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Trade by country

Yemen (Republic of Yemen)

In 2025, US goods exports to Yemen (Republic of Yemen) were $42.6 million and goods imports from Yemen (Republic of Yemen) were $7.5 million; exports exceeded imports by $35.1 million.

Goods: the latest figures

2025, full year

Exports
$42.6 million
Imports
$7.5 million
Balance
exports exceeded imports by $35.1 million (a goods trade surplus, in Census's term)
Total goods trade
$50.1 million
Share of US goods trade
0.001%
Rank among partners
No. 184 of 231

Latest 12 months, August 2025 to July 2026

Exports
$18.4 million
Imports
$5.0 million
Balance
exports exceeded imports by $13.4 million (a goods trade surplus, in Census's term)
Total goods trade
$23.5 million
Share of US goods trade
less than 0.001%
Rank among partners
No. 199 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 Yemen (Republic of Yemen), 1992 to 2025

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

$0$100M$200M$300M$400M202020212022202320242025

$0$100M$200M$300M$400M20162018202020222024

$0$200M$400M$600M200020102020

Data table
YearExportsImportsBalanceTotalShare of US goods tradeRank
2026 (7 months)$8.2M$2.8MExports exceeded imports by $5.3M$11Mless than 0.001%202
2025$42.6M$7.5MExports exceeded imports by $35.1M$50.1M0.001%184
2024$131.9M$8.9MExports exceeded imports by $123M$140.8M0.003%164
2023$191.3M$6.6MExports exceeded imports by $184.7M$197.9M0.004%154
2022$378M$31.4MExports exceeded imports by $346.7M$409.4M0.008%123
2021$271.4M$10.4MExports exceeded imports by $261M$281.8M0.006%135
2020$328.8M$3.9MExports exceeded imports by $324.9M$332.7M0.009%118
2019$270M$4.8MExports exceeded imports by $265.2M$274.7M0.007%141
2018$191.3M$2.2MExports exceeded imports by $189.1M$193.5M0.005%151
2017$199M$9.6MExports exceeded imports by $189.4M$208.5M0.005%144
2016$170.9M$2.4MExports exceeded imports by $168.5M$173.3M0.005%150
2015$158M$48.3MExports exceeded imports by $109.7M$206.3M0.005%143
2014$368.9M$40.9MExports exceeded imports by $328M$409.8M0.01%127
2013$518.3M$65.6MExports exceeded imports by $452.7M$583.8M0.02%120
2012$469.5M$87.1MExports exceeded imports by $382.4M$556.6M0.01%116
2011$389.7M$561.7MImports exceeded exports by $172M$951.5M0.03%101
2010$397.8M$181.4MExports exceeded imports by $216.4M$579.1M0.02%108
2009$381.1M$7.4MExports exceeded imports by $373.7M$388.6M0.01%119
2008$401.5M$8.3MExports exceeded imports by $393.2M$409.7M0.01%124
2007$642.1M$291.9MExports exceeded imports by $350.1M$934M0.03%93
2006$254.9M$447.4MImports exceeded exports by $192.4M$702.3M0.02%99
2005$219M$278.6MImports exceeded exports by $59.6M$497.7M0.02%106
2004$232.3M$61.5MExports exceeded imports by $170.9M$293.8M0.01%121
2003$191.4M$66.2MExports exceeded imports by $125.2M$257.6M0.01%120
2002$366.2M$246.3MExports exceeded imports by $119.9M$612.5M0.03%83
2001$185.3M$202.2MImports exceeded exports by $16.9M$387.5M0.02%99
2000$189.5M$255.7MImports exceeded exports by $66.2M$445.2M0.02%93
1999$156.9M$23.6MExports exceeded imports by $133.3M$180.5M0.01%124
1998$177.8M$37.7MExports exceeded imports by $140.1M$215.5M0.01%109
1997$153.4M$16MExports exceeded imports by $137.4M$169.4M0.01%117
1996$255.9M$31.1MExports exceeded imports by $224.8M$287M0.02%96
1995$185.3M$41.5MExports exceeded imports by $143.8M$226.8M0.02%103
1994$177.9M$182.7MImports exceeded exports by $4.8M$360.6M0.03%83
1993$322.1M$98.1MExports exceeded imports by $224M$420.2M0.04%80
1992$321.7M$40.5MExports exceeded imports by $281.2M$362.2M0.04%82

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 $8.2 million, imports $2.8 million; exports exceeded imports by $5.3 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 Yemen (Republic of Yemen), by month

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

$0$10M$20M$30MJan. 2025July 2025Jan. 2026July 2026

Data table
MonthExportsImportsBalance
Aug. 2024$17.5M$192KExports exceeded imports by $17.3M
Sept. 2024$26.9M$2.1MExports exceeded imports by $24.8M
Oct. 2024$8.1M$1.2MExports exceeded imports by $6.8M
Nov. 2024$19.6M$498KExports exceeded imports by $19.1M
Dec. 2024$23.2M$425KExports exceeded imports by $22.8M
Jan. 2025$11.4M$582KExports exceeded imports by $10.9M
Feb. 2025$2.1M$911KExports exceeded imports by $1.2M
March 2025$3.7M$1MExports exceeded imports by $2.6M
April 2025$10.1M$651KExports exceeded imports by $9.5M
May 2025$1.5M$898KExports exceeded imports by $559K
June 2025$2.1M$394KExports exceeded imports by $1.7M
July 2025$1.4M$880KExports exceeded imports by $554K
Aug. 2025$3.1M$304KExports exceeded imports by $2.8M
Sept. 2025$2M$534KExports exceeded imports by $1.4M
Oct. 2025$1.9M$536KExports exceeded imports by $1.4M
Nov. 2025$1.7M$176KExports exceeded imports by $1.5M
Dec. 2025$1.6M$637KExports exceeded imports by $946K
Jan. 2026$1.5M$337KExports exceeded imports by $1.2M
Feb. 2026$1.8M$270KExports exceeded imports by $1.5M
March 2026$776K$228KExports exceeded imports by $548K
April 2026$765K$257KExports exceeded imports by $508K
May 2026$533K$147KExports exceeded imports by $386K
June 2026$1.4M$800KExports exceeded imports by $623K
July 2026$1.4M$812KExports exceeded imports by $574K

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 Yemen (Republic of Yemen), August 2025 to July 2026: each month beside the same month a year earlier
MonthExportsA year earlierChangeImportsA year earlierChange
July 2026$1.4M$1.4M-3.4%$812K$880K-7.7%
June 2026$1.4M$2.1M-33.0%$800K$394K+103.1%
May 2026$533K$1.5M-63.4%$147K$898K-83.7%
April 2026$765K$10.1M-92.4%$257K$651K-60.6%
March 2026$776K$3.7M-78.8%$228K$1M-77.7%
Feb. 2026$1.8M$2.1M-17.1%$270K$911K-70.4%
Jan. 2026$1.5M$11.4M-86.6%$337K$582K-42.1%
Dec. 2025$1.6M$23.2M-93.2%$637K$425K+49.6%
Nov. 2025$1.7M$19.6M-91.4%$176K$498K-64.7%
Oct. 2025$1.9M$8.1M-76.0%$536K$1.2M-57.0%
Sept. 2025$2M$26.9M-92.6%$534K$2.1M-74.4%
Aug. 2025$3.1M$17.5M-82.5%$304K$192K+58.4%

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 Yemen (Republic of Yemen), 2018 to 2025
YearExportsImportsBalance (exports minus imports)
2025$96M$37MExports exceeded imports by $59M
2024$96M$63MExports exceeded imports by $33M
2023$98M$66MExports exceeded imports by $32M
2022$91M$78MExports exceeded imports by $13M
2021$86M$66MExports exceeded imports by $20M
2020$78M$68MExports exceeded imports by $11M
2019$87M$91MImports exceeded exports by $5M
2018$61M$120MImports exceeded exports by $58M

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 surplus, 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 Yemen (Republic of Yemen), and investors in Yemen (Republic of Yemen) with a stake in US businesses. Historical cost (book value), not market value.

Direct investment positions, 2020 to 2025
Year endUS direct investment in Yemen (Republic of Yemen)Direct investment from Yemen (Republic of Yemen) in the US
2025$77M$0
2024$97M$0
2023$18M$0
2022$36M$0
2021(D)$0
2020$37M$0
  • (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 Yemen (Republic of Yemen).

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
41.8 million
GDP, current US dollars, 2018
$21.6 billion

The World Bank's name for this economy: Yemen, Rep..

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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