Table 3: Export development
(Value in million of USD, Volume in Tons)
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2009
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2010
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Change
|
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Coffee
|
14992.36
|
37.29
|
18235.85
|
56.08
|
22%
|
50%
|
|
Tea
|
18689.30
|
48.24
|
21528.48
|
55.71
|
15%
|
15%
|
|
Minerals
|
6093.54
|
55.43
|
5466.35
|
67.85
|
-10%
|
22%
|
|
Others
|
|
93.98
|
|
111.63
|
|
25%
|
|
Total exports
|
|
234.94
|
|
297.28
|
|
27%
|
Source:BNR, Statistic Department, 2010.
The value of other exports including re-exports representing
38% of the total export earnings in 2010 has increased by 18.6%, when taking
into consideration cross border survey data. Other export products are
dominated by a set of products such as bovine and cattle, wheat flour, beans,
hides and skins, pyrethrum etc... Re-exports are dominated by Tin with a share
of 69% of total re exports.
Compared to 2009, coffee exports increased by 50% in 2010 from
37.3 million USD to 56 million of USD. The situation resulted from large
increase in volume by 22% from 14,992 tons in 2009 to 18,235.8 tons in 2010.
The international prices also recorded an increase of 23.7% during the period
under review.
The volume of fully washed coffee exported increased from
3,209 tons in 2009 to 3,957 tons in 2010. Its exports value represented 28% of
the totalvalue of coffee exported in 2010. Despite the progressive increase,
the proportion of the fully washed coffee exported remains Low compared to the
objective of transforming 85% of the production into fully washed coffee in
2012.
Compare to 2009, tea exports value recorded good performance
with an increase of 15% in 2010 resultingessentially from the increase of
volume by 15% from 18,689 tons to 21,528 tons while the unit price was quite
stable from 2.58 USD/KG to 2.59 USD/kg in 2010.
Mining sector benefited from overall upward trend of prices
minerals on international markets. Rwanda mining exports value increased by 22%
despite a decline in volume by 10.3% in 2010 compared to 2009. The increase in
prices is mostly attributed to tin whose prices rose by 62.3% from an average
of USD 6.69/kg in 2009 to 10.86/kg in 2010. Nevertheless, in 2010, the
overallmineral production increased by 9.3%; especially due to Tin with a share
of 80.2% and which increased by 25.6% whileColombotantalite and Wolframdeclined
by 43.0% and 12.2% respectively. The rise in the volume of tin was prompted by
the increase in price compared to 2009. But mineral exports volumedeclined by
10% due to the time Lag between the production-processing and exports periods
as well as the required time of building enough quantity to export.
The above data illustrate that the coffee contribute more in
increasing of national income, it rise this one proportionally to the quantity
of tons exported ,if the quantity is high,national income from coffee increase
also proportionally to the word price .thus if the quantity of coffee to export
increase national income from coffee will increase too.
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