The CIA World Factbook Edition 1992 Economy

Exports In 36 editions of 36.

Exports was published in 36 editions of the CIA World Factbook, from 1990 to 2025. The 1992 edition carries it in 232 entries, in its Economy section. Every entry is shown as that edition published it.

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World

$3.34 trillion (f.o.b., 1991 est.)

commodities:
the whole range of industrial and agricultural goods and services
partners:
in value, about 75% of exports from developed countries

Africa

56 entries

Algeria

$11.7 billion (f.o.b., 1991 est.)

commodities:
petroleum and natural gas 97%
partners:
  • Netherlands,
  • Czechoslovakia,
  • Romania,
  • Italy,
  • France,
  • US

Angola

$3.9 billion (f.o.b., 1990 est.)

commodities:
  • oil,
  • liquefied petroleum gas,
  • diamonds,
  • coffee,
  • sisal,
  • fish and fish products,
  • timber,
  • cotton
partners:
  • US,
  • USSR,
  • Cuba,
  • Portugal,
  • Brazil,
  • France

Benin

$263.3 million (f.o.b., 1990 est.)

commodities:
  • crude oil,
  • cotton,
  • palm products,
  • cocoa
partners:
  • FRG 36%,
  • France 16%,
  • Spain 14%,
  • Italy 8%,
  • UK 4%

Botswana

$1.8 billion (f.o.b. 1990)

commodities:
  • diamonds 80%,
  • copper and nickel 9%,
  • meat 4%,
  • cattle,
  • animal products
partners:
  • Switzerland,
  • UK,
  • SACU (Southern African Customs Union)

Burkina now Burkina Faso

$262 million (f.o.b., 1989)

commodities:
  • oilseeds,
  • cotton,
  • live animals,
  • gold
partners:
  • EC 42% (France 30%, other 12%),
  • Taiwan 17%,
  • Ivory Coast 15% (1985)

Burundi

$74.7 million (f.o.b., 1990)

commodities:
coffee 88%, tea, hides, and skins
partners:
  • EC 83%,
  • US 5%,
  • Asia 2%

Cape Verde now Cabo Verde

$10.9 million (f.o.b., 1989 est.)

commodities:
  • fish,
  • bananas,
  • salt
partners:
  • Portugal 40%,
  • Algeria 31%,
  • Angola,
  • Netherlands (1990 est.)

Cameroon

$2.1 billion (f.o.b., 1990 est.)

commodities:
  • petroleum products 56%,
  • coffee,
  • cocoa,
  • timber,
  • manufactures
partners:
EC (particularly France) about 50%, US 10%

Central African Republic

$151.3 million (1990 est.)

commodities:
  • diamonds,
  • cotton,
  • coffee,
  • timber,
  • tobacco
partners:
  • France,
  • Belgium,
  • Italy,
  • Japan,
  • US

Chad

$174 million (f.o.b., 1990 est.)

commodities:
  • cotton 48%,
  • cattle 35%,
  • textiles 5%,
  • fish
partners:
  • France,
  • Nigeria,
  • Cameroon

Comoros

$16 million (f.o.b., 1990 est.)

commodities:
  • vanilla,
  • cloves,
  • perfume oil,
  • copra,
  • ylang-ylang
partners:
  • US 53%,
  • France 41%,
  • Africa 4%,
  • FRG 2% (1988)

Zaire now Democratic Republic of the Congo

$2.2 billion (f.o.b., 1989 est.)

commodities:
  • copper 37%,
  • coffee 24%,
  • diamonds 12%,
  • cobalt,
  • crude oil
partners:
  • US,
  • Belgium,
  • France,
  • FRG,
  • Italy,
  • UK,
  • Japan,
  • South Africa

Congo now Republic of the Congo

$751 million (f.o.b., 1988)

commodities:
  • crude petroleum 72%,
  • lumber,
  • plywood,
  • coffee,
  • cocoa,
  • sugar,
  • diamonds
partners:
  • US,
  • France,
  • other EC

Ivory Coast now Cote d'Ivoire

$2.5 billion (f.o.b., 1989)

commodities:
  • cocoa 30%,
  • coffee 20%,
  • tropical woods 11%,
  • cotton,
  • bananas,
  • pineapples,
  • palm oil,
  • cotton
partners:
  • France,
  • FRG,
  • Netherlands,
  • US,
  • Belgium,
  • Spain (1985)

Djibouti

$190 million (f.o.b., 1990 est.)

commodities:
hides and skins, coffee (in transit)
partners:
  • Middle East 50%,
  • Africa 43%,
  • Western Europe 7%

Egypt

$4.5 billion (f.o.b., 1991 est.)

commodities:
  • crude oil and petroleum products,
  • cotton yarn,
  • raw cotton,
  • textiles,
  • metal products,
  • chemicals
partners:
  • EC,
  • Eastern Europe,
  • US,
  • Japan

Equatorial Guinea

$37 million (f.o.b., 1990 est.)

commodities:
  • coffee,
  • timber,
  • cocoa beans
partners:
Spain 38.2%, Italy 12.2%, Netherlands 11.4%, FRG 6.9%, Nigeria 12.4 (1988)

Swaziland now Eswatini

$557 million (f.o.b., 1990)

commodities:
  • soft drink concentrates,
  • sugar,
  • wood pulp,
  • citrus,
  • canned fruit
partners:
  • South Africa 50% (est.),
  • EC,
  • Canada

Ethiopia

$429 million (f.o.b., FY88)

commodities:
coffee 60%, hides
partners:
  • US,
  • FRG,
  • Djibouti,
  • Japan,
  • PDRY,
  • France,
  • Italy,
  • Saudi Arabia

Gabon

$1.16 billion (f.o.b., 1989)

commodities:
  • crude oil 70%,
  • manganese 11%,
  • wood 12%,
  • uranium 6%
partners:
  • France 53%,
  • US 22%,
  • FRG,
  • Japan

The Gambia

$116 million (f.o.b., FY90)

commodities:
  • peanuts and peanut products,
  • fish,
  • cotton lint,
  • palm kernels
partners:
Japan 60%, Europe 29%, Africa 5%, US 1, other 5% (1989)

Ghana

$843 million (f.o.b., 1991 est.)

commodities:
cocoa 45%, gold, timber, tuna, bauxite, and aluminum
partners:
  • US 23%,
  • UK,
  • other EC

Guinea

$788 million (f.o.b., 1990 est.)

commodities:
  • alumina,
  • bauxite,
  • diamonds,
  • coffee,
  • pineapples,
  • bananas,
  • palm kernels
partners:
  • US 33%,
  • EC 33%,
  • USSR and Eastern Europe 20%,
  • Canada

Guinea-Bissau

$14.2 million (f.o.b., 1989 est.)

commodities:
  • cashews,
  • fish,
  • peanuts,
  • palm kernels
partners:
  • Portugal,
  • Senegal,
  • France,
  • The Gambia,
  • Netherlands,
  • Spain

Kenya

$1.0 billion (f.o.b., 1991 est.)

commodities:
  • tea 25%,
  • coffee 21%,
  • petroleum products 7% (1989)
partners:
  • EC 44%,
  • Africa 25%,
  • Asia 5%,
  • US 5%,
  • Middle East 4% (1988)

Lesotho

$59 million (f.o.b., 1990)

commodities:
  • wool,
  • mohair,
  • wheat,
  • cattle,
  • peas,
  • beans,
  • corn,
  • hides,
  • skins,
  • baskets
partners:
  • South Africa 53%,
  • EC 30%,
  • North and South America 13% (1989)

Liberia

$505 million (f.o.b., 1989 est.)

commodities:
  • iron ore 61%,
  • rubber 20%,
  • timber 11%,
  • coffee
partners:
  • US,
  • EC,
  • Netherlands

Libya

$11 billion (f.o.b., 1990 est.)

commodities:
  • petroleum,
  • peanuts,
  • hides
partners:
  • Italy,
  • USSR,
  • Germany,
  • Spain,
  • France,
  • Belgium/Luxembourg,
  • Turkey

Madagascar

$290 million (f.o.b., 1990 est.)

commodities:
  • coffee 45%,
  • vanilla 15%,
  • cloves 11%,
  • sugar,
  • petroleum products
partners:
  • France,
  • Japan,
  • Italy,
  • Germany,
  • US

Malawi

$390 million (f.o.b., 1990 est.)

commodities:
  • tobacco,
  • tea,
  • sugar,
  • coffee,
  • peanuts
partners:
  • US,
  • UK,
  • Zambia,
  • South Africa,
  • Germany

Mali

$285 million (f.o.b., 1989 est.)

commodities:
  • livestock,
  • peanuts,
  • dried fish,
  • cotton,
  • skins
partners:
mostly franc zone and Western Europe

Mauritania

$436 million (f.o.b., 1990)

commodities:
  • iron ore,
  • processed fish,
  • small amounts of gum arabic and gypsum;
  • unrecorded but numerically significant cattle exports to Senegal
partners:
  • EC 43%,
  • Japan 27%,
  • USSR 11%,
  • Ivory Coast 3%

Mauritius

$1.2 billion (f.o.b., 1990)

commodities:
  • textiles 44%,
  • sugar 40%,
  • light manufactures 10%
partners:
  • EC and US have preferential treatment,
  • EC 77%,
  • US 15%

Mayotte

$4.0 million (f.o.b., 1984)

commodities:
ylang-ylang, vanilla
partners:
  • France 79%,
  • Comoros 10%,
  • Reunion 9%

Morocco

$4.1 billion (f.o.b., 1991)

commodities:
  • food and beverages 30%,
  • semiprocessed goods 23%,
  • consumer goods 21%,
  • phosphates 17%
partners:
  • EC 58%,
  • India 7%,
  • Japan 5%,
  • USSR 3%,
  • US 2%

Mozambique

$117 million (f.o.b., 1990 est.)

commodities:
  • shrimp 48%,
  • cashews 21%,
  • sugar 10%,
  • copra 3%,
  • citrus 3%
partners:
  • US,
  • Western Europe,
  • GDR,
  • Japan

Namibia

$1,021 million (f.o.b., 1989)

commodities:
  • uranium,
  • diamonds,
  • zinc,
  • copper,
  • cattle,
  • processed fish,
  • karakul skins
partners:
  • Switzerland,
  • South Africa,
  • FRG,
  • Japan

Niger

$320 million (f.o.b., 1990)

commodities:
  • uranium 75%,
  • livestock products,
  • cowpeas,
  • onions
partners:
  • France 65%,
  • Nigeria 11%,
  • Ivory Coast,
  • Italy

Nigeria

$13.6 billion (f.o.b., 1990)

commodities:
  • oil 95%,
  • cocoa,
  • rubber
partners:
EC 51%, US 32%

Reunion

$166 million (f.o.b., 1988)

commodities:
  • sugar 75%,
  • rum and molasses 4%,
  • perfume essences 4%,
  • lobster 3%,
  • vanilla and tea 1%
partners:
  • France,
  • Mauritius,
  • Bahrain,
  • South Africa,
  • Italy

Rwanda

$111.7 million (f.o.b., 1990 est.)

commodities:
  • coffee 85%,
  • tea,
  • tin,
  • cassiterite,
  • wolframite,
  • pyrethrum
partners:
  • Germany,
  • Belgium,
  • Italy,
  • Uganda,
  • UK,
  • France,
  • US

Saint Helena now Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha

$23.9 thousand (f.o.b., 1984)

commodities:
fish (frozen and salt-dried skipjack, tuna), handicrafts
partners:
South Africa, UK

Sao Tome and Principe

$4.4 million (f.o.b., 1990 est.)

commodities:
  • cocoa 85%,
  • copra,
  • coffee,
  • palm oil
partners:
  • FRG,
  • GDR,
  • Netherlands,
  • China

Senegal

$814 million (f.o.b., 1990 est.)

commodities:
  • manufactures 30%,
  • fish products 27%,
  • peanuts 11%,
  • petroleum products 11%,
  • phosphates 10%
partners:
  • France,
  • other EC members,
  • Mali,
  • Ivory Coast,
  • India

Seychelles

$40 million (f.o.b., 1990 est.)

commodities:
  • fish,
  • copra,
  • cinnamon bark,
  • petroleum products (reexports)
partners:
  • France 63%,
  • Pakistan 12%,
  • Reunion 10%,
  • UK 7% (1987)

Sierra Leone

$138 million (f.o.b., 1990)

commodities:
  • rutile 50%,
  • bauxite 17%,
  • cocoa 11%,
  • diamonds 3%,
  • coffee 3%
partners:
  • US,
  • UK,
  • Belgium,
  • FRG,
  • other Western Europe

Somalia

$58.0 million (f.o.b., 1990 est.)

commodities:
  • bananas,
  • livestock,
  • fish,
  • hides,
  • skins
partners:
  • US 0.5%,
  • Saudi Arabia,
  • Italy,
  • FRG (1986)

South Africa

$24.0 billion (f.o.b., 1991)

commodities:
  • gold 25-30%,
  • minerals and metals 20-25%,
  • food 5%,
  • chemicals 3%
partners:
  • Italy,
  • Japan,
  • US,
  • FRG,
  • UK,
  • other EC members,
  • Hong Kong

Sudan

$325 million (f.o.b., FY91 est.)

commodities:
  • cotton 52%,
  • sesame,
  • gum arabic,
  • peanuts
partners:
  • Western Europe 46%,
  • Saudi Arabia 14%,
  • Eastern Europe 9%,
  • Japan 9%,
  • US 3% (FY88)

Tanzania

$478 million (f.o.b., FY91 est.)

commodities:
  • coffee,
  • cotton,
  • sisal,
  • tea,
  • cashew nuts,
  • meat,
  • tobacco,
  • diamonds,
  • gold,
  • coconut products,
  • pyrethrum,
  • cloves (Zanzibar)
partners:
  • FRG,
  • UK,
  • Japan,
  • Netherlands,
  • Kenya,
  • Hong Kong,
  • US

Togo

$396 million (f.o.b., 1990)

commodities:
  • phosphates,
  • cocoa,
  • coffee,
  • cotton,
  • manufactures,
  • palm kernels
partners:
  • EC 70%,
  • Africa 9%,
  • US 2%,
  • other 19% (1985)

Tunisia

$3.7 billion (f.o.b., 1991)

commodities:
  • hydrocarbons,
  • agricultural products,
  • phosphates and chemicals
partners:
  • EC 74%,
  • Middle East 11%,
  • US 2%,
  • Turkey,
  • USSR

Uganda

$208 million (f.o.b., 1990)

commodities:
  • coffee 97%,
  • cotton,
  • tea
partners:
  • US 25%,
  • UK 18%,
  • France 11%,
  • Spain 10%

Western Sahara

$8 million (f.o.b., 1982 est.)

commodities:
phosphates 62%
partners:
Morocco claims and administers Western Sahara, so trade partners are included in overall Moroccan accounts

Zambia

$1.1 billion (f.o.b., 1991)

commodities:
  • copper,
  • zinc,
  • cobalt,
  • lead,
  • tobacco
partners:
  • EC,
  • Japan,
  • South Africa,
  • US,
  • India

Zimbabwe

$1.8 billion (f.o.b., 1991 est.)

commodities:
  • agricultural 35% (tobacco 20%, other 15%),
  • manufactures 20%,
  • gold 10%,
  • ferrochrome 10%,
  • cotton 5%
partners:
  • Europe 55% (EC 40%, Netherlands 5%, other 15%),
  • Africa 20% (South Africa 10%, other 10%),
  • US 5%

Arctic Region

2 entries

Greenland

$435 million (f.o.b., 1990 est.)

commodities:
fish and fish products 83%, metallic ores and concentrates 13%
partners:
  • Denmark 79%,
  • Benelux 9%,
  • Germany 5%

Iceland

$1.6 billion (f.o.b., 1991)

commodities:
  • fish and fish products,
  • animal products,
  • aluminum,
  • diatomite
partners:
  • EC 67.7% (UK 25.3%, FRG 12.7%),
  • US 9.9%,
  • Japan 6% (1990)

Asia

22 entries

Afghanistan

$236 million (f.o.b., FY91 est.)

commodities:
natural gas 55%, fruits and nuts 24%, handwoven carpets, wool, cotton, hides, and pelts
partners:
mostly former USSR

Armenia

$176 million (f.o.b., 1990)

commodities:
machinery and transport equipment, ferrous and nonferrous metals, and chemicals (1991)
partners:
NA

Azerbaijan

$780 million (f.o.b., 1991)

commodities:
  • oil and gas,
  • chemicals,
  • oilfield equipment,
  • textiles,
  • cotton (1991)
partners:
mostly CIS countries

Bangladesh

$1.7 billion (FY91 est.)

commodities:
  • garments,
  • jute and jute goods,
  • leather,
  • shrimp
partners:
  • US 32%,
  • Italy 8.1%,
  • UK 6.2% (FY90)

Bhutan

$74 million (f.o.b., FY91)

commodities:
  • cardamon,
  • gypsum,
  • timber,
  • handicrafts,
  • cement,
  • fruit
partners:
India 93%

China

$71.9 billion (f.o.b., 1991)

commodities:
  • textiles,
  • garments,
  • telecommunications and recording equipment,
  • petroleum,
  • minerals
partners:
  • Hong Kong,
  • Japan,
  • US,
  • USSR,
  • Singapore (1990)

Georgia

$176 million (f.o.b., 1990)

commodities:
  • citrus fruits, tea, other agricultural products;
  • diverse types of machinery;
  • ferrous and nonferrous metals;
  • textiles
partners:
NA

India

$20.2 billion (f.o.b., FY91)

commodities:
  • gems and jewelry,
  • engineering goods,
  • clothing,
  • textiles,
  • chemicals,
  • tea,
  • coffee,
  • fish products
partners:
  • EC 25%,
  • US 16%,
  • USSR and Eastern Europe 19%,
  • Japan 10% (1989)

Japan

$314.3 billion (f.o.b., 1991)

commodities:
manufactures 97% (including machinery 40%, motor vehicles 18%, consumer electronics 10%)
partners:
  • Southeast Asia 31%,
  • US 29%,
  • Western Europe 23%,
  • Communist countries 4%,
  • Middle East 3%

Kazakhstan

$4.2 billion (f.o.b., 1991)

commodities:
  • oil,
  • ferrous and nonferrous metals,
  • chemicals,
  • grain,
  • wool,
  • meat (1991)
partners:
  • Russia,
  • Ukraine,
  • Uzbekistan

Korea, North now North Korea

$2.02 billion (f.o.b., 1990)

commodities:
  • minerals,
  • metallurgical products,
  • agricultural products,
  • manufactures
partners:
  • USSR,
  • China,
  • Japan,
  • Hong Kong,
  • Germany,
  • Singapore

Korea, South now South Korea

$71.9 billion (f.o.b., 1991)

commodities:
  • textiles,
  • clothing,
  • electronic and electrical equipment,
  • footwear,
  • machinery,
  • steel,
  • automobiles,
  • ships,
  • fish
partners:
US 26%, Japan 18% (1991)

Kyrgyzstan

$115 million (1990)

commodities:
  • wool,
  • chemicals,
  • cotton,
  • ferrous and nonferrous metals,
  • shoes,
  • machinery,
  • tobacco
partners:
Russia 70%, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and others

Maldives

$52.0 million (f.o.b., 1990)

commodities:
fish 57%, clothing 25%
partners:
  • US,
  • UK,
  • Sri Lanka

Mongolia

$279 million (f.o.b., 1991)

commodities:
  • copper,
  • livestock,
  • animal products,
  • cashmere,
  • wool,
  • hides,
  • fluorspar,
  • other nonferrous metals
partners:
  • USSR 75%,
  • China 10%,
  • Japan 4%

Nepal

$180 million (f.o.b., FY91) but does not include unrecorded border trade with India

commodities:
  • clothing,
  • carpets,
  • leather goods,
  • grain
partners:
  • US,
  • India,
  • Germany,
  • UK

Pakistan

$6.0 billion (f.o.b., FY91)

commodities:
  • cotton,
  • textiles,
  • clothing,
  • rice
partners:
  • EC 31%,
  • Japan 9%,
  • US 13% (FY90)

Russia

$58.7 billion (f.o.b., 1991)

commodities:
petroleum and petroleum products, natural gas, wood and wood products, coal, nonferrous metals, chemicals, and a wide variety of civilian and military manufactures
partners:
  • Western Europe,
  • Japan,
  • Eastern Europe

Sri Lanka

$2.3 billion (f.o.b., 1991)

commodities:
  • textiles and garment,
  • teas,
  • petroleum products,
  • coconut,
  • rubber,
  • agricultural products,
  • gems and jewelry,
  • marine products
partners:
  • US 25%,
  • FRG,
  • Japan,
  • UK,
  • Belgium,
  • Taiwan,
  • Hong Kong,
  • China

Tajikistan

$706 million (1990)

commodities:
  • aluminum,
  • cotton,
  • fruits,
  • vegetable oil,
  • textiles
partners:
  • Russia,
  • Kazakhstan,
  • Ukraine,
  • Uzbekistan

Turkmenistan

$239 million (1990)

commodities:
  • natural gas,
  • oil,
  • chemicals,
  • cotton,
  • textiles,
  • carpets
partners:
  • Russia,
  • Ukraine,
  • Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan

$1.5 billion (1990)

commodities:
  • cotton,
  • gold,
  • textiles,
  • chemical and mineral fertilizers,
  • vegetable oil
partners:
  • Russia,
  • Ukraine,
  • Eastern Europe

Central America and the Caribbean

31 entries

Anguilla

$NA

commodities:
lobster and salt
partners:
NA

Antigua and Barbuda

$33.2 million (f.o.b., 1990)

commodities:
  • petroleum products 48%,
  • manufactures 23%,
  • food and live animals 4%,
  • machinery and transport equipment 17%
partners:
  • OECS 26%,
  • Barbados 15%,
  • Guyana 4%,
  • Trinidad and Tobago 2%,
  • US 0.3%

Aruba

$134.4 million (f.o.b., 1990)

commodities:
mostly petroleum products
partners:
US 64%, EC

The Bahamas

$306 million (f.o.b., 1991 est.);

commodities:
  • pharmaceuticals,
  • cement,
  • rum,
  • crawfish;
partners:
  • US 41%,
  • Norway 30%,
  • Denmark 4%

Barbados

$210.6 million (f.o.b., 1990)

commodities:
  • sugar and molasses,
  • chemicals,
  • electrical components,
  • clothing,
  • rum,
  • machinery and transport equipment
partners:
  • CARICOM 30%,
  • US 20%,
  • UK 20%

Belize

$134 million (f.o.b., 1991 est.)

commodities:
  • sugar,
  • clothing,
  • seafood,
  • molasses,
  • citrus,
  • wood and wood products
partners:
  • US 47%,
  • UK,
  • Trinidad and Tobago,
  • Canada (1987)

British Virgin Islands

$2.7 million (f.o.b., 1988)

commodities:
  • rum,
  • fresh fish,
  • gravel,
  • sand,
  • fruits,
  • animals
partners:
  • Virgin Islands (US),
  • Puerto Rico,
  • US

Cayman Islands

$1.5 million (f.o.b., 1987 est.)

commodities:
turtle products, manufactured consumer goods
partners:
mostly US

Costa Rica

$1.5 billion (f.o.b., 1991 est.)

commodities:
  • coffee,
  • bananas,
  • textiles,
  • sugar
partners:
  • US 75%,
  • Germany,
  • Guatemala,
  • Netherlands,
  • UK,
  • Japan

Cuba

$3.6 billion (f.o.b., 1991 est.)

commodities:
  • sugar,
  • nickel,
  • medical products,
  • shellfish,
  • citrus,
  • tobacco,
  • coffee
partners:
  • former USSR 63%,
  • China 6%,
  • Canada 4%,
  • Japan 4% (1991 est.)

Dominica

$59.9 million (f.o.b., 1990)

commodities:
  • bananas,
  • coconuts,
  • grapefruit,
  • soap,
  • galvanized sheets
partners:
  • UK 72%,
  • Jamaica 10%,
  • OECS 6%,
  • US 3%,
  • other 9%

Dominican Republic

$775 million (f.o.b., 1991 est.)

commodities:
  • sugar,
  • coffee,
  • cocoa,
  • gold,
  • ferronickel
partners:
  • US 60%,
  • EC 19%,
  • Puerto Rico 8% (1990)

El Salvador

$580 million (f.o.b., 1990 est.)

commodities:
  • coffee 45%,
  • sugar,
  • cotton,
  • shrimp
partners:
  • US 49%,
  • Germany 24%,
  • Guatemala 7%,
  • Costa Rica 4%,
  • Japan 4%

Grenada

$26.0 million (f.o.b., 1990 est.)

commodities:
  • nutmeg 36%,
  • cocoa beans 9%,
  • bananas 14%,
  • mace 8%,
  • textiles 5%
partners:
  • US 12%,
  • UK,
  • FRG,
  • Netherlands,
  • Trinidad and Tobago (1989)

Guadeloupe

$153 million (f.o.b., 1988)

commodities:
  • bananas,
  • sugar,
  • rum
partners:
France 68%, Martinique 22% (1987)

Guatemala

$1.16 billion (f.o.b., 1990)

commodities:
  • coffee 26%,
  • sugar 13%,
  • bananas 7%,
  • beef 2%
partners:
  • US 39%,
  • El Salvador,
  • Costa Rica,
  • Germany,
  • Honduras

Haiti

$169 million (f.o.b., 1990 est.)

commodities:
  • light manufactures 65%,
  • coffee 19%,
  • other agriculture 8%,
  • other 8%
partners:
  • US 84%,
  • Italy 4%,
  • France 3%,
  • other industrial countries 6%,
  • less developed countries 3% (1987)

Honduras

$1.0 billion (f.o.b., 1991)

commodities:
  • bananas,
  • coffee,
  • shrimp,
  • lobster,
  • minerals,
  • lumber
partners:
  • US 52%,
  • Germany 11%,
  • Japan,
  • Italy,
  • Belgium

Jamaica

$1.2 billion (f.o.b., 1991, projected)

commodities:
  • bauxite,
  • alumina,
  • sugar,
  • bananas
partners:
  • US 36%,
  • UK,
  • Canada,
  • Norway,
  • Trinidad and Tobago

Martinique

$196 million (f.o.b., 1988)

commodities:
  • refined petroleum products,
  • bananas,
  • rum,
  • pineapples
partners:
  • France 65%,
  • Guadeloupe 24%,
  • Germany (1987)

Montserrat

$2.3 million (f.o.b., 1988 est.)

commodities:
  • electronic parts,
  • plastic bags,
  • apparel,
  • hot peppers,
  • live plants,
  • cattle
partners:
NA

Netherlands Antilles

$1.1 billion (f.o.b., 1988)

commodities:
petroleum products 98%
partners:
  • US 40%,
  • Italy 6%,
  • The Bahamas 5%

Nicaragua

$342 million (f.o.b., 1991 est.)

commodities:
  • coffee,
  • cotton,
  • sugar,
  • bananas,
  • seafood,
  • meat,
  • chemicals
partners:
  • OECD 75%,
  • USSR and Eastern Europe 15%,
  • other 10%

Panama

$380 million (f.o.b., 1991 est.)

commodities:
  • bananas 28%,
  • shrimp 14%,
  • sugar 12%,
  • clothing 5%,
  • coffee 4%
partners:
  • US 44%,
  • Central America and Caribbean,
  • EC (1991 est.)

Puerto Rico

NA

commodities:
  • pharmaceuticals,
  • electronics,
  • apparel,
  • canned tuna,
  • rum,
  • beverage concentrates,
  • medical equipment,
  • instruments
partners:
US 87% (FY90)

Saint Kitts and Nevis

$24.6 million (f.o.b., 1990)

commodities:
  • sugar,
  • clothing,
  • electronics,
  • postage stamps
partners:
  • US 53%,
  • UK 22%,
  • Trinidad and Tobago 5%,
  • OECS 5% (1988)

Saint Lucia

$127 million (f.o.b., 1990 est.)

commodities:
  • bananas 54%,
  • clothing 17%,
  • cocoa,
  • vegetables,
  • fruits,
  • coconut oil
partners:
  • UK 51%,
  • CARICOM 20%,
  • US 19%,
  • other 10%

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

$75 million (f.o.b., 1990)

commodities:
  • bananas,
  • eddoes and dasheen (taro),
  • arrowroot starch,
  • tennis racquets,
  • flour
partners:
  • UK 43%,
  • CARICOM 37%,
  • US 15%

Trinidad and Tobago

$2.0 billion (f.o.b., 1990)

commodities:
  • includes reexports - petroleum and petroleum products 82%,
  • steel products 9%,
  • fertilizer,
  • sugar,
  • cocoa,
  • coffee,
  • citrus (1988)
partners:
  • US 54%,
  • CARICOM 16%,
  • EC 10%,
  • Latin America 3% (1989)

Turks and Caicos Islands

$2.9 million (f.o.b., FY84)

commodities:
  • lobster,
  • dried and fresh conch,
  • conch shells
partners:
US, UK

Virgin Islands

$2.2 billion (f.o.b., 1988)

commodities:
refined petroleum products
partners:
US, Puerto Rico

Europe

44 entries

Albania

$80 million (f.o.b., 1991 est.)

commodities:
  • asphalt,
  • petroleum products,
  • metals and metallic ores,
  • electricity,
  • crude oil,
  • vegetables,
  • fruits,
  • tobacco
partners:
  • Italy,
  • Yugoslavia,
  • Germany,
  • Greece,
  • Czechoslovakia,
  • Poland,
  • Romania,
  • Bulgaria,
  • Hungary

Andorra

$0.017 million (f.o.b., 1986)

commodities:
electricity
partners:
France, Spain

Austria

$40 billion (1991)

commodities:
  • machinery and equipment,
  • iron and steel,
  • lumber,
  • textiles,
  • paper products,
  • chemicals
partners:
EC 65.8%, (Germany 39%), EFTA 9.1%, Eastern Europe/former USSR 9.0%, Japan 1.7%, US 2.8%

Belarus

$4.3 billion (f.o.b., 1990)

commodities:
  • machinery and transport equipment,
  • chemicals,
  • foodstuffs
partners:
NA

Belgium

$118 billion (f.o.b., 1990) Belgium-Luxembourg Economic Union

commodities:
  • iron and steel,
  • transportation equipment,
  • tractors,
  • diamonds,
  • petroleum products
partners:
  • EC 74%,
  • US 5%,
  • former Communist countries 2% (1989)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

$2,054 million (1990)

commodities:
  • manufactured goods (31%),
  • machinery and transport equipment (20.8%),
  • raw materials (18%),
  • miscellaneous manufactured articles (17.3%),
  • chemicals (9.4%),
  • fuel and lubricants (1.4%),
  • food and live animals (1.2%)
partners:
principally the other former Yugoslav republics

Bulgaria

$8.4 billion (f.o.b., 1990)

commodities:
  • machinery and equipment 55.3%;
  • agricultural products 15.0%;
  • manufactured consumer goods 10.0%;
  • fuels, minerals, raw materials, and metals 18.4%;
  • other 1.3% (1990)
partners:
  • former CMEA countries 70.6% (USSR 56.2%, Czechoslovakia 3.9%, Poland 2.5%);
  • developed countries 13.6% (Germany 2.1%, Greece 1.2%);
  • less developed countries 13.1% (Libya 5.8%, Iran 0.5%) (1990)

Croatia

$2.9 billion (1990)

commodities:
  • machinery and transport equipment (30%),
  • other manufacturers (37%),
  • chemicals (11%),
  • food and live animals (9%),
  • raw materials (6.5%),
  • fuels and lubricants (5%)
partners:
principally the other former Yugoslav republics

Czechoslovakia

$12.0 billion (f.o.b., 1990)

commodities:
  • machinery and equipment 39.2%;
  • fuels, minerals, and metals 8.1%;
  • agricultural and forestry products 6.2%, other 46.5%
partners:
  • USSR,
  • Germany,
  • Poland,
  • Austria,
  • Hungary,
  • Yugoslavia,
  • Italy,
  • France,
  • US,
  • UK

Denmark

$37.8 billion (f.o.b., 1991)

commodities:
  • meat and meat products,
  • dairy products,
  • transport equipment (shipbuilding),
  • fish,
  • chemicals,
  • industrial machinery
partners:
  • EC 54.2% (Germany 22.5%, UK 10.3%, France 5.9%),
  • Sweden 11.5%,
  • Norway 5.8%,
  • US 5.0%,
  • Japan 3.6% (1991)

Estonia

$186 million (f.o.b., 1990)

commodities:
  • machinery 30%,
  • food 17%,
  • chemicals 11%,
  • electric power 9%
partners:
  • Russia 50%,
  • other former Soviet republics 30%,
  • Ukraine 15%,
  • West 5%

Faroe Islands

$386 million (f.o.b., 1990 est.)

commodities:
  • fish and fish products 88%,
  • animal feedstuffs,
  • transport equipment (1989)
partners:
  • Denmark 20%,
  • Germany 18.3%,
  • UK 14.2%,
  • France 11.2%,
  • Spain 7.9%,
  • US 4.5%

Finland

$22.9 billion (f.o.b., 1991)

commodities:
  • timber,
  • paper and pulp,
  • ships,
  • machinery,
  • clothing and footwear
partners:
  • EC 50.25%,
  • Germany 15.5%,
  • UK 10.4%,
  • EFTA 20.7%,
  • Sweden 14%,
  • US 6.1%,
  • Japan 1.5%,
  • USSR/EE 6.71% (1991)

France

$209.5 billion (f.o.b., 1990)

commodities:
  • machinery and transportation equipment,
  • chemicals,
  • foodstuffs,
  • agricultural products,
  • iron and steel products,
  • textiles and clothing
partners:
  • FRG 17.3%,
  • Italy 11.4%,
  • UK 9.2%,
  • Spain 10.3%,
  • Netherlands 9.0%,
  • Belgium-Luxembourg 9.4%,
  • US 6.1%,
  • Japan 1.9%,
  • former USSR 0.7% (1989 est.)

Germany

Published as “Exports”

West - $324.3 billion (f.o.b., 1989)

commodities:
  • manufactures 86.6% (including machines and machine tools, chemicals, motor vehicles, iron and steel products),
  • agricultural products 4.9%,
  • raw materials 2.3%,
  • fuels 1.3%

Published as “Exports”

partners:
  • EC 53.3% (France 12.7%, Netherlands 8.3%, Italy 9.1%, UK 8.3%, Belgium-Luxembourg 7.3%),
  • other Western Europe 15.9%,
  • US 7.1%,
  • Eastern Europe 4.1%,
  • OPEC 2.7% (1990)

Gibraltar

$82 million (f.o.b., 1988)

commodities:
  • (principally reexports) petroleum 51%,
  • manufactured goods 41%,
  • other 8%
partners:
  • UK,
  • Morocco,
  • Portugal,
  • Netherlands,
  • Spain,
  • US,
  • FRG

Greece

$6.4 billion (f.o.b., 1990)

commodities:
  • manufactured goods 48%,
  • food and beverages 22%,
  • fuels and lubricants 6%
partners:
  • Germany 22%,
  • Italy 17%,
  • France 10%,
  • UK 7%,
  • US 6%

Guernsey

$NA

commodities:
  • tomatoes,
  • flowers and ferns,
  • sweet peppers,
  • eggplant,
  • other vegetables
partners:
UK (regarded as internal trade)

Hungary

$10.2 billion (f.o.b. 1991)

commodities:
  • capital goods 25.9%,
  • foods 23%,
  • consumer goods 16.5%,
  • fuels 2.4%,
  • other 32.2%
partners:
  • USSR and Eastern Europe 31.9%,
  • EC 32.2%,
  • EFTA 12% (1990)

Ireland

$27.8 billion (f.o.b., 1991)

commodities:
  • chemicals,
  • data processing equipment,
  • industrial machinery,
  • live animals,
  • animal products
partners:
EC 74% (UK 34%, Germany 11%, France 10%), US 8%

Man, Isle of now Isle of Man

$NA

commodities:
  • tweeds,
  • herring,
  • processed shellfish,
  • meat
partners:
UK

Italy

$209 billion (f.o.b., 1991)

commodities:
  • textiles,
  • wearing apparel,
  • metals,
  • transportation equipment,
  • chemicals
partners:
  • EC 58.5%,
  • US 8%,
  • OPEC 4%

Jersey

$NA

commodities:
  • light industrial and electrical goods,
  • foodstuffs,
  • textiles
partners:
UK

Latvia

$239 million (f.o.b., 1990)

commodities:
  • food 14%,
  • railroad cars 13%,
  • chemicals 12%
partners:
  • Russia 50%,
  • Ukraine 15%,
  • other former Soviet republics 30%,
  • West 5%

Liechtenstein

$1.6 billion

commodities:
  • small specialty machinery,
  • dental products,
  • stamps,
  • hardware,
  • pottery
partners:
  • EFTA countries 20.9% (Switzerland 15.4%),
  • EC countries 42.7%,
  • other 36.4% (1990)

Lithuania

700 million rubles (f.o.b., 1990)

commodities:
  • electronics 18%,
  • petroleum products 16%,
  • food 10%,
  • chemicals 6% (1989)
partners:
  • Russia 60%,
  • Ukraine 15%,
  • other former Soviet republics 20%,
  • West 5%

Luxembourg

$6.3 billion (f.o.b., 1990)

commodities:
  • finished steel products,
  • chemicals,
  • rubber products,
  • glass,
  • aluminum,
  • other industrial products
partners:
EC 75%, US 5%

Malta

$l.1 billion (f.o.b., 1990)

commodities:
  • clothing,
  • textiles,
  • footwear,
  • ships
partners:
  • Italy 30%,
  • Germany 22%,
  • UK 11%

Moldova

$400 million rubles (f.o.b., 1990)

commodities:
  • foodstuffs,
  • wine,
  • tobacco,
  • textiles and footwear,
  • machinery,
  • chemicals (1991)
partners:
NA

Monaco

  • $NA;
  • full customs integration with France, which collects and rebates Monacan trade duties;
  • also participates in EC market system through customs union with France

Netherlands

$131.5 billion (f.o.b., 1990)

commodities:
  • agricultural products,
  • processed foods and tobacco,
  • natural gas,
  • chemicals,
  • metal products,
  • textiles,
  • clothing
partners:
EC 74.9% (FRG 28.3%, Belgium-Luxembourg 14.2%, France 10.7%, UK 10.2%), US 4.7% (1988)

Macedonia now North Macedonia

$578 million (1990)

commodities:
  • manufactured goods 40%,
  • machinery and transport equipment 14%,
  • miscellaneous manufactured articles 23%,
  • raw materials 7.6%,
  • food (rice) and live animals 5.7%,
  • beverages and tobacco 4.5%,
  • chemicals 4.7%
partners:
  • principally Serbia and the other former Yugoslav republics,
  • Germany,
  • Greece,
  • Albania

Norway

$34.2 billion (f.o.b., 1991)

commodities:
  • petroleum and petroleum products 36.5%,
  • natural gas 7.5%,
  • fish 7%,
  • aluminum 6%,
  • ships 6.2%,
  • pulp and paper
partners:
  • EC 66.5%,
  • Nordic countries 19.5%,
  • developing countries 7.8%,
  • US 4.6%,
  • Japan 1.9% (1991)

Poland

$12.8 billion (f.o.b., 1991 est.)

commodities:
  • machinery 23%,
  • metals 17%,
  • chemicals 13%,
  • fuels 11%,
  • food 10% (1991 est.)
partners:
  • FRG 25.1%,
  • former USSR 15.3%,
  • UK 7.1%,
  • Switzerland 4.7% (1990)

Portugal

$16.4 billion (f.o.b., 1990)

commodities:
  • cotton textiles,
  • cork and paper products,
  • canned fish,
  • wine,
  • timber and timber products,
  • resin,
  • machinery,
  • appliances
partners:
  • EC 74%,
  • other developed countries 13.2%,
  • US 4.8%

Romania

$4.0 billion (f.o.b., 1991 est.)

commodities:
  • machinery and equipment 29.3%,
  • fuels,
  • minerals and metals 32.1%,
  • manufactured consumer goods 18.1%,
  • agricultural materials and forestry products 9.0%,
  • other 11.5% (1989)
partners:
  • USSR 27%,
  • Eastern Europe 23%,
  • EC 15%,
  • US 5%,
  • China 4% (1987)

San Marino

  • *** No entry for this item *** trade data are included with the statistics for Italy;
  • commodity trade consists primarily of exchanging building stone, lime, wood, chestnuts, wheat, wine, baked goods, hides, and ceramics for a wide variety of consumer manufactures

Serbia and Montenegro

$4.4 billion (f.o.b., 1990)

commodities:
  • machinery and transport equipment 29%,
  • manufactured goods 28.5%,
  • miscellaneous manufactured articles 13.5%,
  • chemicals 11%,
  • food and live animals 9%,
  • raw materials 6%,
  • fuels and lubricants 2%,
  • beverages and tobacco 1%
partners:
  • principally the other former Yugoslav republics;
  • Italy,
  • Germany,
  • other EC,
  • the former USSR,
  • East European countries,
  • US

Slovenia

$4,120 million (f.o.b., 1990)

commodities:
  • machinery and transport equipment 38%,
  • other manufactured goods 44%,
  • chemicals 9%,
  • food and live animals 4.6%,
  • raw materials 3%,
  • beverages and tobacco less than 1%
partners:
principally the other former Yugoslav republics, Austria, and Italy

Spain

$60.1 billion (f.o.b., 1991)

commodities:
  • cars and trucks,
  • semifinished manufactured goods,
  • foodstuffs,
  • machinery
partners:
  • EC 71.0%,
  • US 4.9%,
  • other developed countries 7.9%

Sweden

$54.5 billion (f.o.b., 1991 est.)

commodities:
  • machinery,
  • motor vehicles,
  • paper products,
  • pulp and wood,
  • iron and steel products,
  • chemicals,
  • petroleum and petroleum products
partners:
EC, (FRG, UK, Denmark), US, Norway

Switzerland

$62.2 billion (f.o.b., 1991 est.)

commodities:
  • machinery and equipment,
  • precision instruments,
  • metal products,
  • foodstuffs,
  • textiles and clothing
partners:
  • Western Europe 64% (EC 56%, other 8%),
  • US 9%,
  • Japan 4%

Ukraine

$13.5 billion (1990)

commodities:
  • coal,
  • electric power,
  • ferrous and nonferrous metals,
  • chemicals,
  • machinery and transport equipment,
  • grain,
  • meat
partners:
  • Russia,
  • Belarus,
  • Kazakhstan

United Kingdom

$186.4 billion (f.o.b., 1991)

commodities:
  • manufactured goods,
  • machinery,
  • fuels,
  • chemicals,
  • semifinished goods,
  • transport equipment
partners:
EC 53.2% (FRG 12.7%, France 10.5%, Netherlands 7.0%), US 12.4%

Middle East

17 entries

Bahrain

$3.7 billion (f.o.b., 1990 est.)

commodities:
  • petroleum and petroleum products 80%,
  • aluminum 7%,
  • other 13%
partners:
  • UAE 18%,
  • Japan 12%,
  • India 11%,
  • US 6%

Cyprus

$847 million (f.o.b., 1990)

commodities:
  • citrus,
  • potatoes,
  • grapes,
  • wine,
  • cement,
  • clothing and shoes
partners:
  • UK 23%,
  • Greece 10%,
  • Lebanon 10%,
  • Germany 5%

Gaza Strip

$30 million (f.o.b., 1989)

commodities:
citrus
partners:
Israel, Egypt

Iran

$17.8 billion (f.o.b., 1990)

commodities:
  • petroleum 90%,
  • carpets,
  • fruits,
  • nuts,
  • hides
partners:
Japan, Italy, France, Netherlands, Belgium/Luxembourg, Spain, and Germany

Iraq

$10.4 billion (f.o.b., 1990)

commodities:
  • crude oil and refined products,
  • fertilizer,
  • sulfur
partners:
  • US,
  • Brazil,
  • Turkey,
  • Japan,
  • Netherlands,
  • Spain (1990)

Israel

$12.1 billion (f.o.b., 1991 est.)

commodities:
  • polished diamonds,
  • citrus and other fruits,
  • textiles and clothing,
  • processed foods,
  • fertilizer and chemical products,
  • military hardware,
  • electronics
partners:
  • US,
  • EC,
  • Japan,
  • Hong Kong,
  • Switzerland

Jordan

$1.0 billion (f.o.b., 1991 est.)

commodities:
  • phosphates,
  • fertilizers,
  • potash,
  • agricultural products,
  • manufactures
partners:
  • India,
  • Iraq,
  • Saudi Arabia,
  • Indonesia,
  • Ethiopia,
  • UAE,
  • China

Kuwait

$11.4 billion (f.o.b., 1989)

commodities:
oil 90%
partners:
  • Japan 19%,
  • Netherlands 9%,
  • US 8%,
  • Pakistan 6%

Lebanon

$700 million (f.o.b., 1990 est.)

commodities:
  • agricultural products,
  • chemicals,
  • textiles,
  • precious and semiprecious metals and jewelry,
  • metals and metal products
partners:
  • Saudi Arabia 16%,
  • Switzerland 8%,
  • Jordan 6%,
  • Kuwait 6%,
  • US 5%

Oman

$5.5 billion (f.o.b., 1990)

commodities:
  • petroleum,
  • reexports,
  • fish,
  • processed copper,
  • fruits and vegetables
partners:
  • Japan 35%,
  • South Korea 21%,
  • Singapore 7%,
  • US 6%

Qatar

$3.2 billion (f.o.b., 1990 est.)

commodities:
  • petroleum products 85%,
  • steel,
  • fertilizers
partners:
  • Japan 61%,
  • Brazil 9%,
  • UAE 3%,
  • Singapore 3%

Saudi Arabia

$44.3 billion (f.o.b., 1990)

commodities:
petroleum and petroleum products 85%
partners:
  • US 22%,
  • Japan 22%,
  • Singapore 7%,
  • France 6%

Syria

$3.6 billion (f.o.b., 1991 est.)

commodities:
  • petroleum 40%,
  • farm products 13%,
  • textiles,
  • phosphates (1989)
partners:
  • USSR and Eastern Europe 42%,
  • EC 31%,
  • Arab countries 17%,
  • US/Canada 2% (1989)

Turkey now Turkiye

$13.0 billion (f.o.b., 1990)

commodities:
  • industrial products (steel, chemicals) 81%;
  • fruits,
  • vegetables,
  • tobacco and meat products 19%
partners:
  • EC countries 49%,
  • US 7%,
  • Iran 5%

United Arab Emirates

$21.3 billion (f.o.b., 1990 est.)

commodities:
  • crude oil 65%,
  • natural gas,
  • reexports,
  • dried fish,
  • dates
partners:
  • Japan 35%,
  • Singapore 6%,
  • US 4%,
  • Korea 3%

West Bank

$150 million (f.o.b., 1988 est.)

commodities:
NA
partners:
Jordan, Israel

Yemen

North:
$606 million (f.o.b., 1989)
commodities:
  • crude oil,
  • cotton,
  • coffee,
  • hides,
  • vegetables
partners:
  • FRG 29%,
  • US 26%,
  • Netherlands 12%
South:
$113.8 million (f.o.b., 1989 est.)
commodities:
  • cotton,
  • hides,
  • skins,
  • dried and salted fish
partners:
  • Japan,
  • North Yemen,
  • Italy

North America

5 entries

Bermuda

$30 million (f.o.b., FY88)

commodities:
semitropical produce, light manufactures
partners:
  • US 25%,
  • Italy 25%,
  • UK 14%,
  • Canada 5%,
  • other 31%

Canada

$124.0 billion (f.o.b., 1991)

commodities:
  • newsprint,
  • wood pulp,
  • timber,
  • crude petroleum,
  • machinery,
  • natural gas,
  • aluminum,
  • motor vehicles and parts;
  • telecommunications equipment
partners:
  • US,
  • Japan,
  • UK,
  • Germany,
  • South Korea,
  • Netherlands,
  • China

Mexico

$27.4 billion (f.o.b., 1991 est.)

commodities:
  • crude oil,
  • oil products,
  • coffee,
  • shrimp,
  • engines,
  • motor vehicles,
  • cotton,
  • consumer electronics
partners:
  • US 68%,
  • EC 14%,
  • Japan 6% (1990 est.)

Saint Pierre and Miquelon

$25.5 million (f.o.b., 1990)

commodities:
fish and fish products, fox and mink pelts
partners:
  • US 58%,
  • France 17%,
  • UK 11%,
  • Canada,
  • Portugal

United States

$428.1 billion (f.o.b., 1991 est.)

commodities:
  • capital goods,
  • automobiles,
  • industrial supplies and raw materials,
  • consumer goods,
  • agricultural products
partners:
  • Western Europe 27.3%,
  • Canada 22.1%,
  • Japan 12.1% (1989)

Oceania

25 entries

American Samoa

$307 million (f.o.b., 1989)

commodities:
canned tuna 93%
partners:
US 99.6%

Australia

$41.7 billion (f.o.b., FY91)

commodities:
  • metals,
  • minerals,
  • coal,
  • wool,
  • cereals,
  • meat,
  • manufacturers
partners:
  • Japan 26%,
  • US 11%,
  • NZ 6%,
  • South Korea 4%,
  • Singapore 4%,
  • UK,
  • Taiwan,
  • Hong Kong

Cook Islands

$4.0 million (f.o.b., 1988)

commodities:
  • copra,
  • fresh and canned fruit,
  • clothing
partners:
NZ 80%, Japan

Fiji

$646 million (f.o.b., 1991 est.)

commodities:
  • sugar 40%,
  • gold,
  • clothing,
  • copra,
  • processed fish,
  • lumber
partners:
  • EC 31%,
  • Australia 21%,
  • Japan 8%,
  • US 6%

French Polynesia

$88.9 million (f.o.b., 1989)

commodities:
  • coconut products 79%,
  • mother-of-pearl 14%,
  • vanilla,
  • shark meat
partners:
  • France 54%,
  • US 17%,
  • Japan 17%

Guam

$34 million (f.o.b., 1984)

commodities:
  • mostly transshipments of refined petroleum products,
  • construction materials,
  • fish,
  • food and beverage products
partners:
  • US 25%,
  • Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands 63%,
  • other 12%

Kiribati

$5.8 million (f.o.b., 1990 est.)

commodities:
fish 55%, copra 42%
partners:
  • EC 20%,
  • Marshall Islands 12%,
  • US 8%,
  • American Samoa 4% (1985)

Marshall Islands

$2.5 million (f.o.b., 1985)

commodities:
  • copra,
  • copra oil,
  • agricultural products,
  • handicrafts
partners:
NA

Micronesia, Federated States of now Federated States of Micronesia

$2.3 million (f.o.b., 1988)

commodities:
copra
partners:
NA

Nauru

$93 million (f.o.b., 1984)

commodities:
phosphates
partners:
Australia, NZ

New Caledonia

$671 million (f.o.b., 1989)

commodities:
nickel metal 87%, nickel ore
partners:
  • France 52.3%,
  • Japan 15.8%,
  • US 6.4%

New Zealand

$9.4 billion (f.o.b., FY91)

commodities:
  • wool,
  • lamb,
  • mutton,
  • beef,
  • fruit,
  • fish,
  • cheese,
  • manufactures,
  • chemicals,
  • forestry products
partners:
  • EC 18.3%,
  • Japan 17.9%,
  • Australia 17.5%,
  • US 13.5%,
  • China 3.6%,
  • South Korea 3.1%

Niue

$175,274 (f.o.b., 1985)

commodities:
  • canned coconut cream,
  • copra,
  • honey,
  • passion fruit products,
  • pawpaw,
  • root crops,
  • limes,
  • footballs,
  • stamps,
  • handicrafts
partners:
  • NZ 89%,
  • Fiji,
  • Cook Islands,
  • Australia

Norfolk Island

$1.7 million (f.o.b., FY86)

commodities:
  • postage stamps,
  • seeds of the Norfolk Island pine and Kentia Palm,
  • small quantities of avocados
partners:
  • Australia,
  • Pacific Islands,
  • NZ,
  • Asia,
  • Europe

Northern Mariana Islands

$153.9 million (1989)

commodities:
  • manufactured goods,
  • garments,
  • vegetables,
  • beef,
  • pork
partners:
NA

Pacific Islands, Trust Territory of the now Palau

$0.5 million (f.o.b., 1986)

commodities:
NA
partners:
US, Japan

Papua New Guinea

$1.14 billion (f.o.b., 1990)

commodities:
  • copper ore,
  • gold,
  • coffee,
  • logs,
  • palm oil,
  • cocoa,
  • lobster
partners:
  • FRG,
  • Japan,
  • Australia,
  • UK,
  • Spain,
  • US

Pitcairn Islands

$NA

commodities:
  • fruits,
  • vegetables,
  • curios
partners:
NA

Western Samoa now Samoa

$9 million (f.o.b., 1990)

commodities:
  • coconut oil and cream 54%,
  • taro 12%,
  • copra 9%,
  • cocoa 3%
partners:
  • NZ 28%,
  • American Samoa 23%,
  • Germany 22%,
  • US 6% (1990)

Solomon Islands

$67.3 million (f.o.b., 1990)

commodities:
  • fish 46%,
  • timber 31%,
  • copra 5%,
  • palm oil 5%
partners:
  • Japan 51%,
  • UK 12%,
  • Thailand 9%,
  • Netherlands 8%,
  • Australia 2%,
  • US 2% (1985)

Tokelau

$98,000 (f.o.b., 1983)

commodities:
  • stamps,
  • copra,
  • handicrafts
partners:
NZ

Tonga

$9.6 million (f.o.b., FY90 est.)

commodities:
  • coconut oil,
  • desiccated coconut,
  • copra,
  • bananas,
  • taro,
  • vanilla beans,
  • fruits,
  • vegetables,
  • fish
partners:
  • NZ 35%,
  • Australia 22%,
  • US 13%,
  • Fiji 5% (FY90)

Tuvalu

$1.0 million (f.o.b., 1983 est.)

commodities:
copra
partners:
  • Fiji,
  • Australia,
  • NZ

Vanuatu

$15.6 million (f.o.b., 1990 est.)

commodities:
  • copra 59%,
  • cocoa 11%,
  • meat 9%,
  • fish 8%,
  • timber 4%
partners:
  • Netherlands,
  • Japan,
  • France,
  • New Caledonia,
  • Belgium

Wallis and Futuna

negligible

commodities:
copra, handicrafts
partners:
NA

South America

14 entries

Argentina

$12 billion (f.o.b., 1991)

commodities:
  • meat,
  • wheat,
  • corn,
  • oilseed,
  • hides,
  • wool
partners:
  • US 12%,
  • USSR,
  • Italy,
  • Brazil,
  • Japan,
  • Netherlands

Bolivia

$970 million (f.o.b., 1991)

commodities:
  • metals 45%,
  • natural gas 25%,
  • other 30% (coffee, soybeans, sugar, cotton, timber)
partners:
US 15%, Argentina

Brazil

$31.6 billion (1991)

commodities:
  • iron ore,
  • soybean bran,
  • orange juice,
  • footwear,
  • coffee
partners:
  • EC 31%,
  • US 24%,
  • Latin America 11%,
  • Japan 8% (1990)

Chile

$8.9 billion (f.o.b., 1991)

commodities:
  • copper 50%,
  • other metals and minerals 7%,
  • wood products 6.5%,
  • fish and fishmeal 9%,
  • fruits 5% (1989)
partners:
  • EC 36%,
  • US 18%,
  • Japan 14%,
  • Brazil 6% (1989)

Colombia

$7.5 billion (f.o.b., 1991)

commodities:
  • petroleum (19%),
  • coffee,
  • coal,
  • bananas,
  • fresh cut flowers
partners:
  • US 40%,
  • EC 21%,
  • Japan 5%,
  • Netherlands 4%,
  • Sweden 3%

Ecuador

$2.9 billion (f.o.b., 1991)

commodities:
  • petroleum 47%,
  • coffee,
  • bananas,
  • cocoa products,
  • shrimp,
  • fish products
partners:
  • US 60%,
  • Latin America,
  • Caribbean,
  • EC countries

Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)

at least $14.7 million

commodities:
wool, hides and skins, and other
partners:
  • UK,
  • Netherlands,
  • Japan (1987 est.)

French Guiana

$54.0 million (f.o.b., 1987)

commodities:
  • shrimp,
  • timber,
  • rum,
  • rosewood essence
partners:
  • France 31%,
  • US 22%,
  • Japan 10% (1987)

Guyana

$189 million (f.o.b., 1990 est.)

commodities:
  • bauxite,
  • sugar,
  • gold,
  • rice,
  • shrimp,
  • molasses,
  • timber,
  • rum
partners:
  • UK 31%,
  • US 23%,
  • CARICOM 7%,
  • Canada 6% (1988)

Paraguay

$642 million (f.o.b., 1991)

commodities:
  • cotton,
  • soybean,
  • timber,
  • vegetable oils,
  • coffee,
  • tung oil,
  • meat products
partners:
  • EC 37%,
  • Brazil 25%,
  • Argentina 10%,
  • Chile 6%,
  • US 6%

Peru

$3.3 billion (f.o.b., 1991 est.)

commodities:
  • copper,
  • fishmeal,
  • zinc,
  • crude petroleum and byproducts,
  • lead,
  • refined silver,
  • coffee,
  • cotton
partners:
  • EC 28%,
  • US 22%,
  • Japan 13%,
  • Latin America 12%,
  • former USSR 2%

Suriname

$549 million (f.o.b., 1989 est.)

commodities:
  • alumina,
  • bauxite,
  • aluminum,
  • rice,
  • wood and wood products,
  • shrimp and fish,
  • bananas
partners:
  • Norway 33%,
  • Netherlands 20%,
  • US 15%,
  • FRG 9%,
  • Brazil 5%,
  • UK 5%,
  • Japan 3%,
  • other 10%

Uruguay

$1.6 billion (f.o.b., 1991)

commodities:
  • hides and leather goods 17%,
  • beef 10%,
  • wool 9%,
  • fish 7%,
  • rice 4%
partners:
  • Brazil,
  • US,
  • Argentina,
  • Germany

Venezuela

$15.1 billion (f.o.b., 1991 est.)

commodities:
  • petroleum 80%,
  • bauxite and aluminum,
  • iron ore,
  • agricultural products,
  • basic manufactures
partners:
  • US 50.7%,
  • Europe 13.7%,
  • Japan 4.0% (1989)

Southeast Asia

15 entries

Brunei

$2.2 billion (f.o.b., 1990 est.)

commodities:
  • crude oil,
  • liquefied natural gas,
  • petroleum products
partners:
  • Japan 53%,
  • UK 12%,
  • South Korea 9%,
  • Thailand 7%,
  • Singapore 5% (1990)

Burma now Burma (Myanmar)

$568 million

commodities:
  • teak,
  • rice,
  • oilseed,
  • metals,
  • rubber,
  • gems
partners:
  • Southeast Asia,
  • India,
  • Japan,
  • China,
  • EC,
  • Africa

Cambodia

$32 million (f.o.b., 1988)

commodities:
  • natural rubber,
  • rice,
  • pepper,
  • wood
partners:
  • Vietnam,
  • USSR,
  • Eastern Europe,
  • Japan,
  • India

Christmas Island

$NA

commodities:
phosphate
partners:
Australia, NZ

Cocos Islands now Cocos (Keeling) Islands

$NA

commodities:
copra
partners:
Australia

Hong Kong

$82.0 billion (f.o.b., 1990), including reexports of $53.1 billion

commodities:
  • clothing,
  • textiles,
  • yarn and fabric,
  • footwear,
  • electrical appliances,
  • watches and clocks,
  • toys
partners:
China 25%, US 24%, Germany 7%, Japan 6%, UK 2%, (1990)

Indonesia

$25.7 billion (f.o.b., 1990)

commodities:
  • petroleum and liquefied natural gas 40%,
  • timber 15%,
  • textiles 7%,
  • rubber 5%,
  • coffee 3%
partners:
  • Japan 40%,
  • US 14%,
  • Singapore 7%,
  • Europe 16% (1990)

Laos

$72 million (f.o.b., 1990 est.)

commodities:
  • electricity,
  • wood products,
  • coffee,
  • tin
partners:
  • Thailand,
  • Malaysia,
  • Vietnam,
  • USSR,
  • US,
  • China

Macau

$1.5 billion (1990 est.)

commodities:
  • textiles,
  • clothing,
  • toys
partners:
  • US 33%,
  • Hong Kong 15%,
  • FRG 12%,
  • France 10% (1987)

Malaysia

$35.4 billion (f.o.b., 1991)

commodities:
  • electrical manufactures,
  • crude petroleum,
  • timber,
  • rubber,
  • palm oil,
  • textiles
partners:
  • Singapore,
  • US,
  • Japan,
  • EC

Philippines

$8.7 billion (f.o.b., 1991 est.)

commodities:
  • electrical equipment 19%,
  • textiles 16%,
  • minerals and ores 11%,
  • farm products 10%,
  • coconut 10%,
  • chemicals 5%,
  • fish 5%,
  • forest products 4%
partners:
  • US 36%,
  • EC 19%,
  • Japan 18%,
  • ESCAP 9%,
  • ASEAN 7%

Singapore

$57.8 billion (f.o.b., 1991 est.)

commodities:
  • includes transshipments to Malaysia - petroleum products,
  • rubber,
  • electronics,
  • manufactured goods
partners:
  • US 20%,
  • Malaysia 15%,
  • Japan 9%,
  • Hong Kong 7%,
  • Thailand 6%

Taiwan

$67.2 billion (f.o.b., 1990)

commodities:
  • electrical machinery 18.2%,
  • textiles 15.6%,
  • general machinery and equipment 14.8%,
  • basic metals and metal products 7.8%,
  • foodstuffs 1.7%,
  • plywood and wood products 1.6% (1989)
partners:
US 36.2%, Japan 13.7% (1989)

Thailand

$27.5 billion (f.o.b., 1991)

commodities:
  • machinery and manufactures 62%,
  • food 28%,
  • crude materials 7% (1990)
partners:
  • US 23.4%,
  • Japan 17.2%,
  • Singapore 7.3%,
  • Germany 5.3%,
  • Hong Kong 4.8%,
  • UK 4.4%,
  • Netherlands 4.3%,
  • Malaysia,
  • France,
  • China (1990)

Vietnam

$1.8 billion (f.o.b., 1991)

commodities:
  • agricultural and handicraft products,
  • coal,
  • minerals,
  • crude petroleum,
  • ores,
  • seafood
partners:
  • Japan,
  • Singapore,
  • Thailand,
  • Eastern Europe,
  • USSR

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Central Intelligence Agency. The World Factbook 1992, “Exports”, all entries. Archived by The Factbook, thefactbook.org/fields/exports/1992.

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