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Top Trading Partners - Total Trade, Exports, Imports

For month of November 2008

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

Total Trade (Goods)

Rank Country Exports (November) Imports (November) Total Trade (November) Percent of Total Trade
--- Total, All Countries 97.5 147.2 244.7 100.0%
--- Total, Top 15 Countries 67.3 110.0 177.4 72.5%
1 Canada
19.2 22.6 41.8 17.1%
2 China
5.2 28.3 33.5 13.7%
3 Mexico
12.0 15.5 27.4 11.2%
4 Japan
5.1 10.1 15.2 6.2%
5 Federal Republic of Germany
4.4 7.2 11.5 4.7%
6 United Kingdom
3.5 4.1 7.6 3.1%
7 Korea, South
2.4 3.6 6.0 2.5%
8 France
2.2 3.3 5.5 2.3%
9 Netherlands
3.3 1.6 4.9 2.0%
10 Brazil
2.6 2.3 4.9 2.0%
11 Taiwan
1.5 2.8 4.3 1.7%
12 Saudi Arabia
1.4 2.5 4.0 1.6%
13 Venezuela
1.2 2.5 3.8 1.5%
14 Italy
1.1 2.6 3.7 1.5%
15 Belgium
2.1 1.1 3.2 1.3%

Exports (Goods)

Rank Country Exports (November) Percent of Total Exports
--- Total, All Countries 97.5 100.0%
--- Total, Top 15 Countries 68.9 70.6%
1 Canada
19.2 19.7%
2 Mexico
12.0 12.3%
3 China
5.2 5.4%
4 Japan
5.1 5.2%
5 Federal Republic of Germany
4.4 4.5%
6 United Kingdom
3.5 3.6%
7 Netherlands
3.3 3.4%
8 Brazil
2.6 2.7%
9 Korea, South
2.4 2.5%
10 France
2.2 2.3%
11 Belgium
2.1 2.2%
12 Singapore
1.9 1.9%
13 Australia
1.8 1.8%
14 United Arab Emirates
1.6 1.7%
15 Hong Kong
1.5 1.5%

Imports (Goods)

Rank Country Imports (November) Percent of Total Imports
--- Total, All Countries 147.2 100.0%
--- Total, Top 15 Countries 111.5 75.8%
1 China
28.3 19.2%
2 Canada
22.6 15.3%
3 Mexico
15.5 10.5%
4 Japan
10.1 6.8%
5 Federal Republic of Germany
7.2 4.9%
6 United Kingdom
4.1 2.8%
7 Korea, South
3.6 2.5%
8 France
3.3 2.2%
9 Taiwan
2.8 1.9%
10 Italy
2.6 1.7%
11 Venezuela
2.5 1.7%
12 Saudi Arabia
2.5 1.7%
13 Brazil
2.3 1.5%
14 Malaysia
2.1 1.4%
15 Ireland
2.1 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 January 2009 at 08:35:23 AM