Finland's export to Africa in SITC commodity grouping, import to Finland from Africa in SITC commodity grouping during 2002

Export of goods from Finland and import to Finland	Trade Balance

Africa: Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, British Indian Ocean Territory, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Ceuta, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Melilla, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, St. Helena, Sudan, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Import from Africa, export to Africa, trade in goods and trade balance in the period 2002 - 2025

Year	Import 1,000 €	Export 1,000 €	Trade 1,000 €	Trade balance 1,000 €
2002	221,473	727,400	948,873	505,928
2003	216,892	730,550	947,442	513,657
2004	367,977	974,185	1,342,162	606,208
2005	253,171	1,145,167	1,398,338	891,996
2006	346,184	1,408,391	1,754,575	1,062,208
2007	353,288	1,563,790	1,917,078	1,210,502
2008	549,714	1,485,206	2,034,921	935,492
2009	262,071	1,092,441	1,354,512	830,370
2010	543,517	1,332,734	1,876,251	789,218
2011	588,414	1,243,288	1,831,702	654,874
2012	636,589	1,669,211	2,305,800	1,032,623
2013	750,361	1,268,863	2,019,225	518,502
2014	838,151	1,372,160	2,210,311	534,009
2015	642,247	1,260,912	1,903,159	618,664
2016	586,010	1,226,146	1,812,156	640,137
2017	700,281	1,261,007	1,961,288	560,725
2018	1,020,810	1,626,767	2,647,577	605,957
2019	508,531	1,433,574	1,942,105	925,042
2020	484,481	1,247,333	1,731,814	762,852
2021	734,355	1,404,756	2,139,111	670,401
2022	1,233,700	1,754,142	2,987,843	520,442
2023	614,614	1,602,721	2,217,335	988,106
2024	623,145	1,576,887	2,200,032	953,742
2025	671,495	1,501,619	2,173,114	830,125

Source: Finnish Customs

Export along The Standard International Trade Classification (SITC^*)

Imports by STIC Goods Categories

*) SITC = Standard International Trade Classification (classification system is maintained by the United Nations) Africa Africa

Table: Finland's export to Africa in product groups (SITC 2)

	2021		2022		2023		2024		2025
	1,000 €	%	1,000 €	%	1,000 €	%	1,000 €	%	1,000 €	%
0. Food and live animals	14,387	1.0	29,199	1.7	10,579	0.7	13,953	0.9	14,532	1.0
00. Live animals	1	0.0	1	0.0	2	0.0	1	0.0	2	0.0
01. Meat and meat preparations	695	0.0	1,145	0.1	1,154	0.1	928	0.1	2,345	0.2
02. Dairy products and birds' eggs	6,955	0.5	5,938	0.3	7,826	0.5	10,921	0.7	9,842	0.7
03. Fish and fish preparations			65	0.0
04. Cereals and cereal preparations	6,024	0.4	20,778	1.2	769	0.0	846	0.1	1,010	0.1
05. Vegetables and fruit					3	0.0
06. Sugars,sugar preparations and honey	47	0.0	77	0.0	10	0.0	130	0.0	34	0.0
07. Coffee,tea,cocoa,spices	4	0.0	54	0.0	1	0.0	1	0.0	1	0.0
08. Feeding stuff for animals	629	0.0	1,089	0.1	761	0.0	1,036	0.1	1,239	0.1
09. Miscellaneous edible products and preparations	33	0.0	52	0.0	54	0.0	89	0.0	59	0.0
1. Beverages and tobacco	215	0.0	83	0.0	144	0.0	108	0.0	224	0.0
11. Beverages	215	0.0	83	0.0	144	0.0	106	0.0	224	0.0
12. Tobacco and tobacco manufactures							2	0.0
2. Crude materials,inedible,except fuels	443,119	31.6	493,613	28.2	399,401	24.9	456,076	28.9	477,995	31.9
21. Hides,skins,furskins,raw	173	0.0	199	0.0	317	0.0	390	0.0	308	0.0
23. Crude rubber (incl.synthetic)					4	0.0	4	0.0	1	0.0
24. Cork and wood	383,782	27.4	396,963	22.7	314,884	19.7	362,974	23.0	396,646	26.4
25. Pulp and waste paper	57,508	4.1	93,856	5.4	79,477	5.0	86,534	5.5	76,375	5.1
26. Textile fibres and their wastes	551	0.0	836	0.0	917	0.1	711	0.0	161	0.0
27. Crude fertilizers and crude minerals	1,102	0.1	1,757	0.1	1,422	0.1	865	0.1	1,109	0.1
28. Metalliferous ores and metal scrap	1	0.0			2,378	0.1	4,538	0.3	4,215	0.3
29. Crude animal,vegetable materials n.e.s.	3	0.0	2	0.0	4	0.0	64	0.0	83	0.0
3. Mineral fuels etc	34,140	2.4	43,981	2.5	31,702	2.0	4,420	0.3	422	0.0
32. Coal,coke and briquettes	883	0.1	938	0.1	471	0.0	675	0.0	409	0.0
33. Petroleum and products	33,257	2.4	43,043	2.5	31,230	1.9	24	0.0	13	0.0
34. Gas,natural and manufactured							3,721	0.2
4. Animal and vegetable oils and fats	195	0.0			23	0.0			31	0.0
41. Animal oils and fats	149	0.0							31	0.0
42. Fixed vegetable fats and oils	46	0.0			23	0.0
5. Chemicals and related products,n.e.s.	131,404	9.4	179,140	10.2	138,676	8.7	127,769	8.1	128,012	8.5
51. Organic chemicals	10,320	0.7	11,096	0.6	11,958	0.7	13,306	0.8	16,177	1.1
52. Inorganic chemicals	7,625	0.5	18,797	1.1	8,315	0.5	11,846	0.8	20,886	1.4
53. Dyeing,tanning and colouring material	233	0.0	15	0.0	2	0.0	84	0.0	82	0.0
54. Medicinal and pharmaceutical products	44,392	3.2	32,534	1.9	28,188	1.8	32,622	2.1	19,963	1.3
55. Perfume,cleaning etc.preparations	824	0.1	980	0.1	1,117	0.1	1,010	0.1	1,338	0.1
56. Fertilizers,manufactured	23,160	1.7	43,591	2.5	25,250	1.6	10,087	0.6	19,241	1.3
57. Plastics in primary forms	29,069	2.1	56,384	3.2	48,785	3.0	43,126	2.7	38,564	2.6
58. Plastics in non-primary forms	9,035	0.6	9,620	0.6	8,494	0.5	8,567	0.5	4,929	0.3
59. Chemical materials and products,n.e.s.	6,746	0.5	6,123	0.4	6,568	0.4	7,122	0.5	8,529	0.6
6. Basic manufactures	288,438	20.6	399,188	22.8	341,091	21.3	331,399	21.0	271,231	18.1
61. Leather,dressed fur,etc.	4	0.0	7	0.0	17	0.0	87	0.0	50	0.0
62. Rubber manufactures,n.e.s.	3,357	0.2	8,742	0.5	5,608	0.4	5,438	0.3	4,021	0.3
63. Wood and cork manufactures	2,829	0.2	2,634	0.2	3,493	0.2	3,255	0.2	2,637	0.2
64. Paper,paperboard and articles thereof	231,274	16.5	329,323	18.8	272,294	17.0	286,097	18.1	229,270	15.3
65. Textile yarn,fabrics,made up articles,etc.	2,405	0.2	2,332	0.1	1,963	0.1	2,524	0.2	2,051	0.1
66. Non-metallic mineral manufactures,n.e.s.	4,183	0.3	3,777	0.2	4,335	0.3	3,569	0.2	3,644	0.2
67. Iron and steel	31,231	2.2	39,900	2.3	20,780	1.3	14,304	0.9	10,823	0.7
68. Non-ferrous metals	1,567	0.1	2,232	0.1	2,597	0.2	3,259	0.2	2,970	0.2
69. Manufactures of metals,n.e.s.	11,588	0.8	10,243	0.6	30,005	1.9	12,875	0.8	16,394	1.1
7. Machinery,transport equipment	449,619	32.1	562,841	32.2	639,394	39.9	601,549	38.1	542,630	36.2
71. Power generating machinery and equipment	52,648	3.8	61,100	3.5	108,447	6.8	51,989	3.3	51,974	3.5
72. Machinery for specialized industries	216,352	15.4	250,722	14.3	244,179	15.2	246,182	15.6	253,400	16.9
73. Metal working machinery	1,499	0.1	1,779	0.1	7,730	0.5	9,409	0.6	1,770	0.1
74. General industrial machinery n.e.s.	56,384	4.0	77,698	4.4	110,008	6.9	89,319	5.7	83,985	5.6
75. Office machines and adp machines	2,117	0.2	1,497	0.1	1,927	0.1	2,549	0.2	1,891	0.1
76. Telecommunications and sound recording equipment	6,393	0.5	10,940	0.6	6,097	0.4	4,409	0.3	4,784	0.3
77. Electric machinery,n.e.s.and parts	47,387	3.4	66,707	3.8	65,507	4.1	66,212	4.2	74,307	5.0
78. Road vehicles	63,996	4.6	90,679	5.2	95,349	6.0	98,976	6.3	65,568	4.4
79. Other transport equipment	2,845	0.2	1,729	0.1	152	0.0	35,129	2.2	5,082	0.3
8. Miscellaneous manufactured articles	37,233	2.7	40,105	2.3	40,288	2.5	44,718	2.8	65,468	4.4
81. Prefabr.buildings;sanitary,lighting etc.fixtrs	1,848	0.1	4,243	0.2	1,732	0.1	2,541	0.2	3,736	0.2
82. Furniture and parts thereof	542	0.0	1,124	0.1	457	0.0	1,362	0.1	931	0.1
83. Travel goods,handbags and sim.containers	18	0.0	26	0.0	50	0.0	27	0.0	22	0.0
84. Articles of apparel and clothing accessories	233	0.0	152	0.0	150	0.0	107	0.0	89	0.0
85. Footwear	47	0.0	116	0.0	94	0.0	63	0.0	97	0.0
87. Instruments and apparates n.e.s.	27,329	2.0	26,756	1.5	30,214	1.9	27,919	1.8	30,075	2.0
88. Photographic equipment,optical goods etc.	419	0.0	64	0.0	104	0.0	85	0.0	130	0.0
89. Miscellaneous manufactured articles,n.e.s.	6,796	0.5	7,625	0.4	7,488	0.5	12,631	0.8	30,394	2.0
9. Goods not classified elsewhere	1,749	0.1			893	0.1
93. Special transactions and commodities not classified	67	0.0
96. Coin (not gold coin or legal)	1,682	0.1			893	0.1
All groups combined	1,400,499	100.0	1,748,150	100.0	1,602,191	100.0	1,578,132	100.0	1,500,539	100.0

Source: Finnish Customs

Africa

Table: Import from Africa (G-AFR) in product groups (SITC 2)

	2021		2022		2023		2024		2025
	1,000 €	%	1,000 €	%	1,000 €	%	1,000 €	%	1,000 €	%
0. Food and live animals	96,668	13.3	95,047	7.5	98,979	16.2	122,646	19.7	136,457	20.3
00. Live animals	1	0.0	1	0.0					3	0.0
01. Meat and meat preparations	12	0.0	19	0.0	30	0.0	2	0.0	127	0.0
02. Dairy products and birds' eggs	8	0.0			26	0.0	303	0.0	3	0.0
03. Fish and fish preparations	11,627	1.6	10,728	0.9	8,175	1.3	9,953	1.6	9,754	1.5
04. Cereals and cereal preparations	95	0.0	120	0.0	151	0.0	161	0.0	176	0.0
05. Vegetables and fruit	60,170	8.3	50,113	4.0	62,635	10.3	76,860	12.4	90,877	13.5
06. Sugars,sugar preparations and honey	1,468	0.2	356	0.0	606	0.1	931	0.1	506	0.1
07. Coffee,tea,cocoa,spices	23,034	3.2	31,908	2.5	26,695	4.4	31,992	5.1	32,339	4.8
08. Feeding stuff for animals			1,304	0.1			1,651	0.3	1,286	0.2
09. Miscellaneous edible products and preparations	254	0.0	498	0.0	662	0.1	814	0.1	1,394	0.2
1. Beverages and tobacco	7,172	1.0	7,794	0.6	5,885	1.0	5,134	0.8	4,239	0.6
11. Beverages	7,172	1.0	7,794	0.6	5,885	1.0	5,134	0.8	4,239	0.6
2. Crude materials,inedible,except fuels	62,230	8.5	73,065	5.8	98,846	16.2	204,122	32.8	148,342	22.1
21. Hides,skins,furskins,raw					152	0.0	211	0.0	370	0.1
22. Oil seeds,oleaginous fruits	637	0.1	671	0.1	228	0.0	187	0.0	351	0.1
23. Crude rubber (incl.synthetic)	97	0.0	5,572	0.4	2,088	0.3	9,457	1.5	14,401	2.1
24. Cork and wood	2,315	0.3	14,992	1.2	4,122	0.7	4,043	0.6	3,109	0.5
26. Textile fibres and their wastes	67	0.0	83	0.0	97	0.0	117	0.0	67	0.0
27. Crude fertilizers and crude minerals	3,289	0.5	16,607	1.3	23,711	3.9	17,711	2.8	8,628	1.3
28. Metalliferous ores and metal scrap	45,086	6.2	23,051	1.8	58,868	9.6	163,884	26.3	108,272	16.1
29. Crude animal,vegetable materials n.e.s.	10,739	1.5	12,089	1.0	9,581	1.6	8,514	1.4	13,144	2.0
3. Mineral fuels etc	6,075	0.8	137,683	10.9	55,963	9.2	25	0.0	63,088	9.4
32. Coal,coke and briquettes			103,645	8.2	28,003	4.6
33. Petroleum and products	765	0.1	831	0.1	179	0.0	25	0.0	63,088	9.4
34. Gas,natural and manufactured	5,310	0.7	33,207	2.6	27,781	4.5
4. Animal and vegetable oils and fats	310	0.0	327	0.0	337	0.1	1,097	0.2	1,573	0.2
42. Fixed vegetable fats and oils	310	0.0	327	0.0	337	0.1	1,097	0.2	1,573	0.2
43. Processed animal or vegetable oils,etc.	1	0.0
5. Chemicals and related products,n.e.s.	26,896	3.7	55,696	4.4	79,082	12.9	30,552	4.9	58,799	8.8
51. Organic chemicals	2,736	0.4	2,549	0.2	2,172	0.4	3,030	0.5	3,717	0.6
52. Inorganic chemicals	7,437	1.0	28,319	2.2	66,060	10.8	18,736	3.0	44,044	6.6
53. Dyeing,tanning and colouring material	44	0.0	63	0.0	41	0.0	52	0.0	80	0.0
54. Medicinal and pharmaceutical products	461	0.1	226	0.0	861	0.1	202	0.0	165	0.0
55. Perfume,cleaning etc.preparations	476	0.1	591	0.0	731	0.1	748	0.1	900	0.1
56. Fertilizers,manufactured	6,980	1.0	11,908	0.9	3,463	0.6	2,294	0.4	5,957	0.9
57. Plastics in primary forms	5,510	0.8	7,659	0.6	3,044	0.5	2,370	0.4	2,351	0.4
58. Plastics in non-primary forms	1,293	0.2	2,042	0.2	814	0.1	886	0.1	839	0.1
59. Chemical materials and products,n.e.s.	1,959	0.3	2,340	0.2	1,913	0.3	2,232	0.4	746	0.1
6. Basic manufactures	403,031	55.4	747,846	59.4	175,302	28.7	184,089	29.6	167,988	25.0
61. Leather,dressed fur,etc.	3	0.0	22	0.0	17	0.0	19	0.0	42	0.0
62. Rubber manufactures,n.e.s.	265	0.0	1,029	0.1	686	0.1	570	0.1	671	0.1
63. Wood and cork manufactures	111	0.0	322	0.0	121	0.0	103	0.0	204	0.0
64. Paper,paperboard and articles thereof	62	0.0	74	0.0	580	0.1	42	0.0	8	0.0
65. Textile yarn,fabrics,made up articles,etc.	13,260	1.8	13,494	1.1	13,400	2.2	14,444	2.3	12,161	1.8
66. Non-metallic mineral manufactures,n.e.s.	852	0.1	960	0.1	906	0.1	1,772	0.3	2,866	0.4
67. Iron and steel	25,539	3.5	28,142	2.2	27,201	4.5	21,220	3.4	6,672	1.0
68. Non-ferrous metals	361,977	49.7	703,172	55.8	131,977	21.6	144,452	23.2	143,739	21.4
69. Manufactures of metals,n.e.s.	963	0.1	632	0.1	414	0.1	1,467	0.2	1,626	0.2
7. Machinery,transport equipment	98,138	13.5	104,916	8.3	66,451	10.9	44,408	7.1	66,474	9.9
71. Power generating machinery and equipment	594	0.1	696	0.1	942	0.2	1,853	0.3	903	0.1
72. Machinery for specialized industries	994	0.1	1,426	0.1	957	0.2	1,328	0.2	873	0.1
73. Metal working machinery	41	0.0	32	0.0	14	0.0	23	0.0	2	0.0
74. General industrial machinery n.e.s.	47,001	6.5	36,635	2.9	3,247	0.5	4,931	0.8	7,129	1.1
75. Office machines and adp machines	42	0.0	219	0.0	125	0.0	161	0.0	187	0.0
76. Telecommunications and sound recording equipment	1,341	0.2	2,890	0.2	3,214	0.5	4,967	0.8	3,768	0.6
77. Electric machinery,n.e.s.and parts	5,882	0.8	6,161	0.5	6,128	1.0	6,509	1.0	9,756	1.5
78. Road vehicles	42,208	5.8	56,792	4.5	51,377	8.4	23,361	3.8	41,060	6.1
79. Other transport equipment	36	0.0	64	0.0	469	0.1	1,276	0.2	2,798	0.4
8. Miscellaneous manufactured articles	26,054	3.6	33,702	2.7	29,782	4.9	29,760	4.8	31,936	4.8
81. Prefabr.buildings;sanitary,lighting etc.fixtrs	843	0.1	464	0.0	509	0.1	383	0.1	461	0.1
82. Furniture and parts thereof	208	0.0	250	0.0	130	0.0	194	0.0	184	0.0
83. Travel goods,handbags and sim.containers	378	0.1	351	0.0	234	0.0	252	0.0	473	0.1
84. Articles of apparel and clothing accessories	20,760	2.9	27,562	2.2	24,808	4.1	24,206	3.9	24,758	3.7
85. Footwear	406	0.1	369	0.0	360	0.1	356	0.1	349	0.1
87. Instruments and apparates n.e.s.	1,497	0.2	2,543	0.2	1,907	0.3	1,758	0.3	1,747	0.3
88. Photographic equipment,optical goods etc.	26	0.0	37	0.0	23	0.0	16	0.0	30	0.0
89. Miscellaneous manufactured articles,n.e.s.	1,935	0.3	2,125	0.2	1,812	0.3	2,596	0.4	3,935	0.6
9. Goods not classified elsewhere	1,416	0.2	3,684	0.3	237	0.0	134	0.0	162	0.0
93. Special transactions and commodities not classified	1,416	0.2	3,684	0.3	237	0.0	134	0.0	160	0.0
96. Coin (not gold coin or legal)									3	0.0
All groups combined	727,966	100.0	1,259,730	100.0	610,747	100.0	621,956	100.0	671,408	100.0

Source: Finnish Customs

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Import from Africa, export to Africa, trade in goods and trade balance in the period 2002 - 2025

Export along The Standard International Trade Classification (SITC*)

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Table: Finland's export to Africa in product groups (SITC 2)

Table: Import from Africa (G-AFR) in product groups (SITC 2)

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Export along The Standard International Trade Classification (SITC^*)