# Sao Tome and Principe Chemicals Export Opportunities (HS 28-38)

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Explore Sao Tome and Principe HS 28-38 chemicals export opportunities, product portfolio, buyer markets, growth signals, and diversification opportunities.

## Overview

- Exporter: Sao Tome and Principe (STP)
- Sector: Chemicals
- HS chapters: HS 28-38
- Latest trade year: 2024
- Sector exports: $92.0K
- Products: 8
- Buyer markets: 12
- Average CAGR: +0.0%
- Global sector size: $10.0B

## Product portfolio

| Product | Global size | Your exports | Opportunity | CAGR | Markets | Share |
| --- | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: |
| HS 382319 - Industrial monocarboxylic fatty acids: acid oils from refining: (other than stearic acid, oleic acid or tall oil fatty acids) | $1.3B | $10.5K | $1.9B | -68.0% | 1 | +0.0% |
| HS 330499 - Cosmetic and toilet preparations: n.e.c. in heading no. 3304, for the care of the skin (excluding medicaments, including sunscreen or sun tan preparations) | $2.9B | $28.5K | $1.3B | +2.1% | 5 | +0.0% |
| HS 300490 - Medicaments: consisting of mixed or unmixed products n.e.s. in heading no. 3004, for therapeutic or prophylactic uses, packaged for retail sale | $3.8B | $7.4K | $1.0B | +46.4% | 2 | +0.0% |
| HS 382200 - Reagents: diagnostic or laboratory reagents on a backing and prepared diagnostic or laboratory reagents whether or not on a backing, other than those of heading no. 3002 or 3006: certified reference material | $1.1B | $33.2 | $790.7M | -21.8% | 1 | +0.0% |
| HS 292249 - Amino-acids, other than those containing more than one kind of oxygen function, their esters: salts thereof, excluding lysine, glutamic acid, anthranalic acid and tilidine, their esters and salts thereof | $501.3M | $11.8K | $155.7M | +43.2% | 1 | +0.0% |
| HS 330210 - Odoriferous substances and mixtures: of a kind used in the food or drink industries | $195.9M | $23.9K | $128.8M | -19.8% | 2 | +0.1% |
| HS 321410 - Mastics: painters' fillings | $89.3M | $727.4 | $52.4M | -40.1% | 1 | +0.0% |
| HS 291533 - Acids: saturated acyclic monocarboxylic acids: n-butyl acetate | $44.0M | $9.1K | $49.4M | +23.3% | 1 | +0.2% |

## Best markets

- China (CHN): $1.9B calculated opportunity across 1 products.
- Canada (CAN): $790.7M calculated opportunity across 1 products.
- Portugal (PRT): $783.3M calculated opportunity across 2 products.
- Slovakia (SVK): $444.6M calculated opportunity across 1 products.
- Poland (POL): $429.3M calculated opportunity across 1 products.
- Austria (AUT): $355.3M calculated opportunity across 2 products.
- Australia (AUS): $303.3M calculated opportunity across 1 products.
- USA, Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands (USA): $155.7M calculated opportunity across 1 products.
- Uganda (UGA): $89.7M calculated opportunity across 1 products.
- Viet Nam (VNM): $49.4M calculated opportunity across 1 products.
- Iran (Islamic Republic of) (IRN): $39.0M calculated opportunity across 1 products.
- Benin (BEN): $27.5M calculated opportunity across 1 products.

## Growth stars

- HS 300490: +46.4% average CAGR, $1.0B calculated opportunity.
- HS 292249: +43.2% average CAGR, $155.7M calculated opportunity.
- HS 291533: +23.3% average CAGR, $49.4M calculated opportunity.
- HS 330499: +2.1% average CAGR, $1.3B calculated opportunity.
- HS 330210: -19.8% average CAGR, $128.8M calculated opportunity.
- HS 382200: -21.8% average CAGR, $790.7M calculated opportunity.
- HS 321410: -40.1% average CAGR, $52.4M calculated opportunity.
- HS 382319: -68.0% average CAGR, $1.9B calculated opportunity.

## Diversification opportunities

- HS 330499: 5 buyer markets, $1.3B calculated opportunity.
- HS 300490: 2 buyer markets, $1.0B calculated opportunity.
- HS 330210: 2 buyer markets, $128.8M calculated opportunity.
- HS 382319: 1 buyer markets, $1.9B calculated opportunity.
- HS 382200: 1 buyer markets, $790.7M calculated opportunity.
- HS 292249: 1 buyer markets, $155.7M calculated opportunity.
- HS 321410: 1 buyer markets, $52.4M calculated opportunity.
- HS 291533: 1 buyer markets, $49.4M calculated opportunity.

## Method

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## Data sources

- Primary trade series: OECD (2025), Balanced international merchandise trade statistics (BIMTS) - HS2017-6D, OECD Data Explorer (accessed on 2026-08-30). [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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