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Sierra Leone

All products

Applied tariffs

Simple average MFN applied 2024
12.0 %
Trade-weighted MFN average 2018
13.2 %
Share of MFN duty-free 2024
1.7 %

Source of data: WTO IDB

* Ad valorem equivalents (AVEs) used

Bound tariffs

Simple average bound
47.3 %
Binding coverage
100.0 %
Share of bound duty-free
0.0 %

Source of data: CTS

* Ad valorem equivalents (AVEs) used

Imports

Total imports: 986.9 million USD in 2018

Imports by partner

China
20.1 % 198.0 million USD
European Union
18.5 % 183.1 million USD
United Arab Emirates
8.4 % 82.6 million USD
India
7.2 % 71.1 million USD
United States of America
5.4 % 53.1 million USD
Türkiye
5.2 % 51.0 million USD
South Africa
4.6 % 45.8 million USD
Pakistan
3.7 % 36.5 million USD
United Kingdom
3.3 % 33.0 million USD
Guinea
3.0 % 29.6 million USD
Rest of the World
20.6 % 203.3 million USD

Source of data: WTO IDB

Imports by products HS 2017

100640 Broken rice
15.4 % 151.5 million USD
252329 Portland cement (excl. white, whether or not artificially coloured)
2.9 % 28.9 million USD
110100 Wheat or meslin flour
2.1 % 21.1 million USD
870333 Motor cars and other motor vehicles principally designed for the transport of <10 persons, incl. station wagons and racing cars, with only diesel engine of a cylinder capacity > 2.500 cm³ (excl. vehicles for travelling on snow and other specially designed vehicles of subheading 8703.10)
2.1 % 21.0 million USD
721420 Bars and rods, of iron or non-alloy steel, with indentations, ribs, groves or other deformations produced during the rolling process
2.0 % 19.3 million USD
842959 Self-propelled mechanical shovels, excavators and shovel loaders (excl. self-propelled mechanical shovels with a 360° revolving superstructure and front-end shovel loaders)
1.9 % 18.8 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)
1.7 % 17.2 million USD
730890 Structures and parts of structures, of iron or steel, n.e.s. (excl. bridges and bridge-sections, towers and lattice masts, doors and windows and their frames, thresholds for doors, props and similar equipment for scaffolding, shuttering, propping or pit-propping)
1.6 % 15.8 million USD
630900 Worn clothing and clothing accessories, blankets and travelling rugs, household linen and articles for interior furnishing, of all types of textile materials, incl. all types of footwear and headgear, showing signs of appreciable wear and presented in bulk or in bales, sacks or similar packings (excl. carpets, other floor coverings and tapestries)
1.5 % 14.6 million USD
870321 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 (excl. vehicles for travelling on snow and other specially designed vehicles of subheading 8703.10)
1.4 % 14.0 million USD
Rest of the products
67.4 % 664.7 million USD

Source of data: WTO IDB

Exports

Total exports: 205.4 million USD in 2018

Exports by destination

European Union
29.0 % 59.5 million USD
China
18.3 % 37.5 million USD
Korea, Republic of
14.0 % 28.7 million USD
Somalia
10.8 % 22.2 million USD
Ghana
8.0 % 16.5 million USD
Guinea
4.5 % 9.2 million USD
Senegal
3.0 % 6.1 million USD
Côte d'Ivoire
1.9 % 3.9 million USD
India
1.6 % 3.3 million USD
Benin
1.6 % 3.2 million USD
Rest of the World
7.4 % 15.2 million USD

Source of data: UN Comtrade

Exports by products HS 2017

030822 Frozen sea urchins "Strongylocentrotus spp., Paracentrotus lividus, Loxechinus albus, Echinus esculentus"
12.5 % 25.6 million USD
180100 Cocoa beans, whole or broken, raw or roasted
10.1 % 20.7 million USD
870421 Motor vehicles for the transport of goods, with only compression-ignition internal combustion piston engine "diesel or semi-diesel", of a gross vehicle weight <= 5 t (excl. dumpers for off-highway use of subheading 8704.10 and special purpose motor vehicles of heading 8705)
7.4 % 15.1 million USD
262099 Slag, ash and residues, containing metals or metal compounds (excl. those from the manufacture of iron or steel, those containing primarily zinc, lead, copper or aluminium, those containing arsenic, mercury, thallium or their mixtures of a kind used for the extraction of arsenic or those metals or for the manufacture of their chemical compounds and those containing antimony, beryllium, cadmium, chromium or their mixtures)
6.8 % 13.9 million USD
261790 Ores and concentrates (excl. iron, manganese, copper, nickel, cobalt, aluminium, lead, zinc, tin, chromium, tungsten, uranium, thorium, molybdenum, titanium, niobium, tantalum, vanadium, zirconium, precious-metal or antimony ores and concentrates)
4.2 % 8.7 million USD
151110 Crude palm oil
3.8 % 7.8 million USD
030399 Frozen fish fins, heads, tails, maws and other edible fish offal (excl. livers, roes, milt and shark fins)
3.1 % 6.4 million USD
440721 Mahogany "Swietenia spp.", sawn or chipped lengthwise, sliced or peeled, whether or not planed, sanded or end-jointed, of a thickness of > 6 mm
3.1 % 6.3 million USD
360690 Ferro-cerium and other pyrophoric alloys in all forms; metaldehyde, hexamethylenetetramine and similar products in tablets, sticks or similar forms, for use as fuel; alcohol-based fuels and prepared fuels of a similar kind, whether solid or in paste form; resin torches, firelighters and the like
2.7 % 5.5 million USD
440712 Fir "Abies spp." and spruce "Picea spp." sawn or chipped lengthwise, sliced or peeled, whether or not planed, sanded or end-jointed, of a thickness of > 6 mm (excl. of S-P-F spruce&pine&fir)
2.6 % 5.3 million USD
Rest of the products
43.8 % 90.0 million USD

Source of data: UN Comtrade

Preferential regimes provided by Sierra Leone

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Sierra Leone as a beneficiary based on other economies reported preferential regimes

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