What Mauritius sells and buys, and with whom
Mauritius exported US$2.5bn of goods in 2024 and imported US$7.0bn, a deficit of US$4.5bn. 35% of its exports went to other SADC countries, which supplied 12% of its imports.
Mauritius's trade since 2012
Exports and imports of goods, and exports to other SADC countries, US dollars
Who buys from Mauritius
Exports by destination, 2024. France takes 11%.
What Mauritius sells, and to whom
Exports by product group and partner, 2024
Hover over a band or a name to follow it. Flows under 0.4% of the total (US$119m in all) are not drawn.
Mauritius's main exports
Top products (four-digit HS headings), 2024, with the value five years before
Trade with each SADC neighbour
2024, with the main products each way| Neighbour | Mauritius sold | Mauritius bought | Balance | Mostly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Africa | US$209m | US$591m | −US$382m | Sold men's suits and trousers; bought coal · more |
| Madagascar | US$185m | US$34m | +US$152m | Sold other knitted or crocheted fabrics; bought sawn wood · more |
| Zimbabwe | US$204m | US$7.0m | +US$197m | Sold nitrogen fertilisers; bought raw cotton · more |
| Zambia | US$157m | US$22m | +US$135m | Sold refined fuels and oils; bought copper ore · more |
| Seychelles | US$37m | US$64m | −US$27m | Sold animal feed; bought frozen fish · more |
| Mozambique | US$50m | US$13m | +US$37m | Sold mixed fertilisers; bought raw cotton · more |
| Angola | US$244k | US$45m | −US$45m | Sold other steel articles; bought refined fuels and oils · more |
| Tanzania | US$9.2m | US$13m | −US$3.7m | Sold trailers; bought natural gas and lpg · more |
| Namibia | US$7.5m | US$3.6m | +US$3.9m | Sold pasta, whether or not cooked or stuffed or otherwise…; bought fish, dried, salted or in brine · more |
| Eswatini | US$3.0m | US$7.2m | −US$4.2m | Sold cotton yarn; bought food preparations · more |
| Comoros | US$5.5m | US$0 | +US$5.5m | Sold wheat flour · more |
| Malawi | US$4.6m | US$90k | +US$4.5m | Sold sugar; bought taps and valves · more |
| DRC | US$21k | US$1.8m | −US$1.8m | Sold phones and network equipment; bought refined fuels and oils · more |
| Botswana | US$62k | US$1.7m | −US$1.6m | Sold aluminium structures and parts of structures; bought medicines · more |
| Lesotho | US$42k | US$81k | −US$39k | Sold discs, tapes, solid-state non-volatile storage devices…; bought woven fabrics of cotton, containing 85 % or more by weight… · more |
How processed Mauritius's trade is
Exports and imports by stage of processing, 2024
Raw: unprocessed farm goods, ores, minerals, crude oil, coal and gas. Processed materials: refined metals and fuels, chemicals, processed farm goods for industry. Refined gold counts here. Manufactured goods: machinery, vehicles, parts, consumer goods and packaged food.
Analysis: Mauritius's value-addition balance and openings
For members: where Mauritius earns and spends at each stage of processing, with SADC and with the world; how much rides on a few products and buyers; what it is competitive in; which exports grew or shrank; where its exports meet preferential terms; and the products it could sell to neighbours, or buy from them instead of from outside the region.
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CEPII BACI, built from UN Comtrade with each flow reconciled between exporter and importer (Etalab Open Licence 2.0). Values in current US dollars; exports valued free on board. Figures can differ from national statistics, and include non-monetary gold. About the data