South Africa: Intra-Africa trade and tariff profile

For 2019, 27% of South Africa’s world exports and 12% of world imports were intra-Africa. Between 2018 and 2019, South Africa’s trade with the rest of Africa declined; the same holds true for South Africa’s world trade.

South Africa’s intra-Africa exports and imports amounted to US$24 billion and US$10.2 billion in 2019, respectively. Apart from Nigeria, South Africa’s main African trading partners are the fellow members of SADC (and therefore SACU).