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Top Trading Partners - Total Trade, Exports, Imports

Year-to-Date December 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 1,300.5 2,100.4 3,400.9 100.0%
--- Total, Top 15 Countries 891.5 1,524.4 2,415.8 71.0%
1 Canada
261.4 335.6 596.9 17.6%
2 China
71.5 337.8 409.2 12.0%
3 Mexico
151.5 215.9 367.5 10.8%
4 Japan
66.6 139.2 205.8 6.1%
5 Federal Republic of Germany
54.7 97.6 152.3 4.5%
6 United Kingdom
53.8 58.6 112.4 3.3%
7 Korea, South
34.8 48.1 82.9 2.4%
8 France
29.2 44.0 73.2 2.2%
9 Saudi Arabia
12.5 54.8 67.3 2.0%
10 Venezuela
12.6 51.4 64.0 1.9%
11 Brazil
32.9 30.5 63.4 1.9%
12 Taiwan
25.3 36.3 61.6 1.8%
13 Netherlands
40.2 21.1 61.4 1.8%
14 Italy
15.5 36.1 51.6 1.5%
15 Belgium
29.0 17.4 46.4 1.4%

Exports (Goods)

Rank Country Exports (Year-to-Date) Percent of Total Exports
--- Total, All Countries 1,300.5 100.0%
--- Total, Top 15 Countries 924.2 71.1%
1 Canada
261.4 20.1%
2 Mexico
151.5 11.7%
3 China
71.5 5.5%
4 Japan
66.6 5.1%
5 Federal Republic of Germany
54.7 4.2%
6 United Kingdom
53.8 4.1%
7 Netherlands
40.2 3.1%
8 Korea, South
34.8 2.7%
9 Brazil
32.9 2.5%
10 France
29.2 2.2%
11 Belgium
29.0 2.2%
12 Singapore
28.8 2.2%
13 Taiwan
25.3 1.9%
14 Australia
22.5 1.7%
15 Switzerland
22.0 1.7%

Imports (Goods)

Rank Country Imports (Year-to-Date) Percent of Total Imports
--- Total, All Countries 2,100.4 100.0%
--- Total, Top 15 Countries 1,555.8 74.1%
1 China
337.8 16.1%
2 Canada
335.6 16.0%
3 Mexico
215.9 10.3%
4 Japan
139.2 6.6%
5 Federal Republic of Germany
97.6 4.6%
6 United Kingdom
58.6 2.8%
7 Saudi Arabia
54.8 2.6%
8 Venezuela
51.4 2.4%
9 Korea, South
48.1 2.3%
10 France
44.0 2.1%
11 Nigeria
38.1 1.8%
12 Taiwan
36.3 1.7%
13 Italy
36.1 1.7%
14 Ireland
31.6 1.5%
15 Malaysia
30.7 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: 11 February 2009 at 08:32:45 AM