{"id":54389,"date":"2025-06-04T19:09:40","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T19:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwandan-exports-to-drc-surge-by-42\/"},"modified":"2025-06-04T19:07:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T19:07:48","slug":"rwandan-exports-to-drc-surge-by-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwandan-exports-to-drc-surge-by-42\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwandan exports to DRC surge by 42%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exports to the DRC rose from $8.14 million in April 2024 to $11.52 million in April 2025, even as re-exports declined by 12%. Re-exports mainly comprise goods such as fuels and manufactured food products that are imported into Rwanda and subsequently sold to the DRC.<\/p>\n<p>This growth was registered amid a broader improvement in the country\u2019s trade performance, with Rwanda\u2019s formal trade deficit narrowing by over 29%, from $330.31 million to $232.13 million over the same period.<\/p>\n<p>The positive shift in Rwanda\u2019s trade position reflects a combination of factors, including a reduction in import volumes and targeted expansion into key regional markets.<\/p>\n<p>Other top export destinations for Rwanda include the United Arab Emirates, China, Luxembourg, Pakistan, the United States, and the United Kingdom, among others.<\/p>\n<p>On the import side, China remained Rwanda\u2019s largest trading partner, supplying goods worth $79.35 million in April 2025. India, Tanzania, and Kenya also featured prominently among Rwanda\u2019s top import sources. <\/p>\n<p>However, total imports decreased by 18.22% compared to April 2024, contributing to the overall reduction in the trade deficit.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-88680 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/rwanda_drc.jpg\" alt=\"Exports to the DRC rose from $8.14 million in April 2024 to $11.52 million in April 2025, even as re-exports declined by 12%. Re-exports mainly comprise goods such as fuels and manufactured food products that are imported into Rwanda and subsequently sold to the DRC.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rwanda recorded a significant upswing in exports to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in April 2025, with volumes increasing by 42% year-on-year, according to the latest Formal External Trade in Goods report released by the National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda (NISR).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":2000088681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[75],"byline":[192],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-54389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-62","tag-homenews","byline-wycliffe-nyamasege"],"bylines":[{"id":192,"name":"Wycliffe Nyamasege","slug":"wycliffe-nyamasege","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":131}],"contributors":[{"id":192,"name":"Wycliffe Nyamasege","slug":"wycliffe-nyamasege","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":131}],"featured_image":{"id":2000088681,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/rwanda_drc.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/rwanda_drc.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/rwanda_drc.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/rwanda_drc.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/rwanda_drc.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/rwanda_drc.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000088681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54389"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=54389"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=54389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}