Top Export Products from Uganda 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 uganda to malawi
Export Products from uganda to malawi
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Top Products 2023 2022 Growth% 2023 Share 2022 Share

Milk and cream, Concentrated or containing added sugar or other sweetening matter

HSN Code:  04022190  04022990  04029990 
Exporters : Malawi Exporters 4
Malawi Exporters Shipment 55
Value $1,517,905.85 $617,704.92 greenUpArrow 145.73% 0.93%
Shipment 20 8 greenUpArrow 150.00% 14.39%

Malt extract; food preparations of flour, Groats, Meal, Starch or malt extract, Not containing cocoa or containing less than 40% by weight of cocoa calculated on a totally defatted basis, Not elsewhere specified or included; food preparations of goods of

HSN Code:  19019090  19019029 
Exporters : Malawi Exporters 4
Malawi Exporters Shipment 34
Value $101,651,356.29 $612,345.18 greenUpArrow 16500.34% 62.37%
Shipment 7 7 redDownArrow 0.00% 5.04%

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:  30049000  30049090  30049010 
Exporters : Malawi Exporters 12
Malawi Exporters Shipment 31
Value $1,399,713.59 $123,407.23 greenUpArrow 1034.22% 0.86%
Shipment 9 4 greenUpArrow 125.00% 6.47%

Beauty or make-up preparations and preparations for the care of the skin (other than medicaments), Including sunscreen or suntan preparations; manicure or pedicure preparations

HSN Code:  33049900  33049990 
Exporters : Malawi Exporters 8
Malawi Exporters Shipment 18
Value $151,898.51 $243,557.32 redDownArrow -37.63% 0.09%
Shipment 5 4 greenUpArrow 25.00% 3.60%

Uncoated paper and paperboard, Of a kind used for writing, Printing or other graphic purposes, And non-perforated punch card and punch tape paper, In rolls or rectangular (including square) sheets of any size, Other than paper of heading 4801 or 4803; han

HSN Code:  48025690 
Exporters : Malawi Exporters 2
Malawi Exporters Shipment 12
Value $201,812.87 $0 greenUpArrow 100% 0.12%
Shipment 12 0 greenUpArrow 100% 8.63%

HSN Code:  96190010  96190090 
Exporters : Malawi Exporters 3
Malawi Exporters Shipment 11
Value $23,490.6 $19,489.54 greenUpArrow 20.53% 0.01%
Shipment 4 2 greenUpArrow 100.00% 2.88%

New pneumatic tyres, Of rubber

HSN Code:  40114000 
Exporters : Malawi Exporters 3
Malawi Exporters Shipment 9
Value $0 $87,092.72 redDownArrow -100.00% 0.00%
Shipment 0 6 redDownArrow -100.00% 0.00%

Inner tubes, Of rubber

HSN Code:  40139000  40139090 
Exporters : Malawi Exporters 3
Malawi Exporters Shipment 9
Value $0 $27,298.3 redDownArrow -100.00% 0.00%
Shipment 0 6 redDownArrow -100.00% 0.00%

Preparations for use on the hair

HSN Code:  33053000  33052000 
Exporters : Malawi Exporters 5
Malawi Exporters Shipment 8
Value $27,416.75 $0 greenUpArrow 100% 0.02%
Shipment 2 0 greenUpArrow 100% 1.44%

Undenatured ethyl alcohol of an alcoholic strength by volume of 80% vol. or higher; ethyl alcohol and other spirits, Denatured, Of any strength

HSN Code:  22071000  22071090 
Exporters : Malawi Exporters 4
Malawi Exporters Shipment 7
Value $46,423,987.5 $60,902.02 greenUpArrow 76127.34% 28.48%
Shipment 5 2 greenUpArrow 150.00% 3.60%

Worn clothing and other worn articles

HSN Code:  63090010  63090000  63090090 
Exporters : Malawi Exporters 6
Malawi Exporters Shipment 7
Value $467.8 $306.5 greenUpArrow 52.63% 0.00%
Shipment 2 2 redDownArrow 0.00% 1.44%

Other furniture and parts thereof

HSN Code:  94036000  94038900  94035000 
Exporters : Malawi Exporters 4
Malawi Exporters Shipment 7
Value $3,805.9 $1,109.99 greenUpArrow 242.88% 0.00%
Shipment 2 5 redDownArrow -60.00% 1.44%

Monitors and projectors, Not incorporating television reception apparatus, Reception apparatus for television, Whether or not incorporating radio-broadcastreceivers or sound or video recording or reproducing apparatus - cathode-ray tube monitors:

HSN Code:  85287290  85287219 
Exporters : Malawi Exporters 5
Malawi Exporters Shipment 6
Value $935.6 $17,739.96 redDownArrow -94.73% 0.00%
Shipment 2 2 redDownArrow 0.00% 1.44%

Prepared foods obtained by the swelling or roasting of cereals or cereal products (for example, Corn flakes); cereals [other than maize (corn) ] in grain form or in the form of flakes or other worked grains (except flour, Groats and meal), Pre-cooked or o

HSN Code:  19041000 
Exporters : Malawi Exporters 1
Malawi Exporters Shipment 5
Value $74.41 $0 greenUpArrow 100% 0.00%
Shipment 5 0 greenUpArrow 100% 3.60%

Motor cars and other motor vehicles principally designed for the transport of persons (other than those of heading 8702), Including station wagons and racing cars

HSN Code:  87032390  87032290  87032319 
Exporters : Malawi Exporters 5
Malawi Exporters Shipment 5
Value $20,308.91 $11,184.31 greenUpArrow 81.58% 0.01%
Shipment 2 2 redDownArrow 0.00% 1.44%