Trade & Economy

Trade in Malawi is liberalized with import and export licence only required for very few products that have a bearing on security, health, food self-sufficiency, and the protection of infant industries.

Malawi is a member of COMESA (Common Market For Eastern and Southern Africa); SADC (Southern African Development Community), Eastern and Southern Africa Economic Partnership Agreement (ESA-EPA) Configuration and the World Trade Organization (WTO), as well as a beneficiary of the African Growth Opportunities Act (AGOA) and Everything But Arms (EBA) initiative. Malawi has bilateral agreements with South Africa , Zimbabwe , Malaysia, China, India and Mozambique . Further agreements are currently under consideration with Zambia , Tanzania and Mozambique . These, alongside other initiatives such as the Growth Triangle and Spatial Development Initiative, offer considerable opportunities for increasing trade and investment in the region and stimulating growth.

Main IMPorts, 2007

Other includes: wood sawn and plied, natural rubber,coffee, spices, hides and skins and wooden furniture      

The main trading partners are South Africa, Uk, USA, Germany, Denmark, The Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Australia, Japan, India, Russia, Mozambique, Egypt, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Kenya and Tanzania.

Source: Malawi Investment Promotion Agency (MIPA)