |
| 05 | Products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included | 161.0 | 0.01 | 12.8 | 1,160.63 |
| 06 | Live trees and other plants; bulbs, roots and the like; cut flowers and ornamental foliage | 0.0 | 0.00 | 7.5 | -100.00 |
| 07 | Edible vegetables and certain roots and tubers | 6,810.7 | 0.41 | 9,535.0 | -28.57 |
| 09 | Coffee, tea, maté and spices | 0.0 | 0.00 | 3.1 | -100.00 |
| 10 | Cereals | 63,089.7 | 3.78 | 44,946.1 | 40.37 |
| 11 | Products of the milling industry; malt; starches; inulin; wheat gluten | 6.1 | 0.00 | 0.0 | ∞ |
| 12 | Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruits; industrial or medicinal plants; straw and fodder | 16.8 | 0.00 | 55.9 | -69.91 |
| 15 | Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their cleavage products prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes | 6,754.9 | 0.40 | 6,968.6 | -3.07 |
| 17 | Sugars and sugar confectionery | 94.2 | 0.01 | 0.0 | ∞ |
| 18 | Cocoa and cocoa preparations | 72.2 | 0.00 | 2.8 | 2,503.21 |
| 19 | Preparations of cereals, flour, starch or milk; bakers’ wares | 5,510.9 | 0.33 | 5,608.2 | -1.73 |
| 20 | Preparations of vegetables, fruit, nuts or other parts of plants | 418.5 | 0.03 | 16.8 | 2,393.13 |
| 21 | Miscellaneous edible preparations | 282.6 | 0.02 | 433.4 | -34.79 |
| 22 | Beverages, spirits and vinegar | 24.0 | 0.00 | 31.2 | -23.07 |
| 25 | Salt; sulfur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement | 54.4 | 0.00 | 102.9 | -47.14 |
| 27 | Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes | 6,089.6 | 0.36 | 414.7 | 1,368.32 |
| 28 | Inorganic chemicals; organic or inorganic compounds of precious metals, of rare-earth metals,of radioactive elements or of isotopes | 1,890.4 | 0.11 | 191.9 | 885.28 |
| 29 | Organic chemicals | 150.5 | 0.01 | 149.3 | 0.82 |
| 30 | Pharmaceutical products | 371.8 | 0.02 | 88.4 | 320.73 |
| 31 | Fertilizers | 3.8 | 0.00 | 10.8 | -65.13 |
| 32 | Tanning or dyeing extracts; dyes, pigments, paints, varnishes, putty and mastics | 617.4 | 0.04 | 151.7 | 307.06 |
| 33 | Essential oils and resinoids; perfumery, cosmetic or toilet preparations | 471.7 | 0.03 | 695.5 | -32.17 |
| 34 | Soap, organic surface-active agents, washing preparations, lubricating preparations, artificial waxes, prepared waxes, polishing or scouring preparations, candles and similar articles, modeling pastes, "dental waxes" and dental preparations with a basis of plaster | 430.2 | 0.03 | 126.5 | 240.04 |
| 35 | Albuminoidal substances; modified starches; glues; enzymes | 240.7 | 0.01 | 82.8 | 190.55 |
| 36 | Explosives; pyrotechnic products; matches; pyrophoric alloys; certain combustible preparations | 238.6 | 0.01 | 686.3 | -65.23 |
| 37 | Photographic or cinematographic goods | 30.1 | 0.00 | 9.7 | 208.86 |
| 38 | Miscellaneous chemical products | 12,350.3 | 0.74 | 3,886.5 | 217.77 |
| 39 | Plastics and articles thereof | 2,617.0 | 0.16 | 1,588.7 | 64.72 |
| 40 | Rubber and articles thereof | 811.7 | 0.05 | 685.0 | 18.51 |
| 41 | Raw hides and skins (other than furskins) and leather | 0.0 | 0.00 | 58.3 | -100.00 |
| 42 | Articles of leather; saddlery and harness; travel goods, handbags and similar containers; articles of animal gut (other than silkworm gut) | 267.7 | 0.02 | 101.2 | 164.47 |
| 44 | Wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal | 171.0 | 0.01 | 354.7 | -51.79 |
| 47 | Pulp of wood or of other fibrous cellulosic material; waste and scrap of paper or paperboard | 310.9 | 0.02 | 455.0 | -31.68 |
| 48 | Paper and paperboard; articles of paper pulp, of paper or of paperboard | 169.7 | 0.01 | 143.2 | 18.50 |
| 49 | Printed books, newspapers, pictures and other products of the printing industry; manuscripts, typescripts and plans | 615.5 | 0.04 | 714.1 | -13.81 |
| 55 | Man-made staple fibers | 16.2 | 0.00 | 0.0 | ∞ |
| 56 | Wadding, felt and nonwovens; special yarns, twine, cordage, ropes and cables and articles thereof | 16.1 | 0.00 | 2.9 | 464.09 |
| 57 | Carpets and other textile floor coverings | 5.3 | 0.00 | 0.0 | ∞ |
| 58 | Special woven fabrics; tufted textile fabrics; lace, tapestries; trimmings; embroidery | 0.0 | 0.00 | 4.1 | -100.00 |
| 59 | Impregnated, coated, covered or laminated textile fabrics; textile articles of a kind suitable for industrial use | 239.9 | 0.01 | 32.4 | 640.93 |
| 60 | Knitted or crocheted fabrics | 0.0 | 0.00 | 6.5 | -100.00 |
| 61 | Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, knitted or crocheted | 106.6 | 0.01 | 60.1 | 77.45 |
| 62 | Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, not knitted or crocheted | 535.2 | 0.03 | 270.2 | 98.05 |
| 63 | Other made up textile articles; sets; worn clothing and worn textile articles; rags | 4,632.0 | 0.28 | 370.4 | 1,150.56 |
| 64 | Footwear, gaiters and the like; parts of such articles | 536.5 | 0.03 | 318.5 | 68.44 |
| 65 | Headgear and parts thereof | 15.3 | 0.00 | 65.7 | -76.73 |
| 66 | Umbrellas, sun umbrellas, walking sticks, seatsticks, whips, riding-crops and parts thereof | 2.6 | 0.00 | 0.0 | ∞ |
| 68 | Articles of stone, plaster, cement, asbestos, mica or similar materials | 3,193.8 | 0.19 | 3,443.5 | -7.25 |
| 69 | Ceramic products | 42.9 | 0.00 | 0.0 | ∞ |
| 70 | Glass and glassware | 1,151.0 | 0.07 | 576.9 | 99.52 |
| 71 | Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones,precious metals, metals clad with precious metal and articles thereof; imitation jewelry; coin | 8.9 | 0.00 | 6.1 | 45.85 |
| 72 | Iron and steel | 34.9 | 0.00 | 905.1 | -96.15 |
| 73 | Articles of iron or steel | 1,585.6 | 0.10 | 1,117.5 | 41.89 |
| 74 | Copper and articles thereof | 60.0 | 0.00 | 82.3 | -27.08 |
| 75 | Nickel and articles thereof | 191.3 | 0.01 | 84.3 | 127.01 |
| 76 | Aluminum and articles thereof | 258.9 | 0.02 | 105.0 | 146.65 |
| 81 | Other base metals; cermets; articles thereof | 151.1 | 0.01 | 88.3 | 71.12 |
| 82 | Tools, implements, cutlery, spoons and forks, of base metal; parts thereof of base metal | 1,536.3 | 0.09 | 1,796.8 | -14.50 |
| 83 | Miscellaneous articles of base metal | 682.9 | 0.04 | 318.2 | 114.64 |
| 84 | Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof | 30,759.8 | 1.84 | 33,045.2 | -6.92 |
| 85 | 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 | 36,846.2 | 2.21 | 13,503.2 | 172.87 |
| 86 | Railway or tramway locomotives, rolling-stock and parts thereof; railway or tramway track fixtures and fittings and parts thereof; mechanical (including electro-mechanical) traffic signalling equipment of all kinds | 7.9 | 0.00 | 5.0 | 57.08 |
| 87 | Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof | 2,768.4 | 0.17 | 3,997.1 | -30.74 |
| 88 | Aircraft, spacecraft, and parts thereof | 1,435,550.4 | 86.01 | 507,558.2 | 182.83 |
| 89 | Ships, boats and floating structures | 3.6 | 0.00 | 11.2 | -68.22 |
| 90 | Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof | 10,800.2 | 0.65 | 14,596.6 | -26.01 |
| 91 | Clocks and watches and parts thereof | 11.4 | 0.00 | 0.0 | ∞ |
| 92 | Musical instruments; parts and accessories of such articles | 0.0 | 0.00 | 33.9 | -100.00 |
| 93 | Arms and ammunition; parts and accessories thereof | 0.0 | 0.00 | 9.8 | -100.00 |
| 94 | Furniture; bedding, mattresses, mattress supports, cushions and similar stuffed furnishings; lamps and lighting fittings, not elsewhere specified or included; illuminated sign illuminated nameplates and the like; prefabricated buildings | 3,350.2 | 0.20 | 1,376.0 | 143.48 |
| 95 | Toys, games and sports requisites; parts and accessories thereof | 743.8 | 0.04 | 500.6 | 48.56 |
| 96 | Miscellaneous manufactured articles | 51.2 | 0.00 | 56.3 | -8.99 |
| 97 | Works of art, collectors’ pieces and antiques | 0.0 | 0.00 | 10.0 | -100.00 |
| 99 | Commodities not specified according to kind | 21,897.8 | 1.31 | 25,823.0 | -15.20 |
US Imports from Ethiopia
The major share of US imports from Ethiopia in 2014 (and in 2013) was accounted for the following product types:
- Food products and agricultural raw materials (HS codes 01-24) - 56.38% of US total imports from Ethiopia (56.14% in 2013);
- Textiles, textile products and footwear (HS codes 50-67) - 15.40% of US total imports from Ethiopia (15.64% in 2013);
- Mineral products (HS codes 25-27) - 2.60% of US total imports from Ethiopia (0.00% in 2013);
- Precious metals and stones (HS code 71) - 1.06% of US total imports from Ethiopia (0.15% in 2013).
The largest gains in US imports from Ethiopia in 2014 over 2013 were recorded for the following product groups:
- Coffee, tea, maté and spices (HS code 09) - an increase of $13.5 million;
- Ores, slag and ash (HS code 26) - an increase of $5.5 million;
- Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones,precious metals, metals clad with precious metal and articles thereof; imitation jewelry; coin (HS code 71) - an increase of $2.0 million;
- Articles of leather; saddlery and harness; travel goods, handbags and similar containers; articles of animal gut (other than silkworm gut) (HS code 42) - an increase of $1.9 million;
- Live trees and other plants; bulbs, roots and the like; cut flowers and ornamental foliage (HS code 06) - an increase of $1.8 million;
- Works of art, collectors’ pieces and antiques (HS code 97) - an increase of $1.4 million;
- Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, not knitted or crocheted (HS code 62) - an increase of $1.1 million;
- Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, knitted or crocheted (HS code 61) - an increase of $0.8 million.
The largest declines in US imports from Ethiopia in 2014 over the 2013 were recorded for the following product groups:
- Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruits; industrial or medicinal plants; straw and fodder (HS code 12) - a decrease of $7.9 million;
- Commodities not specified according to kind (HS code 99) - a decrease of $7.2 million.
| HS code |
Name of product group | Value of imports in 2014 (USD thousand) |
Share in total import (%) |
Value of imports in 2013 USD thousand) |
Change in 2014 over 2013 (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04 | Dairy produce; birds eggs; natural honey; edible products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included | 16.3 | 0.01 | 0.0 | ∞ |
| 06 | Live trees and other plants; bulbs, roots and the like; cut flowers and ornamental foliage | 5,298.9 | 2.48 | 3,479.5 | 52.29 |
| 07 | Edible vegetables and certain roots and tubers | 1,183.2 | 0.55 | 628.4 | 88.29 |
| 08 | Edible fruit and nuts; peel of citrus fruit or melons | 0.0 | 0.00 | 85.3 | -100.00 |
| 09 | Coffee, tea, maté and spices | 96,093.8 | 44.89 | 82,605.3 | 16.33 |
| 10 | Cereals | 10.2 | 0.00 | 4.5 | 125.56 |
| 11 | Products of the milling industry; malt; starches; inulin; wheat gluten | 261.8 | 0.12 | 353.0 | -25.83 |
| 12 | Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruits; industrial or medicinal plants; straw and fodder | 16,144.2 | 7.54 | 24,088.1 | -32.98 |
| 13 | Lac; gums, resins and other vegetable saps and extracts | 247.7 | 0.12 | 172.2 | 43.86 |
| 15 | Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their cleavage products prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes | 886.9 | 0.41 | 912.2 | -2.78 |
| 19 | Preparations of cereals, flour, starch or milk; bakers’ wares | 116.8 | 0.05 | 93.0 | 25.59 |
| 21 | Miscellaneous edible preparations | 52.5 | 0.02 | 10.5 | 398.96 |
| 22 | Beverages, spirits and vinegar | 367.3 | 0.17 | 345.8 | 6.21 |
| 25 | Salt; sulfur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement | 10.6 | 0.00 | 5.5 | 93.51 |
| 26 | Ores, slag and ash | 5,548.0 | 2.59 | 0.0 | ∞ |
| 27 | Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes | 3.0 | 0.00 | 0.0 | ∞ |
| 30 | Pharmaceutical products | 5.0 | 0.00 | 0.0 | ∞ |
| 33 | Essential oils and resinoids; perfumery, cosmetic or toilet preparations | 39.2 | 0.02 | 76.3 | -48.70 |
| 39 | Plastics and articles thereof | 97.9 | 0.05 | 67.1 | 46.02 |
| 40 | Rubber and articles thereof | 21.7 | 0.01 | 0.0 | ∞ |
| 41 | Raw hides and skins (other than furskins) and leather | 101.3 | 0.05 | 0.0 | ∞ |
| 42 | Articles of leather; saddlery and harness; travel goods, handbags and similar containers; articles of animal gut (other than silkworm gut) | 4,205.9 | 1.96 | 2,335.2 | 80.11 |
| 44 | Wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal | 4.0 | 0.00 | 0.0 | ∞ |
| 46 | Manufactures of straw, of esparto or of other plaiting materials; basketware and wickerwork | 10.1 | 0.00 | 2.6 | 288.34 |
| 48 | Paper and paperboard; articles of paper pulp, of paper or of paperboard | 0.0 | 0.00 | 27.6 | -100.00 |
| 49 | Printed books, newspapers, pictures and other products of the printing industry; manuscripts, typescripts and plans | 35.8 | 0.02 | 35.0 | 2.52 |
| 57 | Carpets and other textile floor coverings | 0.9 | 0.00 | 57.6 | -98.46 |
| 61 | Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, knitted or crocheted | 8,530.9 | 3.99 | 7,746.1 | 10.13 |
| 62 | Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, not knitted or crocheted | 4,061.1 | 1.90 | 2,939.9 | 38.14 |
| 63 | Other made up textile articles; sets; worn clothing and worn textile articles; rags | 149.2 | 0.07 | 154.8 | -3.67 |
| 64 | Footwear, gaiters and the like; parts of such articles | 20,230.8 | 9.45 | 20,519.2 | -1.41 |
| 69 | Ceramic products | 24.8 | 0.01 | 11.3 | 119.11 |
| 70 | Glass and glassware | 10.9 | 0.01 | 18.6 | -41.33 |
| 71 | Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones,precious metals, metals clad with precious metal and articles thereof; imitation jewelry; coin | 2,271.4 | 1.06 | 308.7 | 635.88 |
| 73 | Articles of iron or steel | 26.4 | 0.01 | 0.0 | ∞ |
| 83 | Miscellaneous articles of base metal | 3.1 | 0.00 | 33.5 | -90.75 |
| 84 | Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof | 106.5 | 0.05 | 147.5 | -27.79 |
| 85 | 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 | 509.0 | 0.24 | 514.3 | -1.03 |
| 90 | Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof | 102.0 | 0.05 | 116.3 | -12.33 |
| 91 | Clocks and watches and parts thereof | 5.6 | 0.00 | 0.0 | ∞ |
| 92 | Musical instruments; parts and accessories of such articles | 8.4 | 0.00 | 0.0 | ∞ |
| 94 | Furniture; bedding, mattresses, mattress supports, cushions and similar stuffed furnishings; lamps and lighting fittings, not elsewhere specified or included; illuminated sign illuminated nameplates and the like; prefabricated buildings | 85.6 | 0.04 | 5.3 | 1,508.24 |
| 95 | Toys, games and sports requisites; parts and accessories thereof | 0.0 | 0.00 | 10.2 | -100.00 |
| 97 | Works of art, collectors’ pieces and antiques | 1,685.7 | 0.79 | 266.2 | 533.27 |
| 99 | Commodities not specified according to kind | 45,469.4 | 21.24 | 52,695.0 | -13.71 |