knbs data: Kenya Revenue Authority ke.knbs.trade-by-commodity.annual annual

Trade by Commodity.

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What Kenya sells abroad and what it buys, commodity by commodity, from the customs records the Statistical Abstract publishes. 1,702 observations across two tables: domestic export values from 2015 and import values from 2017, both to 2024.

Kenya's two largest imports are both refined fuel. Gas oil and diesel cost KSh 227.1 billion in 2024 and motor spirit KSh 185.5 billion, and together they cost more than twice what tea, the largest single export, earns at KSh 189.1 billion.

The composition of what Kenya sells has barely moved in a decade. Food, beverages and tobacco were 47.7 percent of domestic exports in 2015 and 45.3 percent in 2024; manufactured goods fell from 34.4 to 31.1 percent as basic materials and fuels rose from 17.7 to 23.3.

Rows come at four levels and summing without filtering commodity_level counts the same shilling three times. total is the table's own grand total. section is a broad grouping carrying the total the source publishes for it. commodity rows are what add up to a section total. of_which rows are components of the commodity above them, marked "O/W" in the source, and are already inside that commodity's figure.

Two figures in the 2024 column do not reconcile, and both are the source's own arithmetic rather than a reading of it. The food, beverages and tobacco total is short by exactly the value of its own first line, live animals, and the manufactured goods total exceeds the commodities listed beneath it by KSh 16.6 billion. Every other section in every other year reconciles to within a rounding unit. 2024 is the provisional column in both tables. Both the published total and its components are carried here so the gap can be seen rather than resolved on the reader's behalf.

One export cell disagrees with the source's own Table 6.8. Tinned pineapples are 326,365.5 in 2023, against roughly 7 million in every year from 2015 to 2022 and 11.8 million in 2024, and the 1.2 percent share Table 6.8 prints for that year implies about 10.9 million. The figure is the same as the cashew nuts line printed just above it, and the "other fruits and vegetables" line absorbs the difference, so the block still adds up to its total. It is carried as printed, and the gap is declared, at its measured size, in the check that holds Table 6.8's shares against these values.

These totals are not the balance of payments goods lines and should not be reconciled against them. This table covers domestic exports where the BPM6 figure includes re-exports, and values imports c.i.f. where the BPM6 figure is f.o.b.

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Kenya's two largest imports are both refined fuel, and together they cost more than twice what tea, its largest export, earns.

Largest export and import commodities · KSh billion · 2024

SOURCE: Kenya Revenue Authority · via Kenya National Bureau of Statistics · Trade by Commodity (annual) · Updated 2026-08-17

#	year	flow	section	commodity	commodity_level	status	value	unit
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COLUMN	TYPE	DESCRIPTION	UNIT
year	int64	Reference year	-
flow	string	export (domestic exports, Table 6.6) or import (Table 6.14). The two span different years and the dataset is deliberately ragged	-
section	string	Broad commodity grouping as named in the source. Absent on the grand total rows	-
commodity	string	Commodity as named in the source	-
commodity_level	string	total, section, commodity or of_which. Levels are not additive with each other; commodity rows are what sum to a section total	-
status	string	final or provisional, as the source marks the year	-
value	float64	Customs value, in the unit named alongside	-
unit	string	ksh_thousand	-

CITATION · APA 7

imibare contributors. (2026). Trade by Commodity [Data set]. imibare. v2026-08-17. https://imibare.org/datasets/ke.knbs.trade-by-commodity.annual