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Import market · HS 8459 · ZA

South Africa imports of Machine-tools (HS 8459)

Where South Africa buys machine-tools: value, growth, unit value and the top suppliers, from official CEPII BACI statistics. World market for HS 8459 · South Africa trade profile

South Africa imports, 2024USD 18.7 millionSum over 53 supplying economies. Source: CEPII BACI.
South Africa imports, 2023USD 23.8 millionSame partners, previous year. Source: CEPII BACI.
Growth−21.5%2024 against 2023, USD. Source: CEPII BACI.
Unit valueUSD 5,208 per tonneValue divided by quantity, flows with a reported quantity only (99.9% of the value). Source: CEPII BACI.
Trade companies in the directory22,609Active companies in wholesale and retail trade (NACE section G) in this economy, counts only. Source: AYBARION company directory, see the Data Passport.

Top suppliers

#SupplierValue 2024ShareGrowthRecord
1ChinaUSD 5.4 million28.9%+28.1%BACI:ZA:CN:8459:1:2024
2GermanyUSD 2.6 million14.1%−10.3%BACI:ZA:DE:8459:1:2024
3ItalyUSD 2.4 million12.9%+159.0%BACI:ZA:IT:8459:1:2024
4TaiwanUSD 1.9 million10.1%−23.4%BACI:ZA:TW:8459:1:2024
5United StatesUSD 1.7 million9.3%+67.3%BACI:ZA:US:8459:1:2024
6IndiaUSD 666,0913.6%−51.5%BACI:ZA:IN:8459:1:2024
7South KoreaUSD 417,2362.2%−49.9%BACI:ZA:KR:8459:1:2024
8FinlandUSD 329,0721.8%not availableBACI:ZA:FI:8459:1:2024
9AustriaUSD 327,2391.8%not availableBACI:ZA:AT:8459:1:2024
10BelgiumUSD 321,1611.7%+808.0%BACI:ZA:BE:8459:1:2024

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

Trade companies: active companies registered in wholesale and retail trade (NACE section G) in South Africa, counted in the AYBARION company directory. The matching wholesale activity for this product is Wholesale of machine tools (NACE 4662). 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 South Africa 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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