Foreign Trade

FT920: U.S. Merchandise Trade Selected Highlights - August 2012

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Exhibit 6: U.S. Imports of Merchandise for Consumption World Area/Market by Country of Origin In millions of dollars. Details may not equal total due to rounding. (X) No t Applicable. (-) Represents zero or less than one-half of unit of measurement shown.
Country of Origin	August 2012			Year-to-date 2012
	Total Value	Dutiable Value	Calculated Duty	Total Value	Dutiable Value	Calculated Duty
World Total	194,507.57	63,960.99	2,755.72	1,501,590.46	476,499.78	19,754.46
Afghanistan	1.85	0.49	(-)	11.73	5.05	0.02
Albania	1.54	0.59	0.07	10.93	3.02	0.33
Algeria	1,006.67	909.63	0.66	7,146.90	6,032.33	4.08
Andorra	(-)	(-)	(-)	0.24	0.07	(-)
Angola	529.56	172.04	0.13	7,262.77	1,486.48	1.18
Anguilla	0.40	0.03	(-)	2.24	0.15	(-)
Antigua and Barbuda	0.60	0.03	(-)	5.98	0.18	(-)
Argentina	424.05	270.27	6.38	2,831.09	1,527.56	39.53
Armenia	9.97	0.40	0.04	57.81	3.01	0.29
Aruba	1.66	0.06	(-)	725.02	686.73	0.55
Australia	846.78	108.61	2.43	6,409.20	759.80	17.96
Austria	759.17	333.05	9.04	5,824.57	2,564.84	70.17
Azerbaijan	166.49	116.35	0.13	971.47	683.40	0.60
Bahamas	47.52	1.70	0.10	363.82	22.01	1.63
Bahrain	46.33	1.66	0.72	461.45	13.73	4.57
Bangladesh	439.12	426.72	65.76	3,485.66	3,292.25	519.37
Barbados	4.66	0.12	(-)	36.69	0.92	0.02
Belarus	4.46	1.66	0.04	85.34	44.17	0.44
Belgium	1,315.26	518.44	9.57	11,344.06	3,928.49	84.23
Belize	17.27	0.08	(-)	114.37	0.35	0.01
Benin	0.11	(-)	(-)	1.93	0.02	(-)
Bermuda	3.75	0.05	(-)	32.83	0.47	0.01
Bhutan	0.08	0.08	(-)	0.59	0.23	0.01
Bolivia	159.63	5.46	0.10	964.54	88.88	0.82
Bosnia and Herzegovina	4.43	2.43	0.38	34.49	20.84	1.97
Botswana	22.82	0.03	(-)	139.93	0.18	0.01
Brazil	2,938.92	1,310.35	24.11	22,553.91	9,634.94	141.81
British Indian Ocean Territories	0.82	(-)	(-)	9.68	0.01	(-)
British Virgin Islands	0.55	0.24	0.01	4.09	1.95	0.11
Brunei	1.01	0.14	0.02	6.14	3.51	0.45
Bulgaria	67.73	48.63	1.71	313.54	158.57	10.81
Burkina Faso	0.26	0.01	(-)	1.54	0.08	(-)
Burma	(-)	(-)	(-)	0.04	(-)	(-)
Burundi	0.01	(-)	(-)	1.91	0.01	(-)
Cambodia	225.81	221.12	37.46	1,750.05	1,721.43	297.85
Cameroon	10.39	0.23	0.02	231.31	57.02	0.11
Canada	26,915.82	2,516.77	11.20	217,073.11	20,287.87	91.52
Cape Verde	0.06	0.01	(-)	0.74	0.08	(-)
Cayman Islands	1.14	0.04	(-)	11.15	0.46	0.01
Central African Republic	0.11	(-)	(-)	2.19	0.02	(-)
Chad	105.24	54.10	0.03	1,723.49	286.77	0.13
Chile	670.04	36.48	0.93	6,346.16	286.84	7.87
China	37,034.51	16,885.30	1,290.65	272,265.58	118,824.58	8,608.10
Christmas Island	0.02	0.02	(-)	0.42	0.21	(-)
Cocos (Keeling) Islands	0.06	0.06	(-)	0.75	0.61	0.07
Colombia	2,201.37	373.69	0.97	16,843.95	3,297.97	11.61
Comoros	0.13	(-)	(-)	1.70	0.01	(-)
Congo (Brazzaville)	164.45	20.99	0.02	1,242.78	133.44	0.10
Congo (Kinshasa)	7.36	0.01	(-)	126.83	0.19	(-)
Cook Islands	0.08	0.06	(-)	0.98	0.31	0.01
Costa Rica	1,012.21	36.20	0.24	8,136.72	239.92	2.57
Cote d'Ivoire	93.62	0.15	(-)	866.51	28.22	0.03
Croatia	39.85	9.86	0.49	271.69	105.01	5.26
Cuba	(-)	(-)	(-)	0.09	(-)	(-)
Curacao	40.43	1.68	0.02	636.55	219.46	0.38
Cyprus	3.18	0.41	0.04	14.16	1.73	0.11
Czech Republic	389.69	154.54	4.97	2,614.77	1,190.57	37.84
Denmark	591.25	130.13	3.90	4,808.33	1,160.81	34.45
Djibouti	0.58	0.01	(-)	9.76	0.17	(-)
Dominica	0.35	(-)	(-)	1.11	0.07	(-)
Dominican Republic	379.08	17.22	1.19	2,918.37	121.24	7.83
Ecuador	780.24	76.36	0.59	6,556.03	691.74	3.28
Egypt	319.36	13.56	0.58	2,199.20	250.63	3.92
El Salvador	236.16	10.13	1.48	1,726.59	73.04	10.52
Equatorial Guinea	125.20	48.49	0.83	959.25	569.45	4.47
Eritrea	0.01	(-)	(-)	0.16	0.07	(-)
Estonia	28.13	8.84	0.40	355.90	131.23	4.78
Ethiopia	11.73	0.08	(-)	90.29	0.84	0.05
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)	1.67	(-)	(-)	8.98	(-)	(-)
Faroe Islands	4.70	(-)	(-)	41.23	0.01	(-)
Fiji	18.98	7.00	0.02	120.54	43.53	0.15
Finland	435.57	208.37	3.34	3,531.03	1,452.76	26.28
France	3,350.57	1,044.91	32.15	27,254.07	7,665.05	253.35
French Guiana	(-)	(-)	(-)	0.56	0.01	(-)
French Polynesia	3.18	0.62	0.05	38.26	4.72	0.33
French Southern and Antarctic Lands	(-)	(-)	(-)	(-)	(-)	(-)
Gabon	135.68	53.15	0.03	916.52	167.57	0.14
Gambia	0.13	0.08	(-)	0.23	0.11	(-)
Gaza Strip Administered by Israel	(-)	(-)	(-)	0.31	(-)	(-)
Georgia	24.99	0.21	0.03	146.16	2.19	0.19
Germany	9,550.54	5,350.28	155.72	67,668.01	35,778.39	1,060.82
Ghana	43.99	7.99	0.01	230.92	33.18	0.09
Gibraltar	0.02	(-)	(-)	0.36	0.16	0.02
Greece	85.39	29.83	1.15	708.95	256.36	8.51
Greenland	0.25	(-)	(-)	11.49	(-)	(-)
Grenada	0.65	0.05	(-)	6.91	0.28	(-)
Guadeloupe	1.13	0.06	(-)	5.20	0.33	(-)
Guatemala	389.73	36.04	5.68	3,161.95	287.87	45.33
Guinea	7.52	(-)	(-)	71.39	0.15	(-)
Guinea-Bissau	(-)	(-)	(-)	0.08	0.02	(-)
Guyana	40.32	0.20	0.03	328.56	1.35	0.18
Haiti	71.75	0.20	0.02	503.19	1.98	0.23
Heard and McDonald Islands	(-)	(-)	(-)	0.02	(-)	(-)
Honduras	428.56	12.28	1.74	3,080.53	91.01	13.06
Hong Kong	305.18	132.55	7.74	3,221.47	1,079.61	63.09
Hungary	260.35	117.84	3.58	2,104.54	1,015.35	28.97
Iceland	17.57	5.40	0.13	176.37	41.79	1.08
India	3,928.41	1,403.46	75.25	27,702.12	9,143.74	597.27
Indonesia	1,596.10	655.62	98.37	12,189.11	5,191.66	760.29
Iran	0.54	0.01	(-)	1.02	0.13	(-)
Iraq	1,627.70	827.89	0.83	12,313.12	5,770.49	5.22
Ireland	2,933.83	67.37	2.38	23,528.60	492.40	16.54
Israel	1,994.92	33.58	0.78	14,740.31	303.27	5.63
Italy	3,051.06	1,625.64	77.41	24,395.51	12,730.89	585.63
Jamaica	45.41	0.73	0.01	256.01	28.75	0.64
Japan	12,677.25	7,427.98	217.99	97,175.56	57,089.24	1,684.15
Jordan	112.31	1.02	0.17	760.37	6.96	1.05
Kazakhstan	176.03	155.52	1.26	990.04	758.19	11.60
Kenya	44.64	0.90	0.10	253.20	4.70	0.52
Kiribati	0.06	0.02	(-)	0.41	0.12	(-)
Korea, North	(-)	(-)	(-)	(-)	(-)	(-)
Korea, South	4,834.61	1,822.64	51.97	39,143.97	16,640.25	489.18
Kosovo	0.01	(-)	(-)	0.11	0.04	(-)
Kuwait	877.12	696.64	0.59	8,385.51	5,444.60	4.36
Kyrgyzstan	0.51	0.02	(-)	4.04	0.64	0.02
Laos	4.82	1.55	0.20	17.58	13.31	1.75
Latvia	31.48	12.96	0.23	167.95	43.12	1.65
Lebanon	9.53	1.10	0.05	54.87	5.80	0.33
Lesotho	26.84	0.03	(-)	200.27	0.10	0.01
Liberia	0.57	0.01	(-)	79.03	0.12	0.01
Libya	373.40	254.54	0.18	1,369.35	654.15	0.47
Liechtenstein	20.43	13.59	0.49	216.23	152.89	4.29
Lithuania	130.78	101.96	0.82	710.34	523.89	5.72
Luxembourg	50.09	9.02	0.33	323.18	91.01	3.39
Macau	7.88	3.95	0.57	67.58	37.97	5.17
Macedonia	11.32	0.91	0.10	75.04	7.80	1.07
Madagascar	8.72	2.54	0.40	68.95	25.99	4.15
Malawi	6.10	(-)	(-)	47.75	0.06	0.01
Malaysia	2,224.79	343.99	16.24	17,034.88	2,650.61	125.51
Maldives	0.56	(-)	(-)	10.51	0.02	(-)
Mali	0.50	0.10	0.01	2.57	0.24	0.01
Malta	21.63	4.42	0.20	161.80	31.87	1.50
Marshall Islands	1.67	0.37	0.01	9.49	1.04	0.10
Martinique	1.46	0.07	(-)	14.26	9.75	0.03
Mauritania	0.02	(-)	(-)	0.53	0.06	(-)
Mauritius	32.54	4.66	0.14	173.56	20.96	0.80
Mayotte	0.01	(-)	(-)	0.02	0.01	(-)
Mexico	24,079.72	869.49	24.09	185,366.61	7,057.05	196.18
Micronesia	0.03	0.01	(-)	0.77	0.06	(-)
Moldova	2.85	1.40	0.12	15.47	8.75	0.71
Monaco	1.56	0.58	0.03	91.97	3.96	0.18
Mongolia	0.43	0.03	(-)	5.16	0.42	0.02
Montenegro	0.47	0.24	0.02	3.18	1.02	0.07
Montserrat	0.18	0.07	(-)	1.51	0.42	0.01
Morocco	80.60	11.60	1.14	605.24	89.33	8.83
Mozambique	1.78	(-)	(-)	23.79	0.21	0.03
Namibia	7.73	0.06	(-)	121.36	0.54	0.02
Nauru	0.08	0.06	(-)	0.37	0.24	0.01
Nepal	8.12	2.77	0.25	57.19	16.62	1.62
Netherlands	1,968.74	638.10	11.82	15,350.68	5,845.40	95.25
New Caledonia	4.15	0.04	(-)	36.30	0.61	0.03
New Zealand	257.78	133.09	2.00	2,454.46	1,476.95	19.15
Nicaragua	252.78	22.15	3.28	1,849.92	169.12	25.73
Niger	0.60	0.13	(-)	79.92	0.67	0.02
Nigeria	1,610.73	98.81	0.10	12,676.07	508.90	0.46
Niue	0.03	0.02	(-)	0.08	0.04	(-)
Norfolk Island	(-)	(-)	(-)	0.03	0.01	(-)
Norway	482.64	280.51	2.04	4,633.86	2,618.62	19.35
Oman	240.91	0.13	0.01	946.79	144.57	1.58
Pakistan	357.37	305.20	36.61	2,454.23	2,076.44	238.50
Palau	0.28	(-)	(-)	0.36	0.01	(-)
Panama	35.22	0.96	0.01	287.85	6.37	0.57
Papua New Guinea	6.48	0.19	(-)	89.86	6.49	0.03
Paraguay	18.55	0.32	0.03	88.96	2.90	0.25
Peru	560.63	68.43	0.47	4,254.80	407.84	3.30
Philippines	825.84	225.54	26.24	6,493.02	1,717.72	190.06
Pitcairn Islands	(-)	(-)	(-)	(-)	(-)	(-)
Poland	390.66	150.52	5.80	3,064.60	1,217.23	37.37
Portugal	256.18	187.66	5.88	1,693.75	1,104.64	39.06
Qatar	49.96	0.43	0.01	706.91	308.62	1.79
Reunion	0.24	(-)	(-)	8.08	0.03	(-)
Romania	150.87	77.24	5.26	1,021.05	542.79	35.47
Russia	2,202.29	1,586.52	4.24	19,370.25	13,287.24	33.38
Rwanda	0.16	0.02	(-)	14.30	0.11	0.01
Samoa	0.06	(-)	(-)	1.34	0.16	(-)
San Marino	0.25	0.13	0.01	3.79	3.41	0.28
Sao Tome and Principe	0.04	(-)	(-)	0.44	0.07	(-)
Saudi Arabia	4,903.55	2,715.72	3.15	36,970.42	22,129.63	36.59
Senegal	0.50	0.05	(-)	14.05	0.39	0.01
Serbia	14.12	5.49	0.21	98.11	47.30	1.51
Seychelles	0.46	0.08	(-)	3.31	0.19	(-)
Sierra Leone	1.18	0.40	0.02	11.90	2.02	0.07
Singapore	1,743.89	95.03	3.10	13,272.93	741.89	38.73
Sint Maarten	1.52	0.05	(-)	40.61	0.26	(-)
Slovakia	200.18	132.55	4.13	1,134.11	802.85	26.57
Slovenia	43.66	20.74	0.85	376.21	164.73	6.92
Solomon Islands	0.06	0.01	(-)	0.42	0.04	(-)
Somalia	0.05	(-)	(-)	0.81	0.04	(-)
South Africa	648.70	15.00	0.63	5,676.80	118.46	4.50
South Sudan	(-)	(-)	(-)	0.01	(-)	(-)
Spain	1,064.78	648.06	17.62	7,810.83	4,287.29	123.68
Sri Lanka	184.54	127.01	21.93	1,528.81	1,035.10	170.45
St Helena	0.59	(-)	(-)	5.44	0.08	(-)
St Kitts and Nevis	4.27	0.48	0.01	38.47	3.45	0.06
St Lucia	1.57	0.65	0.01	10.73	3.81	0.06
St Pierre and Miquelon	(-)	(-)	(-)	(-)	(-)	(-)
St Vincent and the Grenadines	0.11	0.01	(-)	1.45	0.04	(-)
Sudan	0.11	(-)	(-)	5.55	(-)	(-)
Suriname	27.18	0.14	(-)	194.45	1.71	0.08
Svalbard, Jan Mayen Island	(-)	(-)	(-)	0.01	(-)	(-)
Swaziland	9.09	0.37	0.04	44.06	1.57	0.08
Sweden	667.31	262.82	7.60	6,995.97	2,766.45	73.64
Switzerland	1,725.51	523.53	17.46	16,811.40	4,253.93	143.96
Syria	3.24	0.45	0.05	17.76	7.18	0.40
Taiwan	3,329.29	1,255.00	58.63	25,815.08	9,708.40	444.85
Tajikistan	(-)	(-)	(-)	26.83	0.02	(-)
Tanzania	4.71	0.08	(-)	93.93	0.62	0.02
Thailand	2,287.05	711.98	43.85	17,215.09	4,537.18	282.75
Timor-Leste	(-)	(-)	(-)	0.02	(-)	(-)
Togo	39.29	0.01	(-)	42.37	0.11	(-)
Tokelau	0.36	0.12	0.02	3.58	1.48	0.17
Tonga	0.21	0.03	(-)	1.71	0.16	(-)
Trinidad and Tobago	740.74	217.88	0.12	5,704.09	1,414.53	0.84
Tunisia	28.29	13.24	1.71	488.57	344.71	13.45
Turkey	580.75	222.02	13.78	4,312.03	1,515.32	102.32
Turkmenistan	3.33	3.09	0.13	40.96	36.65	0.87
Turks and Caicos Islands	0.59	0.04	(-)	5.65	0.20	(-)
Tuvalu	(-)	(-)	(-)	0.04	0.03	(-)
Uganda	1.89	0.06	(-)	27.53	0.42	0.03
Ukraine	122.45	43.92	0.77	814.79	185.17	6.60
United Arab Emirates	191.51	19.66	1.02	1,635.91	280.25	8.38
United Kingdom	4,895.67	1,835.93	35.81	36,531.27	13,806.87	289.03
Uruguay	25.79	11.38	0.28	234.55	104.60	1.68
Uzbekistan	0.42	0.09	(-)	3.96	1.04	0.02
Vanuatu	0.08	0.01	(-)	1.03	0.07	(-)
Vatican City	0.02	0.01	(-)	0.56	0.03	(-)
Venezuela	3,130.71	1,994.43	2.42	23,435.08	14,844.18	21.62
Vietnam	1,759.98	1,092.77	154.93	13,133.43	8,273.33	1,151.24
Wallis and Futuna	(-)	(-)	(-)	(-)	(-)	(-)
West Bank Administered by Israel	0.38	0.24	(-)	2.62	1.53	0.01
Western Sahara	(-)	(-)	(-)	0.02	0.02	(-)
Yemen	0.40	(-)	(-)	40.17	0.04	(-)
Zambia	4.09	0.01	(-)	39.54	0.08	(-)
Zimbabwe	1.18	0.04	(-)	38.30	2.00	0.16
Timing adjustment	(-)	(-)	(-)	-22.94	(-)	(-)
Africa	5,521.17	1,683.32	6.78	45,454.63	10,823.95	48.02
APEC	124,159.04	35,968.13	2,015.10	958,330.70	270,028.05	14,207.78
ASEAN	10,669.29	3,347.75	380.41	81,112.27	24,850.64	2,848.62
ASIA - South	4,919.42	2,265.65	199.81	35,239.73	15,569.18	1,527.23
Asia Near East	10,058.39	4,298.54	7.41	77,037.54	34,416.79	69.93
CAFTA - DR	2,698.51	134.04	13.61	20,874.09	982.20	105.03
Central American Common Market	2,319.43	116.82	12.42	17,955.72	860.96	97.20
Euro Area	25,117.98	10,827.69	332.01	191,475.40	77,329.93	2,406.77
Europe	38,312.75	16,694.75	443.67	299,116.49	123,541.25	3,298.12
European Union	32,693.77	13,720.27	401.71	249,807.77	99,755.58	2,961.72
LAFTA	34,989.63	5,016.67	60.39	269,475.69	37,944.50	427.95
Nato Allies	55,869.86	15,868.52	406.26	435,947.03	116,909.12	2,987.74
NICS	10,212.97	3,305.22	121.43	81,453.45	28,170.14	1,035.85
North America	50,995.54	3,386.25	35.30	402,439.71	27,344.92	287.70
OECD	104,634.73	27,355.10	735.30	820,243.38	209,898.45	5,659.60
OPEC	15,081.68	7,766.16	9.69	118,459.08	58,151.47	87.44
Pacific Rim Countries	65,691.40	29,089.64	1,775.94	495,638.84	215,928.67	12,446.72
South/Central America	14,700.52	4,506.86	50.26	114,325.59	34,275.66	342.23
Twenty Latin American Republic	37,795.11	5,151.86	74.03	291,140.91	38,935.05	533.78
Note: These data are presented on a customs value basis in mi llions of dollars, shipping weight in millions of KG. For information on data sources, nonsampling errors and definitions, see the Information on the Collection and Publication of Trade Statistics.