China and India and Ethiopia final report - FES Ethiopia

Rank 4 6 5 6 6 7 4 5Saudi Arabia 4.0 13.6 8.2 8.4 17.0 14.9 15.1 13.2Rank 6 1 2 5 1 1 2 2Rest of the World 51.4 36.9 37.3 31.5 32.9 33.9 32.8 36.3Source: National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE), staff ComputationFigure 4.4: Imports from India, in million birrSource: ECA4.1.2.2 Composition of Imports from China and IndiaThe major commodity categories imported from China includes; one,machinery and mechanical appliances; electrical equipment; parts thereof; two,textiles and textile articles; three, base metals and articles of base metal; four,plastics and articles thereof; five footwear, headgear, umbrellas and sixth,vehicles, aircraft, vessels and associated transport equipment registering 2002-08 period average share of 35 percent, 25 percent, 10 percent, 6 percent, 5percent and 3.5 percent, respectively(figure 4.5).The share of textile and textile articles’ imports from China has been decliningover time. It has declined from constituting about 41.3 percent of the totalimports from China in 2002 to about 10 percent in 2008. The share of foot wearimports has also sharply dropped from about 10 percent in 2002 to below 234