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Field Listing - Imports - commodities

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This entry provides a rank ordering of imported products starting with the most important; it sometimes includes the percent of total dollar value.

Country	Imports - commodities
Afghanistan	capital goods, food and petroleum products; most consumer goods
Albania	machinery and equipment, foodstuffs, textiles, chemicals
Algeria	capital goods, food and beverages, consumer goods
American Samoa	materials for canneries 56%, food 8%, petroleum products 7%, machinery and parts 6%
Andorra	consumer goods, food, electricity
Angola	machinery and electrical equipment, vehicles and spare parts; medicines, food, textiles, military goods
Anguilla	fuels, foodstuffs, manufactures, chemicals, textiles
Antigua and Barbuda	food and live animals, machinery and transport equipment, manufactures, chemicals, oil
Argentina	machinery and equipment, motor vehicles, chemicals, metal manufactures, plastics
Armenia	natural gas, petroleum, tobacco products, foodstuffs, diamonds
Aruba	machinery and electrical equipment, crude oil for refining and reexport, chemicals; foodstuffs
Australia	machinery and transport equipment, computers and office machines, telecommunication equipment and parts; crude oil and petroleum products
Austria	machinery and equipment, motor vehicles, chemicals, metal goods, oil and oil products; foodstuffs
Azerbaijan	machinery and equipment, foodstuffs, metals, chemicals
Bahamas, The	machinery and transport equipment, manufactures, chemicals, mineral fuels; food and live animals (1999)
Bahrain	crude oil, machinery, chemicals
Bangladesh	machinery and equipment, chemicals, iron and steel, textiles, raw cotton, food, crude oil and petroleum products, cement
Barbados	consumer goods, machinery, foodstuffs, construction materials, chemicals, fuel, electrical components
Belarus	mineral products, machinery and equipment, chemicals, foodstuffs, metals
Belgium	machinery and equipment, chemicals, metals and metal products
Belize	machinery and transportation equipment, manufactured goods; food, beverages, tobacco; fuels, chemicals, pharmaceuticals
Benin	foodstuffs, capital goods, petroleum products
Bermuda	machinery and transport equipment, construction materials, chemicals, food and live animals
Bhutan	fuel and lubricants, grain, machinery and parts, vehicles, fabrics, rice
Bolivia	capital goods, raw materials and semi-manufactures, chemicals, petroleum, food
Bosnia and Herzegovina	machinery and transport equipment, industrial products, foodstuffs
Botswana	foodstuffs, machinery, electrical goods, transport equipment, textiles, fuel and petroleum products, wood and paper products, metal and metal products (2000)
Brazil	machinery and equipment, chemical products, oil, electricity, autos and auto parts
British Virgin Islands	building materials, automobiles, foodstuffs, machinery
Brunei	machinery and transport equipment, manufactured goods, food, chemicals
Bulgaria	fuels, minerals, and raw materials; machinery and equipment; metals and ores; chemicals and plastics; food, textiles
Burkina Faso	capital goods, food products, petroleum
Burma	machinery, transport equipment, construction materials, food products, textile fabrics, petroleum products
Burundi	capital goods, petroleum products, foodstuffs
Cambodia	petroleum products, cigarettes, gold, construction materials, machinery, motor vehicles
Cameroon	machinery, electrical equipment, transport equipment, fuel, food
Canada	machinery and equipment, motor vehicles and parts, crude oil, chemicals, electricity, durable consumer goods
Cape Verde	foodstuffs, industrial products, transport equipment, fuels
Cayman Islands	foodstuffs, manufactured goods
Central African Republic	food, textiles, petroleum products, machinery, electrical equipment, motor vehicles, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, consumer goods, industrial products
Chad	machinery and transportation equipment, industrial goods, petroleum products, foodstuffs, textiles
Chile	consumer goods, chemicals, motor vehicles, fuels, electrical machinery, heavy industrial machinery, food
China	machinery and equipment, mineral fuels, plastics, iron and steel, chemicals
Christmas Island	consumer goods
Cocos (Keeling) Islands	foodstuffs
Colombia	industrial equipment, transportation equipment, consumer goods, chemicals, paper products, fuels, electricity
Comoros	rice and other foodstuffs, consumer goods; petroleum products, cement, transport equipment
Congo, Democratic Republic of the	foodstuffs, mining and other machinery, transport equipment, fuels
Congo, Republic of the	petroleum products, capital equipment, construction materials, foodstuffs
Cook Islands	foodstuffs, textiles, fuels, timber, capital goods
Costa Rica	raw materials, consumer goods, capital equipment, petroleum
Cote d'Ivoire	food, consumer goods; capital goods, fuel, transport equipment, raw materials
Croatia	machinery, transport and electrical equipment, chemicals, fuels and lubricants, foodstuffs
Cuba	petroleum, food, machinery, chemicals, semifinished goods, transport equipment, consumer goods
Cyprus	Greek Cypriot area: consumer goods, petroleum and lubricants, food and feed grains, machinery; Turkish Cypriot area: food, minerals, chemicals, machinery
Czech Republic	machinery and transport equipment 40%, intermediate manufactures 21%, raw materials and fuels 13%, chemicals 11% (2000)
Denmark	machinery and equipment, raw materials and semimanufactures for industry, chemicals, grain and foodstuffs, consumer goods
Djibouti	foods, beverages, transport equipment, chemicals, petroleum products
Dominica	manufactured goods, machinery and equipment, food, chemicals
Dominican Republic	foodstuffs, petroleum, cotton and fabrics, chemicals and pharmaceuticals
East Timor	NA
Ecuador	machinery and equipment, chemicals, raw materials, fuels; consumer goods
Egypt	machinery and equipment, foodstuffs, chemicals, wood products, fuels
El Salvador	raw materials, consumer goods, capital goods, fuels, foodstuffs, petroleum, electricity
Equatorial Guinea	petroleum sector equipment, manufactured goods and equipment
Eritrea	machinery, petroleum products, food, manufactured goods
Estonia	machinery and equipment 38.5%, chemical products 11.2%, textiles 9.5%, foodstuffs 8.6%, metals 8.1% (2000)
Ethiopia	food and live animals, petroleum and petroleum products, chemicals, machinery, motor vehicles, cereals, textiles
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)	fuel, food and drink, building materials, clothing
Faroe Islands	machinery and transport equipment 29%, consumer goods 36%, raw materials and semi-manufactures 32%, fuels, fish and salt (1999)
Fiji	manufactured goods, machinery and transport equipment, petroleum products, food, chemicals
Finland	foodstuffs, petroleum and petroleum products, chemicals, transport equipment, iron and steel, machinery, textile yarn and fabrics, grains
France	machinery and equipment, vehicles, crude oil, aircraft, plastics, chemicals
French Guiana	food (grains, processed meat), machinery and transport equipment, fuels and chemicals
French Polynesia	fuels, foodstuffs, equipment
Gabon	machinery and equipment, foodstuffs, chemicals, construction materials
Gambia, The	foodstuffs, manufactures, fuel, machinery and transport equipment
Gaza Strip	food, consumer goods, construction materials
Georgia	fuels, machinery and parts, transport equipment, grain and other foods, pharmaceuticals
Germany	machinery, vehicles, chemicals, foodstuffs, textiles, metals
Ghana	capital equipment, petroleum, foodstuffs
Gibraltar	fuels, manufactured goods, and foodstuffs
Greece	machinery, transport equipment, fuels, chemicals
Greenland	machinery and transport equipment, manufactured goods, food, petroleum products
Grenada	food, manufactured goods, machinery, chemicals, fuel (1989)
Guadeloupe	foodstuffs, fuels, vehicles, clothing and other consumer goods, construction materials
Guam	petroleum and petroleum products, food, manufactured goods
Guatemala	fuels, machinery and transport equipment, construction materials, grain, fertilizers, electricity
Guernsey	coal, gasoline, oil, machinery and equipment
Guinea	petroleum products, metals, machinery, transport equipment, textiles, grain and other foodstuffs
Guinea-Bissau	foodstuffs, machinery and transport equipment, petroleum products
Guyana	manufactures, machinery, petroleum, food
Haiti	food, manufactured goods, machinery and transport equipment, fuels, raw materials
Honduras	machinery and transport equipment, industrial raw materials, chemical products, fuels, foodstuffs
Hong Kong	foodstuffs, transport equipment, raw materials, semimanufactures, petroleum, plastics, machinery, electrical equipment; a large share is reexported
Hungary	machinery and equipment 51.1%, other manufactures 35.9%, fuels and electricity 8.1%, food products 2.8%, raw materials 2.1% (2000)
Iceland	machinery and equipment, petroleum products; foodstuffs, textiles
India	crude oil, machinery, gems, fertilizer, chemicals
Indonesia	machinery and equipment; chemicals, fuels, foodstuffs
Iran	industrial raw materials and intermediate goods, capital goods, foodstuffs and other consumer goods, technical services, military supplies
Iraq	food, medicine, manufactures
Ireland	data processing equipment, other machinery and equipment, chemicals; petroleum and petroleum products, textiles, clothing
Israel	raw materials, military equipment, investment goods, rough diamonds, fuels, consumer goods
Italy	engineering products, chemicals, transport equipment, energy products, minerals and nonferrous metals, textiles and clothing; food, beverages and tobacco
Jamaica	machinery and transport equipment, construction materials, fuel, food, chemicals, fertilizers
Japan	fuels, foodstuffs, chemicals, textiles, office machinery
Jersey	machinery and transport equipment, manufactured goods, foodstuffs, mineral fuels, chemicals
Jordan	crude oil, machinery, transport equipment, food, live animals, manufactured goods
Kazakhstan	machinery and parts 29.5%, energy and fuels 11.3%, electrical equipment 8.8%, vehicles 8.7%, ferrous metals 6.4% (2000)
Kenya	machinery and transportation equipment, petroleum products, motor vehicles, iron and steel, resins and plastics
Kiribati	foodstuffs, machinery and equipment, miscellaneous manufactured goods, fuel
Korea, North	petroleum, coking coal, machinery and equipment; consumer goods, grain
Korea, South	machinery, electronics and electronic equipment, oil, steel, transport equipment, textiles, organic chemicals, grains
Kuwait	food, construction materials, vehicles and parts, clothing
Kyrgyzstan	oil and gas, machinery and equipment, foodstuffs
Laos	machinery and equipment, vehicles, fuel
Latvia	machinery and equipment, chemicals, fuels, vehicles
Lebanon	foodstuffs, machinery and transport equipment, consumer goods, chemicals, textiles, metals, fuels, agricultural foods
Lesotho	food; building materials, vehicles, machinery, medicines, petroleum products
Liberia	fuels, chemicals, machinery, transportation equipment, manufactured goods; rice and other foodstuffs
Libya	machinery, transport equipment, food, manufactured goods
Liechtenstein	machinery, metal goods, textiles, foodstuffs, motor vehicles
Lithuania	mineral products 23%, machinery and equipment 16%, chemicals 9%, textiles and clothing 9%, transport equipment 9% (2000)
Luxembourg	minerals, metals, foodstuffs, quality consumer goods
Macau	clothing, textiles, yarn, minerals, electrical machinery, fuel, livestock
Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of	machinery and equipment, chemicals, fuels; food products
Madagascar	intermediate manufactures, capital goods, petroleum, consumer goods, food
Malawi	food, petroleum products, semimanufactures, consumer goods, transportation equipment
Malaysia	electronics, machinery, petroleum products, plastics, vehicles, iron and steel and iron and steel products, chemicals
Maldives	consumer goods, intermediate and capital goods, petroleum products
Mali	machinery and equipment, construction materials, petroleum, foodstuffs, textiles
Malta	machinery and transport equipment, manufactured and semi-manufactured goods; food, drink, and tobacco
Man, Isle of	timber, fertilizers, fish
Marshall Islands	foodstuffs, machinery and equipment, fuels, beverages and tobacco
Martinique	petroleum products, crude oil, foodstuffs, construction materials, vehicles, clothing and other consumer goods
Mauritania	machinery and equipment, petroleum products, capital goods, foodstuffs, consumer goods
Mauritius	manufactured goods, capital equipment, foodstuffs, petroleum products, chemicals (1996)
Mayotte	food, machinery and equipment, transportation equipment, metals, chemicals
Mexico	metalworking machines, steel mill products, agricultural machinery, electrical equipment, car parts for assembly, repair parts for motor vehicles, aircraft, and aircraft parts
Micronesia, Federated States of	food, manufactured goods, machinery and equipment, beverages
Moldova	mineral products and fuel 32%, machinery and equipment, chemicals, textiles (2000)
Mongolia	machinery and equipment, fuels, food products, industrial consumer goods, chemicals, building materials, sugar, tea
Montserrat	machinery and transportation equipment, foodstuffs, manufactured goods, fuels, lubricants, and related materials
Morocco	semiprocessed goods, machinery and equipment, food and beverages, consumer goods, fuel
Mozambique	machinery and equipment, mineral products, chemicals, metals, foodstuffs, textiles (2000)
Namibia	foodstuffs; petroleum products and fuel, machinery and equipment, chemicals
Nauru	food, fuel, manufactures, building materials, machinery
Nepal	gold, machinery and equipment, petroleum products, fertilizer
Netherlands	machinery and transport equipment, chemicals, fuels; foodstuffs, clothing
Netherlands Antilles	crude petroleum, food, manufactures
New Caledonia	transport equipment, machinery and electrical equipment, fuels, minerals, wine, sugar, rice
New Zealand	machinery and equipment, vehicles and aircraft, petroleum, electronics, textiles, plastics
Nicaragua	machinery and equipment, raw materials, petroleum products, consumer goods
Niger	consumer goods, primary materials, machinery, vehicles and parts, petroleum, cereals
Nigeria	machinery, chemicals, transport equipment, manufactured goods, food and live animals
Niue	food, live animals, manufactured goods, machinery, fuels, lubricants, chemicals, drugs
Norfolk Island	NA
Northern Mariana Islands	food, construction equipment and materials, petroleum products
Norway	machinery and equipment, chemicals, metals, foodstuffs
Oman	machinery and transport equipment, manufactured goods, food, livestock, lubricants
Pakistan	machinery, petroleum, petroleum products, chemicals, transportation equipment, edible oils, grains, pulses, flour
Palau	machinery and equipment, fuels, metals; foodstuffs
Panama	capital goods, crude oil, foodstuffs, consumer goods, chemicals
Papua New Guinea	machinery and transport equipment, manufactured goods, food, fuels, chemicals
Paraguay	road vehicles, consumer goods, tobacco, petroleum products, electrical machinery
Peru	machinery, transport equipment, foodstuffs, petroleum, iron and steel, chemicals, pharmaceuticals
Philippines	raw materials and intermediate goods, capital goods, consumer goods, fuels
Pitcairn Islands	fuel oil, machinery, building materials, flour, sugar, other foodstuffs
Poland	machinery and transport equipment 38.2%, intermediate manufactured goods 20.8%, chemicals 14.3%, miscellaneous manufactured goods 9.5% (1999)
Portugal	machinery and transport equipment, chemicals, petroleum, textiles, agricultural products
Puerto Rico	chemicals, machinery and equipment, clothing, food, fish, petroleum products
Qatar	machinery and transport equipment, food, chemicals
Reunion	manufactured goods, food, beverages, tobacco, machinery and transportation equipment, raw materials, and petroleum products
Romania	machinery and equipment 23%, fuels and minerals 12%, chemicals 9%, textile and products 19% (1999)
Russia	machinery and equipment, consumer goods, medicines, meat, grain, sugar, semifinished metal products
Rwanda	foodstuffs, machinery and equipment, steel, petroleum products, cement and construction material
Saint Helena	food, beverages, tobacco, fuel oils, animal feed, building materials, motor vehicles and parts, machinery and parts
Saint Kitts and Nevis	machinery, manufactures, food, fuels
Saint Lucia	food 23%, manufactured goods 21%, machinery and transportation equipment 19%, chemicals, fuels
Saint Pierre and Miquelon	meat, clothing, fuel, electrical equipment, machinery, building materials
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	foodstuffs, machinery and equipment, chemicals and fertilizers, minerals and fuels
Samoa	machinery and equipment, industrial supplies, foodstuffs
San Marino	wide variety of consumer manufactures, food
Sao Tome and Principe	machinery and electrical equipment, food products, petroleum products
Saudi Arabia	machinery and equipment, foodstuffs, chemicals, motor vehicles, textiles
Senegal	foods and beverages, consumer goods, capital goods, petroleum products
Seychelles	machinery and equipment, foodstuffs, petroleum products, chemicals
Sierra Leone	foodstuffs, machinery and equipment, fuels and lubricants, chemicals
Singapore	machinery and equipment, mineral fuels, chemicals, foodstuffs
Slovakia	machinery and transport equipment 37.7%, intermediate manufactured goods 18%, fuels 13%, chemicals 11%, miscellaneous manufactured goods 9.5% (1999)
Slovenia	machinery and transport equipment, manufactured goods, chemicals, fuels and lubricants, food
Solomon Islands	plant and equipment, manufactured goods, food and live animals, fuels, chemicals
Somalia	manufactures, petroleum products, foodstuffs, construction materials, qat (1995)
South Africa	machinery, foodstuffs and equipment, chemicals, petroleum products, scientific instruments
Spain	machinery and equipment, fuels, chemicals, semifinished goods; foodstuffs, consumer goods (1997)
Sri Lanka	machinery and equipment, textiles, petroleum, foodstuffs
Sudan	foodstuffs, manufactured goods, refinery and transport equipment, medicines and chemicals, textiles, wheat
Suriname	capital equipment, petroleum, foodstuffs, cotton, consumer goods
Swaziland	motor vehicles, machinery, transport equipment, foodstuffs, petroleum products, chemicals
Sweden	machinery, petroleum and petroleum products, chemicals, motor vehicles, iron and steel; foodstuffs, clothing
Switzerland	machinery, chemicals, vehicles, metals; agricultural products, textiles
Syria	machinery and transport equipment 21%, food and livestock 18%, metal and metal products 15%, chemicals and chemical products 10% (2000 est.)
Taiwan	machinery and electrical equipment 50%, minerals, precision instruments
Tajikistan	electricity, petroleum products, aluminum oxide, machinery and equipment, foodstuffs
Tanzania	consumer goods, machinery and transportation equipment, industrial raw materials, crude oil
Thailand	capital goods, intermediate goods and raw materials, consumer goods, fuels
Togo	machinery and equipment, foodstuffs, petroleum products
Tokelau	foodstuffs, building materials, fuel
Tonga	foodstuffs, machinery and transport equipment, fuels, chemicals
Trinidad and Tobago	machinery, transportation equipment, manufactured goods, food, live animals
Tunisia	machinery and equipment, hydrocarbons, chemicals, food
Turkey	machinery 25.4%, chemicals 13.4%, semi-finished goods 13.7%, fuels 14.0%, transport equipment 12.4% (2000)
Turkmenistan	machinery and equipment 60%, foodstuffs 15% (1999)
Turks and Caicos Islands	food and beverages, tobacco, clothing, manufactures, construction materials
Tuvalu	food, animals, mineral fuels, machinery, manufactured goods
Uganda	capital equipment, vehicles, petroleum, medical supplies; cereals
Ukraine	energy, machinery and parts, transportation equipment, chemicals
United Arab Emirates	machinery and transport equipment, chemicals, food
United Kingdom	manufactured goods, machinery, fuels; foodstuffs
United States	crude oil and refined petroleum products, machinery, automobiles, consumer goods, industrial raw materials, food and beverages
Uruguay	machinery, chemicals, road vehicles, crude petroleum
Uzbekistan	machinery and equipment 49.8%, foodstuffs 16.4%, chemicals, metals (1998 est.)
Vanuatu	machinery and equipment, foodstuffs, fuels
Venezuela	raw materials, machinery and equipment, transport equipment, construction materials
Vietnam	machinery and equipment, petroleum products, fertilizer, steel products, raw cotton, grain, cement, motorcycles
Virgin Islands	crude oil, foodstuffs, consumer goods, building materials
Wallis and Futuna	chemicals, machinery, passenger ships, consumer goods
West Bank	food, consumer goods, construction materials
Western Sahara	fuel for fishing fleet, foodstuffs
World	the whole range of industrial and agricultural goods and services
Yemen	food and live animals, machinery and equipment
Yugoslavia	machinery and transport equipment, fuels and lubricants, manufactured goods, chemicals, food and live animals, raw materials
Zambia	machinery, transportation equipment, petroleum products, electricity, fertilizer; foodstuffs, clothing
Zimbabwe	machinery and transport equipment 34%, other manufactures 18%, chemicals 17%, fuels 11% (1999)

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