Russian trade with Kenya in 2012
based on data from the Federal Customs Service of Russia
Russia’s Trade with Kenya
In 2012, Russia’s trade with Kenya was $259,311,944, down 26.88% ($95,316,650) from 2011.
Russia’s exports to Kenya in 2012 were $125,962,447, down 44.42% ($100,682,326) from 2011.
Russia’s imports from Kenya in 2012 totaled $133,349,497, up 4.19% ($5,365,676) from 2011.
Russia’s trade balance with Kenya went from a surplus of $98,660,952 in 2011, to a deficit of $7,387,050 in 2012.
Kenya was Russia’s 90th largest trading partner in 2012 (down from 88th in 2011), accounting for 0.0308% of Russia’s total trade (down from 0.0431% in 2011).
Kenya was Russia’s 95th largest export market in 2012 (down from 82nd in 2011), accounting for 0.0240% of Russia’s total exports (down from 0.0439% in 2011).
Kenya was Russia’s 78th largest supplier in 2012 (just as in 2011), accounting for 0.0420% of Russia’s total imports (up from 0.0419% in 2011).
Russia’s Exports to Kenya
The major share of Russian exports to Kenya in 2012 (and in 2011) was accounted for the following product types:
- Food products and agricultural raw materials (HS codes 01-24) - 48.38% of Russia’s total exports to Kenya (77.11% in 2011);
- Chemical products (HS codes 28-40) - 34.76% of Russia’s total exports to Kenya (4.79% in 2011);
- Wood and wood products (HS codes 44-49) - 7.66% of Russia’s total exports to Kenya (3.17% in 2011);
- Metals and products from them (HS codes 72-83) - 5.60% of Russia’s total exports to Kenya (4.49% in 2011);
- Machinery, equipment and vehicles (HS codes 84-90) - 3.21% of Russia’s total exports to Kenya (2.49% in 2011).
The largest gains in Russia’s exports to Kenya in 2012 over 2011 were recorded for the following product groups:
- Fertilizers (HS code 31) - an increase of $33,177,588;
- Paper and paperboard; articles of paper pulp, of paper or of paperboard (HS code 48) - an increase of $1,946,465;
- 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 $1,677,331;
- Products of the milling industry; malt; starches; inulin; wheat gluten (HS code 11) - an increase of $1,485,868;
- Edible vegetables and certain roots and tubers (HS code 07) - an increase of $947,541;
- Wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal (HS code 44) - an increase of $521,864;
- Aluminum and articles thereof (HS code 76) - an increase of $490,180.
The largest declines in Russia’s exports to Kenya in 2012 over 2011 were recorded for the following product groups:
- Cereals (HS code 10) - a decrease of $116,254,443;
- Iron and steel (HS code 72) - a decrease of $3,247,356;
- Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof (HS code 84) - a decrease of $1,578,590;
- Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof (HS code 90) - a decrease of $1,526,751.
HS code |
Name of product group | Value of exports in 2012, US dollars ($) |
Percent share in total export | Value of exports in 2011, US dollars ($) |
Percent change in 2012 over 2011 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
06 | Live trees and other plants; bulbs, roots and the like; cut flowers and ornamental foliage | 0 | 0.00 | 4,218 | -100.00 |
07 | Edible vegetables and certain roots and tubers | 947,541 | 0.75 | 0 | ∞ |
10 | Cereals | 57,926,625 | 45.99 | 174,181,068 | -66.74 |
11 | Products of the milling industry; malt; starches; inulin; wheat gluten | 2,047,584 | 1.63 | 561,716 | 264.52 |
16 | Preparations of meat, of fish or of crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates | 0 | 0.00 | 9,381 | -100.00 |
22 | Beverages, spirits and vinegar | 20,023 | 0.02 | 0 | ∞ |
25 | Salt; sulfur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement | 93,500 | 0.07 | 0 | ∞ |
27 | Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes | 4,860 | 0.00 | 309,566 | -98.43 |
28 | Inorganic chemicals; organic or inorganic compounds of precious metals, of rare-earth metals,of radioactive elements or of isotopes | 592,638 | 0.47 | 562,990 | 5.27 |
30 | Pharmaceutical products | 26,136 | 0.02 | 339,164 | -92.29 |
31 | Fertilizers | 43,097,160 | 34.21 | 9,919,572 | 334.47 |
33 | Essential oils and resinoids; perfumery, cosmetic or toilet preparations | 0 | 0.00 | 324 | -100.00 |
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 | 0 | 0.00 | 171 | -100.00 |
38 | Miscellaneous chemical products | 0 | 0.00 | 27,608 | -100.00 |
39 | Plastics and articles thereof | 235 | 0.00 | 0 | ∞ |
40 | Rubber and articles thereof | 74,667 | 0.06 | 8,106 | 821.13 |
42 | Articles of leather; saddlery and harness; travel goods, handbags and similar containers; articles of animal gut (other than silkworm gut) | 0 | 0.00 | 17,628 | -100.00 |
44 | Wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal | 1,573,225 | 1.25 | 1,051,361 | 49.64 |
48 | Paper and paperboard; articles of paper pulp, of paper or of paperboard | 8,071,898 | 6.41 | 6,125,433 | 31.78 |
63 | Other made up textile articles; sets; worn clothing and worn textile articles; rags | 666 | 0.00 | 180 | 270.00 |
68 | Articles of stone, plaster, cement, asbestos, mica or similar materials | 0 | 0.00 | 6 | -100.00 |
70 | Glass and glassware | 24,089 | 0.02 | 4 | 602,125.00 |
72 | Iron and steel | 5,986,938 | 4.75 | 9,234,294 | -35.17 |
73 | Articles of iron or steel | 3,469 | 0.00 | 278,074 | -98.75 |
76 | Aluminum and articles thereof | 1,060,646 | 0.84 | 570,466 | 85.93 |
82 | Tools, implements, cutlery, spoons and forks, of base metal; parts thereof of base metal | 0 | 0.00 | 95,581 | -100.00 |
83 | Miscellaneous articles of base metal | 15 | 0.00 | 684 | -97.81 |
84 | Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof | 684,989 | 0.54 | 2,263,579 | -69.74 |
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 | 1,871,080 | 1.49 | 193,749 | 865.72 |
87 | Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof | 1,694 | 0.00 | 163,328 | -98.96 |
90 | Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof | 1,485,370 | 1.18 | 3,012,121 | -50.69 |
91 | Clocks and watches and parts thereof | 69 | 0.00 | 355 | -80.56 |
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 | 77,131 | 0.06 | 701 | 10,903.00 |
96 | Miscellaneous manufactured articles | 0 | 0.00 | 316 | -100.00 |
SS | Classified | 290,199 | 0.23 | 17 713 029 | -98.36 |
Russia’s Imports from Kenya
The major share of Russian imports from Kenya in 2012 (and in 2011) was accounted for the following product types:
- Food products and agricultural raw materials (HS codes 01-24) - 99.81% of Russia’s total imports from Kenya (99.89% in 2011).
The largest gains in Russia’s imports from Kenya in 2012 over 2011 were recorded for the following product groups:
- Coffee, tea, maté and spices (HS code 09) - an increase of $7,192,454;
- Preparations of vegetables, fruit, nuts or other parts of plants (HS code 20) - an increase of $595,786.
The largest declines in Russia’s imports from Kenya in 2012 over 2011 were recorded for the following product groups:
- Live trees and other plants; bulbs, roots and the like; cut flowers and ornamental foliage (HS code 06) - a decrease of $2,538,042.
HS code |
Name of product group | Value of imports in 2012, US dollars ($) |
Percent share in total import | Value of imports in 2011, US dollars ($) |
Percent change in 2012 over 2011 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
06 | Live trees and other plants; bulbs, roots and the like; cut flowers and ornamental foliage | 58,305,716 | 43.72 | 60,843,758 | -4.17 |
07 | Edible vegetables and certain roots and tubers | 199,299 | 0.15 | 117,109 | 70.18 |
08 | Edible fruit and nuts; peel of citrus fruit or melons | 535,784 | 0.40 | 471,313 | 13.68 |
09 | Coffee, tea, maté and spices | 69,243,416 | 51.93 | 62,050,962 | 11.59 |
12 | Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruits; industrial or medicinal plants; straw and fodder | 121,335 | 0.09 | 37,478 | 223.75 |
15 | Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their cleavage products prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes | 716 | 0.00 | 14,266 | -94.98 |
20 | Preparations of vegetables, fruit, nuts or other parts of plants | 1,240,368 | 0.93 | 644,582 | 92.43 |
21 | Miscellaneous edible preparations | 83,552 | 0.06 | 101,562 | -17.73 |
24 | Tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes | 3,368,690 | 2.53 | 3,557,416 | -5.31 |
39 | Plastics and articles thereof | 3,898 | 0.00 | 139 | 2,704.32 |
40 | Rubber and articles thereof | 0 | 0.00 | 34 | -100.00 |
42 | Articles of leather; saddlery and harness; travel goods, handbags and similar containers; articles of animal gut (other than silkworm gut) | 9,635 | 0.01 | 0 | ∞ |
44 | Wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal | 1,627 | 0.00 | 0 | ∞ |
48 | Paper and paperboard; articles of paper pulp, of paper or of paperboard | 0 | 0.00 | 110 | -100.00 |
49 | Printed books, newspapers, pictures and other products of the printing industry; manuscripts, typescripts and plans | 1,312 | 0.00 | 0 | ∞ |
53 | Other vegetable textile fibers; paper yarn and woven fabric of paper yarn | 0 | 0.00 | 43,412 | -100.00 |
61 | Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, knitted or crocheted | 8,575 | 0.01 | 1,657 | 417.50 |
62 | Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, not knitted or crocheted | 2,603 | 0.00 | 1,012 | 157.21 |
64 | Footwear, gaiters and the like; parts of such articles | 720 | 0.00 | 86 | 737.21 |
70 | Glass and glassware | 0 | 0.00 | 4,426 | -100.00 |
84 | Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof | 9,659 | 0.01 | 28 | 34,396.43 |
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 | 64,518 | 0.05 | 0 | ∞ |
90 | Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof | 59,169 | 0.04 | 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 | 8,606 | 0.01 | 576 | 1,394.10 |
95 | Toys, games and sports requisites; parts and accessories thereof | 71,899 | 0.05 | 93,764 | -23.32 |
96 | Miscellaneous manufactured articles | 0 | 0.00 | 131 | -100.00 |
SS | Classified | 8,400 | 0.01 | 0 | ∞ |