The CIA World Factbook Edition 1992 Economy
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Imports 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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1 entryWorld
$3.49 trillion (c.i.f., 1991 est.)
- commodities:
- the whole range of industrial and agricultural goods and services
- partners:
- in value, about 75% of imports by the developed countries
Africa
56 entriesAlgeria
$9 billion (f.o.b., 1991 est.)
- commodities:
- capital goods 29%, consumer goods 30%
- partners:
- France 25%,
- Italy 8%,
- FRG 8%,
- US 6-7%
Angola
$1.5 billion (f.o.b., 1990 est.)
- commodities:
- capital equipment (machinery and electrical equipment),
- food,
- vehicles and spare parts,
- textiles and clothing,
- medicines;
- substantial military deliveries
- partners:
- US,
- USSR,
- Cuba,
- Portugal,
- Brazil
Benin
$428 million (f.o.b., 1990 est.)
- commodities:
- foodstuffs,
- beverages,
- tobacco,
- petroleum products,
- intermediate goods,
- capital goods,
- light consumer goods
- partners:
Botswana
$1.6 billion (c.i.f., 1990 est.)
- commodities:
- foodstuffs,
- vehicles and transport equipment,
- textiles,
- petroleum products
- partners:
- Switzerland,
- SACU (Southern African Customs Union),
- UK,
- US
Burkina now Burkina Faso
$619 million (f.o.b., 1989)
- commodities:
- grain,
- dairy products,
- petroleum,
- machinery
- partners:
Burundi
$234.6 million (c.i.f., 1990)
- commodities:
- capital goods 31%,
- petroleum products 15%,
- foodstuffs,
- consumer goods
- partners:
Cape Verde now Cabo Verde
$107.8 million (c.i.f., 1989)
- commodities:
- petroleum,
- foodstuffs,
- consumer goods,
- industrial products
- partners:
- Sweden 33%,
- Spain 11%,
- Germany 5%,
- Portugal 3%,
- France 3%,
- Netherlands,
- US (1990 est.)
Cameroon
$2.1 billion (c.i.f., 1990 est.)
- commodities:
- machines and electrical equipment,
- transport equipment,
- chemical products,
- consumer goods
- partners:
Central African Republic
$214.5 million (1990 est.)
- commodities:
- food,
- textiles,
- petroleum products,
- machinery,
- electrical equipment,
- motor vehicles,
- chemicals,
- pharmaceuticals,
- consumer goods,
- industrial products
- partners:
- France,
- other EC countries,
- Japan,
- Algeria,
- Yugoslavia
Chad
$264 million (c.i.f., 1990 est.)
- commodities:
- machinery and transportation equipment 39%,
- industrial goods 20%,
- petroleum products 13%,
- foodstuffs 9%;
- note - excludes military equipment
- partners:
- US,
- France,
- Nigeria,
- Cameroon
Comoros
$41 million (f.o.b., 1990 est.)
- commodities:
- rice and other foodstuffs,
- cement,
- petroleum products,
- consumer goods
- partners:
- Europe 62% (France 22%),
- Africa 5%,
- Pakistan,
- China (1988)
Zaire now Democratic Republic of the Congo
$2.1 billion (f.o.b., 1989 est.)
- commodities:
- consumer goods,
- foodstuffs,
- mining and other machinery,
- transport equipment,
- fuels
- partners:
- South Africa,
- US,
- Belgium,
- France,
- FRG,
- Italy,
- Japan,
- UK
Congo now Republic of the Congo
$564 million (c.i.f., 1988)
- commodities:
- foodstuffs,
- consumer goods,
- intermediate manufactures,
- capital equipment
- partners:
- France,
- Italy,
- other EC,
- US,
- FRG,
- Spain,
- Japan,
- Brazil
Ivory Coast now Cote d'Ivoire
$1.4 billion (f.o.b., 1989)
- commodities:
- partners:
- France,
- other EC,
- Nigeria,
- US,
- Japan (1985)
Djibouti
$311 million (f.o.b., 1990 est.)
- commodities:
- foods,
- beverages,
- transport equipment,
- chemicals,
- petroleum products
- partners:
Egypt
$11.7 billion (f.o.b., 1991 est.)
- commodities:
- machinery and equipment,
- foods,
- fertilizers,
- wood products,
- durable consumer goods,
- capital goods
- partners:
- EC,
- US,
- Japan,
- Eastern Europe
Equatorial Guinea
$68.3 million (c.i.f., 1990)
- commodities:
- petroleum,
- food,
- beverages,
- clothing,
- machinery
- partners:
- France 25.9%, Spain 21.0%, Italy 16%, US 12.8%, Netherlands 8%, Germany 3.1%, Gabon 2.9%, Nigeria 1.8 (1988)
Swaziland now Eswatini
$632 million (f.o.b., 1990)
- commodities:
- motor vehicles,
- machinery,
- transport equipment,
- petroleum products,
- foodstuffs,
- chemicals
- partners:
- South Africa 75% (est.),
- Japan,
- Belgium,
- UK
Ethiopia
$1.1 billion (c.i.f., FY88)
- commodities:
- food,
- fuels,
- capital goods
- partners:
- USSR,
- Italy,
- FRG,
- Japan,
- UK,
- US,
- France
Gabon
$0.78 billion (c.i.f., 1989)
- commodities:
- foodstuffs,
- chemical products,
- petroleum products,
- construction materials,
- manufactures,
- machinery
- partners:
- France 48%,
- US 2.6%,
- FRG,
- Japan,
- UK
The Gambia
$147 million (f.o.b., FY90)
- commodities:
- foodstuffs,
- manufactures,
- raw materials,
- fuel,
- machinery and transport equipment
- partners:
Ghana
$1.2 billion (c.i.f., 1991 est.)
- commodities:
- petroleum 16%,
- consumer goods,
- foods,
- intermediate goods,
- capital equipment
- partners:
- US 10%,
- UK,
- FRG,
- France,
- Japan,
- South Korea,
- GDR
Guinea
$692 million (c.i.f., 1990 est.)
- commodities:
- petroleum products, metals, machinery, transport equipment, foodstuffs, textiles, and other grain
- partners:
- US 16%,
- France,
- Brazil
Guinea-Bissau
$68.9 million (f.o.b., 1989 est.)
- commodities:
- capital equipment,
- consumer goods,
- semiprocessed goods,
- foods,
- petroleum
- partners:
- Portugal,
- Netherlands,
- Senegal,
- USSR,
- Germany
Kenya
$1.9 billion (f.o.b., 1991 est.)
- commodities:
- machinery and transportation equipment 29%,
- petroleum and petroleum products 15%,
- iron and steel 7%,
- raw materials,
- food and consumer goods (1989)
- partners:
Lesotho
$604 million (f.o.b., 1990)
- commodities:
- mainly corn,
- building materials,
- clothing,
- vehicles,
- machinery,
- medicines,
- petroleum
- partners:
- South Africa 95%, EC 2% (1989)
Liberia
$394 million (c.i.f., 1989 est.)
- commodities:
- rice,
- mineral fuels,
- chemicals,
- machinery,
- transportation equipment,
- other foodstuffs
- partners:
- US,
- EC,
- Japan,
- China,
- Netherlands,
- ECOWAS
Libya
$7.6 billion (f.o.b., 1990 est.)
- commodities:
- machinery,
- transport equipment,
- food,
- manufactured goods
- partners:
- Italy,
- USSR,
- Germany,
- UK,
- Japan
Malawi
$560 million (c.i.f., 1990 est.)
- commodities:
- food,
- petroleum,
- semimanufactures,
- consumer goods,
- transportation equipment
- partners:
- South Africa,
- Japan,
- US,
- UK,
- Zimbabwe
Mali
$513 million (f.o.b., 1989 est.)
- commodities:
- textiles,
- vehicles,
- petroleum products,
- machinery,
- sugar,
- cereals
- partners:
- mostly franc zone and Western Europe
Mauritania
$389 million (c.i.f., 1990)
- commodities:
- foodstuffs,
- consumer goods,
- petroleum products,
- capital goods
- partners:
Mayotte
$21.8 million (f.o.b., 1984)
- commodities:
- building materials,
- transportation equipment,
- rice,
- clothing,
- flour
- partners:
Mozambique
$870 million (c.i.f., 1990 est.), including aid
- commodities:
- food,
- clothing,
- farm equipment,
- petroleum
- partners:
- US,
- Western Europe,
- USSR
Namibia
$894 million (f.o.b., 1989)
- commodities:
- foodstuffs,
- petroleum products and fuel,
- machinery and equipment
- partners:
- South Africa,
- FRG,
- US,
- Switzerland
Niger
$439 million (c.i.f., 1990)
- commodities:
- petroleum products,
- primary materials,
- machinery,
- vehicles and parts,
- electronic equipment,
- pharmaceuticals,
- chemical products,
- cereals,
- foodstuffs
- partners:
Nigeria
$6.9 billion (c.i.f., 1990)
- commodities:
- consumer goods,
- capital equipment,
- chemicals,
- raw materials
- partners:
- EC, US
Reunion
$1.7 billion (c.i.f., 1988)
- commodities:
- manufactured goods, food, beverages, tobacco, machinery and transportation equipment, raw materials, and petroleum products
- partners:
- France,
- Mauritius,
- Bahrain,
- South Africa,
- Italy
Rwanda
$279.2 million (f.o.b., 1990 est.)
- commodities:
- textiles,
- foodstuffs,
- machines and equipment,
- capital goods,
- steel,
- petroleum products,
- cement and construction material
- partners:
- US,
- Belgium,
- Germany,
- Kenya,
- Japan
Saint Helena now Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha
$2.4 million (c.i.f., 1984)
- commodities:
- food,
- beverages,
- tobacco,
- fuel oils,
- animal feed,
- building materials,
- motor vehicles and parts,
- machinery and parts
- partners:
- UK, South Africa
Sao Tome and Principe
$21.3 million (f.o.b., 1990 est.)
- commodities:
- partners:
- Portugal,
- GDR,
- Angola,
- China
Senegal
$1.05 billion (c.i.f., 1990 est.)
- commodities:
- partners:
- France,
- other EC,
- Ivory Coast,
- Nigeria,
- Algeria,
- China,
- Japan
Seychelles
$186 million (f.o.b., 1990 est.)
- commodities:
- manufactured goods,
- food,
- tobacco,
- beverages,
- machinery and transportation equipment,
- petroleum products
- partners:
Sierra Leone
$146 million (c.i.f., 1990)
- commodities:
- capital goods 40%,
- food 32%,
- petroleum 12%,
- consumer goods 7%,
- light industrial goods
- partners:
- US,
- EC,
- Japan,
- China,
- Nigeria
Somalia
$249 million (c.i.f., 1990 est.)
- commodities:
- petroleum products,
- foodstuffs,
- construction materials
- partners:
- US 13%,
- Italy,
- FRG,
- Kenya,
- UK,
- Saudi Arabia (1986)
South Africa
$18.8 billion (c.i.f., 1991)
- commodities:
- machinery 32%,
- transport equipment 15%,
- chemicals 11%,
- oil,
- textiles,
- scientific instruments,
- base metals
- partners:
- FRG,
- Japan,
- UK,
- US,
- Italy
Sudan
$1.40 billion (c.i.f., FY91 est.)
- commodities:
- foodstuffs,
- petroleum products,
- manufactured goods,
- machinery and equipment,
- medicines and chemicals,
- textiles
- partners:
Tanzania
$1.5 billion (c.i.f., FY91 est.)
- commodities:
- manufactured goods,
- machinery and transportation equipment,
- cotton piece goods,
- crude oil,
- foodstuffs
- partners:
- FRG,
- UK,
- US,
- Japan,
- Italy,
- Denmark
Togo
$502 million (f.o.b., 1990)
- commodities:
- food,
- fuels,
- durable consumer goods,
- other intermediate goods,
- capital goods
- partners:
Tunisia
$4.9 billion (f.o.b., 1991)
- commodities:
- industrial goods and equipment 57%,
- hydrocarbons 13%,
- food 12%,
- consumer goods
- partners:
- EC 67%,
- US 6%,
- Canada,
- Japan,
- Switzerland,
- Turkey,
- Algeria
Uganda
$209 million (c.i.f., 1990)
- commodities:
- petroleum products,
- machinery,
- cotton piece goods,
- metals,
- transportation equipment,
- food
- partners:
Western Sahara
$30 million (c.i.f., 1982 est.)
- commodities:
- fuel for fishing fleet, foodstuffs
- partners:
- Morocco claims and administers Western Sahara, so trade partners are included in overall Moroccan accounts
Zambia
$1.3 billion (c.i.f., 1991)
- commodities:
- machinery,
- transportation equipment,
- foodstuffs,
- fuels,
- manufactures
- partners:
- EC,
- Japan,
- Saudi Arabia,
- South Africa,
- US
Arctic Region
2 entriesAsia
22 entriesAfghanistan
$874 million (c.i.f., FY91 est.)
- commodities:
- food and petroleum products
- partners:
- mostly former USSR
Armenia
$1.5 billion (c.i.f., 1990)
- commodities:
- machinery,
- energy,
- consumer goods (1991)
- partners:
- NA
Azerbaijan
$2.2 billion (c.i.f., 1990)
- commodities:
- machinery and parts,
- consumer durables,
- foodstuffs,
- textiles (1991)
Bhutan
$106.4 million (c.i.f., FY91 est.)
- commodities:
- fuel and lubricants,
- grain,
- machinery and parts,
- vehicles,
- fabrics
- partners:
- India 67%
China
$63.8 billion (c.i.f., 1991)
- commodities:
- specialized industrial machinery,
- chemicals,
- manufactured goods,
- steel,
- textile yarn,
- fertilizer
- partners:
- Hong Kong,
- Japan,
- US,
- Germany,
- Taiwan (1990)
Georgia
$1.5 billion (c.i.f., 1990)
- commodities:
- machinery and parts,
- fuel,
- transport equipment,
- textiles
- partners:
- NA
India
$25.2 billion (c.i.f., FY91)
- commodities:
- petroleum products,
- capital goods,
- uncut gems,
- gems,
- jewelry,
- chemicals,
- iron and steel,
- edible oils
- partners:
Kazakhstan
$NA million (c.i.f., 1990)
- commodities:
- machinery and parts, industrial materials
- partners:
- Russia and other former Soviet republics
Korea, North now North Korea
$2.62 billion (f.o.b., 1990 est.)
- commodities:
- petroleum,
- machinery and equipment,
- coking coal,
- grain
- partners:
- USSR,
- Japan,
- China,
- Hong Kong,
- FRG,
- Singapore
Korea, South now South Korea
$81.6 billion (c.i.f., 1991)
- commodities:
- machinery,
- electronics and electronic equipment,
- oil,
- steel,
- transport equipment,
- textiles,
- organic chemicals,
- grains
- partners:
- Japan 26%, US 23% (1991)
Kyrgyzstan
$1.5 million (c.i.f., 1990)
- commodities:
- lumber,
- industrial products,
- ferrous metals,
- fuel,
- machinery,
- textiles,
- footwear
Mongolia
$360 million (f.o.b., 1991)
- commodities:
- machinery and equipment,
- fuels,
- food products,
- industrial consumer goods,
- chemicals,
- building materials,
- sugar,
- tea
- partners:
Pakistan
$7.9 billion (f.o.b., FY91)
- commodities:
- petroleum,
- petroleum products,
- machinery,
- transportation,
- equipment,
- vegetable oils,
- animal fats,
- chemicals
- partners:
Russia
$43.5 billion (c.i.f., 1991)
- commodities:
- machinery and equipment,
- chemicals,
- consumer goods,
- grain,
- meat,
- semifinished metal products
- partners:
- Western and Eastern Europe,
- Japan,
- Third World countries,
- Cuba
Sri Lanka
$3.0 billion (c.i.f., 1991)
- commodities:
- food and beverages,
- textiles and textile materials,
- petroleum,
- machinery and equipment
- partners:
- Japan,
- Iran,
- US 7.7%,
- India,
- Taiwan,
- Singapore,
- FRG,
- UK
Tajikistan
$1.3 billion (1990)
- commodities:
- chemicals,
- machinery and transport equipment,
- textiles,
- foodstuffs
- partners:
- NA
Turkmenistan
$970 million (1990)
- commodities:
- machinery and parts,
- plastics and rubber,
- consumer durables,
- textiles
- partners:
- NA
Uzbekistan
$3.5 billion (1990)
- commodities:
- machinery and parts,
- consumer durables,
- grain,
- other foods
- partners:
- principally other former Soviet republics
Central America and the Caribbean
31 entriesAntigua and Barbuda
$325.9 million (c.i.f., 1990)
- commodities:
- food and live animals,
- machinery and transport equipment,
- manufactures,
- chemicals,
- oil
- partners:
The Bahamas
$1.14 billion (c.i.f., 1991 est.);
- commodities:
- foodstuffs,
- manufactured goods,
- mineral fuels;
- partners:
Barbados
$704 million (c.i.f., 1990)
- commodities:
- foodstuffs,
- consumer durables,
- raw materials,
- machinery,
- crude oil,
- construction materials,
- chemicals
- partners:
Belize
$194 million (c.i.f., 1991 est.)
- commodities:
- machinery and transportation equipment,
- food,
- manufactured goods,
- fuels,
- chemicals,
- pharmaceuticals
- partners:
- US 56%,
- UK,
- Netherlands Antilles,
- Mexico (1991)
British Virgin Islands
$11.5 million (c.i.f., 1988)
- commodities:
- building materials,
- automobiles,
- foodstuffs,
- machinery
- partners:
- Virgin Islands (US),
- Puerto Rico,
- US
Cayman Islands
$136 million (c.i.f., 1987 est.)
- commodities:
- foodstuffs, manufactured goods
- partners:
- US,
- Trinidad and Tobago,
- UK,
- Netherlands Antilles,
- Japan
Costa Rica
$1.8 billion (c.i.f., 1991 est.)
- commodities:
- petroleum,
- machinery,
- consumer durables,
- chemicals,
- fertilizer,
- foodstuffs
- partners:
- US 40%,
- Japan,
- Guatemala,
- Germany
Cuba
$3.7 billion (c.i.f., 1991 est.)
- commodities:
- petroleum,
- capital goods,
- industrial raw materials,
- food
- partners:
Dominica
$103.9 million (c.i.f., 1990)
- commodities:
- food,
- oils and fats,
- chemicals,
- fuels and lubricants,
- manufactured goods,
- machinery and equipment
- partners:
Dominican Republic
$1.8 billion (c.i.f., 1991 est.)
- commodities:
- foodstuffs,
- petroleum,
- cotton and fabrics,
- chemicals and pharmaceuticals
- partners:
- US 50%
El Salvador
$1.2 billion (c.i.f., 1990 est.)
- commodities:
- petroleum products,
- consumer goods,
- foodstuffs,
- machinery,
- construction materials,
- fertilizer
- partners:
Grenada
$105.0 million (f.o.b., 1989 est.)
- commodities:
- partners:
- US 29%,
- UK,
- Trinidad and Tobago,
- Japan,
- Canada (1989)
Guadeloupe
$1.2 billion (c.i.f., 1988)
- commodities:
- vehicles,
- foodstuffs,
- clothing and other consumer goods,
- construction materials,
- petroleum products
- partners:
- France 64%,
- Italy,
- FRG,
- US (1987)
Guatemala
$1.66 billion (c.i.f., 1990)
- commodities:
- fuel and petroleum products,
- machinery,
- grain,
- fertilizers,
- motor vehicles
- partners:
- US 40%,
- Mexico,
- Venezuela,
- Japan,
- Germany
Honduras
$1.3 billion (c.i.f. 1991)
- commodities:
- machinery and transport equipment,
- chemical products,
- manufactured goods,
- fuel and oil,
- foodstuffs
- partners:
- US 39%,
- Japan 9%,
- CACM,
- Venezuela,
- Mexico
Jamaica
$1.8 billion (c.i.f., 1991 projected)
- commodities:
- petroleum,
- machinery,
- food,
- consumer goods,
- construction goods
- partners:
- US 48%,
- UK,
- Venezuela,
- Canada,
- Japan,
- Trinidad and Tobago
Martinique
$1.3 billion (c.i.f., 1988)
- commodities:
- petroleum products,
- foodstuffs,
- construction materials,
- vehicles,
- clothing and other consumer goods
- partners:
- France 65%,
- UK,
- Italy,
- Germany,
- Japan,
- US (1987)
Montserrat
$30 million (c.i.f., 1988 est.)
- commodities:
- machinery and transportation equipment, foodstuffs, manufactured goods, fuels, lubricants, and related materials
- partners:
- NA
Netherlands Antilles
$1.4 billion (c.i.f., 1988)
- commodities:
- crude petroleum 64%,
- food,
- manufactures
- partners:
Nicaragua
$738 million (c.i.f., 1991 est.)
- commodities:
- petroleum,
- food,
- chemicals,
- machinery,
- clothing
- partners:
Panama
$1.5 billion (f.o.b., 1991 est.)
- commodities:
- capital goods 13%,
- crude oil 12%,
- foodstuffs 10%,
- consumer goods,
- chemicals (1990)
- partners:
- US 37%,
- Japan,
- EC,
- Central America and Caribbean,
- Mexico,
- Venezuela (1989 est.)
Puerto Rico
NA
- commodities:
- chemicals,
- clothing,
- food,
- fish,
- petroleum products
- partners:
- US 68% (FY90)
Saint Kitts and Nevis
$103.2 million (f.o.b., 1990)
- commodities:
- foodstuffs,
- intermediate manufactures,
- machinery,
- fuels
- partners:
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
$130 million (f.o.b., 1990 est.)
- commodities:
- foodstuffs,
- machinery and equipment,
- chemicals and fertilizers,
- minerals and fuels
- partners:
Turks and Caicos Islands
$26.3 million (c.i.f., FY84)
- commodities:
- foodstuffs,
- drink,
- tobacco,
- clothing
- partners:
- US, UK
Virgin Islands
$3.7 billion (c.i.f., 1988)
- commodities:
- crude oil,
- foodstuffs,
- consumer goods,
- building materials
- partners:
- US, Puerto Rico
Europe
44 entriesAlbania
$147 million (f.o.b., 1991 est.)
- commodities:
- machinery,
- machine tools,
- iron and steel products,
- textiles,
- chemicals,
- pharmaceuticals
- partners:
- Italy,
- Yugoslavia,
- Germany,
- Czechoslovakia,
- Romania,
- Poland,
- Hungary,
- Bulgaria
Austria
$50.2 billion (1991)
- commodities:
- petroleum,
- foodstuffs,
- machinery and equipment,
- vehicles,
- chemicals,
- textiles and clothing,
- pharmaceuticals
- partners:
Belgium
$120 billion (c.i.f., 1990) Belgium-Luxembourg Economic Union
- commodities:
- fuels,
- grains,
- chemicals,
- foodstuffs
- partners:
Bosnia and Herzegovina
$1,891 million (1990)
- commodities:
- fuels and lubricants (32%),
- machinery and transport equipment (23.3%),
- other manufactures (21.3%),
- chemicals (10%),
- raw materials (6.7%),
- food and live animals (5.5%),
- beverages and tobacco (1.9%)
- partners:
- principally the other former Yugoslav republics
Croatia
$4.4 billion (1990)
- commodities:
- machinery and transport equipment (21%),
- fuels and lubricants (19%),
- food and live animals (16%),
- chemicals (14%),
- manufactured goods (13%),
- miscellaneous manufactured articles (9%),
- raw materials (6.5%),
- beverages and tobacco (1%)
- partners:
- principally other former Yugoslav republics
Czechoslovakia
$13.3 billion (f.o.b., 1990)
- commodities:
- partners:
- USSR,
- Germany,
- Austria,
- Poland,
- Switzerland,
- Hungary,
- Yugoslavia,
- UK,
- Italy
Denmark
$31.6 billion (c.i.f., 1991)
- commodities:
- petroleum,
- machinery and equipment,
- chemicals,
- grain and foodstuffs,
- textiles,
- paper
- partners:
Finland
$21.6 billion (c.i.f., 1991)
- commodities:
- foodstuffs,
- petroleum and petroleum products,
- chemicals,
- transport equipment,
- iron and steel,
- machinery,
- textile yarn and fabrics,
- fodder grains
- partners:
France
$232.5 billion (c.i.f., 1990)
- commodities:
- crude oil,
- machinery and equipment,
- agricultural products,
- chemicals,
- iron and steel products
- partners:
Gibraltar
$258 million (c.i.f., 1988)
- commodities:
- fuels, manufactured goods, and foodstuffs
- partners:
- UK,
- Spain,
- Japan,
- Netherlands
Ireland
$24.5 billion (c.i.f., 1991)
- commodities:
- food,
- animal feed,
- chemicals,
- petroleum and petroleum products,
- machinery,
- textiles,
- clothing
- partners:
- EC 66% (UK 41%, Germany 9%, France 4%), US 14%
Italy
$222 billion (c.i.f., 1991)
- commodities:
- petroleum,
- industrial machinery,
- chemicals,
- metals,
- food,
- agricultural products
- partners:
Jersey
$NA
- commodities:
- machinery and transport equipment,
- manufactured goods,
- foodstuffs,
- mineral fuels,
- chemicals
- partners:
- UK
Liechtenstein
$NA
- commodities:
- machinery,
- metal goods,
- textiles,
- foodstuffs,
- motor vehicles
- partners:
- NA
Lithuania
2.2 billion rubles (c.i.f., 1990)
- commodities:
- oil 24%,
- machinery 14%,
- chemicals 8%,
- grain NA%
- partners:
- NA
Luxembourg
$7.5 billion (c.i.f., 1990)
- commodities:
- minerals,
- metals,
- foodstuffs,
- quality consumer goods
- partners:
Malta
$2.0 billion (f.o.b., 1990)
- commodities:
- food,
- petroleum,
- machinery and semimanufactured goods
- partners:
Moldova
$1.9 billion rubles (c.i.f., 1990)
- commodities:
- oil, gas, coal, steel machinery, foodstuffs, automobiles, and other consumer durables
- 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
$125.9 billion (c.i.f., 1990)
- commodities:
- raw materials and semifinished products,
- consumer goods,
- transportation equipment,
- crude oil,
- food products
- partners:
- EC 63.8% (FRG 26.5%, Belgium-Luxembourg 23.1%, UK 8.1%), US 7.9% (1988)
Macedonia now North Macedonia
$1,112 million (1990)
- commodities:
- partners:
- other former Yugoslav republics,
- Greece,
- Albania,
- Germany,
- Bulgaria
Norway
$25.1 billion (c.i.f., 1991)
- commodities:
- machinery,
- fuels and lubricants,
- transportation equipment,
- chemicals,
- foodstuffs,
- clothing,
- ships
- partners:
Portugal
$25.1 billion (c.i.f., 1990)
- commodities:
- machinery and transport equipment,
- agricultural products,
- chemicals,
- petroleum,
- textiles
- partners:
Romania
$5.4 billion (f.o.b., 1991 est.)
- commodities:
- fuels, minerals, and metals 56.0%, machinery and equipment 25.5%, agricultural and forestry products 8.6%, manufactured consumer goods 3.4%, other 6.5% (1989)
- partners:
- Communist countries 60%, non-Communist countries 40% (1987)
Serbia and Montenegro
$6.4 billion (c.i.f., 1990)
- commodities:
- machinery and transport equipment 26%, fuels and lubricants 18%, manufactured goods 16%, chemicals 12.5%, food and live animals 11%, miscellaneous manufactured items 8%, raw materials, including coking coal for the steel industry, 7%, beverages, tobacco, and edible oils 1.5%
- partners:
- principally the other former Yugoslav republics;
- the former USSR,
- EC countries (mainly Italy and Germany),
- East European countries,
- US
Slovenia
$4,679 million (c.i.f., 1990)
- commodities:
- partners:
- principally the other former Yugoslav republics, Germany, former USSR, US, Hungary, Italy, and Austria
Spain
$93.1 billion (c.i.f., 1990)
- commodities:
- machinery,
- transport equipment,
- fuels,
- semifinished goods,
- foodstuffs,
- consumer goods,
- chemicals
- partners:
Sweden
$50.2 billion (c.i.f., 1991 est.)
- commodities:
- machinery,
- petroleum and petroleum products,
- chemicals,
- motor vehicles,
- foodstuffs,
- iron and steel,
- clothing
- partners:
- EC 55.3%, US 8.4% (1990)
Switzerland
$68.5 billion (c.i.f., 1991 est.)
- commodities:
- agricultural products,
- machinery and transportation equipment,
- chemicals,
- textiles,
- construction materials
- partners:
- Western Europe 78% (EC 71%, other 7%), US 6%
Ukraine
$16.7 billion (1990)
- commodities:
- machinery and parts,
- transportation equipment,
- chemicals,
- textiles
- partners:
- none *** No entry for this item ***
United Kingdom
$211.9 billion (c.i.f., 1991)
- commodities:
- manufactured goods,
- machinery,
- semifinished goods,
- foodstuffs,
- consumer goods
- partners:
- EC 52.2% (FRG 15.6%, France 9.3%, Netherlands 8.4%), US 11.5%
Middle East
17 entriesCyprus
$2.3 billion (f.o.b., 1990)
- commodities:
- consumer goods,
- petroleum and lubricants,
- food and feed grains,
- machinery
- partners:
Gaza Strip
$255 million (c.i.f., 1989)
- commodities:
- food,
- consumer goods,
- construction materials
- partners:
- Israel, Egypt
Iran
$15.9 billion (c.i.f., 1990)
- commodities:
- machinery,
- military supplies,
- metal works,
- foodstuffs,
- pharmaceuticals,
- technical services,
- refined oil products
- partners:
- Germany,
- Japan,
- Italy,
- UK,
- France
Iraq
$6.6 billion (c.i.f., 1990)
- commodities:
- manufactures, food
- partners:
- FRG,
- US,
- Turkey,
- France,
- UK (1990)
Israel
$18.1 billion (c.i.f., 1991 est.)
- commodities:
- military equipment,
- rough diamonds,
- oil,
- chemicals,
- machinery,
- iron and steel,
- cereals,
- textiles,
- vehicles,
- ships,
- aircraft
- partners:
- US,
- EC,
- Switzerland,
- Japan,
- South Africa,
- Canada,
- Hong Kong
Jordan
$2.3 billion (c.i.f., 1991 est.)
- commodities:
- crude oil,
- machinery,
- transport equipment,
- food,
- live animals,
- manufactured goods
- partners:
- EC,
- US,
- Iraq,
- Saudi Arabia,
- Japan,
- Turkey
Kuwait
$6.6 billion (f.o.b., 1989)
- commodities:
- food,
- construction materials,
- vehicles and parts,
- clothing
- partners:
Oman
$2.5 billion (f.o.b, 1990)
- commodities:
- machinery,
- transportation equipment,
- manufactured goods,
- food,
- livestock,
- lubricants
- partners:
Qatar
$1.5 billion (f.o.b., 1990 est.)
- commodities:
- foodstuffs,
- beverages,
- animal and vegetable oils,
- chemicals,
- machinery and equipment
- partners:
Saudi Arabia
$21.5 billion (f.o.b., 1990)
- commodities:
- manufactured goods,
- transportation equipment,
- construction materials,
- processed food products
- partners:
Syria
$2.7 billion (f.o.b., 1991 est.)
- commodities:
- foodstuffs and beverages 21%,
- metal and metal products 16%,
- machinery 14%,
- textiles,
- petroleum products (1989)
- partners:
Turkey now Turkiye
$22.3 billion (c.i.f., 1990)
- commodities:
- crude oil,
- machinery,
- transport equipment,
- metals,
- chemicals,
- pharmaceuticals,
- dyes,
- plastics,
- rubber,
- fertilizers,
- grain
- partners:
United Arab Emirates
$11.0 billion (f.o.b., 1990 est.)
- commodities:
- food, consumer and capital goods
- partners:
Yemen
Published as “Imports”
- North:
- $1.3 billion (f.o.b., 1988)
Published as “Imports”
- commodities:
- textiles and other manufactured consumer goods, petroleum products, sugar, grain, flour, other foodstuffs, and cement
- partners:
- South:
- $553.9 million (f.o.b., 1989 est.)
- commodities:
- grain,
- consumer goods,
- crude oil,
- machinery,
- chemicals
- partners:
- USSR,
- UK,
- Ethiopia
North America
5 entriesCanada
$118 billion (c.i.f., 1991)
- commodities:
- crude petroleum,
- chemicals,
- motor vehicles and parts,
- durable consumer goods,
- electronic computers;
- telecommunications equipment and parts
- partners:
- US,
- Japan,
- UK,
- Germany,
- France,
- Mexico,
- Taiwan,
- South Korea
Mexico
$36.7 billion (c.i.f., 1991)
- commodities:
- grain,
- metal manufactures,
- agricultural machinery,
- electrical equipment
- partners:
Saint Pierre and Miquelon
$87.2 million (c.i.f., 1990)
- commodities:
- meat,
- clothing,
- fuel,
- electrical equipment,
- machinery,
- building materials
- partners:
- Canada,
- France,
- US,
- Netherlands,
- UK
United States
$499.4 billion (c.i.f., 1991 est.)
- commodities:
- crude and partly refined petroleum,
- machinery,
- automobiles,
- consumer goods,
- industrial raw materials,
- food and beverages
- partners:
Oceania
25 entriesAustralia
$37.8 billion (f.o.b., FY91)
- commodities:
- manufactured raw materials,
- capital equipment,
- consumer goods
- partners:
Cook Islands
$38.7 million (c.i.f., 1988)
- commodities:
- foodstuffs,
- textiles,
- fuels,
- timber
- partners:
- NZ 49%,
- Japan,
- Australia,
- US
Fiji
$840 million (c.i.f., 1991 est.)
- commodities:
- machinery and transport equipment 32%,
- food 15%,
- petroleum products,
- consumer goods,
- chemicals
- partners:
Guam
$493 million (c.i.f., 1984)
- commodities:
- petroleum and petroleum products,
- food,
- manufactured goods
- partners:
Kiribati
$26.7 million (c.i.f., 1990 est.)
- commodities:
- foodstuffs,
- fuel,
- transportation equipment
- partners:
Marshall Islands
$29.2 million (c.i.f., 1985)
- commodities:
- foodstuffs,
- beverages,
- building materials
- partners:
- NA
Micronesia, Federated States of now Federated States of Micronesia
$67.7 million (c.i.f., 1988)
- commodities:
- NA
- partners:
- NA
Nauru
$73 million (c.i.f., 1984)
- commodities:
- food,
- fuel,
- manufactures,
- building materials,
- machinery
- partners:
- Australia,
- UK,
- NZ,
- Japan
New Caledonia
$764 million (c.i.f., 1989)
- commodities:
- foods,
- fuels,
- minerals,
- machines,
- electrical equipment
- partners:
New Zealand
$8.4 billion (f.o.b., FY91)
- commodities:
- petroleum,
- consumer goods,
- motor vehicles,
- industrial equipment
- partners:
Niue
$3.8 million (c.i.f., 1985)
- commodities:
- food,
- live animals,
- manufactured goods,
- machinery,
- fuels,
- lubricants,
- chemicals,
- drugs
- partners:
- NZ 59%,
- Fiji 20%,
- Japan 13%,
- Western Samoa,
- Australia,
- US
Norfolk Island
$15.6 million (c.i.f., FY86)
- commodities:
- NA
- partners:
- Australia,
- Pacific Islands,
- NZ,
- Asia,
- Europe
Northern Mariana Islands
- $313.7 million, a 43% increase over previous year (1989)
- commodities:
- NA
- partners:
- NA
Pacific Islands, Trust Territory of the now Palau
$27.2 million (c.i.f., 1986)
- commodities:
- NA
- partners:
- US
Papua New Guinea
$1.18 billion (c.i.f., 1990)
- commodities:
- machinery and transport equipment,
- food,
- fuels,
- chemicals,
- consumer goods
- partners:
- Australia,
- Singapore,
- Japan,
- US,
- New Zealand,
- UK
Pitcairn Islands
$NA
- commodities:
- fuel oil,
- machinery,
- building materials,
- flour,
- sugar,
- other foodstuffs
- partners:
- NA
Tonga
$59.9 million (c.i.f., FY90 est.)
- commodities:
- food products,
- machinery and transport equipment,
- manufactures,
- fuels,
- chemicals
- partners:
Tuvalu
$2.8 million (c.i.f., 1983 est.)
- commodities:
- food,
- animals,
- mineral fuels,
- machinery,
- manufactured goods
- partners:
- Fiji,
- Australia,
- NZ
Wallis and Futuna
$13.3 million (c.i.f., 1984)
- commodities:
- foodstuffs,
- manufactured goods,
- transportation equipment,
- fuel
- partners:
- France,
- Australia,
- New Zealand
South America
14 entriesArgentina
$8 billion (c.i.f., 1991)
- commodities:
- machinery and equipment,
- chemicals,
- metals,
- fuels and lubricants,
- agricultural products
- partners:
- US 22%,
- Brazil,
- FRG,
- Bolivia,
- Japan,
- Italy,
- Netherlands
Bolivia
$760 million (c.i.f., 1991)
- commodities:
- food,
- petroleum,
- consumer goods,
- capital goods
- partners:
- US 22%
Brazil
$21.0 billion (1991)
- commodities:
- crude oil,
- capital goods,
- chemical products,
- foodstuffs,
- coal
- partners:
Chile
$7.4 billion (f.o.b., 1991)
- commodities:
- petroleum,
- wheat,
- capital goods,
- spare parts,
- raw materials
- partners:
Colombia
$6.1 billion (c.i.f., 1991)
- commodities:
- industrial equipment,
- transportation equipment,
- foodstuffs,
- chemicals,
- paper products
- partners:
Ecuador
$1.95 billion (f.o.b., 1991)
- commodities:
- transport equipment,
- vehicles,
- machinery,
- chemicals
- partners:
- US 34%,
- Latin America,
- Caribbean,
- EC,
- Japan
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)
at least $13.9 million
- commodities:
- food, clothing, fuels, and machinery
- partners:
- UK,
- Netherlands Antilles (Curacao),
- Japan (1987 est.)
French Guiana
$394.0 million (c.i.f., 1987)
- commodities:
- food (grains, processed meat),
- other consumer goods,
- producer goods,
- petroleum
- partners:
Paraguay
$1.85 billion (c.i.f., 1991)
- commodities:
- capital goods 35%, consumer goods 20%, fuels and lubricants 19%, raw materials 16%, foodstuffs, beverages, and tobacco 10%
- partners:
Peru
$3.5 billion (f.o.b., 1991 est.)
- commodities:
- foodstuffs,
- machinery,
- transport equipment,
- iron and steel semimanufactures,
- chemicals,
- pharmaceuticals
- partners:
Suriname
$331 million (f.o.b., 1989 est.)
- commodities:
- capital equipment,
- petroleum,
- foodstuffs,
- cotton,
- consumer goods
- partners:
Uruguay
$1.3 billion (f.o.b., 1991)
- commodities:
- fuels and lubricants 15%,
- metals,
- machinery,
- transportation equipment,
- industrial chemicals
- partners:
Venezuela
$10.2 billion (f.o.b., 1991 est.)
- commodities:
- foodstuffs,
- chemicals,
- manufactures,
- machinery and transport equipment
- partners:
Southeast Asia
15 entriesBrunei
$1.7 billion (c.i.f., 1990 est.)
- commodities:
- machinery and transport equipment,
- manufactured goods,
- food,
- chemicals
- partners:
Burma now Burma (Myanmar)
$1.16 billion
- commodities:
- machinery,
- transport equipment,
- chemicals,
- food products
- partners:
- Japan,
- EC,
- China,
- Southeast Asia
Cambodia
$147 million (c.i.f., 1988)
- commodities:
- international food aid;
- fuels,
- consumer goods,
- machinery
- partners:
- Vietnam,
- USSR,
- Eastern Europe,
- Japan,
- India
Hong Kong
$82.4 billion (c.i.f., 1990)
- commodities:
- foodstuffs,
- transport equipment,
- raw materials,
- semimanufactures,
- petroleum
- partners:
Laos
$238 million (c.i.f., 1990 est.)
- commodities:
- food,
- fuel oil,
- consumer goods,
- manufactures
- partners:
- Thailand,
- USSR,
- Japan,
- France,
- Vietnam,
- China
Malaysia
$38.7 billion (c.i.f., 1991)
- commodities:
- food,
- crude oil,
- consumer goods,
- intermediate goods,
- capital equipment,
- chemicals
- partners:
- Japan,
- US,
- Singapore,
- Germany,
- UK
Singapore
$65.8 billion (c.i.f., 1991 est.)
- commodities:
- includes transshipments from Malaysia - capital equipment,
- petroleum,
- chemicals,
- manufactured goods,
- foodstuffs
- partners:
Thailand
$39.0 billion (c.i.f., 1991)
- commodities:
- machinery and manufactures 67%,
- chemicals l0%,
- fuels 9%,
- crude materials 6% (1990)
- partners:
- Japan 30.2%,
- US 12%,
- Singapore 6.9%,
- Taiwan 5%,
- Germany 4.8%,
- China 3.2%,
- South Korea,
- Malaysia,
- UK (1990)
Vietnam
$1.9 billion (c.i.f., 1991)
- commodities:
- petroleum products,
- steel products,
- railroad equipment,
- chemicals,
- medicines,
- raw cotton,
- fertilizer,
- grain
- partners:
- Japan,
- Singapore,
- Thailand,
- Eastern Europe,
- USSR
Cite this page
Central Intelligence Agency. The World Factbook 1992, “Imports”, all entries. Archived by The Factbook, thefactbook.org/fields/imports/1992.