The World Factbook. 2008.
Exportscommodities
Country | Exports—commodities |
Afghanistan | opium, 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 | petroleum, natural gas, and petroleum products 97% |
American Samoa | canned tuna 93% (2004 est.) |
Andorra | tobacco products, furniture |
Angola | crude oil, diamonds, refined petroleum products, gas, coffee, sisal, fish and fish products, timber, cotton |
Anguilla | lobster, fish, livestock, salt, concrete blocks, rum |
Antigua and Barbuda | petroleum products 48%, manufactures 23%, machinery and transport equipment 17%, food and live animals 4%, other 8% |
Argentina | soybeans and derivatives, petroleum and gas, vehicles, corn, wheat |
Armenia | diamonds, mineral products, foodstuffs, energy |
Aruba | live animals and animal products, art and collectibles, machinery and electrical equipment, transport equipment |
Australia | coal, 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 |
Bahamas, The | mineral products and salt, animal products, rum, chemicals, fruit and vegetables |
Bahrain | petroleum and petroleum products, aluminum, textiles |
Bangladesh | garments, jute and jute goods, leather, frozen fish and seafood (2001) |
Barbados | manufactures, 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, diamonds, metals and metal products, foodstuffs |
Belize | sugar, bananas, citrus, clothing, fish products, molasses, wood |
Benin | cotton, 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 | metals, clothing, wood products |
Botswana | diamonds, 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, refined products, clothing |
Bulgaria | clothing, footwear, iron and steel, machinery and equipment, fuels |
Burkina Faso | cotton, livestock, gold |
Burma | gas, wood products, pulses, beans, fish, rice, clothing, jade and gems |
Burundi | coffee, tea, sugar, cotton, hides |
Cambodia | clothing, 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 | fuel, shoes, garments, fish, hides |
Cayman Islands | turtle products, manufactured consumer goods |
Central African Republic | diamonds, timber, cotton, coffee, tobacco |
Chad | oil, cattle, cotton, gum arabic |
Chile | copper, fruit, fish products, paper and pulp, chemicals, wine |
China | machinery, electrical products, data processing equipment, apparel, textile, steel, mobile phones |
Christmas Island | phosphate |
Cocos (Keeling) Islands | copra |
Colombia | petroleum, coffee, coal, nickel, emeralds, apparel, bananas, cut flowers |
Comoros | vanilla, ylang-ylang (perfume essence), cloves, copra |
Congo, Democratic Republic of the | diamonds, copper, crude oil, coffee, cobalt |
Congo, Republic of the | petroleum, lumber, plywood, sugar, cocoa, coffee, diamonds |
Cook Islands | copra, papayas, fresh and canned citrus fruit, coffee; fish; pearls and pearl shells; clothing |
Costa Rica | bananas, pineapples, coffee, melons, ornamental plants, sugar; seafood; electronic components, medical equipment |
Cote d’Ivoire | cocoa, coffee, timber, petroleum, cotton, bananas, pineapples, palm oil, fish |
Croatia | transport equipment, textiles, chemicals, foodstuffs, fuels |
Cuba | sugar, nickel, tobacco, fish, medical products, citrus, coffee |
Cyprus | area under government control: citrus, potatoes, pharmaceuticals, cement, clothing and cigarettes area administered by Turkish Cypriots: citrus, dairy, potatoes, textiles |
Czech Republic | machinery and transport equipment 52%, chemicals 5%, raw materials and fuel 9% (2003) |
Denmark | machinery and instruments, meat and meat products, dairy products, fish, pharmaceuticals, furniture, windmills |
Djibouti | reexports, hides and skins, coffee (in transit) |
Dominica | bananas, soap, bay oil, vegetables, grapefruit, oranges |
Dominican Republic | ferronickel, sugar, gold, silver, coffee, cocoa, tobacco, meats, consumer goods |
Ecuador | petroleum, bananas, cut flowers, shrimp, cacao, coffee, hemp, wood, fish |
Egypt | crude oil and petroleum products, cotton, textiles, metal products, chemicals |
El Salvador | offshore assembly exports, coffee, sugar, shrimp, textiles, chemicals, electricity |
Equatorial Guinea | petroleum, methanol, timber, cocoa |
Eritrea | livestock, sorghum, textiles, food, small manufactures (2000) |
Estonia | machinery and equipment 33%, wood and paper 15%, textiles 14%, food products 8%, furniture 7%, metals, chemical products (2001) |
Ethiopia | coffee, 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 (1999) |
Fiji | sugar, garments, gold, timber, fish, molasses, coconut oil |
Finland | machinery and equipment, chemicals, metals; timber, paper, pulp (1999) |
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 77%, timber, manganese, uranium (2001) |
Gambia, The | peanut products, fish, cotton lint, palm kernels, re-exports |
Gaza Strip | citrus, flowers, textiles |
Georgia | scrap metal, wine, mineral water, ores, vehicles, fruits and nuts |
Germany | machinery, vehicles, chemicals, metals and manufactures, foodstuffs, textiles |
Ghana | gold, 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 94% (prawns 63%) |
Grenada | bananas, cocoa, nutmeg, fruit and vegetables, clothing, mace |
Guam | mostly transshipments of refined petroleum products; construction materials, fish, food and beverage products |
Guatemala | coffee, sugar, petroleum, apparel, bananas, fruits and vegetables, cardamom |
Guernsey | tomatoes, flowers and ferns, sweet peppers, eggplant, other vegetables |
Guinea | bauxite, alumina, gold, diamonds, coffee, fish, agricultural products |
Guinea-Bissau | cashew nuts, shrimp, peanuts, palm kernels, sawn lumber |
Guyana | sugar, gold, bauxite, alumina, rice, shrimp, molasses, rum, timber |
Haiti | apparel, manufactures, oils, cocoa, mangoes, coffee |
Honduras | coffee, shrimp, 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% (2003) |
Iceland | fish and fish products 70%, aluminum, animal products, ferrosilicon, diatomite |
India | petroleum products, textile goods, gems and jewelry, engineering goods, chemicals, leather manufactures |
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 8%, food and live animals 5% |
Ireland | machinery and equipment, computers, chemicals, pharmaceuticals; live animals, animal products |
Isle of Man | tweeds, herring, processed shellfish, beef, lamb |
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 | alumina, bauxite, sugar, bananas, 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 |
Jordan | clothing, pharmaceuticals, potash, phosphates, fertilizers, vegetables, manufactures |
Kazakhstan | oil and oil products 58%, ferrous metals 24%, chemicals 5%, machinery 3%, grain, wool, meat, coal (2001) |
Kenya | tea, horticultural products, coffee, petroleum products, fish, cement |
Kiribati | copra 62%, coconuts, seaweed, fish |
Korea, North | minerals, metallurgical products, manufactures (including armaments), textiles, agricultural and fishery products |
Korea, South | semiconductors, wireless telecommunications equipment, motor vehicles, computers, steel, ships, petrochemicals |
Kosovo | scrap metals, mining and processed metal products, plastics, wood |
Kosovo | scrap metals, mining and processed metal products, plastics, wood |
Kuwait | oil and refined products, fertilizers |
Kyrgyzstan | cotton, wool, meat, tobacco; gold, mercury, uranium, natural gas, hydropower; machinery; shoes |
Laos | wood products, coffee, electricity, tin, copper, gold |
Latvia | wood and wood products, machinery and equipment, metals, textiles, foodstuffs |
Lebanon | authentic jewelry, inorganic 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 (2000) |
Liberia | rubber, 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 23%, textiles and clothing 16%, machinery and equipment 11%, chemicals 6%, wood and wood products 5%, foodstuffs 5% (2001) |
Luxembourg | machinery and equipment, steel products, chemicals, rubber products, glass |
Macau | clothing, textiles, footwear, toys, electronics, machinery and parts |
Macedonia | food, beverages, tobacco; textiles, miscellaneous manufactures, iron and steel |
Madagascar | coffee, 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 | cotton, gold, livestock |
Malta | machinery and transport equipment, manufactures |
Marshall Islands | copra cake, coconut oil, handicrafts, fish |
Mauritania | iron ore, fish and fish products, gold |
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 |
Micronesia, Federated States of | fish, garments, bananas, black pepper, sakau (kava), betel nut |
Moldova | foodstuffs, textiles, machinery |
Mongolia | copper, apparel, livestock, animal products, cashmere, wool, hides, fluorspar, other nonferrous metals |
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 | aluminum, prawns, cashews, cotton, sugar, citrus, timber; bulk electricity |
Namibia | diamonds, copper, gold, zinc, lead, uranium; cattle, processed fish, karakul skins |
Nauru | phosphates |
Nepal | carpets, clothing, leather goods, jute goods, grain |
Netherlands | machinery and equipment, chemicals, fuels; foodstuffs |
Netherlands Antilles | petroleum products |
New Caledonia | ferronickels, nickel ore, fish |
New Zealand | dairy products, meat, wood and wood products, fish, machinery |
Nicaragua | coffee, beef, shrimp and lobster, tobacco, sugar, gold, peanuts |
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 |
Northern Mariana Islands | garments |
Norway | petroleum and petroleum products, machinery and equipment, metals, chemicals, ships, fish |
Oman | petroleum, 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 | bananas, shrimp, sugar, coffee, clothing |
Papua New Guinea | oil, gold, copper ore, logs, palm oil, coffee, cocoa, crayfish, prawns |
Paraguay | soybeans, feed, cotton, meat, edible oils, electricity, wood, leather |
Peru | copper, gold, zinc, crude petroleum and petroleum products, coffee, potatoes, asparagus, textiles, guinea pigs |
Philippines | semiconductors and electronic products, transport equipment, garments, copper products, petroleum products, coconut oil, fruits |
Pitcairn Islands | fruits, 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% (2003) |
Portugal | clothing and footwear, machinery, chemicals, cork and paper products, hides |
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, wood and wood products, metals, chemicals, and a wide variety of civilian and military manufactures |
Rwanda | coffee, tea, hides, tin ore |
Saint Helena | fish (frozen, canned, and salt-dried skipjack, tuna), coffee, handicrafts |
Saint Kitts and Nevis | machinery, 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 | bananas 39%, eddoes and dasheen (taro), arrowroot starch; tennis racquets |
Samoa | fish, 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 | fish, groundnuts (peanuts), petroleum products, phosphates, cotton |
Serbia | manufactured goods, food and live animals, machinery and transport equipment |
Seychelles | canned tuna, frozen fish, cinnamon bark, copra, petroleum products (reexports) |
Sierra Leone | diamonds, rutile, cocoa, coffee, fish |
Singapore | machinery and equipment (including electronics), consumer goods, chemicals, mineral fuels |
Slovakia | vehicles 25.9%, machinery and electrical equipment 21.3%, base metals 14.6%, chemicals and minerals 10.1%, plastics 5.4% (2004) |
Slovenia | manufactured goods, machinery and transport equipment, chemicals, food |
Solomon Islands | timber, fish, copra, palm oil, cocoa |
Somalia | livestock, bananas, hides, fish, charcoal, scrap metal |
South Africa | gold, diamonds, platinum, other metals and minerals, machinery and equipment |
Spain | machinery, motor vehicles; foodstuffs, pharmaceuticals, medicines, other consumer goods |
Sri Lanka | textiles and apparel, tea and spices; diamonds, emeralds, rubies; coconut products, rubber manufactures, fish |
Sudan | oil and petroleum products; cotton, sesame, livestock, groundnuts, gum arabic, sugar |
Suriname | alumina, 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 | machinery, chemicals, metals, watches, agricultural products |
Syria | crude oil, petroleum products, fruits and vegetables, cotton fiber, clothing, meat and live animals, wheat |
Taiwan | electronic and electrical products, metals, textiles, plastics, chemicals, auto parts (2002) |
Tajikistan | aluminum, electricity, cotton, fruits, vegetable oil, textiles |
Tanzania | gold, coffee, cashew nuts, manufactures, cotton |
Thailand | textiles and footwear, fishery products, rice, rubber, jewelry, automobiles, computers and electrical appliances |
Timor-Leste | coffee, sandalwood, marble; note – potential for oil and vanilla exports |
Togo | reexports, cotton, phosphates, coffee, cocoa |
Tokelau | stamps, copra, handicrafts |
Tonga | squash, 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 | clothing, semi-finished goods and textiles, agricultural products, mechanical goods, phosphates and chemicals, hydrocarbons, electrical equipment |
Turkey | apparel, foodstuffs, textiles, metal manufactures, transport equipment |
Turkmenistan | gas, crude oil, petrochemicals, cotton fiber, textiles |
Turks and Caicos Islands | lobster, dried and fresh conch, conch shells |
Tuvalu | copra, fish |
Uganda | coffee, 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% (2003) |
Uruguay | meat, rice, leather products, wool, fish, dairy products |
Uzbekistan | cotton, gold, energy products, mineral fertilizers, ferrous and non-ferrous metals, textiles, food products, machinery, automobiles |
Vanuatu | copra, beef, cocoa, timber, kava, coffee |
Venezuela | petroleum, bauxite and aluminum, steel, chemicals, agricultural products, basic manufactures |
Vietnam | crude oil, marine products, rice, coffee, rubber, tea, garments, shoes |
Virgin Islands | refined petroleum products |
Wallis and Futuna | copra, chemicals, construction materials |
West Bank | olives, fruit, vegetables, limestone |
Western Sahara | phosphates 62% |
World | the whole range of industrial and agricultural goods and services top ten – share of world trade: electrical machinery, including computers 14.8%; mineral fuels, including oil, coal, gas, and refined products 14.4%; nuclear reactors, boilers, and parts 14.2%; cars, trucks, and buses 8.9%; scientific and precision instruments 3.5%; plastics 3.4%; iron and steel 2.7%; organic chemicals 2.6%; pharmaceutical products 2.6%; diamonds, pearls, and precious stones 1.9% (2006 est.) |
Yemen | crude oil, coffee, dried and salted fish |
Zambia | copper/cobalt 64%, cobalt, electricity; tobacco, flowers, cotton |
Zimbabwe | platinum, cotton, tobacco, gold, ferroalloys, textiles/clothing |