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Uganda imports of Iron or non-alloy steel (HS 7208)

Where Uganda buys iron or non-alloy steel: value, growth, unit value and the top suppliers, from official CEPII BACI statistics. World market for HS 7208 · Uganda trade profile

Uganda imports, 2024USD 216.5 millionSum over 10 supplying economies. Source: CEPII BACI.

Uganda imports, 2023USD 159.0 millionSame partners, previous year. Source: CEPII BACI.

Growth+36.2%2024 against 2023, USD. Source: CEPII BACI.

Unit valueUSD 694 per tonneValue divided by quantity, flows with a reported quantity only (100.0% of the value). Source: CEPII BACI.

Trade companies in the directory150Active companies in wholesale and retail trade (NACE section G) in this economy, counts only. Source: AYBARION company directory, see the Data Passport.

Top suppliers

#	Supplier	Value 2024	Share	Growth	Record
1	China	USD 104.1 million	48.1%	+73.6%	BACI:UG:CN:7208:1:2024
2	Japan	USD 85.0 million	39.3%	−5.1%	BACI:UG:JP:7208:1:2024
3	South Korea	USD 24.3 million	11.2%	+418.9%	BACI:UG:KR:7208:1:2024
4	India	USD 1.9 million	0.9%	+77.3%	BACI:UG:IN:7208:1:2024
5	South Africa	USD 656,138	0.3%	−79.4%	BACI:UG:ZA:7208:1:2024
6	Kenya	USD 543,352	0.3%	+54.2%	BACI:UG:KE:7208:1:2024
7	Malaysia	USD 12,137	0.0%	not available	BACI:UG:MY:7208:1:2024
8	United Kingdom	USD 1,136	0.0%	not available	BACI:UG:GB:7208:1:2024
9	United Arab Emirates	USD 404	0.0%	−99.8%	BACI:UG:AE:7208:1:2024
10	Brazil	USD 68	0.0%	−75.7%	BACI:UG:BR:7208:1:2024

Source: CEPII BACI HS22 V202601, year 2024 (growth against 2023), USD. Shares of the Uganda total over the partners BACI lists. Record IDs per row.

Trade companies: active companies registered in wholesale and retail trade (NACE section G) in Uganda, counted in the AYBARION company directory. The matching wholesale activity for this product is Wholesale of metals and metal ores (NACE 4672). Counts only.

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Data Passport

CEPII BACI HS22 V202601: trade values by exporter, importer and product, years 2024 and 2023, USD at FOB prices, quantities in metric tons. Publisher: CEPII. Licence: Etalab Open Licence 2.0 (Licence Ouverte), attribution "CEPII BACI". Record IDs: BACI:reporter:product:flow:year. Source
AYBARION company directory: counts of active companies registered in wholesale and retail trade (NACE Rev.2 section G), from official registers and open datasets, built 2026-10-22. Counts only: no names, addresses or contacts are shown here. Sources under share-alike licences (CC BY-SA) or with an unverified licence are not counted, and no company data is offered for countries under comprehensive sanctions.
Method: Values are CEPII BACI reconciled flows of Uganda with each partner, aggregated from HS6 to HS4; the total is the sum over partners; shares divide each partner by that total; growth compares 2024 with 2023; unit value is value divided by quantity over flows that report a quantity. Peru and the Philippines are left out of lists and totals by policy.

Trade database built 2026-10-24. Values are official statistics as published; nothing on this page is estimated or invented. More in our methodology.

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