Exploring South Africa's Merchandise Trade Statistics
SARS is the legislatively empowered controlling entity for statistics on the importation and exportation of goods. Exercising this control entails record-keeping, verification, publication and analysis of trade data.
- Explore South Africa’s Merchandise Trade Statistics through interactive visualisations and other content
- Download the relevant data you need
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Jan 2021 overview
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| R109,755,409,976 |
R 97,926,850,519 |
| Trade Balance: R11,828,559,457 |
| Top 5 countries we exported to: |
Top 5 countries we imported from: |
- China (15.4%)
- United States (9.6%)
- Germany (9.2%)
- Japan (7.2%)
- United Kingdom (5.8%)
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- China (21.2%)
- Germany (8.7%)
- United States (6.6%)
- India (6.1%)
- Japan (3.2%)
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Release Calendar 2020/21
Trade statistics will be published on the last business day of every month, for the previous month, at 14:00 South African local time (GMT+2).
Visualisations 
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