Guinea-Bissau and Mauritania
What moves each way, the scams to watch for, and what to check before you trade.
Trade safely with Mauritania
The scams, documents and rules that matter on this corridor. Written and reviewed by our team, and dated.
Corridor-specific scam patterns and rules are still being reviewed by our team and will appear here once published.
- Confirm the company exists in an official register and that its name matches the one on the invoice.
- Before paying into a new or changed bank account, phone the company on a number you already hold, not one from the invoice or email.
- Test the container number, ship number, ports and dates on the bill of lading with the Document checker.
- Be wary of paying in advance for goods you have not seen, or of fees demanded to release a shipment.
- Ask the carrier directly to confirm the shipment exists and where it is.
In 2025, Guinea-Bissau sold Mauritania about $26 thousand of goods, according to Mauritania's own records. Almost all of it is soap. The total has grown by about 714% a year since 2023.
In 2025, Guinea-Bissau bought about $32 thousand of goods from Mauritania, according to Mauritania's own records. The biggest products were fish, frozen and plastic articles for the conveyance or packing…, which together make up 100% of the total. More than half of this trade is one product (fish, frozen), so it leans heavily on that one line. The total has fallen by about 7.6% a year since 2022. Among the leading products, fish, frozen is growing fastest, at about 16% a year.
Trade by year
Total trade each year, as reported in the tables below. A missing bar means no report for that year, not zero trade.
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| Year | Guinea-Bissau sells to Mauritania | Guinea-Bissau buys from Mauritania |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | not reported | $40k |
| 2023 | $394 | $836k |
| 2024 | $5k | $11k |
| 2025 | $26k | $32k |
What Guinea-Bissau sells to Mauritania
Ranked by value in 2025, by 4-digit product code. Growth is the yearly rate since 2023. Figures are Mauritania's own report of its trade with Guinea-Bissau.
| Product | Value | Share | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| Soap (organic surface-active preparations used as soap, skin washing, in bars, cakes, moulded pieces, shapes,… Product code 3401 · Soap and cleaning products | $26k | 100.0% | n/a |
What Guinea-Bissau buys from Mauritania
Ranked by value in 2025, by 4-digit product code. Growth is the yearly rate since 2022. Figures are Mauritania's own report of its trade with Guinea-Bissau.
| Product | Value | Share | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fish (frozen, excluding fish fillets and other fish meat of heading 0304) Product code 0303 · Fish and seafood | $30k | 93.2% | +15.9% a year |
| Plastic articles for the conveyance or packing of goods (stoppers, lids, caps and other closures of plastics) Product code 3923 · Plastics | $2k | 6.8% | n/a |
Biggest product groups: Fish and seafood (93%), Plastics (7%) .
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Value is what was traded in the year, in US dollars. A big number means a big market, not necessarily an easy one to enter.
Share is that product's part of the total in the table above. A product with a large share is what this corridor already trades most of.
Growth is the average yearly change since the first year shown. A green figure means trade in that product is rising.
Product code is the international customs code (HS) for the product group. Your customs agent and the guide below will ask for it, and it decides the duty you pay.
These are totals reported by customs authorities, not prices or orders. Use them to see where demand exists, then check the rules and the company you plan to deal with.
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Trade figures are what each country reported to the UN (Comtrade), in US dollars. Imports are usually reported including freight and insurance, exports without, so the two sides of a corridor will not match exactly. Company counts are companies listed on ExporterIQ.