Foreign Trade

Balance of Trade

The Statistics Department produces monthly, quarterly and annual Trade reports of imports and exports value (CIF-imported items and FOB on exported items) by Harmonized System (HS) Section and Commodity groups, Institutional sectors, Trading Partners and duty value.

INTERNATIONAL MERCHANDISE TRADE STATISTICS, ANNUAL 2014

For the year 2014, Tonga recorded a trade deficit of 369.1 million pa'anga. This was a 14.7% increase from 2013's deficit of 321.7 million pa'anga. Total imports for 2014 was 404.1 million pa'anga. Total imports for 2014 was 404.1 million pa'anga, whereas Total exports was only 35.0 million pa'anga. Of the Total exports, Domestic export was 28.2 million and Re-export was 6.8 million.

Compared to 2013, Total imports has increased by 14.9% whilst Total exports also increased by 16.9%. The increase in Exports was driven by an increase in Domestic expors of 6.4 million pa'anga (29.3%).

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INTERNATIONAL MERCHANDISE TRADE-SUMMARY

in thousand Tongan Pa'anga (T$'000)

Years	Imports	Exports	Re-exports	Balance of Trade	Exports as a % of Imports
2011	332,210	24,661	2,570	(304,979)	7.4
2012	342,742	23,799	2,959	(315,985)	6.9
2013	351,628	21,829	8,600*	(321,198)	6.2
2014
4th Qtr
3rd Qtr
2ndQtr	88,984	4,515	1,711	(82,758)	5.1
1stQtr	82,495	5,341	1,119	(77,155)	6.5
2013	351,628	21,829	8,600*	(321,198)	6.2
4thQtr	104,694	8,259	539	(95,896)	7.9
3rdQtr	85,466	4,737	2,185	(78,544)	5.5
2ndQtr	87,795	4,570	253	(82,972)	5.2
1stQtr	73,673	4,263	246	(69,164)	5.8
Note: * Fuel sold to visiting ships and aircraft are included from January 2013 as re-exports

Source: Foreign Trade Report, Statistics Department.

Note: * Fuel sold to visiting ships and aircraft are included from January 2013 as re-exports, thus all the quarterly re-exports figures that has been released for 2013 are revised in this annual report.

Contact person: mail M rs 'Ana T. Kama

Major Trading Partners

View both Imports and Exports by Major Trading Partners table here.

IMPORT BY MAJOR TRADING PARTNERS

Year	Total	Australia	New Zealand	United States	China	Japan	Singapore	Fiji	Other
2013	351,628	19,890	99,415	39,318	19,090	12,644	91,164	30,061	40,046
2012	342,742	17,717	102,672	44,314	21,762	19,883	78,705	27,443	30,246
2011	332,210	21,739	100,477	30,544	22,333	16,472	74,277	29,418	27,654
2014
2ndQtr	88,983	4,054	28,191	10,047	6,612	3,817	18,294	7,280	10,688
1stQtr	82,496	5,963	26,100	9,484	3,881	4,121	15,669	6,050	11,228
2013
1stQtr	73,673	4,352	21,887	7,486	3,353	2,392	18,835	5,365	10,003
2ndQtr	87,795	4,993	24,478	11,727	5,807	2,689	23,383	6,769	7,949
3rd Qtr	85,466	5,123	26,444	8,560	4,323	3,649	21,581	8,001	7,785
4thQtr	104,694	5,422	26,606	11,545	5,607	3,914	27,365	9,926	14,309
2012
1stQtr	70,666	3,547	21,917	9,185	2,674	3,035	19,095	5,931	5,283
2ndQtr	87,882	5,578	25,867	13,714	8,724	1,587	20,683	5,768	5,961
3rd Qtr	86,580	4,061	28,166	9,861	4,197	5,324	20,293	8,307	6,371
4thQtr	97,614	4,531	26,722	11,554	6,167	9,937	18,634	7,437	12,631

EXPORT BY MAJOR TRADING PARTNERS

Year	Total	Australia	New	USA	Japan	Hong Kong	Fiji	Other
			Zealand
2013	30,429	3,292	7,412	3,201	3,395	1,615	411	11,103
2012	23,799	3,185	5,638	3,581	3,389	3,466	231	4,309
2011	24,661	2,290	4,819	2,657	5,161	4,284	866	4,585
2014
2nd Qtr	4,515	500	1,791	766	466	344	-	648
1st Qtr	4,223	588	1,183	812	623	584	135	298
2013
1st Qtr	5,389	278	1021	561	1,738	112	156	1523
2nd Qtr	6,121	674	1,944	857	35	34	109	2468
3rd Qtr	8,830	1747	2,541	867	37	490	133	3015
4th Qtr	10,089	593	1,906	916	1585	979	13	4,097
2012
1st Qtr	6,259	2,243	567	737	2,316	12	22	362
2nd Qtr	3,471	434	1,345	666	90	20	58	858
3rd Qtr	4,995	332	1,441	966	232	1,261	77	686
4th Qtr	9,074	176	2,285	1,212	751	2,173	74	2,403

Source: Foreign Trade Report, Statistics Department.

Contact person: mail Ms 'Ana T. Kama

Major Harmonized System (HS)

Both Import and Export by Major Harmonized System (HS) tables can be viewed here.

IMPORT BY MAJOR HS SECTIONS

in thousand Tongan Pa'anga (T$'000)
Imports value, major items	2012	Quarter - 2013				2014
		1st Qtr	2nd Qtr	3rd Qtr	4th Qtr	1st Qtr	2nd Qtr
Food	54,128	10,181	15,217	13,670	14,206	14,237	13,175
Oils & Fats	1,797	716	674	242	554	193	375
Beverages / Tobacco	44,028	9,685	12,263	12,374	15,345	10,707	12,375
Minerals & Fuels	85,444	19,015	22,028	21,986	19,898	20,579	19,320
Crude materials	106,401	6,249	6,118	5,921	7,841	7,712	6,352
Chemicals	14,473	2,854	4,191	4,204	3,905	3,842	4,607
Basic Manufacturers	30,460	5,405	5,388	6,529	7,283	6,801	7,895
Machinery & Transport equipment	66,739	13,288	17,352	16,798	29,932	15,811	20,325
Miscellaneous Manufactured	10,800	1,406	1,104	1,299	1,991	1,397	2,345
Other	4,076	4873	3460	2,445	3740	1216	2,215
Total	418,346	73,672	87,795	85,468	104,695	82,495	88,984
Goods Not Elsewhere Specified	471	4,836	3,087	2,441	3,868	854	1,658
Capital equipment (BEC basis)	25,484	5,385	4,221	4,610	5,433	4,700	8,585

EXPORT BY MAJOR HS SECTIONS

Exports value, major items	2011	2012	Quarter - 2013				2014
			1stQtr	2ndQtr	3rd Qtr	4thQtr	1stQtr	2ndQtr
Food	21,079	18,750	3,702	3,712	3,927	7,553	3,577	3,744
Beverages / Tobacco	213	469	135	158	34	14	189	224
Minerals & Fuels	-	2	35	0	0	0	0	0
Crude materials	1,880	2,327	100	169	192	211	226	152
Chemicals	508	395	105	106	266	140	42	148
Basic Manufacturers	815	705	147	318	198	277	121	156
Machinery & Transport equipment	74	256	14	66	78	43	38	31
Miscellaneous Manufactured	18	60	23	40	40	20	29	2
Other	75	833	0	1	1	0	0	58
Total	24,662	23,797	4,261	4,570	4,735	8,258	4,222	4,515
Goods Not Elsewhere Specified	74	15	0	0	0	0	0	0
Capital equipment (BEC basis)	46	71	-	3	9	10	6	5

Source: Foreign Trade Report, Statistics Department.

Contact person: mail Ms 'Ana T. Kama

Major Local

Major Local Exports Commodities in thousand Tongan Pa'anga (T$'000)

in thousand Tongan Pa'anga (T$'000)
Year	Fish, fresh or chilled	Vanilla	Kava Ground & Unground	Root Crops	Squash pumpkins
2011	5,525	536	866	2,318	2,041
2012	3,612	49	2021	2,942	2,564
2013	2,931	492	1915	4,345	2,924
2012
1stQtr	2,690	1	289	477	0
2ndQtr	327	-	530	1,066	207
3rdQtr	335	38	562	857	195
4thQtr	260	10	640	542	2,162
2013
1stQtr	1,842	0	318	521	0
2ndQtr	371	0	357	1,714	0
3rdQtr	205	368	786	1,380	114
4thQtr	513	124	454	730	2,810
2014
1stQtr	1,027	0	384	810	0
2ndQtr	661	0	535	1,462	0

Source: Foreign Trade Report, Statistics Department.

Contact person: mail Ms 'Ana T. Kama

Reports

INTERNATIONAL MERCHANDISE TRADE, ANNUAL 2014 REPORT

Statistics presented in this report cover all goods imported into and exported (including those re-exported) from the Kingdom under Customs Act No.25 of 1999 on Private, Government and Quasi-government accounts during the stated period.