According to National Geographic MapMaker (mapmaker.nationalgeographic.org) and MIT's Observatory of Economic Complexity (atlas.media.mit.edu), the following items are major exports of ZIMBABWE: air pumps, aircraft, animal hides, asbestos, beverages, cement, centrifuges, chemicals, chromium, citrus fruit, clothing and textiles, coal, coffee, collector’s items, computers, construction vehicles, copper, corn (maize), cotton, cut flowers, diamonds, dried legumes, electricity to neighboring countries, ferroalloys, fertilizer, figurines and sculptures, footwear, fruit juice, furniture, gold, granite, graphite, gypsum, hairpieces and wigs, iron, lead, lithium, livestock, malt, medical supplies, metal goods, nickel and nickel mattes, niobium, oilseeds, packaged food, paper containers, peanuts and other ground nuts, pepper, pesticides, platinum, prefabricated buildings, refrigerators, rice, seafood, sowing seeds, spices, steel, sugarcane, tantalum, tea, telephones, tin, tobacco, transformers and transmissions, tungsten, vanadium, vegetable products, wheat, wood and wood products, yarn, and zirconium.
Zimbabwe produces a variety of machinery. Functions of the machinery manufactured in the Southern African country include bottling, construction, cooling, excavation, heating, industrial food preparation, liquid dispersal, and stone processing — among others. According to February 2017 statistics from the International Monetary Fund (data.imf.org), countries and territories buying and importing most of Zimbabwe's exports include South Africa (top importer), Mozambique, Zambia, the United Arab Emirates, Belgium, Botswana, Kenya, Namibia, Switzerland, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Malawi, Italy, the Netherlands, Tunisia, China, the United States, Spain, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Russia, Sudan, and Tanzania.
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