Russian trade with Kenya in 2014
based on data from the Federal Customs Service of Russia
Russia’s Trade with Kenya
In 2014, Russia’s trade with Kenya totaled $376,550,760, up 12.83% ($42,822,073) from 2013.
Russia’s exports to Kenya in 2014 totaled $226,421,204, up 13.69% ($27,260,291) from 2013.
Russia’s imports from Kenya in 2014 totaled $150,129,556, up 11.56% ($15,561,782) from 2013.
Russia’s trade surplus with Kenya in 2014 was $76,291,648, a 18.11% increase ($11,698,509) over 2013.
Kenya was Russia’s 88th largest trading partner in 2014 (up from 91st in 2013), accounting for 0.0481% of Russia’s total trade (up from 0.0396% in 2013).
Kenya was Russia’s 85th largest export market in 2014 (up from 87th in 2013), accounting for 0.0456% of Russia’s total exports (up from 0.0378% in 2013).
Kenya was Russia’s 77th largest supplier in 2014 (up from 79th in 2013), accounting for 0.0525% of Russia’s total imports (up from 0.0427% in 2013).
Russia’s Exports to Kenya
The major share of Russian exports to Kenya in 2014 (and in 2013) was accounted for the following product types:
- Food products and agricultural raw materials (HS codes 01-24) - 58.51% of Russia’s total exports to Kenya (60.45% in 2013);
- Metals and products from them (HS codes 72-83) - 22.05% of Russia’s total exports to Kenya (10.58% in 2013);
- Wood and wood products (HS codes 44-49) - 8.42% of Russia’s total exports to Kenya (8.67% in 2013);
- Machinery, equipment and vehicles (HS codes 84-90) - 5.22% of Russia’s total exports to Kenya (2.46% in 2013);
- Mineral products (HS codes 25-27) - 3.01% of Russia’s total exports to Kenya (1.98% in 2013);
- Chemical products (HS codes 28-40) - 2.13% of Russia’s total exports to Kenya (15.44% in 2013).
The largest gains in Russia’s exports to Kenya in 2014 over 2013 were recorded for the following product groups:
- Aluminum and articles thereof (HS code 76) - an increase of $17,909,229;
- Cereals (HS code 10) - an increase of $12,669,208;
- Iron and steel (HS code 72) - an increase of $11,115,277;
- Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof (HS code 87) - an increase of $8,516,265;
- Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes (HS code 27) - an increase of $2,869,788;
- Paper and paperboard; articles of paper pulp, of paper or of paperboard (HS code 48) - an increase of $1,617,440.
The largest declines in Russia’s exports to Kenya in 2014 over 2013 were recorded for the following product groups:
- Fertilizers (HS code 31) - a decrease of $26,004,786;
- Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof (HS code 84) - a decrease of $1,283,324.
HS code |
Name of product group | Value of exports in 2014, US dollars ($) |
Percent share in total export | Value of exports in 2013, US dollars ($) |
Percent change in 2014 over 2013 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
10 | Cereals | 132,460,639 | 58.50 | 119,791,431 | 10.58 |
11 | Products of the milling industry; malt; starches; inulin; wheat gluten | 0 | 0.00 | 584,603 | -100.00 |
20 | Preparations of vegetables, fruit, nuts or other parts of plants | 17,500 | 0.01 | 0 | ∞ |
22 | Beverages, spirits and vinegar | 565 | 0.00 | 20,553 | -97.25 |
25 | Salt; sulfur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement | 264,182 | 0.12 | 255,443 | 3.42 |
27 | Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes | 6,557,434 | 2.90 | 3,687,646 | 77.82 |
28 | Inorganic chemicals; organic or inorganic compounds of precious metals, of rare-earth metals,of radioactive elements or of isotopes | 703,793 | 0.31 | 728,900 | -3.44 |
29 | Organic chemicals | 0 | 0.00 | 13,533 | -100.00 |
30 | Pharmaceutical products | 6,758 | 0.00 | 0 | ∞ |
31 | Fertilizers | 3,819,298 | 1.69 | 29,824,084 | -87.19 |
38 | Miscellaneous chemical products | 8,073 | 0.00 | 4,691 | 72.10 |
39 | Plastics and articles thereof | 17,551 | 0.01 | 3,520 | 398.61 |
40 | Rubber and articles thereof | 271,370 | 0.12 | 168,543 | 61.01 |
42 | Articles of leather; saddlery and harness; travel goods, handbags and similar containers; articles of animal gut (other than silkworm gut) | 1,131 | 0.00 | 1,868 | -39.45 |
44 | Wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal | 2,063,106 | 0.91 | 1,967,674 | 4.85 |
47 | Pulp of wood or of other fibrous cellulosic material; waste and scrap of paper or paperboard | 96,438 | 0.04 | 10,426 | 824.98 |
48 | Paper and paperboard; articles of paper pulp, of paper or of paperboard | 16,904,027 | 7.47 | 15,286,587 | 10.58 |
49 | Printed books, newspapers, pictures and other products of the printing industry; manuscripts, typescripts and plans | 0 | 0.00 | 23 | -100.00 |
52 | Cotton | 142 | 0.00 | 0 | ∞ |
54 | Man-made filaments | 68 | 0.00 | 0 | ∞ |
59 | Impregnated, coated, covered or laminated textile fabrics; textile articles of a kind suitable for industrial use | 0 | 0.00 | 1,266 | -100.00 |
63 | Other made up textile articles; sets; worn clothing and worn textile articles; rags | 44,648 | 0.02 | 10,451 | 327.21 |
68 | Articles of stone, plaster, cement, asbestos, mica or similar materials | 0 | 0.00 | 4,515 | -100.00 |
70 | Glass and glassware | 657,618 | 0.29 | 6,831 | 9,526.97 |
72 | Iron and steel | 27,168,089 | 12.00 | 16,052,812 | 69.24 |
73 | Articles of iron or steel | 6,905 | 0.00 | 177,370 | -96.11 |
74 | Copper and articles thereof | 0 | 0.00 | 2,024 | -100.00 |
76 | Aluminum and articles thereof | 22,751,488 | 10.05 | 4,842,259 | 369.85 |
82 | Tools, implements, cutlery, spoons and forks, of base metal; parts thereof of base metal | 8,844 | 0.00 | 0 | ∞ |
83 | Miscellaneous articles of base metal | 946 | 0.00 | 2,614 | -63.81 |
84 | Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof | 1,127,935 | 0.50 | 2,411,259 | -53.22 |
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 | 560,867 | 0.25 | 673,175 | -16.68 |
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 | 0 | 0.00 | 4,900 | -100.00 |
87 | Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof | 9,919,027 | 4.38 | 1,402,762 | 607.11 |
89 | Ships, boats and floating structures | 0 | 0.00 | 873 | -100.00 |
90 | Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof | 208,061 | 0.09 | 399,880 | -47.97 |
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 | 65,225 | 0.03 | 92,257 | -29.30 |
95 | Toys, games and sports requisites; parts and accessories thereof | 0 | 0.00 | 88 | -100.00 |
96 | Miscellaneous manufactured articles | 88 | 0.00 | 531 | -83.43 |
SS | Classified | 709,388 | 0.31 | 725 521 | -2.22 |
Russia’s Imports from Kenya
The major share of Russian imports from Kenya in 2014 (and in 2013) was accounted for the following product types:
- Food products and agricultural raw materials (HS codes 01-24) - 99.23% of Russia’s total imports from Kenya (99.59% in 2013).
The largest gains in Russia’s imports from Kenya in 2014 over 2013 were recorded for the following product groups:
- Coffee, tea, maté and spices (HS code 09) - an increase of $15,531,977;
- Live trees and other plants; bulbs, roots and the like; cut flowers and ornamental foliage (HS code 06) - an increase of $993,337.
The largest declines in Russia’s imports from Kenya in 2014 over 2013 were recorded for the following product groups:
- Tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes (HS code 24) - a decrease of $1,564,571.
HS code |
Name of product group | Value of imports in 2014, US dollars ($) |
Percent share in total import | Value of imports in 2013, US dollars ($) |
Percent change in 2014 over 2013 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
06 | Live trees and other plants; bulbs, roots and the like; cut flowers and ornamental foliage | 57,717,406 | 38.45 | 56,724,069 | 1.75 |
07 | Edible vegetables and certain roots and tubers | 273,269 | 0.18 | 200,929 | 36.00 |
08 | Edible fruit and nuts; peel of citrus fruit or melons | 381,544 | 0.25 | 704,076 | -45.81 |
09 | Coffee, tea, maté and spices | 86,158,063 | 57.39 | 70,626,086 | 21.99 |
12 | Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruits; industrial or medicinal plants; straw and fodder | 47,880 | 0.03 | 75,340 | -36.45 |
13 | Lac; gums, resins and other vegetable saps and extracts | 2,456 | 0.00 | 376 | 553.19 |
15 | Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their cleavage products prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes | 1,182 | 0.00 | 469 | 152.03 |
20 | Preparations of vegetables, fruit, nuts or other parts of plants | 1,589,833 | 1.06 | 1,341,274 | 18.53 |
21 | Miscellaneous edible preparations | 36,489 | 0.02 | 21,767 | 67.63 |
24 | Tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes | 2,759,667 | 1.84 | 4,324,238 | -36.18 |
25 | Salt; sulfur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement | 731,801 | 0.49 | 420,836 | 73.89 |
39 | Plastics and articles thereof | 1,462 | 0.00 | 100 | 1,362.00 |
42 | Articles of leather; saddlery and harness; travel goods, handbags and similar containers; articles of animal gut (other than silkworm gut) | 246 | 0.00 | 0 | ∞ |
44 | Wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal | 4,816 | 0.00 | 96 | 4,916.67 |
46 | Manufactures of straw, of esparto or of other plaiting materials; basketware and wickerwork | 61 | 0.00 | 0 | ∞ |
49 | Printed books, newspapers, pictures and other products of the printing industry; manuscripts, typescripts and plans | 12 | 0.00 | 0 | ∞ |
61 | Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, knitted or crocheted | 67,274 | 0.04 | 12,923 | 420.58 |
62 | Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, not knitted or crocheted | 246,003 | 0.16 | 40,012 | 514.82 |
63 | Other made up textile articles; sets; worn clothing and worn textile articles; rags | 46 | 0.00 | 0 | ∞ |
67 | Prepared feathers and down and articles made of feathers or of down; artificial flowers; articles of human hair | 1,317 | 0.00 | 0 | ∞ |
68 | Articles of stone, plaster, cement, asbestos, mica or similar materials | 113 | 0.00 | 0 | ∞ |
69 | Ceramic products | 1,175 | 0.00 | 208 | 464.90 |
70 | Glass and glassware | 114 | 0.00 | 0 | ∞ |
71 | Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones,precious metals, metals clad with precious metal and articles thereof; imitation jewelry; coin | 2,558 | 0.00 | 3,847 | -33.51 |
73 | Articles of iron or steel | 23 | 0.00 | 0 | ∞ |
83 | Miscellaneous articles of base metal | 67 | 0.00 | 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 | 6,822 | 0.00 | 6,089 | 12.04 |
95 | Toys, games and sports requisites; parts and accessories thereof | 97,857 | 0.07 | 65,039 | 50.46 |