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 
• Browse the latest press release.

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July 2023 overview

EXPORTS	IMPORTS
R174,000,211,462	R158,039,314,709
Trade balance: R15,960,896,753
Top 5 countries we exported to:	Top 5 countries we imported from:
China (8.9%) Germany (8.0%) United States (7.6%) Mozambique (5.6%) Japan (5.0%)	China (21.5%) United States (9.7%) Germany (8.3%) India (5.7%) Thailand (3.5%)

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