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Kuwait, the State of

All products

Applied tariffs

Simple average MFN applied 2025
4.6 %
Trade-weighted MFN average 2024
* 4.3 %
Share of MFN duty-free 2025
11.8 %

Source of data: WTO IDB, UN Comtrade, World Tariff Profiles

* Ad valorem equivalents (AVEs) used

Bound tariffs

Simple average bound
98.0 %
Binding coverage
99.9 %
Share of bound duty-free
2.0 %

Source of data: CTS

* Ad valorem equivalents (AVEs) used

Imports

Total imports: 38,106.0 million USD in 2024

Imports by partner

China
19.0 % 7,244.1 million USD
European Union
18.6 % 7,069.0 million USD
United Arab Emirates
12.6 % 4,809.4 million USD
United States of America
9.0 % 3,448.5 million USD
Japan
5.2 % 1,990.3 million USD
Saudi Arabia, Kingdom of
5.2 % 1,962.9 million USD
India
5.1 % 1,941.2 million USD
Switzerland
2.8 % 1,069.1 million USD
United Kingdom
2.1 % 810.9 million USD
Korea, Republic of
2.0 % 769.4 million USD
Rest of the World
18.3 % 6,991.1 million USD

Source of data: UN Comtrade

Imports by products HS 2022

870324 Motor cars and other motor vehicles principally designed for the transport of <10 persons, incl. station wagons and racing cars, with only spark-ignition internal combustion reciprocating piston engine of a cylinder capacity > 3.000 cm³ (excl. vehicles for travelling on snow and other specially designed vehicles of subheading 8703.10)
4.9 % 1,853.4 million USD
870323 Motor cars and other motor vehicles principally designed for the transport of <10 persons, incl. station wagons and racing cars, with only spark-ignition internal combustion reciprocating piston engine of a cylinder capacity > 1.500 cm³ but <= 3.000 cm³ (excl. vehicles for travelling on snow and other specially designed vehicles of subheading 8703.10)
3.9 % 1,481.2 million USD
851713 Smartphones for wireless networks
3.8 % 1,453.5 million USD
999999 Unspecified products
3.5 % 1,324.7 million USD
300490 Medicaments consisting of mixed or unmixed products for therapeutic or prophylactic purposes, put up in measured doses "incl. those for transdermal administration" or in forms or packings for retail sale (excl. containing antibiotics, hormones or steroids used as hormones, alkaloids, provitamins, vitamins, their derivatives, antimalarial active principles and blinded clinical trial kits)
3.4 % 1,282.3 million USD
711319 Articles of jewellery and parts thereof, of precious metal other than silver, whether or not plated or clad with precious metal (excl. articles > 100 years old)
3.3 % 1,249.6 million USD
710812 Gold, incl. gold plated with platinum, unwrought, for non-monetary purposes (excl. gold in powder form)
2.8 % 1,056.1 million USD
870322 Motor cars and other motor vehicles principally designed for the transport of <10 persons, incl. station wagons and racing cars, with only spark-ignition internal combustion reciprocating piston engine of a cylinder capacity > 1.000 cm³ but <= 1.500 cm³ (excl. vehicles for travelling on snow and other specially designed vehicles of subheading 8703.10)
2.4 % 918.1 million USD
880790 Parts of aircraft and spacecraft, n.e.s.
1.3 % 497.0 million USD
300215 Immunological products, put up in measured doses or in forms or packings for retail sale (excl. diagnostic reagents)
1.1 % 412.2 million USD
Rest of the products
69.7 % 26,577.9 million USD

Source of data: UN Comtrade

Exports

Total exports: 75,991.4 million USD in 2024

Exports by destination

Other Countries, n.e.s.
90.7 % 68,891.8 million USD
United Arab Emirates
1.8 % 1,358.0 million USD
India
1.6 % 1,237.2 million USD
Saudi Arabia, Kingdom of
1.1 % 858.4 million USD
Iraq
1.1 % 830.7 million USD
China
0.9 % 688.5 million USD
Pakistan
0.4 % 288.5 million USD
Qatar
0.3 % 212.1 million USD
European Union
0.2 % 183.2 million USD
Viet Nam
0.2 % 150.4 million USD
Rest of the World
1.7 % 1,292.5 million USD

Source of data: UN Comtrade

Exports by products HS 2022

270900 Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, crude
46.8 % 35,530.0 million USD
271012 Light oils and preparations, of petroleum or bituminous minerals which >= 90% by volume "incl. losses" distil at 210°C "ASTM D 86 method" (excl. containing biodiesel)
39.2 % 29,754.9 million USD
271112 Propane, liquefied
2.6 % 2,006.3 million USD
271113 Butanes, liquefied (excl. of a purity of >= 95% of N-butane or isobutane)
2.1 % 1,595.1 million USD
290531 Ethylene glycol "ethanediol"
1.1 % 873.9 million USD
290499 Sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives of hydrocarbons, whether or not halogenated (excl. those containing only sulpho, nitro or nitroso groups, trichloronitromethane "chloropicrin", perfluorooctane sulphonic acid and its salts, perfluorooctane sulphonyl fluoride and esters of glycerol formed with acid-function compounds)
1.1 % 801.6 million USD
390120 Polyethylene with a specific gravity of >= 0,94, in primary forms
0.8 % 587.5 million USD
870324 Motor cars and other motor vehicles principally designed for the transport of <10 persons, incl. station wagons and racing cars, with only spark-ignition internal combustion reciprocating piston engine of a cylinder capacity > 3.000 cm³ (excl. vehicles for travelling on snow and other specially designed vehicles of subheading 8703.10)
0.7 % 518.1 million USD
870323 Motor cars and other motor vehicles principally designed for the transport of <10 persons, incl. station wagons and racing cars, with only spark-ignition internal combustion reciprocating piston engine of a cylinder capacity > 1.500 cm³ but <= 3.000 cm³ (excl. vehicles for travelling on snow and other specially designed vehicles of subheading 8703.10)
0.6 % 426.6 million USD
390110 Polyethylene with a specific gravity of < 0,94, in primary forms
0.5 % 404.6 million USD
Rest of the products
4.6 % 3,492.8 million USD

Source of data: UN Comtrade

Preferential regimes provided by Kuwait, the State of

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Kuwait, the State of as a beneficiary based on other economies reported preferential regimes

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