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Mali to United Arab Emirates

Checked 2026-09-29

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MaliUnited Arab Emirates

No bilateral gold instrument found. The UAE-Mali cooperation made public in May 2025 was on defence and energy, with no statement on gold. The pair gets ordinary treatment. Mali declared 12.2% of its 2025 gold exports as going to the UAE, but UAE-reported imports from Mali are many times Mali's declared exports: 77 t against 0.9 t at HS 710812 in 2023.

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  • Primary law 1
  • Secondary 2
  • Read in full 2
  • Not recorded 1
  • Text 1
  • OCR 1
  • Not stated 1

Where practice departs from the law

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  • Couriers hand-carry an average of 10 kg per trip on Bamako-Dubai flights, and some traffickers move up to 40 kg a week. In 2016 the UAE recorded US$1.52bn of imports from Mali against US$216m of recorded Malian exports. Mali also serves as a platform for gold from neighbouring countries (an estimated 80% of the artisanal gold in its supply chain comes from Senegal) and from Libya and Venezuela.

    SecondaryNot recorded

  • In 2023 Mali reported 899 kg (US$30.1m) of HS 710812 exports to the UAE, while the UAE reported 77,452 kg (US$4.83bn) from Mali.

    Figures: Gap ~76.6 t (2023)

    Secondary

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