# Sorghum: Movement

How one country's baijiu habit dominates the trade

Source page: https://www.materialinsights.org/commodities/sorghum/movement/

How one country's baijiu habit dominates the trade What this tab covers How it flows between countries: the largest bilateral trade routes drawn on a world map, 2024 UN Comtrade export and import values with the top exporters and importers by share, plus shipping routes, chokepoints and trade restrictions.

World sorghum trade (HS 1007) was worth about $2.6 billion of exports and $2.9 billion of imports in 2024 (Comtrade), a small share of the crop. The US supplied 56.7% of export value, Australia 24.4% and Argentina 9.5%. China took 89.0% of imports, for feed and for distilling baijiu. No other buyer reached 2%. Cargoes move in the heavy grain, soya and sorghum (HSS) class of dry-bulk freight, for example from the US Gulf to Japan (Geman, pdf p. 31). In 2018 China briefly opened an anti-dumping case on US sorghum during the trade war.

#### Where it is exported from and imported to, 2024

Chart: World map of the largest trade flows
 Exporter (size = share of world exports) Importer (share of world imports) Shipping chokepoint UN Comtrade 2024. Bubbles: shares of reported world exports and imports for the main traded form. Country-to-country route lines are not available for this commodity yet. Hover a circle for values.

#### Sorghum · HS 1007
 World exports 2024 $2.57 bn sum of 40 reporting countries World imports 2024 $2.91 bn sum of 40 reporting countries Top exporters, share of value United States 56.7% Australia 24.4% Argentina 9.5% France 2.2% Brazil 1.6% Uganda 0.8% Top importers, share of value China 89% Japan 1.4% South Africa 1.2% Italy 1% Mexico 0.9% Botswana 0.8% UN Comtrade, reporter declarations to the world, US$. Exports and imports are reported separately, so totals differ. Re-exporting hubs (Netherlands, Singapore, Switzerland, UAE) can appear large.

## Other sections

- [Summary](https://www.materialinsights.org/commodities/sorghum/index.md)
- [Overview](https://www.materialinsights.org/commodities/sorghum/overview/index.md)
- [Correlation](https://www.materialinsights.org/commodities/sorghum/correlation/index.md)
- [Extraction](https://www.materialinsights.org/commodities/sorghum/extraction/index.md)
- [Production](https://www.materialinsights.org/commodities/sorghum/production/index.md)
- [Stocks](https://www.materialinsights.org/commodities/sorghum/stocks/index.md)
- [Cycles](https://www.materialinsights.org/commodities/sorghum/cycles/index.md)
- [Trading](https://www.materialinsights.org/commodities/sorghum/trading/index.md)
- [Criticality](https://www.materialinsights.org/commodities/sorghum/criticality/index.md)
- [Characteristics](https://www.materialinsights.org/commodities/sorghum/characteristics/index.md)
- [Emissions](https://www.materialinsights.org/commodities/sorghum/emissions/index.md)
- [Relationships](https://www.materialinsights.org/commodities/sorghum/links/index.md)