Sugar, pharmaceuticals and plastics worth $10.98 billion were imported into Nigeria between 2020 and 2021, according to data from the International Trade Centre.
Within the time under review, the nation spent $1.82 billion on sugar products, $4.21 billion on pharmaceutical products, and $4.95 billion on plastic products.
Countries from which these products came from included: China, Korea Republic, Saudi Arabia, India, United States of America, India, Netherlands, Denmark, United Arab Emirates, Brazil, and Switzerland, among others.
According to the ITC, sugars and sugar confectionery products that were imported included cane or beet sugar and chemically pure sucrose; chemically pure lactose, maltose, glucose and fructose; sugar syrups; artificial honey; caramel; molasses; sugar confectionery not containing cocoa, including white chocolate.
Pharmaceutical products included: dried glands and other organs for organo-therapeutic uses; extracts of glands or other organs or their secretions, for organo-therapeutic uses; heparin and its salts; other human or animal substances prepared for therapeutic or prophylactic uses; human blood; animal blood prepared for therapeutic, prophylactic or diagnostic uses; antisera and other blood fractions and immunological products; vaccines, toxins, cultures of micro-organisms (excluding yeasts), among others.