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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March 2022 overview

EXPORTS	IMPORTS
R185,823,345,447	R139,961,242,722
R45,862,102,725
Top 5 countries we exported to:	Top 5 countries we imported from:
Germany (9.8%) China (9.5%) Japan 8.8%) United States (8.7% Netherlands (5.3%)	China (19.6%) United States (8.8%) Germany (7.8%) India (7.3%) United Arab Emirates (5.0%)

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