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Top Trading Partners - Total Trade, Exports, Imports

For month of August 2008

Data are goods only, on a Census Basis, in billions of dollars.

Total Trade (Goods)

Rank Country Exports (August) Imports (August) Total Trade (August) Percent of Total Trade
--- Total, All Countries 117.9 190.3 308.2 100.0%
--- Total, Top 15 Countries 77.4 139.6 217.0 70.4%
1 Canada
22.2 29.6 51.8 16.8%
2 China
6.5 31.8 38.3 12.4%
3 Mexico
13.7 19.6 33.3 10.8%
4 Japan
6.4 11.1 17.5 5.7%
5 Federal Republic of Germany
4.7 7.9 12.6 4.1%
6 United Kingdom
4.4 5.7 10.2 3.3%
7 Venezuela
1.2 5.8 7.0 2.3%
8 Korea, South
3.1 3.9 7.0 2.3%
9 Saudi Arabia
1.0 5.9 6.9 2.2%
10 Brazil
3.9 2.6 6.5 2.1%
11 France
2.5 3.5 6.0 1.9%
12 Netherlands
3.7 1.8 5.6 1.8%
13 Taiwan
2.2 3.3 5.5 1.8%
14 Italy
1.3 3.2 4.5 1.5%
15 Nigeria
0.5 3.9 4.3 1.4%

Exports (Goods)

Rank Country Exports (August) Percent of Total Exports
--- Total, All Countries 117.9 100.0%
--- Total, Top 15 Countries 82.2 69.7%
1 Canada
22.2 18.8%
2 Mexico
13.7 11.6%
3 China
6.5 5.5%
4 Japan
6.4 5.4%
5 Federal Republic of Germany
4.7 4.0%
6 United Kingdom
4.4 3.8%
7 Brazil
3.9 3.3%
8 Netherlands
3.7 3.2%
9 Korea, South
3.1 2.6%
10 Belgium
2.5 2.1%
11 France
2.5 2.1%
12 Singapore
2.4 2.1%
13 Taiwan
2.2 1.9%
14 Australia
1.9 1.7%
15 India
1.9 1.6%

Imports (Goods)

Rank Country Imports (August) Percent of Total Imports
--- Total, All Countries 190.3 100.0%
--- Total, Top 15 Countries 140.6 73.9%
1 China
31.8 16.7%
2 Canada
29.6 15.6%
3 Mexico
19.6 10.3%
4 Japan
11.1 5.8%
5 Federal Republic of Germany
7.9 4.2%
6 Saudi Arabia
5.9 3.1%
7 Venezuela
5.8 3.0%
8 United Kingdom
5.7 3.0%
9 Korea, South
3.9 2.0%
10 Nigeria
3.9 2.0%
11 France
3.5 1.8%
12 Taiwan
3.3 1.7%
13 Italy
3.2 1.7%
14 Russia
2.8 1.5%
15 Iraq
2.6 1.4%

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Source: FTDWebMaster, Foreign Trade Division, U.S. Census Bureau, Washington, D.C. 20233
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Created: 11 January 2008
Last modified: 10 October 2008 at 08:30:47 AM