Cameroon Trade Profile '21

Trade Profiles

2021 Trade in commercial services

Transport

Travel Other commercial services

Industrial property

Merchandise trade Agricultural products Nonagricultural products

Cameroon

Cameroon

GDP (million current US$, 2020) GDP per capita (US$, 2018-2020) Current account balance (% GDP, 2020) Trade per capita (US$, 2017-2019) Trade (% GDP, 2017-2019)

39 020 1 502 -5.3 303 20.4

Rank in world trade, 2020 Merchandise excluding intra-EU trade Commercial services excluding intra-EU trade

Exports

121 97 103 77

Imports

121 96 101 75

MERCHANDISE TRADE Value

Million US$ Merchandise exports, f.o.b.

Merchandise imports, c.i.f.

Annual percentage change

2020 3 385 5 364

2010-2020 -1 0

2020 0.02

Share in world total imports (%)

Share in world total exports (%)

2019 7 0

2020 -17 -5 2020 0.03

Breakdown in economy's total exports

Breakdown in economy's total imports

By main commodity group, % (2019)

By main commodity group, % (2019)

Agricultural products: 34

Fuels and mining products: 58.9

Agricultural products: 22.9

Fuels and mining products: 4.2

Manufactures: 6.4

Other: 0.8

Manufactures: 71.9

Other: 1

By main destination, % (2017)

By main origin, % (2017)

European Union: 54.1

China: 12.1

India: 6.9

European Union: 30.8

China: 17.2

Thailand: 5.7

Viet Nam: 3.1

Bangladesh: 2.5

Other: 21.4

Togo: 5.1

Nigeria: 4.9

Other: 36.3

Agricultural Products Value

Top exported products (Million US$) HS1801 HS5201 HS1803 HS0803 HS1804

2017 .

403 165 71 63 46

Cocoa beans, whole or broken Cotton, not carded or combed Cocoa paste Bananas, including plantains Cocoa butter, fat and oil

Value

Top imported products (Million US$) HS1006 HS1001 HS1701 HS1511 HS1107

2017

Rice Wheat and meslin Cane or beet sugar Palm oil and its fractions Malt, whether or not roasted

317 179 68 53 43

Share in economy's trade in agricultural products Exports 0%

Imports 50%

0%

HS1801

HS1006

HS5201

HS1001

HS1803

HS1701

HS0803

HS1511

HS1804

HS1107

20%

40%

Million US$ Exports Imports

Value

2017 880 1 006

Annual percentage change

2010-2017 -2 5

2016 -9 -13

2017 -21 23

Non-Agricultural Products Value

Top exported products (Million US$) HS2709 HS4407 HS4403 HS7601 HS2710

2017

Petroleum oils, crude Wood sawn or chipped lengthwise Wood in the rough Unwrought aluminium Petroleum oils, other than crude

1 284 262 196 130 111

Value

Top imported products (Million US$) HS2710 HS2709 HS0303 HS3004 HS2523

2017

Petroleum oils, other than crude Petroleum oils, crude Fish, frozen, excluding fish fillet Medicaments in measured doses Portland cement, aluminous cement

434 221 197 195 190

Share in economy's trade in non-agricultural products Exports 0%

68

20%

40%

Imports 60%

0%

HS2709

HS2710

HS4407

HS2709

HS4403

HS0303

HS7601

HS3004

HS2710

HS2523

5%

10%

15%

Million US$ Exports Imports

Value

2017 2 384 4 178

Annual percentage change

2010-2017 -3 -1

2016 -64 -20

2017 134 2

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Cameroon TRADE IN COMMERCIAL SERVICES Value

Million US$ Commercial services exports Commercial services imports

Annual percentage change

2020

2010-2020

1 552 2 241 2020 0.03

Share in world total exports (%) Breakdown in economy's total exports

2019

2020

5 5

-26 -19

2 3

2020 0.05

Share in world total imports (%) Breakdown in economy's total imports

By main services item, % (2019)

By main services item, % (2019)

Transport: 32 Other commercial services: 36.8

Travel: 31.1 Goods-related services: 0.1

Transport: 38.4 Other commercial services: 34.6

By main destination

Travel: 27 Goods-related services: 0

By main origin

Value

FATS sales Inward (million US$) Outward (million US$)

Annual percentage change

2020 na na

2010-2020 na na

2019 na na

2020 na na

Transport Cameroon

200

World

100 0

2010

2013

2016

Value

Million US$ Exports Imports

2019 674 1 064

Exports By sea (2019) By air (2019) By other (2019)

2020

Transport exports (Index 2010=100)

Value

2010-2019 4 6

Share (%)

124 61 469

Annual percentage change 2018 12 17

Imports By sea (2019) By air (2019) By other (2019)

18.3 9.1 69.5

2019 1 8

Value

Share (%)

772 249 41

72.6 23.4 3.9

Travel Cameroon

500 400 300 200 100 0

World

Value

Million US$ Exports Imports

2010

2013

2016

2019 653 749

2010-2019 17 17

Annual percentage change 2018 11 8

2019 13 9

2020

Travel exports (Index 2010=100)

Other Commercial Services and Goods-related Services Million US$

Exports of OCS by main item (2019)

Other commercial services Exports Imports

Other business services ICTs

13.9 19.5 48.6 18.0

Value

Financial services

2019

2010-2019

Other

2018

2019

4 7

2 -1

2010-2019

2018

2019

-39 na

na na

8 -1

774 958

6 1

2019

Goods-related services Exports Imports

Annual percentage change

2 0

INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY Patent applications Residents

na

Trademark applications

Non-residents

na

Total

na

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Residents

na

Industrial design applications

Non-residents

na

Total

na

Residents

na

Non-residents

na

Total

na

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