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Top Trading Partners - Total Trade, Exports, Imports

Year-to-Date September 2008

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

Total Trade (Goods)

Rank Country Exports (Year-to-Date) Imports (Year-to-Date) Total Trade (Year-to-Date) Percent of Total Trade
--- Total, All Countries 1,001.9 1,629.0 2,630.9 100.0%
--- Total, Top 15 Countries 685.6 1,176.4 1,862.0 70.8%
1 Canada
203.0 265.3 468.4 17.8%
2 China
55.0 250.4 305.4 11.6%
3 Mexico
114.5 166.5 281.1 10.7%
4 Japan
51.6 107.9 159.5 6.1%
5 Federal Republic of Germany
41.7 75.1 116.8 4.4%
6 United Kingdom
42.3 45.3 87.7 3.3%
7 Korea, South
27.6 36.7 64.3 2.4%
8 France
22.1 33.3 55.4 2.1%
9 Saudi Arabia
8.5 44.2 52.8 2.0%
10 Venezuela
8.9 42.5 51.4 2.0%
11 Taiwan
20.8 27.7 48.5 1.8%
12 Brazil
24.7 23.3 48.0 1.8%
13 Netherlands
30.4 16.2 46.6 1.8%
14 Italy
12.1 28.0 40.1 1.5%
15 Belgium
22.4 13.7 36.2 1.4%

Exports (Goods)

Rank Country Exports (Year-to-Date) Percent of Total Exports
--- Total, All Countries 1,001.9 100.0%
--- Total, Top 15 Countries 714.0 71.3%
1 Canada
203.0 20.3%
2 Mexico
114.5 11.4%
3 China
55.0 5.5%
4 Japan
51.6 5.1%
5 United Kingdom
42.3 4.2%
6 Federal Republic of Germany
41.7 4.2%
7 Netherlands
30.4 3.0%
8 Korea, South
27.6 2.8%
9 Brazil
24.7 2.5%
10 Singapore
22.8 2.3%
11 Belgium
22.4 2.2%
12 France
22.1 2.2%
13 Taiwan
20.8 2.1%
14 Switzerland
17.7 1.8%
15 Australia
17.3 1.7%

Imports (Goods)

Rank Country Imports (Year-to-Date) Percent of Total Imports
--- Total, All Countries 1,629.0 100.0%
--- Total, Top 15 Countries 1,202.5 73.8%
1 Canada
265.3 16.3%
2 China
250.4 15.4%
3 Mexico
166.5 10.2%
4 Japan
107.9 6.6%
5 Federal Republic of Germany
75.1 4.6%
6 United Kingdom
45.3 2.8%
7 Saudi Arabia
44.2 2.7%
8 Venezuela
42.5 2.6%
9 Korea, South
36.7 2.3%
10 France
33.3 2.0%
11 Nigeria
31.8 2.0%
12 Italy
28.0 1.7%
13 Taiwan
27.7 1.7%
14 Malaysia
24.2 1.5%
15 Brazil
23.3 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: 13 November 2008 at 08:30:56 AM