Bhutan Exports 2023
Complete list of Bhutan's 77 export destinations and 100+ product categories. Sourced from CEPII BACI.
$456.45M
Total exports (2023)
#170
Global export rank
77
Destination countries
100+
Product categories tracked
Bhutan exported $456.45 million of merchandise goods in 2023, making it the world's #170 largest exporter. Goods flowed to 77 destinations, with the top ten markets absorbing 99.0% of total export value. The leading export was ferro-silicon, containing by weight more than 55% of silicon, valued at $170.82 million — 37.4% of the country's export portfolio.
The two tables below list every destination country and the most-traded product categories at the HS6 (Harmonized System 6-digit) level. All values come from the CEPII BACI database, which reconciles UN Comtrade declarations to produce cleaner bilateral flows.
All export destinations
77 countries and territories. Click any country for the full bilateral page.
| # | Destination | 2023 export value | % of total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | India | $421.20M | 92.28% |
| 2 | Italy | $17.35M | 3.80% |
| 3 | Indonesia | $2.90M | 0.64% |
| 4 | China | $2.90M | 0.64% |
| 5 | Singapore | $1.75M | 0.38% |
| 6 | Norway | $1.56M | 0.34% |
| 7 | Spain | $1.44M | 0.32% |
| 8 | USA | $963,410 | 0.21% |
| 9 | Austria | $945,802 | 0.21% |
| 10 | Slovenia | $866,548 | 0.19% |
| 11 | Germany | $866,301 | 0.19% |
| 12 | Japan | $816,969 | 0.18% |
| 13 | United Kingdom | $703,927 | 0.15% |
| 14 | France | $604,529 | 0.13% |
| 15 | Brazil | $593,866 | 0.13% |
| 16 | Poland | $272,838 | 0.06% |
| 17 | Czechia | $163,400 | 0.04% |
| 18 | Thailand | $62,269 | 0.01% |
| 19 | Switzerland | $57,507 | 0.01% |
| 20 | Australia | $49,097 | 0.01% |
| 21 | Malawi | $46,994 | 0.01% |
| 22 | Ireland | $40,857 | 0.01% |
| 23 | Greece | $40,612 | 0.01% |
| 24 | Colombia | $36,343 | 0.01% |
| 25 | Lebanon | $31,667 | 0.01% |
| 26 | China, Hong Kong SAR | $28,563 | 0.01% |
| 27 | United Arab Emirates | $24,605 | 0.01% |
| 28 | South Africa | $16,443 | 0.00% |
| 29 | Malaysia | $15,702 | 0.00% |
| 30 | Netherlands | $14,688 | 0.00% |
| 31 | Canada | $13,704 | 0.00% |
| 32 | Lithuania | $7,105 | 0.00% |
| 33 | Estonia | $5,362 | 0.00% |
| 34 | Namibia | $3,855 | 0.00% |
| 35 | Denmark | $3,541 | 0.00% |
| 36 | Mozambique | $3,000 | 0.00% |
| 37 | Belgium | $2,553 | 0.00% |
| 38 | Türkiye | $2,380 | 0.00% |
| 39 | Panama | $2,249 | 0.00% |
| 40 | Ghana | $2,073 | 0.00% |
| 41 | Chile | $2,007 | 0.00% |
| 42 | Hungary | $1,938 | 0.00% |
| 43 | Saudi Arabia | $1,823 | 0.00% |
| 44 | Argentina | $1,361 | 0.00% |
| 45 | Serbia | $1,345 | 0.00% |
| 46 | Sweden | $1,320 | 0.00% |
| 47 | El Salvador | $1,133 | 0.00% |
| 48 | Eswatini | $1,020 | 0.00% |
| 49 | Kazakhstan | $1,015 | 0.00% |
| 50 | Israel | $1,000 | 0.00% |
| 51 | Bahrain | $957 | 0.00% |
| 52 | Portugal | $932 | 0.00% |
| 53 | Cambodia | $858 | 0.00% |
| 54 | Costa Rica | $770 | 0.00% |
| 55 | Côte d'Ivoire | $746 | 0.00% |
| 56 | Nicaragua | $710 | 0.00% |
| 57 | Peru | $656 | 0.00% |
| 58 | Slovakia | $613 | 0.00% |
| 59 | Liberia | $594 | 0.00% |
| 60 | Kuwait | $524 | 0.00% |
| 61 | Ukraine | $398 | 0.00% |
| 62 | Philippines | $239 | 0.00% |
| 63 | Mauritius | $216 | 0.00% |
| 64 | Angola | $175 | 0.00% |
| 65 | Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | $173 | 0.00% |
| 66 | Tunisia | $151 | 0.00% |
| 67 | Luxembourg | $130 | 0.00% |
| 68 | Zambia | $91 | 0.00% |
| 69 | Niger | $72 | 0.00% |
| 70 | Paraguay | $70 | 0.00% |
| 71 | Pakistan | $67 | 0.00% |
| 72 | Maldives | $48 | 0.00% |
| 73 | New Zealand | $41 | 0.00% |
| 74 | Ecuador | $38 | 0.00% |
| 75 | Other Asia, nes | $32 | 0.00% |
| 76 | Rep. of Moldova | $25 | 0.00% |
| 77 | Armenia | $21 | 0.00% |
Top export products (HS6)
100 product categories ranked by 2023 export value.
| # | HS6 | Product | Value | % of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 720221 | Ferro-alloys: ferro-silicon, containing by weight more than 55% of silicon | $170.82M | 37.42% |
| 2 | 880240 | Aeroplanes and other aircraft: of an unladen weight exceeding 15,000kg | $103.49M | 22.67% |
| 3 | 251810 | Dolomite, not calcined or sintered: including dolomite roughly trimmed, or merely cut by sawing or otherwise into blocks or slabs of rectangular (including square) shape | $50.55M | 11.07% |
| 4 | 720230 | Ferro-alloys: ferro-silico-manganese | $29.67M | 6.50% |
| 5 | 720719 | Iron or non-alloy steel: semi-finished products of iron or non-alloy steel, containing by weight less than 0.25% of carbon, other than rectangular or square cross-section | $12.43M | 2.72% |
| 6 | 252329 | Cement: portland, other than white, whether or not artificially coloured | $11.83M | 2.59% |
| 7 | 252010 | Gypsum: anhydrite | $10.60M | 2.32% |
| 8 | 251710 | Pebbles, gravel, broken or crushed stone: of a kind commonly used for concrete aggregates, for road metalling or for railway or other ballast, shingle and flint, whether or not heat-treated | $9.64M | 2.11% |
| 9 | 271600 | Electrical energy | $7.96M | 1.74% |
| 10 | 720299 | Ferro-alloys: n.e.c. in heading no. 7202 | $7.31M | 1.60% |
| 11 | 284920 | Carbides: of silicon, whether or not chemically defined | $5.75M | 1.26% |
| 12 | 220300 | Beer: made from malt | $5.73M | 1.26% |
| 13 | 720229 | Ferro-alloys: ferro-silicon, containing by weight 55% or less of silicon | $4.29M | 0.94% |
| 14 | 220299 | Non-alcoholic beverages: other than non-alcoholic beer, n.e.c. in item no. 2202.10, not including fruit or vegetable juices of heading no. 2009 | $2.40M | 0.53% |
| 15 | 441011 | Particle board of wood, whether or not agglomerated with resins or other organic binding substances | $2.13M | 0.47% |
| 16 | 090831 | Spices: cardamoms, neither crushed nor ground | $1.96M | 0.43% |
| 17 | 252100 | Limestone flux: limestone and other calcareous stone, of a kind used for the manufacture of lime or cement | $1.70M | 0.37% |
| 18 | 847150 | Units of automatic data processing machines: processing units other than those of item no. 8471.41 or 8471.49, whether or not containing in the same housing one or two of the following types of unit: storage units, input units or output units | $1.56M | 0.34% |
| 19 | 220110 | Waters: mineral and aerated, including natural or artificial, (not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter nor flavoured) | $1.56M | 0.34% |
| 20 | 281122 | Silicon dioxide | $1.53M | 0.34% |
| 21 | 252020 | Plasters: (consisting of calcined gypsum or calcium sulphate), whether or not coloured, with or without small quantities of accelerators or retarders | $1.42M | 0.31% |
| 22 | 190220 | Food preparations: pasta, stuffed (with meat or other substances), whether or not cooked or otherwise prepared | $955,600 | 0.21% |
| 23 | 220210 | Waters: including mineral and aerated, containing added sugar or other sweetening matter or flavoured | $846,758 | 0.19% |
| 24 | 847420 | Machines: for crushing or grinding earth, stone, ores or other mineral substances | $736,195 | 0.16% |
| 25 | 440290 | Wood: charcoal of wood other than bamboo (including shell or nut charcoal), whether or not agglomerated | $691,991 | 0.15% |
| 26 | 711319 | Jewellery: of precious metal (excluding silver) whether or not plated or clad with precious metal, and parts thereof | $669,522 | 0.15% |
| 27 | 853650 | Electrical apparatus: switches n.e.c. in heading no. 8536, for a voltage not exceeding 1000 volts | $569,760 | 0.12% |
| 28 | 880330 | Aircraft and spacecraft: parts of aeroplanes or helicopters n.e.c. in heading no. 8803 | $561,110 | 0.12% |
| 29 | 392330 | Plastics: carboys, bottles, flasks and similar articles, for the conveyance or packing of goods | $510,000 | 0.11% |
| 30 | 070190 | Vegetables: potatoes (other than seed), fresh or chilled | $485,680 | 0.11% |
| 31 | 200899 | Fruit, nuts and other edible parts of plants: prepared or preserved, whether or not containing added sugar, other sweetening matter or spirit, n.e.c. in heading no. 2008 | $462,569 | 0.10% |
| 32 | 070959 | Vegetables: truffles and mushrooms (other than of the genus Agaricus), fresh or chilled | $420,849 | 0.09% |
| 33 | 851110 | Ignition or starting equipment: spark plugs, of a kind used for spark or compression-ignition internal combustion engines | $316,616 | 0.07% |
| 34 | 853110 | Signalling apparatus: electric, sound or visual, burglar or fire alarms and similar, other than those of heading no. 8512 or 8530 | $309,339 | 0.07% |
| 35 | 252310 | Cement clinkers (whether or not coloured) | $252,584 | 0.06% |
| 36 | 841191 | Turbines: parts of turbo-jets and turbo-propellers | $235,281 | 0.05% |
| 37 | 200799 | Jams, fruit jellies, marmalades, purees and pastes: of fruit or nuts n.e.c. in heading no. 2007, cooked preparations (excluding homogenised), whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter | $209,506 | 0.05% |
| 38 | 280430 | Nitrogen | $199,053 | 0.04% |
| 39 | 847982 | Machines: for mixing, kneading, crushing, grinding, screening, sifting, homogenising, emulsifying or stirring | $197,157 | 0.04% |
| 40 | 091011 | Spices: ginger, neither crushed nor ground | $174,732 | 0.04% |
| 41 | 250620 | Quartzite: whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape | $161,405 | 0.04% |
| 42 | 051199 | Animal products: n.e.c. in chapter 5 | $158,751 | 0.03% |
| 43 | 903180 | Instruments, appliances and machines: for measuring or checking n.e.c. in chapter 90 | $146,134 | 0.03% |
| 44 | 080810 | Fruit, edible: apples, fresh | $141,146 | 0.03% |
| 45 | 970600 | Antiques: of an age exceeding one hundred years | $136,755 | 0.03% |
| 46 | 280440 | Oxygen | $89,728 | 0.02% |
| 47 | 200290 | Vegetable preparations: tomatoes, (other than whole or in pieces), prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid | $87,509 | 0.02% |
| 48 | 846890 | Machinery and apparatus: parts, soldering, brazing or welding, whether or not capable of cutting, parts thereof | $86,794 | 0.02% |
| 49 | 200559 | Vegetable preparations: beans, (not shelled), prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, not frozen | $86,564 | 0.02% |
| 50 | 220890 | Spirits, liqueurs and other spirituous beverages: n.e.c. in heading no. 2208 | $86,104 | 0.02% |
| 51 | 380190 | Graphite or other carbon based preparations: in the form of pastes, blocks, plates or other semi-manufactures | $67,311 | 0.01% |
| 52 | 090111 | Coffee: not roasted or decaffeinated | $63,691 | 0.01% |
| 53 | 300490 | Medicaments: consisting of mixed or unmixed products n.e.c. in heading no. 3004, for therapeutic or prophylactic uses, packaged for retail sale | $61,792 | 0.01% |
| 54 | 851762 | Communication apparatus (excluding telephone sets or base stations): machines for the reception, conversion and transmission or regeneration of voice, images or other data, including switching and routing apparatus | $59,436 | 0.01% |
| 55 | 391290 | Cellulose and its chemical derivatives: n.e.c. in item no. 3912, in primary forms | $57,819 | 0.01% |
| 56 | 071190 | Vegetables and mixed vegetables: n.e.c. in heading no. 0711, provisionally preserved but unsuitable in that state for immediate consumption | $57,637 | 0.01% |
| 57 | 903039 | Instruments and apparatus: for measuring or checking voltage, current, resistance or power, with a recording device (excluding multimeters) | $55,430 | 0.01% |
| 58 | 220900 | Vinegar and substitutes for vinegar: obtained from acetic acid | $54,824 | 0.01% |
| 59 | 210320 | Sauces: tomato ketchup and other tomato sauces | $49,995 | 0.01% |
| 60 | 080521 | Fruit, edible: mandarins (including tangerines and satsumas), fresh or dried | $49,887 | 0.01% |
| 61 | 850434 | Transformers: n.e.c. in item no. 8504.2, having a power handling capacity exceeding 500kVA | $47,325 | 0.01% |
| 62 | 250100 | Salt (including table salt and denatured salt): pure sodium chloride whether or not in aqueous solution: sea water | $46,994 | 0.01% |
| 63 | 940350 | Furniture: wooden, for bedroom use | $45,301 | 0.01% |
| 64 | 121190 | Plants and parts (including seeds and fruits) n.e.c. in heading no. 1211, of a kind used primarily in perfumery, in pharmacy or for insecticidal, fungicidal or similar purposes, fresh, chilled, frozen or dried, whether or not cut, crushed or powdered | $44,466 | 0.01% |
| 65 | 200791 | Jams, jellies, marmalades, purees and pastes: of citrus fruit, being cooked preparations (excluding homogenised), whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter | $43,671 | 0.01% |
| 66 | 848180 | Taps, cocks, valves and similar appliances: for pipes, boiler shells, tanks, vats or the like, including thermostatically controlled valves | $42,887 | 0.01% |
| 67 | 252610 | Steatite: natural, (not crushed or powdered), whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape: talc | $39,096 | 0.01% |
| 68 | 970500 | Collections and collectors' pieces: of zoological, botanical, mineralogical, anatomical, historical, archaeological, palaeontological, ethnographic or numismatic interest | $37,221 | 0.01% |
| 69 | 320300 | Colouring matter of vegetable or animal origin, including dyeing extracts not animal black, whether or not chemically defined: preparations based on colouring matter of vegetable or animal origin | $35,177 | 0.01% |
| 70 | 710239 | Diamonds: non-industrial, (other than unworked or simply sawn, cleaved or bruted), but not mounted or set | $31,667 | 0.01% |
| 71 | 970110 | Paintings, drawings and pastels: executed entirely by hand, other than drawings of heading no. 4906 | $30,564 | 0.01% |
| 72 | 200190 | Vegetable preparations: vegetables, fruit, nuts and other edible parts of plants, prepared or preserved by vinegar or acetic acid (excluding cucumbers and gherkins) | $29,920 | 0.01% |
| 73 | 401220 | Rubber: used pneumatic tyres | $29,232 | 0.01% |
| 74 | 950510 | Christmas festivity articles | $28,265 | 0.01% |
| 75 | 820559 | Tools, hand: other hand tools (including glaziers diamonds), excluding household tools, drilling, threading or tapping tools, hammers and sledge hammers, planes, chisels, gouges and similar cutting tools for working wood, and screwdrivers | $27,548 | 0.01% |
| 76 | 100850 | Cereals: quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa) | $25,565 | 0.01% |
| 77 | 482370 | Paper pulp: moulded or pressed articles or paper pulp | $24,788 | 0.01% |
| 78 | 210690 | Food preparations: n.e.c. in item no. 2106.10 | $21,687 | 0.00% |
| 79 | 270400 | Coke and semi-coke: of coal, lignite or peat, whether or not agglomerated: retort carbon | $20,433 | 0.00% |
| 80 | 730661 | Iron or steel (excluding cast iron): tubes, pipes and hollow profiles (not seamless), welded, of square or rectangular cross-section, n.e.c. in chapter 73 | $20,158 | 0.00% |
| 81 | 842199 | Machinery: parts for filtering or purifying liquids or gases | $19,630 | 0.00% |
| 82 | 901420 | Navigational instruments and appliances: for aeronautical or space navigation (excluding compasses) | $19,429 | 0.00% |
| 83 | 200580 | Vegetable preparations: sweetcorn (zea mays var. saccharata), prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, not frozen | $19,075 | 0.00% |
| 84 | 100620 | Cereals: husked (brown) rice | $18,866 | 0.00% |
| 85 | 330129 | Oils, essential: n.e.c. in heading no. 3301 (terpeneless or not), including concretes and absolutes | $17,944 | 0.00% |
| 86 | 843149 | Machinery: parts of machines handling earth, minerals or ores and n.e.c. in heading no. 8431 | $17,807 | 0.00% |
| 87 | 200939 | Juice: of single citrus fruit (excluding orange or grapefruit), of a Brix value exceeding 20, unfermented, not containing added spirit, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter | $16,713 | 0.00% |
| 88 | 330741 | Perfumes and deodorizers: perfuming or deodorizing preparations for rooms, agarbatti and other odoriferous preparations which operate by burning (including those used during religious rites) | $16,461 | 0.00% |
| 89 | 842290 | Machinery: parts of machinery of heading no. 8422 | $16,087 | 0.00% |
| 90 | 940360 | Furniture: wooden, other than for office, kitchen or bedroom use | $15,608 | 0.00% |
| 91 | 852580 | Television cameras, digital cameras and video camera recorders | $15,328 | 0.00% |
| 92 | 732393 | Steel, stainless: table, kitchen and other household articles and parts thereof | $14,412 | 0.00% |
| 93 | 380130 | Carbonaceous pastes: for electrodes and similar pastes for furnace linings | $13,201 | 0.00% |
| 94 | 440139 | Wood: for fuel, sawdust and wood waste and scrap, agglomerated in logs, briquettes, pellets or similar forms: other than wood pellets | $12,972 | 0.00% |
| 95 | 020714 | Meat and edible offal: of fowls of the species Gallus domesticus, cuts and offal, frozen | $12,926 | 0.00% |
| 96 | 340290 | Washing and cleaning preparations: surface-active, whether or not containing soap (excluding those of heading no. 3401), including auxiliary washing preparations, not for retail sale | $11,977 | 0.00% |
| 97 | 070610 | Vegetables, root: carrots and turnips, fresh or chilled | $11,654 | 0.00% |
| 98 | 854442 | Insulated electric conductors: for a voltage not exceeding 1000 volts, fitted with connectors | $11,468 | 0.00% |
| 99 | 910211 | Wrist-watches: electrically operated, with or without a stop-watch, (other than those of heading no. 9101) with mechanical display only | $11,092 | 0.00% |
| 100 | 960390 | Brooms, brushes, mops, feather dusters, squeegees, hand operated mechanical floor sweepers: (not motorised), prepared knots and tufts for brooms or brush making n.e.c. | $11,016 | 0.00% |