Growth in Africa’s Imports from China and India

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Annex A provides data on the top 20 African exports to China and
India and the leading exporting countries in Africa for those products based on 2002–04 averages (see tables A and A. Oil accounts for 62 percent of total African exports to China. Angola supplies 47 percent of
Africa’s oil exports to China, followed by Sudan (25 percent, the Democratic Republic of Congo (13 percent, Equatorial Guinea (9 percent, and
Nigeria (3 percent. Other leading exports to China include logs, iron ores,
diamonds, and cotton. South Africa is almost an exclusive supplier of ore
FIGURE 2.17
Product Distribution of Africa’s Trade with China and India
Africa's merchandise exports to China, 2004
a. Africa's exports to China and India
b. Africa's imports from China and India
7%
19%
61%
Africa's merchandise exports to India, 2003
India’s merchandise exports to Africa, 2004
17%
29%
11%
11%
9%
12%
11%
China’s merchandise exports to Africa, 2004
3%
18%
36%
33%
9%
1%
agricultural raw materials manufactured materials textile, apparel, and footwear machinery and transportation equipment processed food and beverages oil and natural gas ores and metals
6%
5%
2%
62%
17%
14%
4%
2%
Source: UN COMTRADE.
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and diamonds to China. Logs and cotton, the two leading agricultural raw materials for industrial use in China, are supplied by a range of countries concentrated in West Africa (Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of
Congo, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, and Liberia for logs, and Benin, Burk- ina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, and Mali for cotton).
For India, gold is the major import from Africa, accounting for more than half of all Indian imports from Africa (52 percent) and almost exclusively supplied by South Africa. Other ore and metal products include inorganic acid from Senegal and South Africa as well as coal from South
Africa. The leading agricultural products exported to India include logs
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