Vanuatu Exports 2023
Complete list of Vanuatu's 62 export destinations and 100+ product categories. Sourced from CEPII BACI.
$197.52M
Total exports (2023)
#186
Global export rank
62
Destination countries
100+
Product categories tracked
Vanuatu exported $197.52 million of merchandise goods in 2023, making it the world's #186 largest exporter. Goods flowed to 62 destinations, with the top ten markets absorbing 97.7% of total export value. The leading export was frozen, skipjack or stripe-bellied bonito, excluding fillets, fish meat of 0304, and edible fish offal of subheadings 0303.91 to 0303.99, valued at $69.27 million — 35.1% 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
62 countries and territories. Click any country for the full bilateral page.
| # | Destination | 2023 export value | % of total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thailand | $95.95M | 48.58% |
| 2 | Japan | $37.06M | 18.76% |
| 3 | Côte d'Ivoire | $18.82M | 9.53% |
| 4 | China | $13.92M | 7.05% |
| 5 | USA | $6.49M | 3.29% |
| 6 | Australia | $6.20M | 3.14% |
| 7 | Fiji | $5.75M | 2.91% |
| 8 | Philippines | $5.32M | 2.69% |
| 9 | Malaysia | $1.99M | 1.01% |
| 10 | Other Asia, nes | $1.43M | 0.73% |
| 11 | Spain | $1.32M | 0.67% |
| 12 | New Zealand | $796,842 | 0.40% |
| 13 | Gabon | $493,347 | 0.25% |
| 14 | Saudi Arabia | $373,562 | 0.19% |
| 15 | Indonesia | $292,253 | 0.15% |
| 16 | Chile | $287,550 | 0.15% |
| 17 | France | $207,992 | 0.11% |
| 18 | Canada | $152,572 | 0.08% |
| 19 | Namibia | $144,097 | 0.07% |
| 20 | Ireland | $99,745 | 0.05% |
| 21 | Samoa | $93,908 | 0.05% |
| 22 | Poland | $73,358 | 0.04% |
| 23 | India | $61,207 | 0.03% |
| 24 | Türkiye | $48,662 | 0.02% |
| 25 | Greece | $37,845 | 0.02% |
| 26 | Singapore | $34,120 | 0.02% |
| 27 | Bosnia Herzegovina | $9,906 | 0.01% |
| 28 | Netherlands | $8,129 | 0.00% |
| 29 | Oman | $7,959 | 0.00% |
| 30 | Montenegro | $7,841 | 0.00% |
| 31 | China, Hong Kong SAR | $4,780 | 0.00% |
| 32 | United Kingdom | $4,686 | 0.00% |
| 33 | Belgium | $3,367 | 0.00% |
| 34 | Austria | $2,316 | 0.00% |
| 35 | United Arab Emirates | $2,195 | 0.00% |
| 36 | Costa Rica | $1,770 | 0.00% |
| 37 | Angola | $1,414 | 0.00% |
| 38 | Kuwait | $1,097 | 0.00% |
| 39 | North Macedonia | $824 | 0.00% |
| 40 | Slovenia | $775 | 0.00% |
| 41 | Sweden | $659 | 0.00% |
| 42 | El Salvador | $545 | 0.00% |
| 43 | Pakistan | $531 | 0.00% |
| 44 | Ecuador | $353 | 0.00% |
| 45 | Denmark | $348 | 0.00% |
| 46 | Cyprus | $264 | 0.00% |
| 47 | Malta | $256 | 0.00% |
| 48 | Mauritius | $255 | 0.00% |
| 49 | Jamaica | $251 | 0.00% |
| 50 | Uganda | $150 | 0.00% |
| 51 | Armenia | $135 | 0.00% |
| 52 | Portugal | $121 | 0.00% |
| 53 | Romania | $121 | 0.00% |
| 54 | Luxembourg | $113 | 0.00% |
| 55 | Slovakia | $71 | 0.00% |
| 56 | Brunei Darussalam | $30 | 0.00% |
| 57 | Maldives | $29 | 0.00% |
| 58 | Rep. of Moldova | $21 | 0.00% |
| 59 | Ukraine | $19 | 0.00% |
| 60 | Sri Lanka | $13 | 0.00% |
| 61 | South Africa | $8 | 0.00% |
| 62 | Czechia | $6 | 0.00% |
Top export products (HS6)
100 product categories ranked by 2023 export value.
| # | HS6 | Product | Value | % of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 030343 | Fish: frozen, skipjack or stripe-bellied bonito, excluding fillets, fish meat of 0304, and edible fish offal of subheadings 0303.91 to 0303.99 | $69.27M | 35.07% |
| 2 | 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 | $22.12M | 11.20% |
| 3 | 030342 | Fish: frozen, yellowfin tunas (Thunnus albacares), excluding fillets, fish meat of 0304, and edible fish offal of subheadings 0303.91 to 0303.99 | $21.78M | 11.03% |
| 4 | 030344 | Fish: frozen, bigeye tunas (Thunnus obesus), excluding fillets, fish meat of 0304, and edible fish offal of subheadings 0303.91 to 0303.99 | $21.12M | 10.69% |
| 5 | 890190 | Vessels: n.e.c. in heading no. 8901, for the transport of goods and other vessels for the transport of both persons and goods | $18.86M | 9.55% |
| 6 | 890590 | Vessels: light, fire-floats, floating cranes and other vessels, the navigability of which is subsidiary to their main function, floating docks | $7.49M | 3.79% |
| 7 | 030487 | Fish fillets: frozen, tunas (of the genus Thunnus), skipjack or stripe-bellied bonito (Euthynnus (Katsuwonus) pelamis) | $5.30M | 2.68% |
| 8 | 030341 | Fish: frozen, albacore or longfinned tunas (Thunnus alalunga), excluding fillets, fish meat of 0304, and edible fish offal of subheadings 0303.91 to 0303.99 | $4.44M | 2.25% |
| 9 | 120300 | Copra | $3.66M | 1.85% |
| 10 | 030484 | Fish fillets: frozen, swordfish (Xiphias gladius) | $3.64M | 1.84% |
| 11 | 710812 | Metals: gold, non-monetary, unwrought (but not powder) | $3.11M | 1.58% |
| 12 | 180100 | Cocoa beans: whole or broken, raw or roasted | $2.24M | 1.13% |
| 13 | 030357 | Fish: frozen, swordfish (Xiphias gladius), excluding fillets, fish meat of 0304, and edible fish offal of subheadings 0303.91 to 0303.99 | $2.18M | 1.10% |
| 14 | 030743 | Molluscs: cuttle fish and squid, whether in shell or not, includes flours, meals, and pellets of molluscs, fit for human consumption, frozen | $2.15M | 1.09% |
| 15 | 440399 | Wood: in the rough, whether or not stripped of bark or sapwood, or roughly squared, untreated, n.e.c. in heading no. 4403 | $1.89M | 0.96% |
| 16 | 440349 | Wood, tropical: other than dark red meranti, light red meranti and meranti bakau, in the rough, whether or not stripped of bark or sapwood, or roughly squared, untreated | $1.66M | 0.84% |
| 17 | 030381 | Fish: frozen, dogfish and other sharks, excluding fillets, fish meat of 0304, and edible fish offal of subheadings 0303.91 to 0303.99 | $559,451 | 0.28% |
| 18 | 440112 | Wood: for fuel, in logs, in billets, in twigs, in faggots or similar forms, whether or not agglomerated, non-coniferous | $541,657 | 0.27% |
| 19 | 030359 | Fish: frozen, n.e.c. in item no. 0303.5, excluding fillets, fish meat of 0304, and edible fish offal of subheadings 0303.91 to 0303.99 | $503,296 | 0.25% |
| 20 | 030389 | Fish: frozen, n.e.c. in heading 0303, excluding fillets, fish meat of 0304, and edible fish offal of subheadings 0303.91 to 0303.99 | $475,466 | 0.24% |
| 21 | 051191 | Animal products: of fish or crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates: dead animals of chapter 03, unfit for human consumption | $372,284 | 0.19% |
| 22 | 121299 | Vegetable products: fit for human consumption, n.e.c. in heading no. 1212, fresh, chilled, frozen or dried, whether or not ground | $356,633 | 0.18% |
| 23 | 151319 | Vegetable oils: coconut (copra) oil and its fractions, other than crude, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified | $356,123 | 0.18% |
| 24 | 853710 | Boards, panels, consoles, desks and other bases: for electric control or the distribution of electricity, (other than switching apparatus of heading no. 8517), for a voltage not exceeding 1000 volts | $351,892 | 0.18% |
| 25 | 740400 | Copper: waste and scrap | $291,283 | 0.15% |
| 26 | 860900 | Containers: (including containers for transport of fluids) specially designed and equipped for carriage by one or more modes of transport | $221,337 | 0.11% |
| 27 | 841459 | Fans: n.e.c. in item no. 8414.51 | $185,924 | 0.09% |
| 28 | 271000 | Petroleum oils and oils from bituminous minerals, not crude: preparations n.e.c. containing by weight 70% or more of petroleum oils or oils from bituminous minerals: these being the basic constituents of the preparations: waste oils | $155,886 | 0.08% |
| 29 | 760200 | Aluminium: waste and scrap | $119,740 | 0.06% |
| 30 | 847330 | Machinery: parts and accessories (other than covers, carrying cases and the like) of the machines of heading no. 8471 | $113,193 | 0.06% |
| 31 | 090190 | Coffee: husks and skins, coffee substitutes containing coffee in any proportion | $112,852 | 0.06% |
| 32 | 843890 | Machinery: parts of those machines used in the industrial preparation or manufacture of food or drink | $109,556 | 0.06% |
| 33 | 842123 | Machinery: filtering or purifying machinery, oil or petrol filters for internal combustion engines | $80,107 | 0.04% |
| 34 | 710691 | Metals: silver, unwrought, (but not powder) | $78,157 | 0.04% |
| 35 | 880330 | Aircraft and spacecraft: parts of aeroplanes or helicopters n.e.c. in heading no. 8803 | $75,998 | 0.04% |
| 36 | 030496 | Fish meat, excluding fillets, whether or not minced: frozen, dogfish and other sharks | $72,608 | 0.04% |
| 37 | 151311 | Vegetable oils: coconut (copra) oil and its fractions, crude, not chemically modified | $70,536 | 0.04% |
| 38 | 080550 | Fruit, edible: lemons (Citrus limon, Citrus limonum), limes (Citrus aurantifolia , Citrus latifolia), fresh or dried | $59,930 | 0.03% |
| 39 | 030353 | Fish: frozen, sardines (Sardina pilchardus, Sardinops spp.), sardinella (Sardinella spp.), brisling or sprats (Sprattus sprattus), excluding fillets, fish meat of 0304, and edible fish offal of subheadings 0303.91 to 0303.99 | $59,016 | 0.03% |
| 40 | 840721 | Engines: outboard motors for marine propulsion, spark-ignition reciprocating or rotary internal combustion piston engines | $58,467 | 0.03% |
| 41 | 870840 | Vehicle parts: gear boxes and parts thereof | $50,263 | 0.03% |
| 42 | 441820 | Wood: doors and their frames and thresholds | $48,970 | 0.02% |
| 43 | 845949 | Machine-tools: for boring by removing metal, not numerically controlled boring machines, n.e.c. in heading 8459 | $47,630 | 0.02% |
| 44 | 720449 | Ferrous waste and scrap: n.e.c. in heading no. 7204 | $47,360 | 0.02% |
| 45 | 090111 | Coffee: not roasted or decaffeinated | $43,697 | 0.02% |
| 46 | 880230 | Aeroplanes and other aircraft: of an unladen weight exceeding 2000kg but not exceeding 15,000kg | $39,654 | 0.02% |
| 47 | 300490 | Medicaments: consisting of mixed or unmixed products n.e.c. in heading no. 3004, for therapeutic or prophylactic uses, packaged for retail sale | $36,950 | 0.02% |
| 48 | 130219 | Vegetable saps and extracts: n.e.c. in item no. 1302.1 | $35,454 | 0.02% |
| 49 | 293629 | Vitamins: n.e.c. in item no. 2936.2, and their derivatives, unmixed | $34,583 | 0.02% |
| 50 | 842131 | Machinery: intake air filters for internal combustion engines | $34,105 | 0.02% |
| 51 | 851830 | Headphones and earphones, whether or not combined with a microphone, and sets consisting of a microphone and one or more loudspeakers | $32,844 | 0.02% |
| 52 | 940290 | Furniture: for medical, surgical, veterinary use (e.g. operating tables, examination tables, hospital beds with mechanical fittings) and parts thereof | $32,456 | 0.02% |
| 53 | 720421 | Ferrous waste and scrap: of stainless steel | $26,833 | 0.01% |
| 54 | 330129 | Oils, essential: n.e.c. in heading no. 3301 (terpeneless or not), including concretes and absolutes | $26,214 | 0.01% |
| 55 | 071410 | Vegetable roots and tubers: manioc (cassava), with high starch or inulin content, fresh, chilled, frozen or dried, whether or not sliced or in the form of pellets | $24,564 | 0.01% |
| 56 | 840999 | Engines: parts for internal combustion piston engines (excluding spark-ignition) | $24,178 | 0.01% |
| 57 | 850239 | Electric generating sets: (excluding those with spark-ignition or compression-ignition internal combustion piston engines), other than wind powered | $24,124 | 0.01% |
| 58 | 901580 | Surveying equipment: articles n.e.c. in heading no. 9015, including hydrographic, oceanographic, hydrological, meteorological or geophysical instruments and appliances (excluding compasses) | $23,502 | 0.01% |
| 59 | 030491 | Fish meat, excluding fillets, whether or not minced: frozen, swordfish (Xiphias gladius) | $23,126 | 0.01% |
| 60 | 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 | $19,241 | 0.01% |
| 61 | 410150 | Hides and skins: raw, whole, of bovine or equine animals, of a weight per skin exceeding 16 kg | $18,602 | 0.01% |
| 62 | 711319 | Jewellery: of precious metal (excluding silver) whether or not plated or clad with precious metal, and parts thereof | $15,845 | 0.01% |
| 63 | 841381 | Pumps and liquid elevators: n.e.c. in heading no. 8413 | $14,914 | 0.01% |
| 64 | 630900 | Clothing: worn, and other worn articles | $14,545 | 0.01% |
| 65 | 845819 | Lathes: for removing metal, horizontal, other than numerically controlled | $13,577 | 0.01% |
| 66 | 880320 | Aircraft and spacecraft: under-carriages and parts thereof | $13,557 | 0.01% |
| 67 | 730840 | Iron or steel: structures and parts thereof, props and similar equipment for scaffolding, shuttering or pit-propping | $13,512 | 0.01% |
| 68 | 750890 | Nickel: articles thereof n.e.c. in item no. 7508.1 | $13,506 | 0.01% |
| 69 | 840710 | Engines: for aircraft, spark-ignition reciprocating or rotary internal combustion piston engines | $12,416 | 0.01% |
| 70 | 854231 | Electronic integrated circuits: processors and controllers, whether or not combined with memories, converters, logic circuits, amplifiers, clock and timing circuits, or other circuits | $11,834 | 0.01% |
| 71 | 091012 | Spices: ginger, crushed or ground | $11,384 | 0.01% |
| 72 | 660390 | Trimmings, accessories and parts of articles of heading no. 6601 or 6602: n.e.c. in heading no. 6603 | $9,813 | 0.00% |
| 73 | 090411 | Spices: pepper (of the genus piper), neither crushed nor ground | $9,607 | 0.00% |
| 74 | 490290 | Newspapers, journals and periodicals: whether or not illustrated or containing advertising material, appearing less frequently than four times a week | $9,531 | 0.00% |
| 75 | 620520 | Shirts: men's or boys', of cotton (not knitted or crocheted) | $9,326 | 0.00% |
| 76 | 440325 | Wood: coniferous species n.e.c in headings 4403.21 or 4403.23, in the rough, whether or not stripped of bark or sapwood, or roughly squared, untreated, of which any cross-sectional dimension is 15 cm or more | $9,133 | 0.00% |
| 77 | 180632 | Chocolate and other food preparations containing cocoa: in blocks, slabs or bars, (not filled), weighing 2kg or less | $8,998 | 0.00% |
| 78 | 848180 | Taps, cocks, valves and similar appliances: for pipes, boiler shells, tanks, vats or the like, including thermostatically controlled valves | $8,251 | 0.00% |
| 79 | 401699 | Rubber: vulcanised (other than hard rubber), articles n.e.c. in heading no. 4016, of non-cellular rubber | $7,971 | 0.00% |
| 80 | 090510 | Spices: vanilla, neither crushed nor ground | $7,825 | 0.00% |
| 81 | 970600 | Antiques: of an age exceeding one hundred years | $7,787 | 0.00% |
| 82 | 847190 | Magnetic or optical readers, machines for transcribing data onto data media in coded form and machines for processing such data, not elsewhere specified or included | $7,715 | 0.00% |
| 83 | 841221 | Engines: hydraulic power engines and motors, linear acting (cylinders) | $7,675 | 0.00% |
| 84 | 420222 | Cases and containers: handbags (whether or not with shoulder strap and including those without handle), with outer surface of sheeting of plastics or of textile materials | $7,537 | 0.00% |
| 85 | 610590 | Shirts: men's or boys', of textile materials (other than cotton or man-made fibres), knitted or crocheted | $7,240 | 0.00% |
| 86 | 741220 | Copper: tube or pipe fittings (e.g. couplings, elbows, sleeves) of copper alloys | $6,471 | 0.00% |
| 87 | 846789 | Tools: for working in the hand, (other than chain saws), hydraulic or with self-contained non-electric motor, (not pneumatic) | $6,304 | 0.00% |
| 88 | 071490 | Vegetable roots and tubers: arrowroot, salep, Jerusalem artichokes and similar roots and tubers (not manioc, sweet potatoes, yams, taro or yautia), high starch or inulin content, fresh, chilled, frozen, dried, sliced or not, or in pellet form: sago pith | $5,980 | 0.00% |
| 89 | 850300 | Electric motors and generators: parts suitable for use solely or principally with the machines of heading no. 8501 or 8502 | $5,891 | 0.00% |
| 90 | 847170 | Units of automatic data processing machines: storage units | $5,733 | 0.00% |
| 91 | 060314 | Flowers, cut: chrysanthemums, flowers and buds of a kind suitable for bouquets or ornamental purposes, fresh | $5,449 | 0.00% |
| 92 | 854460 | Insulated electric conductors: for a voltage exceeding 1000 volts | $4,909 | 0.00% |
| 93 | 851770 | Telephone sets and other apparatus for the transmission or reception of voice, images or other data, via a wired or wireless network: parts | $4,822 | 0.00% |
| 94 | 030489 | Fish fillets: frozen, of fish n.e.c. in heading 0304.8 | $4,783 | 0.00% |
| 95 | 691010 | Ceramic sinks, wash basins, wash basin pedestals, baths, bidets, water closet pans, flushing cisterns, urinals and similar sanitary fixtures: of porcelain or china | $4,731 | 0.00% |
| 96 | 851140 | Ignition or starting equipment: starter motors and dual purpose starter-generators, of a kind used for spark or compression-ignition internal combustion engines | $4,427 | 0.00% |
| 97 | 830249 | Mountings, fittings and similar articles: suitable for other than buildings or furniture, of base metal | $4,339 | 0.00% |
| 98 | 970500 | Collections and collectors' pieces: of zoological, botanical, mineralogical, anatomical, historical, archaeological, palaeontological, ethnographic or numismatic interest | $4,104 | 0.00% |
| 99 | 610433 | Jackets: women's or girls', of synthetic fibres, knitted or crocheted | $4,079 | 0.00% |
| 100 | 841199 | Turbines: parts of gas turbines (excluding turbo-jets and turbo-propellers) | $4,045 | 0.00% |