# Estonia exports to South Africa: Trade Route Risk | Yugalinks

Understand reported exports from Estonia to South Africa, the product routes that need a closer look, and the conditions that may affect planning.

Canonical: https://www.yugalinks.com/trade/corridor/EST-ZAF/risk

## Route overview

In 2024, Estonia reported $17.1M in goods exports to South Africa. The overall review level is High attention.

## How to read this page

High attention means one or more conditions on these product types deserve a closer look. It is not a prediction that trade will stop or that a loss is certain. An HS6 code is the international six-digit code used to describe and compare traded goods.

## Key numbers

| Measure | Value | What it means |
| --- | ---: | --- |
| Latest reported exports | $17.1M | 2024 route total |
| Exports needing review | 61.4% | Share of route exports |
| Highest-priority products | 0 | Need the closest review |
| Products needing review | 2 | High-attention product types |
| Export volatility | 0.6 | Higher means bigger yearly swings |
| Below highest year | 20.9% | Compared with the route's best year |

## Product types to review

| Rank | HS6 | Product | Buyer-market imports | Below product high | Review level |
| ---: | --- | --- | ---: | ---: | --- |
| 1 | 100199 | Cereals: wheat and meslin, other than durum wheat, other than seed | $524.4M | 0% | High attention |
| 2 | 851762 | Communication apparatus (excluding telephone sets or base stations): machines for the reception, conversion and transmission or regeneration of voice, images or other data, including switching and routing apparatus | $960.8M | 85.4% | High attention |
| 3 | 903289 | Regulating or controlling instruments and apparatus: automatic, other than hydraulic or pneumatic | $137.2M | 24% | Watch |
| 4 | 847410 | Machines: for sorting, screening, separating or washing earth, stone, ores or other mineral substances | $57.0M | 54.1% | Watch |
| 5 | 441233 | Plywood: with sheets of wood only: not bamboo: each ply 6mm or less, with at least one outer ply of alder, ash, beech, birch, cherry, chestnut, elm, eucalyptus, hickory, horse chestnut, lime, maple, oak, plane, poplar, aspen, robinia, tulipwood or walnut | $16.1M | 34.2% | Watch |
| 6 | 902750 | Instruments and apparatus: using optical radiations (UV, visible, IR), (other than spectrometers, spectrophotometers and spectrographs) | $70.6M | 15% | Watch |
| 7 | 846599 | Machine-tools: n.e.s. in heading no. 8465, for working wood, cork, bone, hard rubber, hard plastics or similar hard materials | $17.2M | 0% | Watch |
| 8 | 902730 | Spectrometers, spectrophotometers and spectrographs: using optical radiations (UV, visible, IR) | $20.4M | 36.5% | Watch |
| 9 | 902519 | Thermometers and pyrometers: (other than liquid filled, for direct reading), not combined with other instruments | $24.9M | 55.7% | Watch |
| 10 | 853890 | Electrical apparatus: parts suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of heading no. 8535, 8536 or 8537 | $100.2M | 22.9% | Watch |

## Data sources

- Primary trade series: OECD (2025), Balanced international merchandise trade statistics (BIMTS) - HS2017-6D, OECD Data Explorer (accessed on 2026-08-29). [OECD Data Explorer](https://data-explorer.oecd.org/) - [OECD Terms & Conditions](https://www.oecd.org/termsandconditions/)
- CEPII BACI bilateral trade flows (202601): [dataset page](https://www.cepii.fr/CEPII/en/bdd_modele/bdd_modele_item.asp?id=37) - [BACI documentation](https://www.cepii.fr/DATA_DOWNLOAD/baci/doc/baci_webpage.html) - [Etalab 2.0 Open Licence](https://www.etalab.gouv.fr/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/open-licence.pdf)

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