Tobacco (US import unit value)
6,775US$/t▲ 0.8% vs Jun 2026
Latest observation Jul 2026 · no newer data published
- Latest
- 6,775
- Change
- +290.0%
- Year on year
- −3.6%
- High
- 7,054 Aug 2025
- Low
- 1,001 Aug 1971
- Average
- 3,007
- Volatility
- 7.5%
Tobacco (US import unit value) is 6,775 US$/t (Jul 2026), 290.0% higher than in Jan 1960. Over the last year: −3.6%.
What is this?
The world market price of tobacco (us import unit value) (US$/t).
Tobacco is a major export from Tete and Niassa. This series is a US import unit value (value divided by quantity), not a traded benchmark price.
How to read it
Higher means the commodity sells for more on world markets.
Unit: US$/t.
Measure: Unit value.
What does the data say?
Tobacco (US import unit value) is 6,775 US$/t (Jul 2026), 290.0% higher than in Jan 1960. Over the last year: −3.6%.
Over all 799 observations since Jan 1960, the highest was 7,054 (Aug 2025) and the lowest 1,001 (Aug 1971).
The latest observation is from Jul 2026; the source has not published anything newer.
Why does it matter?
- Households: Affects local prices only where Mozambique imports the product.
- Businesses: Exporters earn more when world prices rise; importers pay more.
- Government: Royalties and export taxes move with world prices.
- Investors: Commodity exposure of Mozambique's exports.
- Mobile money: Indirect; mainly through incomes in producing regions.
Observed facts are above; these are possible implications, not measured effects.
What should I watch?
Data source
- Source
- World Bank Commodity Price Data (The Pink Sheet)
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Observations
- 799 (Jan 1960 – Jul 2026)
- Source published
- 2026-10-02
- Last retrieved
- 2026-10-17
- Method
- Monthly average in nominal US dollars. Column "Tobacco, US import u.v." ($/mt).
- Limitations
- A world market price, not the price Mozambican producers or exporters actually receive, nor the export unit value in customs data.
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