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COUNTRY	DESCRIPTION
Afghanistan	fruits and nuts, handwoven carpets, wool, cotton, hides and pelts, precious and semi-precious gems
Albania	textiles and footwear; asphalt, metals and metallic ores, crude oil; vegetables, fruits, tobacco
Algeria	natural gas, and petroleum products 97%
American Samoa	canned tuna 93%
Andorra	tobacco products, furniture
Angola	crude oil, diamonds, refined petroleum products, coffee, sisal, fish and fish products, timber, cotton
Anguilla	lobster, fish, livestock, salt, concrete blocks, rum
Antigua and Barbuda	petroleum products, bedding, handicrafts, electronic components, transport equipment, food and live animals
Argentina	soybeans and derivatives, petroleum and gas, vehicles, corn, wheat
Armenia	pig iron, unwrought copper, nonferrous metals, diamonds, mineral products, foodstuffs, energy
Aruba	live animals and animal products, art and collectibles, machinery and electrical equipment, transport equipment
Australia	iron ore, gold, meat, wool, alumina, wheat, machinery and transport equipment
Austria	machinery and equipment, motor vehicles and parts, paper and paperboard, metal goods, chemicals, iron and steel, textiles, foodstuffs
Azerbaijan	oil and gas 90%, machinery, cotton, foodstuffs
Bahrain	petroleum and petroleum products, aluminum, textiles
Bangladesh	frozen fish and seafood, jute and jute goods, leather
Barbados	sugar and molasses, rum, other foods and beverages, chemicals, electrical components
Belarus	machinery and equipment, mineral products, chemicals, metals, textiles, foodstuffs
Belgium	machinery and equipment, chemicals, finished diamonds, metals and metal products, foodstuffs
Belize	bananas, citrus, clothing, fish products, molasses, wood, crude oil
Benin	cashews, shea butter, textiles, palm products, seafood
Bermuda	reexports of pharmaceuticals
Bhutan	electricity (to India), cardamom, gypsum, timber, handicrafts, cement, fruit, precious stones, spices
Bolivia	natural gas, soybeans and soy products, crude petroleum, zinc ore, tin
Bosnia and Herzegovina	clothing, wood products
Botswana	copper, nickel, soda ash, meat, textiles
Brazil	transport equipment, iron ore, soybeans, footwear, coffee, autos
British Virgin Islands	rum, fresh fish, fruits, animals; gravel, sand
Brunei	crude oil, natural gas, garments
Bulgaria	footwear, iron and steel, machinery and equipment, fuels
Burkina Faso	livestock, gold
Burma	natural gas, wood products, pulses, beans, fish, rice, clothing, jade and gems
Burundi	tea, sugar, cotton, hides
Cambodia	timber, rubber, rice, fish, tobacco, footwear
Cameroon	crude oil and petroleum products, lumber, cocoa beans, aluminum, coffee, cotton
Canada	motor vehicles and parts, industrial machinery, aircraft, telecommunications equipment; chemicals, plastics, fertilizers; wood pulp, timber, crude petroleum, natural gas, electricity, aluminum
Cape Verde	shoes, garments, fish, hides
Cayman Islands	turtle products, manufactured consumer goods
Central African Republic	timber, cotton, coffee, tobacco
Chad	cattle, cotton, gum arabic
Chile	fruit, fish products, paper and pulp, chemicals, wine
China	electrical and other machinery, including data processing equipment, apparel, textiles, iron and steel, optical and medical equipment
Christmas Island	phosphate
Cocos (Keeling) Islands	copra
Colombia	coffee, coal, nickel, emeralds, apparel, bananas, cut flowers
Comoros	ylang-ylang (perfume essence), cloves, copra
Congo, Republic of the	lumber, plywood, sugar, cocoa, coffee, diamonds
Cook Islands	copra, papayas, fresh and canned citrus fruit, coffee; fish; pearls and pearl shells; clothing
Costa Rica	pineapples, coffee, melons, ornamental plants, sugar; beef; seafood; electronic components, medical equipment
Cote d'Ivoire	coffee, timber, petroleum, cotton, bananas, pineapples, palm oil, fish
Croatia	transport equipment, machinery, textiles, chemicals, foodstuffs, fuels
Cuba	nickel, tobacco, fish, medical products, citrus, coffee
Cyprus	potatoes, pharmaceuticals, cement, clothing
Czech Republic	machinery and transport equipment, raw materials and fuel, chemicals
Democratic Republic of the Congo	gold, copper, cobalt, wood products, crude oil, coffee
Denmark	machinery and instruments, meat and meat products, dairy products, fish, pharmaceuticals, furniture, windmills
Djibouti	hides and skins, coffee (in transit)
Dominica	soap, bay oil, vegetables, grapefruit, oranges
Dominican Republic	sugar, gold, silver, coffee, cocoa, tobacco, meats, consumer goods
East Timor	coffee, sandalwood, marble; note - potential for oil and vanilla exports
Ecuador	bananas, cut flowers, shrimp, cacao, coffee, hemp, wood, fish
Egypt	crude oil and petroleum products, cotton, textiles, metal products, chemicals, processed food
El Salvador	offshore assembly exports, coffee, sugar, textiles and apparel, gold, ethanol, chemicals, electricity, iron and steel manufactures
Equatorial Guinea	methanol, timber, cocoa
Eritrea	sorghum, textiles, food, small manufactures
Estonia	machinery and electrical equipment 21%, wood and wood products 9%, metals 9%, furniture 7%, vehicles and parts 5%, food products and beverages 4%, textiles 4%, plastics 3%
Ethiopia	qat, gold, leather products, live animals, oilseeds
European Union	machinery, motor vehicles, aircraft, plastics, pharmaceuticals and other chemicals, fuels, iron and steel, nonferrous metals, wood pulp and paper products, textiles, meat, dairy products, fish, alcoholic beverages.
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)	wool, hides, meat, fish, squid
Faroe Islands	fish and fish products 94%, stamps, ships
Federated States of Micronesia	fish, garments, bananas, black pepper, sakau (kava), betel nut
Fiji	garments, gold, timber, fish, molasses, coconut oil
Finland	electrical and optical equipment, machinery, transport equipment, paper and pulp, chemicals, basic metals; timber
France	machinery and transportation equipment, aircraft, plastics, chemicals, pharmaceutical products, iron and steel, beverages
French Polynesia	cultured pearls, coconut products, mother-of-pearl, vanilla, shark meat
Gabon	crude oil 70%, timber, manganese, uranium
Gaza Strip	citrus, flowers, textiles
Georgia	scrap metal, wine, mineral water, ores, vehicles, fruits and nuts
Germany	vehicles, chemicals, metals and manufactures, foodstuffs, textiles
Ghana	cocoa, timber, tuna, bauxite, aluminum, manganese ore, diamonds, horticulture
Gibraltar	(principally reexports) petroleum 51%, manufactured goods 41%, other 8%
Greece	food and beverages, manufactured goods, petroleum products, chemicals, textiles
Greenland	fish and fish products 72%, metals 10%
Grenada	cocoa, nutmeg, fruit and vegetables, clothing, mace
Guam	transshipments of refined petroleum products, construction materials, fish, food and beverage products
Guatemala	sugar, petroleum, apparel, bananas, fruits and vegetables, cardamom
Guernsey	flowers and ferns, sweet peppers, eggplant, other vegetables
Guinea	alumina, gold, diamonds, coffee, fish, agricultural products
Guinea-Bissau	shrimp; cashew nuts, peanuts, palm kernels, sawn lumber
Guyana	gold, bauxite, alumina, rice, shrimp, molasses, rum, timber
Haiti	manufactures, oils, cocoa, mangoes, coffee
Honduras	coffee, shrimp, wire harnessing, cigars, bananas, gold, palm oil, fruit, lobster, lumber
Hong Kong	electrical machinery and appliances, textiles, apparel, footwear, watches and clocks, toys, plastics, precious stones, printed material
Hungary	machinery and equipment 61.1%, other manufactures 28.7%, food products 6.5%, raw materials 2%, fuels and electricity 1.6%
Iceland	fish and fish products 40%, aluminum, animal products, ferrosilicon, diatomite
India	petroleum products, precious stones, machinery, iron and steel, chemicals, vehicles, apparel
Indonesia	oil and gas, electrical appliances, plywood, textiles, rubber
Iran	petroleum 80%, chemical and petrochemical products, fruits and nuts, carpets
Iraq	crude oil 84%, crude materials excluding fuels, food and live animals
Ireland	machinery and equipment, computers, chemicals, pharmaceuticals; live animals, animal products
Israel	machinery and equipment, software, cut diamonds, agricultural products, chemicals, textiles and apparel
Italy	engineering products, textiles and clothing, production machinery, motor vehicles, transport equipment, chemicals; food, beverages and tobacco; minerals, and nonferrous metals
Jamaica	bauxite, sugar, rum, coffee, yams, beverages, chemicals, wearing apparel, mineral fuels
Japan	transport equipment, motor vehicles, semiconductors, electrical machinery, chemicals
Jersey	light industrial and electrical goods, dairy cattle, foodstuffs, textiles, flowers
Jordan	fertilizers, potash, phosphates, vegetables, pharmaceuticals
Kazakhstan	oil and oil products 59%, ferrous metals 19%, chemicals 5%, machinery 3%, grain, wool, meat, coal
Kenya	horticultural products, coffee, petroleum products, fish, cement
Kiribati	copra 62%, coconuts, seaweed, fish
Kuwait	oil and refined products, fertilizers
Kyrgyzstan	wool, meat, tobacco; gold, mercury, uranium, natural gas, hydropower; machinery; shoes
Laos	wood products, coffee, electricity, tin, copper, gold
Latvia	food products, wood and wood products, metals, machinery and equipment, textiles
Lebanon	base metals, chemicals, miscellaneous consumer goods, fruit and vegetables, tobacco, construction minerals, electric power machinery and switchgear, textile fibers, paper
Lesotho	manufactures 75% (clothing, footwear, road vehicles), wool and mohair, food and live animals
Liberia	timber, iron, diamonds, cocoa, coffee
Libya	crude oil, refined petroleum products, natural gas, chemicals
Liechtenstein	small specialty machinery, connectors for audio and video, parts for motor vehicles, dental products, hardware, prepared foodstuffs, electronic equipment, optical products
Lithuania	mineral products 22%, machinery and equipment 10%, chemicals 9%, textiles 7%, foodstuffs 7%, plastics 7%
Luxembourg	machinery and equipment, steel products, chemicals, rubber products, glass
Macau	textiles, footwear, toys, electronics, machinery and parts
Madagascar	vanilla, shellfish, sugar, cotton cloth, chromite, petroleum products
Malawi	tobacco 53%, tea, sugar, cotton, coffee, peanuts, wood products, apparel
Malaysia	electronic equipment, petroleum and liquefied natural gas, wood and wood products, palm oil, rubber, textiles, chemicals
Maldives	fish
Mali	gold, livestock
Malta	electrical machinery, mechanical appliances, fish and crustaceans, pharmaceutical products, printed material
Marshall Islands	copra cake, coconut oil, handicrafts, fish
Martinique	refined petroleum products, bananas, rum, pineapples
Mauritania	iron ore, fish and fish products, gold, copper, petroleum
Mauritius	clothing and textiles, sugar, cut flowers, molasses, fish
Mayotte	ylang-ylang (perfume essence), vanilla, copra, coconuts, coffee, cinnamon
Mexico	manufactured goods, oil and oil products, silver, fruits, vegetables, coffee, cotton
Moldova	textiles, machinery
Mongolia	apparel, livestock, animal products, cashmere, wool, hides, fluorspar, other nonferrous metals, coal
Montserrat	electronic components, plastic bags, apparel; hot peppers, limes, live plants; cattle
Morocco	clothing and textiles, electric components, inorganic chemicals, transistors, crude minerals, fertilizers (including phosphates), petroleum products, citrus fruits, vegetables, fish
Mozambique	prawns, cashews, cotton, sugar, citrus, timber; bulk electricity
Namibia	copper, gold, zinc, lead, uranium; cattle, processed fish, karakul skins
Nauru	phosphates
Nepal	pulses, carpets, textiles, juice, pashima, jute goods
Netherlands	machinery and equipment, chemicals, fuels; foodstuffs
Netherlands Antilles	petroleum products
New Caledonia	nickel ore, fish
New Zealand	dairy products, meat, wood and wood products, fish, machinery
Nicaragua	beef, shrimp and lobster, tobacco, sugar, gold, peanuts; textiles and apparel
Niger	uranium ore, livestock, cowpeas, onions
Nigeria	petroleum and petroleum products 95%, cocoa, rubber
Niue	canned coconut cream, copra, honey, vanilla, passion fruit products, pawpaws, root crops, limes, footballs, stamps, handicrafts
Norfolk Island	postage stamps, seeds of the Norfolk Island pine and Kentia palm, small quantities of avocados
North Korea	metallurgical products, manufactures (including armaments), textiles, agricultural and fishery products
Northern Mariana Islands	garments
Norway	petroleum and petroleum products, machinery and equipment, metals, chemicals, ships, fish
Oman	reexports, fish, metals, textiles
Pakistan	textiles (garments, bed linen, cotton cloth, yarn), rice, leather goods, sports goods, chemicals, manufactures, carpets and rugs
Palau	shellfish, tuna, copra, garments
Panama	shrimp, sugar, coffee, clothing
Papua New Guinea	gold, copper ore, logs, palm oil, coffee, cocoa, crayfish, prawns
Paraguay	feed, cotton, meat, edible oils, electricity, wood, leather
Peru	gold, zinc, crude petroleum and petroleum products, coffee, potatoes, asparagus, textiles, fishmeal
Philippines	semiconductors and electronic products, transport equipment, garments, copper products, petroleum products, coconut oil, fruits
Pitcairn Islands	vegetables, curios, stamps
Poland	machinery and transport equipment 37.8%, intermediate manufactured goods 23.7%, miscellaneous manufactured goods 17.1%, food and live animals 7.6%
Portugal	agricultural products, food products, oil products, chemical products, plastics and rubber, skins and leather, wood and cork, wood pulp and paper, textile materials, clothing, footwear, minerals and mineral products, base metals, machinery and tools, vehicles and other transport material, and optical and precision instruments
Puerto Rico	chemicals, electronics, apparel, canned tuna, rum, beverage concentrates, medical equipment
Qatar	liquefied natural gas (LNG), petroleum products, fertilizers, steel
Romania	machinery and equipment, textiles and footwear, metals and metal products, machinery and equipment, minerals and fuels, chemicals, agricultural products
Russia	petroleum and petroleum products, natural gas, metals, wood and wood products, chemicals, and a wide variety of civilian and military manufactures
Rwanda	tea, hides, tin ore
Saint Helena	fish (frozen, canned, and salt-dried skipjack, tuna), coffee, handicrafts
Saint Kitts and Nevis	food, electronics, beverages, tobacco
Saint Lucia	bananas 41%, clothing, cocoa, vegetables, fruits, coconut oil
Saint Pierre and Miquelon	fish and fish products, soybeans, animal feed, mollusks and crustaceans, fox and mink pelts
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	eddoes and dasheen (taro), arrowroot starch; tennis racquets
Samoa	coconut oil and cream, copra, taro, automotive parts, garments, beer
San Marino	building stone, lime, wood, chestnuts, wheat, wine, baked goods, hides, ceramics
Sao Tome and Principe	cocoa 80%, copra, coffee, palm oil
Saudi Arabia	petroleum and petroleum products 90%
Senegal	groundnuts (peanuts), petroleum products, phosphates, cotton
Serbia and Montenegro	iron and steel, rubber, clothes, wheat, fruit and vegetables, non-ferrous metals, electric appliances, metal products, weapons and ammunition
Seychelles	canned tuna, frozen fish, cinnamon bark, copra, petroleum products (reexports)
Sierra Leone	rutile, cocoa, coffee, fish
Singapore	machinery and equipment (including electronics), consumer goods, pharmaceuticals and other chemicals, mineral fuels
Slovakia	machinery and electrical equipment 35.9%, vehicles 21%, base metals 11.3%, chemicals and minerals 8.1%, plastics 4.9%
Slovenia	manufactured goods, machinery and transport equipment, chemicals, food
Solomon Islands	fish, copra, palm oil, cocoa
Somalia	bananas, hides, fish, charcoal, scrap metal
South Africa	diamonds, platinum, other metals and minerals, machinery and equipment
South Korea	wireless telecommunications equipment, motor vehicles, computers, steel, ships, petrochemicals
Spain	motor vehicles; foodstuffs, pharmaceuticals, medicines, other consumer goods
Sri Lanka	textiles and apparel, tea and spices; rubber manufactures; precious stones; coconut products, fish
Sudan	oil and petroleum products; cotton, sesame, livestock, groundnuts, gum arabic, sugar
Suriname	gold, crude oil, lumber, shrimp and fish, rice, bananas
Swaziland	soft drink concentrates, sugar, wood pulp, cotton yarn, refrigerators, citrus and canned fruit
Sweden	machinery 35%, motor vehicles, paper products, pulp and wood, iron and steel products, chemicals
Switzerland	chemicals, metals, watches, agricultural products
Syria	crude oil, minerals, petroleum products, fruits and vegetables, cotton fiber, textiles, clothing, meat and live animals, wheat
Taiwan	flat panels, machinery; metals; textiles, plastics, chemicals; optical, photographic, measuring, and medical instruments
Tajikistan	electricity, cotton, fruits, vegetable oil, textiles
Tanzania	coffee, cashew nuts, manufactures, cotton
Thailand	textiles and footwear, fishery products, rice, rubber, jewelry, automobiles, computers and electrical appliances
The Bahamas	mineral products and salt, animal products, rum, chemicals, fruit and vegetables
The Gambia	peanut products, fish, cotton lint, palm kernels, re-exports
Togo	cotton, phosphates, coffee, cocoa
Tokelau	stamps, copra, handicrafts
Tonga	fish, vanilla beans, root crops
Trinidad and Tobago	petroleum and petroleum products, liquefied natural gas (LNG), methanol, ammonia, urea, steel products, beverages, cereal and cereal products, sugar, cocoa, coffee, citrus fruit, vegetables, flowers
Tunisia	semi-finished goods and textiles, agricultural products, mechanical goods, phosphates and chemicals, hydrocarbons, electrical equipment
Turkey	foodstuffs, textiles, metal manufactures, transport equipment
Turkmenistan	crude oil, petrochemicals, textiles, cotton fiber
Turks and Caicos Islands	lobster, dried and fresh conch, conch shells
Tuvalu	copra, fish
Uganda	fish and fish products, tea, cotton, flowers, horticultural products; gold
Ukraine	ferrous and nonferrous metals, fuel and petroleum products, chemicals, machinery and transport equipment, food products
United Arab Emirates	crude oil 45%, natural gas, reexports, dried fish, dates
United Kingdom	manufactured goods, fuels, chemicals; food, beverages, tobacco
United States	agricultural products (soybeans, fruit, corn) 9.2%, industrial supplies (organic chemicals) 26.8%, capital goods (transistors, aircraft, motor vehicle parts, computers, telecommunications equipment) 49.0%, consumer goods (automobiles, medicines) 15.0%
Uruguay	soybeans, cellulose, rice, wheat, wood, dairy products; wool
Uzbekistan	energy products, cotton, gold, mineral fertilizers, ferrous and non-ferrous metals, textiles, food products, machinery, automobiles
Vanuatu	beef, cocoa, timber, kava, coffee
Venezuela	bauxite and aluminum, minerals, chemicals, agricultural products, basic manufactures
Vietnam	shoes, marine products, crude oil, electronics, wooden products, rice, machinery
Virgin Islands	refined petroleum products
Wallis and Futuna	copra, chemicals, construction materials
West Bank	olives, fruit, vegetables, limestone
Western Sahara	phosphates 62%
Yemen	crude oil, coffee, dried and salted fish, liquefied natural gas
Zambia	copper/cobalt 64%, cobalt, electricity; tobacco, flowers, cotton
Zimbabwe	cotton, tobacco, gold, ferroalloys, textiles/clothing

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