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Trade

What Mozambique sells to and buys from the rest of the world, as recorded by its customs and reported to the UN. Exports are valued free on board; imports include freight and insurance.

Exports 2025
$7.79 bn
−5.1% vs 2024
Imports 2025
$9.45 bn
+2.6% vs 2024
Balance 2025
−$1.66 bn
deficit

In 2025 Mozambique bought more goods abroad than it sold: a deficit of $1.66 bn. Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes made up 54.2% of exports.

Merchandise trade balance

What is this?

Exports minus imports of goods.

How to read it

  • Negative is a deficit: the country bought more goods than it sold. A deficit is not automatically bad when it reflects investment imports for future production.
  • Unit: US$ bn.

What does the data say?

Merchandise trade balance is -1.66 US$ bn (2025), 25.3% higher than in 2010. Over the last year: +65.3%.

Over all 15 observations since 2010, the highest was -0.99 (2017) and the lowest -6.37 (2022).

Why does it matter?

  • Households: Persistent deficits can pressure the metical.
  • Businesses: Currency availability.
  • Government: External financing.
  • Investors: External balance.
  • Mobile money: Indirect.

What should I watch?

Data source

Source
UN Comtrade (public API), reported by Mozambique
Status
Fetched live on the last refresh
Latest observation
2025
Last updated
2026-10-17
Frequency
Annual
Method
Merchandise trade as reported by Mozambique's customs. Exports are FOB, imports CIF. Services, and the broader balance of payments, are not included.
Limitations
Annual; the latest year can be revised. Values are in current US dollars, so they move with prices as well as volumes.

Exports, imports and the balance

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ExportsImportsBalance

Latest
7.79
Change
+247.5%
Year on year
−5.1%
High
8.30 2022
Low
2.24 2010
Average
5.26
Volatility
30.0%

Exports is 7.79 US$ bn (2025), 247.5% higher than in 2010. Over the last year: −5.1%.

A trade deficit means more goods came in than went out. It is not automatically bad: during gas-project construction, imports of equipment rise ahead of future exports. Merchandise only; services, income and remittances are in the current account (Economy).

What Mozambique sells — 2025

  • Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of …$4.23 bn 54.2%
  • Aluminium and articles thereof$1.56 bn 20.0%
  • Ores, slag and ash$395 m 5.1%
  • Tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes…$258 m 3.3%
  • Vegetables and certain roots and tubers; edi…$246 m 3.2%
  • Salt; sulphur; earths, stone; plastering mat…$200 m 2.6%
  • Fruit and nuts, edible; peel of citrus fruit…$151 m 1.9%
  • Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; miscellaneo…$131 m 1.7%
  • Natural, cultured pearls; precious, semi-pre…$99 m 1.3%
  • Fertilizers$45 m 0.6%
  • Fish and crustaceans, molluscs and other aqu…$45 m 0.6%
  • Iron and steel$41 m 0.5%

Where exports go — 2025

  • $1.60 bn 20.6%
  • $984 m 12.6%
  • $650 m 8.3%
  • $642 m 8.2%
  • $558 m 7.2%
  • $499 m 6.4%
  • $285 m 3.7%
  • $278 m 3.6%
  • $273 m 3.5%
  • $244 m 3.1%
  • $184 m 2.4%
  • $155 m 2.0%

Partner attribution follows customs records; goods routed through hubs (for example via South Africa or the UAE) may be attributed to the hub.

Trade with India

What is this?

The value of goods Mozambique sold abroad.

How to read it

  • Moves with export volumes and world prices of coal, gas and aluminium.
  • Unit: US$ bn.

What does the data say?

In 2025: exports to India $1.60 bn, imports $618 m, 12.9% of Mozambique's goods trade.

Why does it matter?

  • Households: Few households work in export sectors directly.
  • Businesses: Port, transport and supplier activity.
  • Government: Royalties and taxes.
  • Investors: Hard-currency earnings.
  • Mobile money: Indirect.

What should I watch?

Data source

Source
UN Comtrade (public API), reported by Mozambique
Status
Fetched live on the last refresh
Latest observation
2025
Last updated
2026-10-17
Frequency
Annual
Method
Merchandise trade as reported by Mozambique's customs. Exports are FOB, imports CIF. Services, and the broader balance of payments, are not included.
Limitations
Annual; the latest year can be revised. Values are in current US dollars, so they move with prices as well as volumes.

Trading partner: India

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Exports to IndiaImports from India

Exports to India is 1,602 US$ m (2025), 5164.1% higher than in 2010. Over the last year: +9.0%.

In 2025, trade with India was $2.22 bn (12.9% of Mozambique's goods trade): exports $1.60 bn, imports $618 m.

Main exports to India (2025)

  • Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of …$1.30 bn 80.8%
  • Vegetables and certain roots and tubers; edi…$233 m 14.6%
  • Fruit and nuts, edible; peel of citrus fruit…$26 m 1.6%
  • Ores, slag and ash$14 m 0.9%
  • Lead and articles thereof$10 m 0.6%
  • Iron and steel$7 m 0.5%

Main imports from India (2025)

  • Cereals$156 m 25.2%
  • Pharmaceutical products$107 m 17.3%
  • Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of …$66 m 10.6%
  • Machinery and mechanical appliances, boilers…$38 m 6.2%
  • Vehicles; other than railway or tramway roll…$34 m 5.5%
  • Electrical machinery and equipment and parts…$27 m 4.3%

Key products — 2025

Product (HS)ExportsImportsExport quantity
Wheat 1001$6 m$300 m0.01 m t
Rice 1006$0 m$395 m0 m t
Oil seeds incl. sesame 1207$128 m$10 m0.1 m t
Palm oil 1511$0 m$402 m0 m t
Cane sugar 1701$16 m$0 m—
Unmanufactured tobacco 2401$258 m$12 m0.06 m t
Natural graphite 2504$14 m$0 m0.02 m t
Cement 2523$23 m$52 m0.27 m t
Titanium ores (ilmenite, rutile) 2614$283 m$0 m1.23 m t
Zirconium ores (zircon) 2615$110 m$1 m0.18 m t
Coal 2701$1.67 bn$31 m16.24 m t
Refined petroleum (fuel) 2710$32 m$1.36 bn0.04 m t
Natural gas and LNG 2711$1.97 bn$41 m2.03 m t
Electricity 2716$436 m$260 m—
Aluminium oxide (alumina) 2818—$374 m—
Medicines 3004$0 m$166 m0 m t
Precious stones (rubies) 7103$46 m$0 m0.01 m t
Gold 7108$33 m—0 m t
Iron and steel bars 7214$0 m$112 m—
Aluminium, unwrought 7601$1.34 bn$1 m—
Computers 8471$0 m$37 m—
Phones and network equipment 8517$0 m$67 m0 m t
Cars 8703$1 m$124 m0 m t
Trucks and vans 8704$1 m$205 m0 m t
Coconuts, Brazil nuts and cashew nuts 0801$89 m$0 m0.06 m t
Crustaceans (prawns, lobster) 0306$38 m$0 m—

Quantities are net weight where customs reported it. Compare with world prices on the Commodities page: export value divided by weight is a unit value, not the market price.

Source: UN Comtrade, merchandise trade reported by Mozambique (HS classification), retrieved 2026-10-17. Comtrade returned no Mozambican report for 2016 when last checked. The latest year can be revised. Tariff rates are not shown yet.