Foreign Trade

Malawi mostly exports tobacco (66%). Other commodity exports include tea (7.6%), sugar (6.0%), coffee (4.0%), and woven cotton fabrics (2.5%). Tea is sold primarily to the United Kingdom while sugar exports go to the EU and the United States. In 1995 Malawi’s imports were distributed among the following categories:

Consumer goods: 12.5%
Food: 7.7%
Fuels: 11.1%
Industrial supplies: 39.2%
Machinery: 13.7%
Transportation: 15.0%
Other: 0.8%