Top Export Products from Kenya to Malawi

11-Apr-2025

Overview

Malawi
 

> Tobacco: 50%

> Tea: 15%

> Sugar: 10%

> Coffee: 5%

> Uranium: 4%

> Nuts: 3%

> Cotton: 3%

> Rubber: 3%

> Apparel: 3%

> Pulses: 2%

These top 10 export items represented a significant 98% of Malawi's total export value for 2023. When analyzing Malawi's customs records, it's evident that the fastest-growing export categories were Tobacco (USD 1 billion), Tea (USD 0.3 billion), and Sugar (USD 0.2 billion) showing a robust upward trend. Conversely, the declining sectors in the export landscape included products of the Coffee, Uranium, Nuts, as well as Cotton.

For businesses and market analysts, the subsequent chart offers a deeper dive, showcasing the monetary value and market dynamics of Malawi’s top 10 export commodities for 2023.

YOY and MOM comparison of growth and share of top Export Products from kenya to malawi
Export Products from kenya to malawi
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Top Products 2023 2022 Growth% 2023 Share 2022 Share
Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, Other than crude; preparations not elsewhere specified or included, Containing by weight 70% or more of petroleum oils or of oils obtained from bituminous minerals, These oils being the basic cons

HSN Code:  27101919   27109900 
Exporters : Malawi Exporters 3
Malawi Exporters Shipment 357
Value $835,006.34 $0 greenUpArrow 100% 0.02%
Shipment 119 0 greenUpArrow 100% 9.88%

Soap; organic surface-active products and preparations for use as soap, In the form of bars, Cakes, Moulded pieces or shapes, Whether or not containing soap; organic surface-active products and preparations for washing the skin, In the form of liquid or c

HSN Code:  34011990   34011190  34011110 
Exporters : Malawi Exporters 12
Malawi Exporters Shipment 242
Value $434,113,282.35 $0 greenUpArrow 100% 11.74%
Shipment 88 0 greenUpArrow 100% 7.31%

Sugar confectionery (including white choco-late), Not containing cocoa

HSN Code:  17049000   17041000  
Exporters : Malawi Exporters 12
Malawi Exporters Shipment 167
Value $365,260,511.67 $0 greenUpArrow 100% 9.88%
Shipment 78 0 greenUpArrow 100% 6.48%

Medicaments (excluding goods of heading 3002, 3005 or 3006) consisting of mixed or unmixed products for therapeutic or prophylactic uses, Put up in measured doses (including those in the form of transdermal administration systems) or in forms or packings

HSN Code:  30049090   30049010   30042000 
Exporters : Malawi Exporters 44
Malawi Exporters Shipment 148
Value $815,723,236.96 $0 greenUpArrow 100% 22.06%
Shipment 56 0 greenUpArrow 100% 4.65%

Salt (including table salt and denatured salt) and pure sodium chloride, Whether or not in aqueous solution or containing added anti-caking or free flowing agents; sea water

HSN Code:  25010091  
Exporters : Malawi Exporters 18
Malawi Exporters Shipment 132
Value $23,688,694.33 $0 greenUpArrow 100% 0.64%
Shipment 25 0 greenUpArrow 100% 2.08%

Margarine; edible mixture or preparations of animal or vegetable fats or oils or of fractions of different fats or oils of this chapter, Other than edible fats or oils or their fractions of heading 1516

HSN Code:  15171090   15171010  
Exporters : Malawi Exporters 5
Malawi Exporters Shipment 103
Value $146,944,654.51 $0 greenUpArrow 100% 3.97%
Shipment 31 0 greenUpArrow 100% 2.57%

Toilet paper and similar paper, Cellulose wadding or webs of cellulose fibres, Of a kind used for household or sanitary purposes, In rolls of a width not exceeding 36 cm, Or cut to size or shape; handkerchiefs, Cleansing tissues, Towels, Table cloths, Ser

HSN Code:  48181010   48181090  48182010 
Exporters : Malawi Exporters 1
Malawi Exporters Shipment 94
Value $74,524,255.76 $0 greenUpArrow 100% 2.02%
Shipment 50 0 greenUpArrow 100% 4.15%

Organic surface-active agents (other than soap), Surface-active preparations, Washing preparations (including auxiliary washing preparations) and cleaning preparations, Whether or not containing soap, Other than those of heading 3401 - organic surface-act

HSN Code:  34025000   34029090  34022000 
Exporters : Malawi Exporters 4
Malawi Exporters Shipment 81
Value $40,208,123.42 $0 greenUpArrow 100% 1.09%
Shipment 31 0 greenUpArrow 100% 2.57%

Yeasts (active or inactive); other single cell micro-organisms, Dead (but not including vaccines of heading 3002); prepared baking powders

HSN Code:  21023000   21022000 
Exporters : Malawi Exporters 9
Malawi Exporters Shipment 76
Value $372,476.15 $0 greenUpArrow 100% 0.01%
Shipment 23 0 greenUpArrow 100% 1.91%

Cigars, Cheroots, Cigarillos and cigarettes, Of tobacco or of tobacco substitutes

HSN Code:  24022000  
Exporters : Malawi Exporters 2
Malawi Exporters Shipment 69
Value $1,128,416.8 $0 greenUpArrow 100% 0.03%
Shipment 21 0 greenUpArrow 100% 1.74%

Electric accumulators, Including separators therefore, Whether or not rectangular (including square

HSN Code:  85071000   85072010  85074090 
Exporters : Malawi Exporters 17
Malawi Exporters Shipment 62
Value $70,501,376.81 $0 greenUpArrow 100% 1.91%
Shipment 22 0 greenUpArrow 100% 1.83%

Tableware , Kitchenware, Other household articles and hygienic or toilet articles, Of plastics

HSN Code:  39241000   39249090  39249010 
Exporters : Malawi Exporters 15
Malawi Exporters Shipment 45
Value $33,587,899.9 $0 greenUpArrow 100% 0.91%
Shipment 14 0 greenUpArrow 100% 1.16%

Brooms, Brushes (including brushes constituting parts of machines, Appliances or vehicles), Hand- operated mechanical floor sweepers, Not motorised, Mops and feather dusters; prepared knots and tufts for broom or brush making; paint pads and rollers; sque

HSN Code:  96031010   96039000  96031090 
Exporters : Malawi Exporters 13
Malawi Exporters Shipment 43
Value $74,120.23 $0 greenUpArrow 100% 0.00%
Shipment 3 0 greenUpArrow 100% 0.25%

Polishes and creams, For footwear, Furniture, Floors, Coachwork, Glass or metal, Scouring pastes and powders and similar preparations (whether or not in the form of paper, Wadding, Felt, Nonwovens, Cellular plastics or cellular rubber, Impregnated, Coated

HSN Code:  34051000  34054000 
Exporters : Malawi Exporters 14
Malawi Exporters Shipment 42
Value $39,936,172.14 $0 greenUpArrow 100% 1.08%
Shipment 18 0 greenUpArrow 100% 1.50%

Tubes, Pipes and hoses, And fittings therefor (for example, Joints, Elbows, Flanges), Of plastics - artificial guts (sausage casings) of hardened protein or of cellulosic materials:

HSN Code:  39172100  39174090  39172900 
Exporters : Malawi Exporters 15
Malawi Exporters Shipment 37
Value $46,466,304.49 $0 greenUpArrow 100% 1.26%
Shipment 21 0 greenUpArrow 100% 1.74%