DETAILED LIST OF EXPORTABLE PRODUCTS IN NIGERIA (PART 1) AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS

PROLOGUE

The CHANGE mantra has come to every area of our lives in Nigeria the earlier we adjust our business strategy towards export earnings for our individual businesses the better for us.

Exports play an important role in a country’s economy influencing the level of economic growth, employment and the balance of payments.

Our current realities about the value of the Naira has opened up opportunities and created the enabling environment for the development of export.

This blog is geared to help businesses connect to the world of export. We shall be looking at products we can export from Nigeria to the outside world. Our commitment is to help create a platform for answering export business questions so that together we can build a strong viral economy for our nation as we grow to being self sufficient and develop our micro and macroeconomic indices.     

Export products are divided into various parts bearing in mind that as government progresses certain goods and services are listed in the export prohibition list. The lists are available in the Nigeria customs and the Nigeria Export Promotion Council gazette. The list is reviewed quarterly or sometimes yearly. The latest export prohibition are as follows:

Timber (Rough or Sawn)

Raw hides and skin including wet blue and all unfinished leather.

Maize

Scrap Metal

Unprocessed Rubber Latex and Rubber Lumps

Artefacts and Antiquities

Wild life Classified as endangered species and their products, e.g. Crocodiles, Elephants, Lizard, Eagle, Monkey, Zebra, Lion, and so on.

Exportable products can be classified into various groupings. They are as follows:

 Agricultural Products

 Processed Products

 Manufactured products
 Solid Minerals
 Handicrafts

 Services

The first part of this study will list the agricultural product

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS

COCOA

 

·       Cocoa Beans

·       Cocoa Butter

·       Cocoa Cake

·       Cocoa Liquor

·       Cocoa Powder

CASSAVA PRODUCTS

·       Cassava Chips

·       Cassava Flour

·       Cassava Glucose

·       Garri

·       Cassava Pellets

·       Cassava Starch

·       Tapioca

 NUTS

·       Cashew nut

·       Shea nut

·       Groundnut

·       Walnut

·       Palm kernel nut

·       Coconut

·       Kola nut

·       Bitter kola

GUM ARABIC

     Gum Arabic Grade 1

·       Gum Arabic Grade 2

·       Gum Arabic Grade 3

SPICES

·       Ginger

·       Chilli Pepper

·       White Pepper

·       Black pepper

·       Alligator  Pepper

·       Pepper soup spices

·       Garlic

·       Lemon Grass

·       Lemon Peels

COTTON

·       Cotton seed

·       Cotton Lint

 

COFFEE

·       Robusta & Arabica

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       RUBBER 

    Grade RSS 1, RSS 2, RSS 3, TSR 5L, NSR 5L, CL 5L, TSR 5,   NSR 5, WL 5, CK 5, TSR 10, NSR 10, WL 10, CL 10, TSR 20, NSR 20, MX 3.

    HORTICULTURAL PRODUCTS

                       Cut Flower

Seeds

Seedlings 

FRUITS

 Avocados

Apricot

Banana

Grapes

 Guava

Lemon &Lime

Mangoes

Orange

Passion Fruits

Pawpaw

Peach

Pineapples

Plantain

Strawberry

Tomatoes

Watermelon and so on.

VEGETABLE

Asparagus

Baby Corn

Beans

Beetroot

Sprout

Carrot

Cauliflower

WOOD AND WOOD PRODUCTS

·       Wood furniture and components

·       Briquette

·       Wood charcoal

·       Wooden Design

·       Railway Sleepers

·       Bamboo Furniture and components

·       Rattan Woven

·       Wooden doors and Frames

·       Veneer Ceiling

·       Floor,Wall and Ceiling Tiles

·       Cane Furniture andProducts

OIL /FATS &CAKES

·       Cocoa Butter, Cake, Liquor &Nut Oil

·       Fish oil &Meal

·       Shea Nut &Butter

·       Palm Kernel Oil & Cake

·       Sesame Seed & Oil

·       Soya Beans Oil and Cake

·       Copra,Castro, Cotton Seed, Sunflower Oil

        

MEDICINAL HERBS

Wide Indigo

Neem

Papain

Garlic

Lemon Grass

Aloe Vera

OTHERS

Coconut (desiccated)

Cow Horn/ Bones / Hoof

Sesame Seed (Beni seed)

Mellon Seed

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