Afghanistan
Import & Export Trade DataA $8.5B+ combined trade economy connecting South Asia, Central Asia, and the Middle East. From food and fuel imports to dried fruits and mineral exports — verified, shipment-level intelligence on every trade flow crossing Afghanistan's six land border crossings.
Central Asia's Trade Crossroads
Afghanistan's landlocked geography makes it a natural transit corridor between South Asia, Central Asia, and the Middle East. Six active land border crossings — with Pakistan, Iran, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and China — generate some of the most strategically significant land-border trade flows in Asia.
Food & Fuel: Critical Dependencies
Afghanistan imports approximately 60% of its food needs and virtually all of its refined fuel — creating structural import dependencies in the country's two most critical commodity categories. This makes Afghanistan's import data uniquely valuable for food security monitoring, humanitarian planning, and energy market analysis.
Fruits, Minerals & Handicraft Exports
Afghanistan's dried fruit exports — raisins, figs, almonds, pistachios, pine nuts — are globally traded commodities with established markets in South Asia, the Gulf, and Europe. Combined with mineral gems (lapis lazuli, emeralds) and handwoven carpets, Afghanistan's export profile is diverse, data-rich, and commercially underserved.
Afghanistan's trade is dominated by its immediate neighbours — Pakistan and Iran for imports, Pakistan and India for exports — reflecting its landlocked geography and deep regional economic integration.
Switch between Afghanistan's top import categories and export product sectors — full shipment-level data available for each, filtered to your exact HS codes and requirements.
Afghanistan's largest import category — wheat, flour, edible oils, sugar, rice, and food commodities imported from Pakistan, India, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan to feed a population with chronic food production deficits that make food imports structurally essential.
With no domestic refining capacity, Afghanistan imports all refined petrol, diesel, LPG, and heating fuel from Iran, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Russia. Energy imports are critical infrastructure for the entire Afghan economy and population.
Industrial machinery, generators, construction equipment, electronics, and consumer appliances — imported from China, UAE, and Pakistan. The generator market is especially large due to widespread electricity supply gaps across urban and rural Afghanistan.
Passenger cars, motorcycles, commercial vehicles, and auto parts — imported from Japan, UAE, China, and Pakistan. Used Japanese vehicles (Toyota HiLux, Land Cruiser) dominate the Afghan vehicle market and form one of the country's most consistent import streams by volume.
Medicines, pharmaceutical APIs, agricultural chemicals, fertilisers, and industrial chemicals — imported from India (dominant pharma supplier), Pakistan, and China. Afghanistan's healthcare system is almost entirely dependent on imported medicines, making this a critical and growing import category.
Steel rebar, cement, flat-rolled products, and building materials — imported from Pakistan and China to support reconstruction and infrastructure development. Construction material imports are a leading indicator of development activity and urban growth across Afghanistan's major cities.
Afghanistan's dominant export — raisins, dried figs, apricots, almonds, pistachios, pine nuts, and fresh pomegranates exported to Pakistan, India, UAE, Europe, and the US. Afghan dried fruits have an international reputation for exceptional quality and are competitively traded on global commodity markets.
Lapis lazuli (Afghanistan supplies ~90% globally), emeralds, rubies, talc, marble, and industrial minerals — exported to UAE, China, Pakistan, and Europe. Afghanistan's vast mineral wealth means formal export figures significantly undercount actual cross-border mineral flows.
Handwoven Afghan carpets and rugs command premium prices in European, American, and Gulf markets. Germany, USA, and UAE are the largest buyers. Each carpet is an individually declared export shipment — making Afghan carpet trade data especially granular and commercially valuable for the luxury goods market.
Saffron, cumin, asafoetida, fenugreek, and medicinal herbs — exported to India, Pakistan, UAE, and global spice markets. Afghan saffron has achieved international quality certifications and is an emerging premium export with significant commercial growth potential.
Raw cotton and basic cotton textile products — exported primarily to Pakistan and India for processing into value-added textile goods. Afghanistan's cotton cultivation is centred in northern provinces and represents one of its most developed agricultural export sectors outside of fruits and nuts.
Coal from deposits in northern and central Afghanistan — exported primarily to Pakistan for cement factories and industrial consumers. Afghanistan holds significant coal reserves and this category has been growing as mining operations have expanded, making it an increasingly important export revenue source.
Both datasets are sourced from verified Afghanistan trade declarations — delivering complete field-level intelligence for every shipment crossing Afghanistan's borders.
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Afghanistan's trade flows are among the most underanalysed — yet commercially and geopolitically significant — in Asia. Shipment-level data gives unique visibility into one of the region's most complex border economies.
With ~30% of imports being food and ~22% energy, Afghanistan's import data is the most reliable indicator of food and energy security in the country. Tracking these flows — by supplier, border crossing, volume, and price — gives aid organisations, governments, and commodity traders critical intelligence unavailable anywhere else.
Afghanistan's dried fruit exports are globally traded commodities with significant price volatility. Shipment-level export data reveals production volumes, seasonal patterns, destination market preferences, and buyer-level purchasing data — giving commodity traders and food importers a pricing and sourcing advantage unavailable from any aggregate statistic.
Afghanistan's six border crossings — Torkham (Pakistan), Islam Qala (Iran), Hairatan (Uzbekistan), Shirkhan Bandar (Tajikistan) — form critical trade corridors linking South Asia, Central Asia, and the Middle East. Import and export data across each crossing reveals how goods and value flow through this geopolitically complex transit node.
Afghanistan holds some of the world's richest deposits of lapis lazuli, emeralds, rubies, and rare earth metals. Formal export data captures the declared portion of these high-value commodity flows — giving mining investors, gemstone traders, and supply chain analysts verified volume, destination, and price benchmark data for Afghan mineral exports.
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