Russian trade with Myanmar (Burma) in 2021
February 16, 2022
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 Myanmar (Burma) in 2021: exports, imports, products, dynamics.
Russia’s Trade with Myanmar (Burma)
In 2021, Russia’s trade with Myanmar (Burma) totaled $431,636,233, up 16.47% ($61,053,465) from 2020.
Russia’s exports to Myanmar (Burma) in 2021 totaled $284,332,529, up 26.25% ($59,110,688) from 2020.
Russia’s imports from Myanmar (Burma) in 2021 totaled $147,303,704, up 1.34% ($1,942,777) from 2020.
Russia’s trade surplus with Myanmar (Burma) in 2021 was $137,028,825, a 71.58% increase ($57,167,911) over 2020.
Myanmar (Burma) was Russia’s 85th largest trading partner in 2021 (down from 83rd in 2020), accounting for 0.0550% of Russia’s total trade (down from 0.0653% in 2020).
Myanmar (Burma) was Russia’s 87th largest export market in 2021 (down from 83rd in 2020), accounting for 0.0578% of Russia’s total exports (down from 0.0670% in 2020).
Myanmar (Burma) was Russia’s 79th largest supplier in 2021 (just as in 2020), accounting for 0.0502% of Russia’s total imports (down from 0.0628% in 2020).
Russia’s Exports to Myanmar (Burma)
The major share of Russian exports to Myanmar (Burma) in 2021 (and in 2020) was accounted for the following product types:
- Machinery, equipment and vehicles (HS codes 84-90) - 82.17% of Russia’s total exports to Myanmar (Burma) (40.32% in 2020);
- Metals and products from them (HS codes 72-83) - 6.93% of Russia’s total exports to Myanmar (Burma) (2.05% in 2020);
- Chemical products (HS codes 28-40) - 6.22% of Russia’s total exports to Myanmar (Burma) (2.99% in 2020);
- Food products and agricultural raw materials (HS codes 01-24) - 1.77% of Russia’s total exports to Myanmar (Burma) (0.76% in 2020);
- Mineral products (HS codes 25-27) - 0.41% of Russia’s total exports to Myanmar (Burma) (1.59% in 2020).
The largest gains in Russia’s exports to Myanmar (Burma) in 2021 over 2020 were recorded for the following product groups:
- 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 $2,568,654.
The largest declines in Russia’s exports to Myanmar (Burma) in 2021 over 2020 were recorded for the following product groups:
- Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof (HS code 90) - a decrease of $17,688,207;
- Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof (HS code 84) - a decrease of $15,738,213;
- Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof (HS code 87) - a decrease of $7,893,440;
- Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes (HS code 27) - a decrease of $3,320,357;
- Fertilizers (HS code 31) - a decrease of $1,664,223;
- Aluminum and articles thereof (HS code 76) - a decrease of $956,170.
| HS code |
Name of product group | Value of exports in 2021, US dollars ($) |
Percent share in total export | Value of exports in 2020, US dollars ($) |
Percent change in 2021 over 2020 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 02 | Meat and edible meat offal | 1,011 | 0.00 | 0 | ∞ |
| 03 | Fish and crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates | 41 | 0.00 | 0 | ∞ |
| 04 | Dairy produce; birds eggs; natural honey; edible products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included | 353 | 0.00 | 0 | ∞ |
| 07 | Edible vegetables and certain roots and tubers | 98,760 | 0.03 | 401,951 | -75.43 |
| 08 | Edible fruit and nuts; peel of citrus fruit or melons | 105 | 0.00 | 0 | ∞ |
| 09 | Coffee, tea, maté and spices | 38 | 0.00 | 0 | ∞ |
| 10 | Cereals | 22 | 0.00 | 0 | ∞ |
| 11 | Products of the milling industry; malt; starches; inulin; wheat gluten | 40 | 0.00 | 0 | ∞ |
| 12 | Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruits; industrial or medicinal plants; straw and fodder | 52 | 0.00 | 0 | ∞ |
| 15 | Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their cleavage products prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes | 1,008,928 | 0.35 | 1,309,955 | -22.98 |
| 16 | Preparations of meat, of fish or of crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates | 245 | 0.00 | 0 | ∞ |
| 17 | Sugars and sugar confectionery | 238 | 0.00 | 354 | -32.77 |
| 18 | Cocoa and cocoa preparations | 14 | 0.00 | 0 | ∞ |
| 19 | Preparations of cereals, flour, starch or milk; bakers’ wares | 297 | 0.00 | 0 | ∞ |
| 20 | Preparations of vegetables, fruit, nuts or other parts of plants | 237 | 0.00 | 0 | ∞ |
| 21 | Miscellaneous edible preparations | 9,694 | 0.00 | 0 | ∞ |
| 22 | Beverages, spirits and vinegar | 79 | 0.00 | 0 | ∞ |
| 25 | Salt; sulfur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement | 3 | 0.00 | 1 | 200.00 |
| 27 | Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes | 258,582 | 0.09 | 3,578,939 | -92.77 |
| 28 | Inorganic chemicals; organic or inorganic compounds of precious metals, of rare-earth metals,of radioactive elements or of isotopes | 262,035 | 0.09 | 585,377 | -55.24 |
| 29 | Organic chemicals | 324 | 0.00 | 633 | -48.82 |
| 30 | Pharmaceutical products | 141,642 | 0.05 | 18,840 | 651.82 |
| 31 | Fertilizers | 2,379,602 | 0.84 | 4,043,825 | -41.15 |
| 32 | Tanning or dyeing extracts; dyes, pigments, paints, varnishes, putty and mastics | 19,039 | 0.01 | 286 | 6,556.99 |
| 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 | 37,552 | 0.01 | 5,876 | 539.07 |
| 35 | Albuminoidal substances; modified starches; glues; enzymes | 746 | 0.00 | 0 | ∞ |
| 36 | Explosives; pyrotechnic products; matches; pyrophoric alloys; certain combustible preparations | 0 | 0.00 | 9,718 | -100.00 |
| 38 | Miscellaneous chemical products | 310,422 | 0.11 | 7,456 | 4,063.39 |
| 39 | Plastics and articles thereof | 131,695 | 0.05 | 844,003 | -84.40 |
| 40 | Rubber and articles thereof | 661,477 | 0.23 | 1,216,914 | -45.64 |
| 41 | Raw hides and skins (other than furskins) and leather | 3,479 | 0.00 | 5,676 | -38.71 |
| 42 | Articles of leather; saddlery and harness; travel goods, handbags and similar containers; articles of animal gut (other than silkworm gut) | 496,417 | 0.17 | 117,588 | 322.17 |
| 44 | Wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal | 0 | 0.00 | 310,798 | -100.00 |
| 47 | Pulp of wood or of other fibrous cellulosic material; waste and scrap of paper or paperboard | 42,628 | 0.01 | 23,935 | 78.10 |
| 48 | Paper and paperboard; articles of paper pulp, of paper or of paperboard | 119,086 | 0.04 | 429,462 | -72.27 |
| 49 | Printed books, newspapers, pictures and other products of the printing industry; manuscripts, typescripts and plans | 242,926 | 0.09 | 1,053,933 | -76.95 |
| 52 | Cotton | 3,215 | 0.00 | 8,109 | -60.35 |
| 53 | Other vegetable textile fibers; paper yarn and woven fabric of paper yarn | 0 | 0.00 | 7,875 | -100.00 |
| 54 | Man-made filaments | 2,316 | 0.00 | 1,456 | 59.07 |
| 56 | Wadding, felt and nonwovens; special yarns, twine, cordage, ropes and cables and articles thereof | 17,025 | 0.01 | 1,242 | 1,270.77 |
| 59 | Impregnated, coated, covered or laminated textile fabrics; textile articles of a kind suitable for industrial use | 50,588 | 0.02 | 140,498 | -63.99 |
| 62 | Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, not knitted or crocheted | 77,419 | 0.03 | 0 | ∞ |
| 63 | Other made up textile articles; sets; worn clothing and worn textile articles; rags | 185,082 | 0.07 | 3,370 | 5,392.05 |
| 65 | Headgear and parts thereof | 249,272 | 0.09 | 0 | ∞ |
| 68 | Articles of stone, plaster, cement, asbestos, mica or similar materials | 14,941 | 0.01 | 1,470 | 916.39 |
| 70 | Glass and glassware | 60,454 | 0.02 | 36,457 | 65.82 |
| 72 | Iron and steel | 152,772 | 0.05 | 20,438 | 647.49 |
| 73 | Articles of iron or steel | 2,057,073 | 0.72 | 1,656,178 | 24.21 |
| 74 | Copper and articles thereof | 36,390 | 0.01 | 159,903 | -77.24 |
| 75 | Nickel and articles thereof | 0 | 0.00 | 757 | -100.00 |
| 76 | Aluminum and articles thereof | 824,830 | 0.29 | 1,781,000 | -53.69 |
| 78 | Lead and articles thereof | 8,227 | 0.00 | 30 | 27,323.33 |
| 80 | Tin and articles thereof | 0 | 0.00 | 17 | -100.00 |
| 81 | Other base metals; cermets; articles thereof | 0 | 0.00 | 1,387 | -100.00 |
| 82 | Tools, implements, cutlery, spoons and forks, of base metal; parts thereof of base metal | 1,302,484 | 0.46 | 588,902 | 121.17 |
| 83 | Miscellaneous articles of base metal | 12,005 | 0.00 | 414,941 | -97.11 |
| 84 | Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof | 3,098,320 | 1.09 | 18,836,533 | -83.55 |
| 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 | 31,650,282 | 11.13 | 29,081,628 | 8.83 |
| 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 | 6,000 | 0.00 | 0 | ∞ |
| 87 | Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof | 8,021,770 | 2.82 | 15,915,210 | -49.60 |
| 90 | Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof | 9,293,061 | 3.27 | 26,981,268 | -65.56 |
| 91 | Clocks and watches and parts thereof | 955 | 0.00 | 429 | 122.61 |
| 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 | 7,724 | 0.00 | 27,468 | -71.88 |
| 95 | Toys, games and sports requisites; parts and accessories thereof | 3,720 | 0.00 | 0 | ∞ |
| 96 | Miscellaneous manufactured articles | 5,834 | 0.00 | 5,517 | 5.75 |
| SS | Classified | 0 | 0.00 | 115 584 238 | -100.00 |
Russia’s Imports from Myanmar (Burma)
The major share of Russian imports from Myanmar (Burma) in 2021 (and in 2020) was accounted for the following product types:
- Textiles, textile products and footwear (HS codes 50-67) - 91.66% of Russia’s total imports from Myanmar (Burma) (90.53% in 2020);
- Food products and agricultural raw materials (HS codes 01-24) - 1.69% of Russia’s total imports from Myanmar (Burma) (3.76% in 2020).
The largest gains in Russia’s imports from Myanmar (Burma) in 2021 over 2020 were recorded for the following product groups:
- Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, knitted or crocheted (HS code 61) - an increase of $4,791,941;
- 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 $1,733,639;
- Edible fruit and nuts; peel of citrus fruit or melons (HS code 08) - an increase of $1,028,361;
- Footwear, gaiters and the like; parts of such articles (HS code 64) - an increase of $694,183.
The largest declines in Russia’s imports from Myanmar (Burma) in 2021 over 2020 were recorded for the following product groups:
- Cereals (HS code 10) - a decrease of $4,181,365;
- Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, not knitted or crocheted (HS code 62) - a decrease of $3,066,926.
| HS code |
Name of product group | Value of imports in 2021, US dollars ($) |
Percent share in total import | Value of imports in 2020, US dollars ($) |
Percent change in 2021 over 2020 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 07 | Edible vegetables and certain roots and tubers | 0 | 0.00 | 170,611 | -100.00 |
| 08 | Edible fruit and nuts; peel of citrus fruit or melons | 1,919,826 | 1.30 | 891,465 | 115.36 |
| 09 | Coffee, tea, maté and spices | 26,476 | 0.02 | 54,523 | -51.44 |
| 10 | Cereals | 0 | 0.00 | 4,181,365 | -100.00 |
| 20 | Preparations of vegetables, fruit, nuts or other parts of plants | 399,790 | 0.27 | 124,395 | 221.39 |
| 21 | Miscellaneous edible preparations | 125,545 | 0.09 | 48,247 | 160.21 |
| 39 | Plastics and articles thereof | 82,323 | 0.06 | 102,236 | -19.48 |
| 40 | Rubber and articles thereof | 25,213 | 0.02 | 14,996 | 68.13 |
| 42 | Articles of leather; saddlery and harness; travel goods, handbags and similar containers; articles of animal gut (other than silkworm gut) | 8,891,109 | 6.04 | 7,157,470 | 24.22 |
| 43 | Furskins and artificial fur; manufactures thereof | 19,004 | 0.01 | 0 | ∞ |
| 44 | Wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal | 648 | 0.00 | 246,652 | -99.74 |
| 46 | Manufactures of straw, of esparto or of other plaiting materials; basketware and wickerwork | 1,074 | 0.00 | 16,976 | -93.67 |
| 56 | Wadding, felt and nonwovens; special yarns, twine, cordage, ropes and cables and articles thereof | 0 | 0.00 | 570 | -100.00 |
| 58 | Special woven fabrics; tufted textile fabrics; lace, tapestries; trimmings; embroidery | 4,488 | 0.00 | 0 | ∞ |
| 61 | Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, knitted or crocheted | 33,578,133 | 22.80 | 28,786,192 | 16.65 |
| 62 | Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, not knitted or crocheted | 78,420,303 | 53.24 | 81,487,229 | -3.76 |
| 63 | Other made up textile articles; sets; worn clothing and worn textile articles; rags | 195,963 | 0.13 | 14,946 | 1,211.14 |
| 64 | Footwear, gaiters and the like; parts of such articles | 21,072,623 | 14.31 | 20,378,440 | 3.41 |
| 65 | Headgear and parts thereof | 817,051 | 0.55 | 905,878 | -9.81 |
| 67 | Prepared feathers and down and articles made of feathers or of down; artificial flowers; articles of human hair | 246,418 | 0.17 | 16,327 | 1,409.27 |
| 69 | Ceramic products | 1,012 | 0.00 | 0 | ∞ |
| 70 | Glass and glassware | 280 | 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 | 12,199 | 0.01 | 3,905 | 212.39 |
| 72 | Iron and steel | 1,122 | 0.00 | 0 | ∞ |
| 73 | Articles of iron or steel | 3,295 | 0.00 | 2,352 | 40.09 |
| 74 | Copper and articles thereof | 0 | 0.00 | 2,892 | -100.00 |
| 76 | Aluminum and articles thereof | 187 | 0.00 | 12 | 1,458.33 |
| 82 | Tools, implements, cutlery, spoons and forks, of base metal; parts thereof of base metal | 0 | 0.00 | 451 | -100.00 |
| 83 | Miscellaneous articles of base metal | 118 | 0.00 | 16,840 | -99.30 |
| 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 | 205,530 | 0.14 | 290,311 | -29.20 |
| 90 | Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof | 188,498 | 0.13 | 85,974 | 119.25 |
| 91 | Clocks and watches and parts thereof | 0 | 0.00 | 3 | -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 | 233,179 | 0.16 | 119,250 | 95.54 |
| 95 | Toys, games and sports requisites; parts and accessories thereof | 71,740 | 0.05 | 86,660 | -17.22 |
| 96 | Miscellaneous manufactured articles | 12,860 | 0.01 | 8,889 | 44.67 |
| SS | Classified | 0 | 0.00 | 144 870 | -100.00 |