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Seychelles

In 2025, US goods exports to Seychelles were $19.7 million and goods imports from Seychelles were $4.3 million; exports exceeded imports by $15.4 million.

Goods: the latest figures

2025, full year

Exports
$19.7 million
Imports
$4.3 million
Balance
exports exceeded imports by $15.4 million (a goods trade surplus, in Census's term)
Total goods trade
$24.0 million
Share of US goods trade
less than 0.001%
Rank among partners
No. 197 of 231

Latest 12 months, August 2025 to July 2026

Exports
$21.1 million
Imports
$4.2 million
Balance
exports exceeded imports by $16.8 million (a goods trade surplus, in Census's term)
Total goods trade
$25.3 million
Share of US goods trade
less than 0.001%
Rank among partners
No. 198 of 233

2025 rank among 231 partners with trade that year; 12-month rank among 233.

  • Census basis goods, not seasonally adjusted. Exports are free alongside ship value; imports are general imports (customs value), everything that arrives, including goods entering bonded warehouses and Foreign Trade Zones. Shares and ranks compare total goods trade (exports plus imports) with the same period's world total.
  • US exports include re-exports: foreign goods shipped on in substantially the same condition as when they were imported. Exports are credited to the destination as known to the shipper and imports to the country of origin. The workbook used here does not separate re-exports.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Trade in Goods by Country. Monthly data through July 2026; 2025 is the latest full year. Census revises the prior year's country totals each June. Retrieved Sept. 26, 2026.

Goods since 1992

US goods exports to and imports from Seychelles, 1992 to 2025

Full years only, in current dollars (not adjusted for inflation).

$0$10M$20M$30M202020212022202320242025

$0$10M$20M$30M20162018202020222024

$0$50M$100M$150M$200M200020102020

Data table
YearExportsImportsBalanceTotalShare of US goods tradeRank
2026 (7 months)$12.4M$2.7MExports exceeded imports by $9.7M$15.1Mless than 0.001%197
2025$19.7M$4.3MExports exceeded imports by $15.4M$24Mless than 0.001%197
2024$16.6M$7.1MExports exceeded imports by $9.4M$23.7Mless than 0.001%197
2023$31.1M$10.2MExports exceeded imports by $20.9M$41.3M0.001%192
2022$18.3M$12.5MExports exceeded imports by $5.8M$30.8M0.001%197
2021$11.4M$10.3MExports exceeded imports by $1.1M$21.6Mless than 0.001%196
2020$17M$6.8MExports exceeded imports by $10.2M$23.9M0.001%192
2019$18.4M$10.8MExports exceeded imports by $7.6M$29.1M0.001%189
2018$14.4M$7.2MExports exceeded imports by $7.1M$21.6M0.001%196
2017$15.5M$12.6MExports exceeded imports by $2.8M$28.1M0.001%189
2016$12.5M$5.6MExports exceeded imports by $6.9M$18.1Mless than 0.001%194
2015$18.5M$5.8MExports exceeded imports by $12.7M$24.4M0.001%190
2014$12.5M$4.1MExports exceeded imports by $8.3M$16.6Mless than 0.001%200
2013$12.2M$5.8MExports exceeded imports by $6.4M$18Mless than 0.001%197
2012$15M$4.6MExports exceeded imports by $10.3M$19.6M0.001%196
2011$13.1M$6.3MExports exceeded imports by $6.8M$19.3M0.001%194
2010$10.7M$6.5MExports exceeded imports by $4.2M$17.2M0.001%191
2009$34.1M$6.3MExports exceeded imports by $27.7M$40.4M0.002%181
2008$25M$5.4MExports exceeded imports by $19.6M$30.4M0.001%188
2007$9.5M$10.3MImports exceeded exports by $859K$19.8M0.001%190
2006$9.5M$10.1MImports exceeded exports by $595K$19.6M0.001%185
2005$17.9M$5.9MExports exceeded imports by $12M$23.8M0.001%184
2004$13.8M$6MExports exceeded imports by $7.8M$19.8M0.001%189
2003$7.2M$13MImports exceeded exports by $5.8M$20.1M0.001%182
2002$8.3M$26.3MImports exceeded exports by $18M$34.6M0.002%169
2001$176.3M$23.8MExports exceeded imports by $152.5M$200.1M0.01%122
2000$6.9M$8MImports exceeded exports by $1.1M$14.9M0.001%187
1999$7.5M$5.2MExports exceeded imports by $2.3M$12.7M0.001%185
1998$10.1M$2.3MExports exceeded imports by $7.8M$12.4M0.001%189
1997$6.2M$2.4MExports exceeded imports by $3.8M$8.6M0.001%194
1996$103.3M$3MExports exceeded imports by $100.3M$106.3M0.007%123
1995$7.2M$2.5MExports exceeded imports by $4.7M$9.7M0.001%187
1994$6.1M$2.8MExports exceeded imports by $3.3M$8.9M0.001%184
1993$64.6M$4.4MExports exceeded imports by $60.2M$69M0.007%134
1992$2.3M$1MExports exceeded imports by $1.3M$3.3Mless than 0.001%195

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Trade in Goods by Country. Census Trade in Goods by Country, country.xlsx (columns IYR, EYR) · retrieved Sept. 26, 2026 · 9,217 rows · as of July 2026 · monthly. Download CSV

2026 so far (7 months): exports $12.4 million, imports $2.7 million; exports exceeded imports by $9.7 million. Not in the chart, because a part year is not comparable with a full one.

Ranks start in 1992; before then the Census workbook covers only 76 partners. Shares start in 1987, the first year with a world total.

Goods by month

US goods exports to and imports from Seychelles, by month

The latest 24 months. Not seasonally adjusted, so compare a month with the same month a year earlier.

$0$1M$2M$3M$4MJan. 2025July 2025Jan. 2026July 2026

Data table
MonthExportsImportsBalance
Aug. 2024$1.2M$508KExports exceeded imports by $665K
Sept. 2024$1.5M$549KExports exceeded imports by $966K
Oct. 2024$966K$701KExports exceeded imports by $265K
Nov. 2024$1.3M$510KExports exceeded imports by $808K
Dec. 2024$1.1M$577KExports exceeded imports by $488K
Jan. 2025$1.2M$126KExports exceeded imports by $1.1M
Feb. 2025$2M$244KExports exceeded imports by $1.8M
March 2025$1.9M$1.3MExports exceeded imports by $570K
April 2025$2M$264KExports exceeded imports by $1.8M
May 2025$1.3M$557KExports exceeded imports by $768K
June 2025$1.4M$132KExports exceeded imports by $1.3M
July 2025$1.2M$144KExports exceeded imports by $1.1M
Aug. 2025$1.7M$255KExports exceeded imports by $1.4M
Sept. 2025$1.8M$226KExports exceeded imports by $1.6M
Oct. 2025$1.2M$700KExports exceeded imports by $478K
Nov. 2025$1.1M$67KExports exceeded imports by $1M
Dec. 2025$2.9M$298KExports exceeded imports by $2.6M
Jan. 2026$1.3M$735KExports exceeded imports by $555K
Feb. 2026$1.1M$158KExports exceeded imports by $969K
March 2026$972K$323KExports exceeded imports by $648K
April 2026$964K$338KExports exceeded imports by $626K
May 2026$1.7M$438KExports exceeded imports by $1.3M
June 2026$2.8M$300KExports exceeded imports by $2.5M
July 2026$3.6M$401KExports exceeded imports by $3.2M

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Trade in Goods by Country. Census Trade in Goods by Country, country.xlsx (columns IJAN..IDEC, EJAN..EDEC) · retrieved Sept. 26, 2026 · 5,923 rows · as of July 2026 · monthly. Download CSV

US goods trade with Seychelles, August 2025 to July 2026: each month beside the same month a year earlier
MonthExportsA year earlierChangeImportsA year earlierChange
July 2026$3.6M$1.2M+189.9%$401K$144K+178.2%
June 2026$2.8M$1.4M+93.8%$300K$132K+126.7%
May 2026$1.7M$1.3M+30.8%$438K$557K-21.4%
April 2026$964K$2M-52.2%$338K$264K+28.4%
March 2026$972K$1.9M-47.9%$323K$1.3M-75.0%
Feb. 2026$1.1M$2M-43.9%$158K$244K-35.2%
Jan. 2026$1.3M$1.2M+7.1%$735K$126K+481.6%
Dec. 2025$2.9M$1.1M+168.4%$298K$577K-48.4%
Nov. 2025$1.1M$1.3M-17.0%$67K$510K-86.9%
Oct. 2025$1.2M$966K+21.9%$700K$701K-0.2%
Sept. 2025$1.8M$1.5M+18.9%$226K$549K-58.9%
Aug. 2025$1.7M$1.2M+44.2%$255K$508K-49.7%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Trade in Goods by Country. Monthly, August 2024 to July 2026; not seasonally adjusted. Retrieved Sept. 26, 2026.

Services

Services are counted separately from goods, by a different agency, on an annual timetable. They are not added to the goods figures above.

US trade in services with Seychelles, 2018 to 2025
YearExportsImportsBalance (exports minus imports)
2025$47M$127MImports exceeded exports by $80M
2024$45M$120MImports exceeded exports by $75M
2023$38M$101MImports exceeded exports by $63M
2022$33M$100MImports exceeded exports by $67M
2021$27M$88MImports exceeded exports by $60M
2020$24M$83MImports exceeded exports by $59M
2019$19M$95MImports exceeded exports by $77M
2018$15M$81MImports exceeded exports by $66M

The balance column is BEA's published balance, which BEA rounds on its own, so it can differ by a million dollars from the exports and imports shown beside it. The 2025 balance is a services trade deficit, in BEA's term.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, International Services, Table 2.4. Annual, 2018 to 2025, released July 7, 2026; cells exactly as BEA publishes them, marks included. Retrieved Sept. 26, 2026. Download CSV

Direct investment

The value of direct investment at year end, both ways: US companies' stake in businesses in Seychelles, and investors in Seychelles with a stake in US businesses. Historical cost (book value), not market value.

Direct investment positions, 2020 to 2025
Year endUS direct investment in SeychellesDirect investment from Seychelles in the US
2025$881M-$6M
2024$860M-$5M
2023$898M-$1M
2022$902M$4M
2021$897M(D)
2020$864M(D)
  • (D) Suppressed by BEA to protect company data.

BEA assigns each position to the immediate counterpart country, which may not be where the money ends up or where the ultimate owner is. That is why financial centers such as the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Caribbean islands rank high.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, Direct Investment by Country and Industry. Positions at year end, 2020 to 2025; inward by country of foreign parent; cells exactly as BEA publishes them. Retrieved Sept. 26, 2026. Download CSV

Trade agreements

USTR lists no trade agreement with Seychelles.

From USTR's list of free trade agreements in force and its page of agreements on reciprocal trade, in USTR's own wording. USTR's reciprocal trade page does not say whether each agreement is in force, so none is described that way here.

Source: Office of the United States Trade Representative, Free Trade Agreements and Agreements on Reciprocal Trade. Checked Sept. 26, 2026. Retrieved Sept. 26, 2026.

Context

Population, 2025
122,730
GDP, current US dollars, 2025
$2.4 billion

Source: The World Bank: World Development Indicators: Population, total (SP.POP.TOTL), UN Population Division and national statistical offices. The World Bank: World Development Indicators: GDP (current US$) (NY.GDP.MKTP.CD), country official statistics, OECD national accounts data files and World Bank staff estimates. License: CC BY 4.0. Most recent value per economy. Retrieved Sept. 26, 2026.

Top products and tariffs

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