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Top Trading Partners - Total Trade, Exports, Imports

Year-to-Date November 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 1,210.7 1,961.9 3,172.7 100.0%
--- Total, Top 15 Countries 830.6 1,423.6 2,254.2 71.1%
1 Canada
244.5 315.9 560.4 17.7%
2 China
66.3 312.7 379.0 11.9%
3 Mexico
141.4 201.7 343.0 10.8%
4 Japan
62.0 129.4 191.5 6.0%
5 Federal Republic of Germany
50.8 90.4 141.3 4.5%
6 United Kingdom
50.2 54.7 104.9 3.3%
7 Korea, South
32.9 44.8 77.7 2.5%
8 France
26.9 40.6 67.5 2.1%
9 Saudi Arabia
11.2 52.1 63.3 2.0%
10 Venezuela
11.5 49.1 60.6 1.9%
11 Brazil
30.4 28.6 59.0 1.9%
12 Taiwan
24.0 33.8 57.8 1.8%
13 Netherlands
37.0 19.9 56.9 1.8%
14 Italy
14.5 33.6 48.1 1.5%
15 Belgium
27.0 16.3 43.2 1.4%

Exports (Goods)

Rank Country Exports (Year-to-Date) Percent of Total Exports
--- Total, All Countries 1,210.7 100.0%
--- Total, Top 15 Countries 862.0 71.2%
1 Canada
244.5 20.2%
2 Mexico
141.4 11.7%
3 China
66.3 5.5%
4 Japan
62.0 5.1%
5 Federal Republic of Germany
50.8 4.2%
6 United Kingdom
50.2 4.1%
7 Netherlands
37.0 3.1%
8 Korea, South
32.9 2.7%
9 Brazil
30.4 2.5%
10 Belgium
27.0 2.2%
11 Singapore
26.9 2.2%
12 France
26.9 2.2%
13 Taiwan
24.0 2.0%
14 Australia
21.0 1.7%
15 Switzerland
20.6 1.7%

Imports (Goods)

Rank Country Imports (Year-to-Date) Percent of Total Imports
--- Total, All Countries 1,961.9 100.0%
--- Total, Top 15 Countries 1,452.8 74.1%
1 Canada
315.9 16.1%
2 China
312.7 15.9%
3 Mexico
201.7 10.3%
4 Japan
129.4 6.6%
5 Federal Republic of Germany
90.4 4.6%
6 United Kingdom
54.7 2.8%
7 Saudi Arabia
52.1 2.7%
8 Venezuela
49.1 2.5%
9 Korea, South
44.8 2.3%
10 France
40.6 2.1%
11 Nigeria
36.6 1.9%
12 Taiwan
33.8 1.7%
13 Italy
33.6 1.7%
14 Malaysia
28.8 1.5%
15 Brazil
28.6 1.5%

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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