Russian trade with Kenya in 2018
February 10, 2019
by Russian Foreign Trade
based on data from the Federal Customs Service of Russia
based on data from the Federal Customs Service of Russia
The Report on Russia’s foreign trade in goods with Kenya in 2018: exports, imports, products, dynamics.
Russia’s Trade with Kenya
In 2018, Russia’s trade with Kenya totaled $342,484,759, up 1.10% ($3,717,423) from 2017.
Russia’s exports to Kenya in 2018 totaled $217,573,726, up 7.84% ($15,819,556) from 2017.
Russia’s imports from Kenya in 2018 were $124,911,033, down 8.83% ($12,102,133) from 2017.
Russia’s trade surplus with Kenya in 2018 was $92,662,693, a 43.13% increase ($27,921,689) over 2017.
Kenya was Russia’s 92nd largest trading partner in 2018 (down from 87th in 2017), accounting for 0.0498% of Russia’s total trade (down from 0.0580% in 2017).
Kenya was Russia’s 89th largest export market in 2018 (down from 87th in 2017), accounting for 0.0484% of Russia’s total exports (down from 0.0565% in 2017).
Kenya was Russia’s 82nd largest supplier in 2018 (down from 77th in 2017), accounting for 0.0525% of Russia’s total imports (down from 0.0604% in 2017).
Russia’s Exports to Kenya
The major share of Russian exports to Kenya in 2018 (and in 2017) was accounted for the following product types:
- Food products and agricultural raw materials (HS codes 01-24) - 74.47% of Russia’s total exports to Kenya (60.77% in 2017);
- Wood and wood products (HS codes 44-49) - 8.73% of Russia’s total exports to Kenya (4.80% in 2017);
- Metals and products from them (HS codes 72-83) - 5.17% of Russia’s total exports to Kenya (17.78% in 2017);
- Mineral products (HS codes 25-27) - 2.94% of Russia’s total exports to Kenya (2.07% in 2017);
- Chemical products (HS codes 28-40) - 2.25% of Russia’s total exports to Kenya (4.89% in 2017).
The largest gains in Russia’s exports to Kenya in 2018 over 2017 were recorded for the following product groups:
- Cereals (HS code 10) - an increase of $38,263,478;
- Paper and paperboard; articles of paper pulp, of paper or of paperboard (HS code 48) - an increase of $8,991,514;
- Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes (HS code 27) - an increase of $2,249,384;
- Beverages, spirits and vinegar (HS code 22) - an increase of $799,001.
The largest declines in Russia’s exports to Kenya in 2018 over 2017 were recorded for the following product groups:
- Iron and steel (HS code 72) - a decrease of $19,163,934;
- Aluminum and articles thereof (HS code 76) - a decrease of $5,449,173;
- Fertilizers (HS code 31) - a decrease of $3,913,329;
- Rubber and articles thereof (HS code 40) - a decrease of $759,926.
| HS code |
Name of product group | Value of exports in 2018, US dollars ($) |
Percent share in total export | Value of exports in 2017, US dollars ($) |
Percent change in 2018 over 2017 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 02 | Meat and edible meat offal | 0 | 0.00 | 3,131 | -100.00 |
| 09 | Coffee, tea, maté and spices | 18,015 | 0.01 | 0 | ∞ |
| 10 | Cereals | 160,493,908 | 73.77 | 122,230,430 | 31.30 |
| 12 | Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruits; industrial or medicinal plants; straw and fodder | 2,043 | 0.00 | 0 | ∞ |
| 15 | Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their cleavage products prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes | 329,117 | 0.15 | 0 | ∞ |
| 21 | Miscellaneous edible preparations | 7,680 | 0.00 | 0 | ∞ |
| 22 | Beverages, spirits and vinegar | 1,180,859 | 0.54 | 381,858 | 209.24 |
| 25 | Salt; sulfur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement | 0 | 0.00 | 48,956 | -100.00 |
| 26 | Ores, slag and ash | 4,318 | 0.00 | 0 | ∞ |
| 27 | Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes | 6,381,872 | 2.93 | 4,132,488 | 54.43 |
| 28 | Inorganic chemicals; organic or inorganic compounds of precious metals, of rare-earth metals,of radioactive elements or of isotopes | 859,005 | 0.39 | 1,249,160 | -31.23 |
| 29 | Organic chemicals | 380,969 | 0.18 | 259,755 | 46.66 |
| 30 | Pharmaceutical products | 0 | 0.00 | 9,380 | -100.00 |
| 31 | Fertilizers | 3,388,682 | 1.56 | 7,302,011 | -53.59 |
| 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 | 416 | 0.00 | 0 | ∞ |
| 38 | Miscellaneous chemical products | 68,000 | 0.03 | 61,288 | 10.95 |
| 39 | Plastics and articles thereof | 28,475 | 0.01 | 62,433 | -54.39 |
| 40 | Rubber and articles thereof | 170,128 | 0.08 | 930,054 | -81.71 |
| 42 | Articles of leather; saddlery and harness; travel goods, handbags and similar containers; articles of animal gut (other than silkworm gut) | 2,757 | 0.00 | 0 | ∞ |
| 44 | Wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal | 2,442,965 | 1.12 | 2,077,685 | 17.58 |
| 47 | Pulp of wood or of other fibrous cellulosic material; waste and scrap of paper or paperboard | 323,013 | 0.15 | 369,584 | -12.60 |
| 48 | Paper and paperboard; articles of paper pulp, of paper or of paperboard | 16,225,428 | 7.46 | 7,233,914 | 124.30 |
| 49 | Printed books, newspapers, pictures and other products of the printing industry; manuscripts, typescripts and plans | 0 | 0.00 | 863 | -100.00 |
| 54 | Man-made filaments | 0 | 0.00 | 22,182 | -100.00 |
| 59 | Impregnated, coated, covered or laminated textile fabrics; textile articles of a kind suitable for industrial use | 1,261 | 0.00 | 0 | ∞ |
| 63 | Other made up textile articles; sets; worn clothing and worn textile articles; rags | 64,400 | 0.03 | 60,558 | 6.34 |
| 72 | Iron and steel | 8,429,907 | 3.87 | 27,593,841 | -69.45 |
| 73 | Articles of iron or steel | 4,131 | 0.00 | 9,633 | -57.12 |
| 76 | Aluminum and articles thereof | 2,803,445 | 1.29 | 8,252,618 | -66.03 |
| 82 | Tools, implements, cutlery, spoons and forks, of base metal; parts thereof of base metal | 1,500 | 0.00 | 0 | ∞ |
| 83 | Miscellaneous articles of base metal | 4,561 | 0.00 | 8,173 | -44.19 |
| 84 | Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof | 299,294 | 0.14 | 293,739 | 1.89 |
| 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 | 289,926 | 0.13 | 133,671 | 116.90 |
| 87 | Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof | 225 | 0.00 | 139,109 | -99.84 |
| 90 | Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof | 20,532 | 0.01 | 31,025 | -33.82 |
| 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 | 0 | 0.00 | 10,082 | -100.00 |
| 96 | Miscellaneous manufactured articles | 0 | 0.00 | 75 | -100.00 |
| SS | Classified | 13,346,894 | 6.13 | 18 846 474 | -29.18 |
Russia’s Imports from Kenya
The major share of Russian imports from Kenya in 2018 (and in 2017) was accounted for the following product types:
- Food products and agricultural raw materials (HS codes 01-24) - 99.55% of Russia’s total imports from Kenya (99.55% in 2017).
The largest gains in Russia’s imports from Kenya in 2018 over 2017 were recorded for the following product groups:
- Edible fruit and nuts; peel of citrus fruit or melons (HS code 08) - an increase of $5,752,984;
- Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruits; industrial or medicinal plants; straw and fodder (HS code 12) - an increase of $591,532.
The largest declines in Russia’s imports from Kenya in 2018 over 2017 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 $11,457,551;
- Coffee, tea, maté and spices (HS code 09) - a decrease of $3,987,379;
- Tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes (HS code 24) - a decrease of $2,907,680.
| HS code |
Name of product group | Value of imports in 2018, US dollars ($) |
Percent share in total import | Value of imports in 2017, US dollars ($) |
Percent change in 2018 over 2017 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Live animals | 1,040 | 0.00 | 1,157 | -10.11 |
| 03 | Fish and crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates | 18,486 | 0.01 | 2,314 | 698.88 |
| 06 | Live trees and other plants; bulbs, roots and the like; cut flowers and ornamental foliage | 42,111,484 | 33.71 | 53,569,035 | -21.39 |
| 07 | Edible vegetables and certain roots and tubers | 359,455 | 0.29 | 165,619 | 117.04 |
| 08 | Edible fruit and nuts; peel of citrus fruit or melons | 13,152,439 | 10.53 | 7,399,455 | 77.75 |
| 09 | Coffee, tea, maté and spices | 66,758,334 | 53.44 | 70,745,713 | -5.64 |
| 11 | Products of the milling industry; malt; starches; inulin; wheat gluten | 0 | 0.00 | 251 | -100.00 |
| 12 | Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruits; industrial or medicinal plants; straw and fodder | 830,429 | 0.66 | 238,897 | 247.61 |
| 15 | Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their cleavage products prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes | 26,409 | 0.02 | 12,990 | 103.30 |
| 20 | Preparations of vegetables, fruit, nuts or other parts of plants | 584,758 | 0.47 | 840,848 | -30.46 |
| 24 | Tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes | 508,966 | 0.41 | 3,416,646 | -85.10 |
| 27 | Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes | 0 | 0.00 | 4 | -100.00 |
| 39 | Plastics and articles thereof | 0 | 0.00 | 129 | -100.00 |
| 40 | Rubber and articles thereof | 0 | 0.00 | 1,091 | -100.00 |
| 42 | Articles of leather; saddlery and harness; travel goods, handbags and similar containers; articles of animal gut (other than silkworm gut) | 5,407 | 0.00 | 438 | 1,134.47 |
| 44 | Wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal | 0 | 0.00 | 638 | -100.00 |
| 46 | Manufactures of straw, of esparto or of other plaiting materials; basketware and wickerwork | 2,716 | 0.00 | 0 | ∞ |
| 49 | Printed books, newspapers, pictures and other products of the printing industry; manuscripts, typescripts and plans | 0 | 0.00 | 60 | -100.00 |
| 61 | Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, knitted or crocheted | 35,337 | 0.03 | 4,849 | 628.75 |
| 62 | Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, not knitted or crocheted | 508,789 | 0.41 | 562,148 | -9.49 |
| 63 | Other made up textile articles; sets; worn clothing and worn textile articles; rags | 25 | 0.00 | 473 | -94.71 |
| 65 | Headgear and parts thereof | 0 | 0.00 | 12 | -100.00 |
| 73 | Articles of iron or steel | 0 | 0.00 | 2,582 | -100.00 |
| 76 | Aluminum and articles thereof | 0 | 0.00 | 709 | -100.00 |
| 82 | Tools, implements, cutlery, spoons and forks, of base metal; parts thereof of base metal | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | ∞ |
| 84 | Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof | 0 | 0.00 | 1,148 | -100.00 |
| 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 | 564 | 0.00 | 602 | -6.31 |
| 87 | Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof | 0 | 0.00 | 68 | -100.00 |
| 90 | Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof | 0 | 0.00 | 11 | -100.00 |
| 95 | Toys, games and sports requisites; parts and accessories thereof | 6,395 | 0.01 | 45,260 | -85.87 |
| 96 | Miscellaneous manufactured articles | 0 | 0.00 | 19 | -100.00 |