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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May 2022 overview

EXPORTS	IMPORTS
R179,462,205,829	R151,112,325,545
R28,349,880,284
Top 5 countries we exported to:	Top 5 countries we imported from:
China (9.7%) Germany (8.8%) United States (7.9%) Japan (7.4%) India (6.3%)	China (17.4%) Germany (8.4%) India (8.3%) United States (7.7%) Saudi Arabia (4.2%)

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