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Imports - commodities (Country profile category: Economy)

Afghanistan:
capital goods, food and petroleum products; most consumer goods

Albania:
machinery and equipment, foodstuffs, textiles, chemicals

Algeria:
capital goods, food and beverages, consumer goods

American Samoa:
materials for canneries 56%, food 8%, petroleum products 7%, machinery and parts 6%

Andorra:
consumer goods, food, electricity

Angola:
machinery and electrical equipment, vehicles and spare parts; medicines, food, textiles, military goods

Anguilla:
NA

Antigua and Barbuda:
food and live animals, machinery and transport equipment, manufactures, chemicals, oil

Argentina:
machinery and equipment, motor vehicles, chemicals, metal manufactures, plastics

Armenia:
natural gas, petroleum, tobacco products, foodstuffs, diamonds

Aruba:
machinery and transport equipment, crude oil for refining and reexport; foodstuffs

Australia:
machinery and transport equipment, computers and office machines, telecommunication equipment and parts; crude oil and petroleum products

Austria:
machinery and equipment, chemicals, metal goods, oil and oil products; foodstuffs (1998)

Azerbaijan:
machinery and equipment, foodstuffs, metals, chemicals

Bahamas, The:
foodstuffs, manufactured goods, crude oil, vehicles, electronics

Bahrain:
nonoil 59%, crude oil 41%

Bangladesh:
machinery and equipment, chemicals, iron and steel, textiles, raw cotton, food, crude oil and petroleum products, cement

Barbados:
consumer goods, machinery, foodstuffs, construction materials, chemicals, fuel, electrical components

Belarus:
mineral products, machinery and equipment, metals, chemicals, foodstuffs

Belgium:
machinery and equipment, chemicals, metals and metal products

Belize:
machinery and transportation equipment, manufactured goods, food, fuels, chemicals, pharmaceuticals

Benin:
foodstuffs, tobacco, petroleum products, capital goods

Bermuda:
machinery and transport equipment, construction materials, chemicals, food and live animals

Bhutan:
fuel and lubricants, grain, machinery and parts, vehicles, fabrics, rice

Bolivia:
capital goods, raw materials and semi-manufactures, chemicals, petroleum, food

Bosnia and Herzegovina:
NA

Botswana:
foodstuffs, machinery and transport equipment, textiles, petroleum products

Brazil:
machinery and equipment, chemical products, oil, electricity

British Virgin Islands:
building materials, automobiles, foodstuffs, machinery

Brunei:
machinery and transport equipment, manufactured goods, food, chemicals

Bulgaria:
fuels, minerals, and raw materials; machinery and equipment; metals and ores; chemicals and plastics; food, textiles (1998)

Burkina Faso:
machinery, food products, petroleum

Burma:
machinery, transport equipment, construction materials, food products

Burundi:
capital goods, petroleum products, foodstuffs

Cambodia:
cigarettes, gold, construction materials, petroleum products, machinery, motor vehicles

Cameroon:
machines and electrical equipment, transport equipment, fuel, food

Canada:
machinery and equipment, crude oil, chemicals, motor vehicles and parts, durable consumer goods, electricity

Cape Verde:
foodstuffs, industrial products, transport equipment, fuels

Cayman Islands:
foodstuffs, manufactured goods

Central African Republic:
food, textiles, petroleum products, machinery, electrical equipment, motor vehicles, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, consumer goods, industrial products

Chad:
machinery and transportation equipment, industrial goods, petroleum products, foodstuffs, textiles

Chile:
consumer goods, chemicals, motor vehicles, fuels, electrical machinery, heavy industrial machinery, food

China:
machinery and equipment, plastics, chemicals, iron and steel, mineral fuels

Christmas Island:
consumer goods

Cocos (Keeling) Islands:
foodstuffs

Colombia:
industrial equipment, transportation equipment, consumer goods, chemicals, paper products, fuels, electricity

Comoros:
rice and other foodstuffs, consumer goods; petroleum products, cement, transport equipment

Congo, Democratic Republic of the:
foodstuffs, mining and other machinery, transport equipment, fuels

Congo, Republic of the:
petroleum products, capital equipment, construction materials, foodstuffs

Cook Islands:
foodstuffs, textiles, fuels, timber, capital goods

Costa Rica:
raw materials, consumer goods, capital equipment, petroleum, electricity

Cote d'Ivoire:
food, consumer goods; capital goods, fuel, transport equipment

Croatia:
machinery, transport and electrical equipment, chemicals, fuels and lubricants, foodstuffs

Cuba:
petroleum, food, machinery, chemicals

Cyprus:
Greek Cypriot area: consumer goods, petroleum and lubricants, food and feed grains, machinery (1998); Turkish Cypriot area: food, minerals, chemicals, machinery (1997)

Czech Republic:
machinery and transport equipment 39%, other manufactured goods 21%, chemicals 12%, raw materials and fuels 10%, food 5% (1998)

Denmark:
machinery and equipment, petroleum, chemicals, grain and foodstuffs, textiles, paper

Djibouti:
foods, beverages, transport equipment, chemicals, petroleum products

Dominica:
manufactured goods, machinery and equipment, food, chemicals

Dominican Republic:
foodstuffs, petroleum, cotton and fabrics, chemicals and pharmaceuticals

Ecuador:
machinery and equipment, raw materials, fuels; consumer goods

Egypt:
machinery and equipment, foodstuffs, chemicals, wood products, fuels

El Salvador:
raw materials, consumer goods, capital goods, fuels, foodstuffs, petroleum, electricity

Equatorial Guinea:
petroleum, manufactured goods and equipment

Eritrea:
processed goods, machinery, petroleum products

Estonia:
machinery and appliances 26%, foodstuffs 15%, chemical products 10%, metal products 9%, textiles 8% (1999)

Ethiopia:
food and live animals, petroleum and petroleum products, chemicals, machinery, motor vehicles

Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas):
fuel, food and drink, building materials, clothing

Faroe Islands:
machinery and transport equipment 17.0%, consumer goods 33%, raw materials and semi-manufactures 26.9%, fuels 11.4%, fish and salt 6.7%

Fiji:
machinery and transport equipment, petroleum products, food, chemicals

Finland:
foodstuffs, petroleum and petroleum products, chemicals, transport equipment, iron and steel, machinery, textile yarn and fabrics, fodder grains

France:
crude oil, machinery and equipment, chemicals; agricultural products

French Guiana:
food (grains, processed meat), machinery and transport equipment, fuels and chemicals

French Polynesia:
fuels, foodstuffs, equipment

Gabon:
machinery and equipment, foodstuffs, chemicals, petroleum products, construction materials

Gambia, The:
foodstuffs, manufactures, fuel, machinery and transport equipment

Gaza Strip:
food, consumer goods, construction materials

Georgia:
fuel, grain and other foods, machinery and parts, transport equipment

Germany:
machinery, vehicles, chemicals, foodstuffs, textiles, metals (1999)

Ghana:
capital equipment, petroleum, foodstuffs

Gibraltar:
fuels, manufactured goods, and foodstuffs

Greece:
manufactured goods, foodstuffs, fuels, chemicals (1998)

Greenland:
machinery and transport equipment, manufactured goods, food and live animals, petroleum products

Grenada:
food, manufactured goods, machinery, chemicals, fuel (1989)

Guadeloupe:
foodstuffs, fuels, vehicles, clothing and other consumer goods, construction materials

Guam:
petroleum and petroleum products, food, manufactured goods

Guatemala:
fuels, machinery and transport equipment, construction materials, grain, fertilizers, electricity

Guernsey:
coal, gasoline, oil, machinery and equipment

Guinea:
petroleum products, metals, machinery, transport equipment, textiles, grain and other foodstuffs (1997)

Guinea-Bissau:
foodstuffs, machinery and transport equipment, petroleum products (1996)

Guyana:
manufactures, machinery, petroleum, food

Haiti:
food, machinery and transport equipment, fuels

Honduras:
machinery and transport equipment, industrial raw materials, chemical products, fuels, foodstuffs

Hong Kong:
foodstuffs, transport equipment, raw materials, semimanufactures, petroleum; a large share is reexported

Hungary:
machinery and equipment 46.5%, other manufactures 40.2%, fuels and electricity 6.6%, agricultural and food products 3.7%, raw materials 3.0% (1998)

Iceland:
machinery and equipment, petroleum products; foodstuffs, textiles

India:
crude oil and petroleum products, machinery, gems, fertilizer, chemicals

Indonesia:
machinery and equipment; chemicals, fuels, foodstuffs

Iran:
machinery, military supplies, metal works, foodstuffs, pharmaceuticals, technical services, refined oil products

Iraq:
food, medicine, manufactures

Ireland:
data processing equipment, other machinery and equipment, chemicals; petroleum and petroleum products, textiles, clothing

Israel:
raw materials, military equipment, investment goods, rough diamonds, fuels, consumer goods

Italy:
engineering products, chemicals, transport equipment, energy products, minerals and nonferrous metals, textiles and clothing; food, beverages and tobacco

Jamaica:
machinery and transport equipment, construction materials, fuel, food, chemicals, fertilizers

Japan:
fuels, foodstuffs, chemicals, textiles, office machinery

Jersey:
machinery and transport equipment, manufactured goods, foodstuffs, mineral fuels, chemicals

Jordan:
crude oil, machinery, transport equipment, food, live animals, manufactured goods

Kazakhstan:
machinery and parts, industrial materials, oil and gas, vehicles

Kenya:
machinery and transportation equipment, petroleum products, iron and steel

Kiribati:
foodstuffs, machinery and equipment, miscellaneous manufactured goods, fuel

Korea, North:
petroleum, coking coal, machinery and equipment; consumer goods, grain

Korea, South:
machinery, electronics and electronic equipment, oil, steel, transport equipment, textiles, organic chemicals, grains

Kuwait:
food, construction materials, vehicles and parts, clothing

Kyrgyzstan:
oil and gas, machinery and equipment, foodstuffs

Laos:
machinery and equipment, vehicles, fuel

Latvia:
machinery and equipment, chemicals, fuels

Lebanon:
foodstuffs, machinery and transport equipment, consumer goods, chemicals, textiles, metals, fuels, agricultural foods

Lesotho:
food; building materials, vehicles, machinery, medicines, petroleum products (1995)

Liberia:
fuels, chemicals, machinery, transportation equipment, manufactured goods; rice and other foodstuffs

Libya:
machinery, transport equipment, food, manufactured goods

Liechtenstein:
machinery, metal goods, textiles, foodstuffs, motor vehicles

Lithuania:
machinery and equipment 30%, mineral products 16%, chemicals 9%, textiles and clothing 9%, foodstuffs (1998)

Luxembourg:
minerals, metals, foodstuffs, quality consumer goods

Macau:
raw materials, foodstuffs, capital goods, fuels, consumer goods

Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of:
machinery and equipment, chemicals, fuels; food products

Madagascar:
intermediate manufactures 30%, capital goods 28%, petroleum 15%, consumer goods 14%, food 13% (1995 est.)

Malawi:
food, petroleum products, semimanufactures, consumer goods, transportation equipment

Malaysia:
machinery and equipment, chemicals, food, fuel and lubricants

Maldives:
consumer goods, intermediate and capital goods, petroleum products

Mali:
machinery and equipment, construction materials, petroleum, foodstuffs, textiles

Malta:
machinery and transport equipment, manufactured goods; food, drink, and tobacco

Man, Isle of:
timber, fertilizers, fish

Marshall Islands:
foodstuffs, machinery and equipment, fuels, beverages and tobacco

Martinique:
petroleum products, crude oil, foodstuffs, construction materials, vehicles, clothing and other consumer goods

Mauritania:
machinery and equipment, petroleum products, capital goods, foodstuffs, consumer goods

Mauritius:
manufactured goods, capital equipment, foodstuffs, petroleum products, chemicals (1996)

Mayotte:
food, machinery and equipment, transportation equipment, metals, chemicals

Mexico:
metal-working machines, steel mill products, agricultural machinery, electrical equipment, car parts for assembly, repair parts for motor vehicles, aircraft, and aircraft parts

Micronesia, Federated States of:
food, manufactured goods, machinery and equipment, beverages

Moldova:
mineral products and fuel 31%, machinery and equipment, chemicals, textiles (1998)

Mongolia:
machinery and equipment, fuels, food products, industrial consumer goods, chemicals, building materials, sugar, tea

Montserrat:
machinery and transportation equipment, foodstuffs, manufactured goods, fuels, lubricants, and related materials

Morocco:
semiprocessed goods, machinery and equipment, food and beverages, consumer goods, fuel (1998)

Mozambique:
food, clothing, farm equipment, petroleum, transport equipment (1997)

Namibia:
foodstuffs; petroleum products and fuel, machinery and equipment, chemicals

Nauru:
food, fuel, manufactures, building materials, machinery

Nepal:
gold, machinery and equipment, petroleum products, fertilizer

Netherlands:
machinery and transport equipment, chemicals, fuels; foodstuffs, clothing

Netherlands Antilles:
crude petroleum 64%, food, manufactures (1993)

New Caledonia:
foods, machinery and equipment, fuels, minerals

New Zealand:
machinery and equipment, vehicles and aircraft, petroleum, consumer goods, plastics

Nicaragua:
machinery and equipment, raw materials, petroleum products, consumer goods

Niger:
consumer goods, primary materials, machinery, vehicles and parts, petroleum, cereals

Nigeria:
machinery, chemicals, transport equipment, manufactured goods, food and live animals

Niue:
food, live animals, manufactured goods, machinery, fuels, lubricants, chemicals, drugs

Norfolk Island:
NA

Northern Mariana Islands:
food, construction equipment and materials, petroleum products

Norway:
machinery and equipment, chemicals, metals, foodstuffs

Oman:
machinery and transport equipment, manufactured goods, food, livestock, lubricants

Pakistan:
machinery, petroleum, petroleum products, chemicals, transportation equipment, edible oils, grains, pulses, flour

Palau:
machinery and equipment, fuels

Panama:
capital goods, crude oil, foodstuffs, consumer goods, chemicals

Papua New Guinea:
machinery and transport equipment, manufactured goods, food, fuels, chemicals

Paraguay:
road vehicles, consumer goods, tobacco, petroleum products, electrical machinery

Peru:
machinery, transport equipment, foodstuffs, petroleum, iron and steel, chemicals, pharmaceuticals

Philippines:
raw materials and intermediate goods, capital goods, consumer goods, fuels

Pitcairn Islands:
fuel oil, machinery, building materials, flour, sugar, other foodstuffs

Poland:
manufactured goods and chemicals 43%, machinery and equipment 36%, mineral fuels 9%, food and live animals 8% (1997)

Portugal:
machinery and transport equipment, chemicals, petroleum, textiles, agricultural products

Puerto Rico:
chemicals, machinery and equipment, clothing, food, fish, petroleum products

Qatar:
machinery and transport equipment, food, chemicals

Reunion:
manufactured goods, food, beverages, tobacco, machinery and transportation equipment, raw materials, and petroleum products

Romania:
machinery and equipment 23%, fuels and minerals 14.2%, chemicals 8.7%, textiles and footwear 17.1% (1998)

Russia:
machinery and equipment, consumer goods, medicines, meat, grain, sugar, semifinished metal products

Rwanda:
foodstuffs, machinery and equipment, steel, petroleum products, cement and construction material

Saint Helena:
food, beverages, tobacco, fuel oils, animal feed, building materials, motor vehicles and parts, machinery and parts

Saint Kitts and Nevis:
machinery, manufactures, food, fuels

Saint Lucia:
food 23%, manufactured goods 21%, machinery and transportation equipment 19%, chemicals, fuels

Saint Pierre and Miquelon:
meat, clothing, fuel, electrical equipment, machinery, building materials

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines:
foodstuffs, machinery and equipment, chemicals and fertilizers, minerals and fuels

Samoa:
machinery and equipment, foodstuffs

San Marino:
wide variety of consumer manufactures, food

Sao Tome and Principe:
machinery and electrical equipment, food products, petroleum products

Saudi Arabia:
machinery and equipment, foodstuffs, chemicals, motor vehicles, textiles

Senegal:
foods and beverages, consumer goods, capital goods, petroleum products

Serbia and Montenegro:
machinery and transport equipment, fuels and lubricants, manufactured goods, chemicals, food and live animals, raw materials

Seychelles:
machinery and equipment, foodstuffs, petroleum products

Sierra Leone:
foodstuffs, machinery and equipment, fuels and lubricants, chemicals

Singapore:
machinery and equipment 57%, mineral fuels, chemicals, foodstuffs (1998)

Slovakia:
machinery and transport equipment 40%; intermediate manufactured goods 18%; fuels 11%; chemicals 11%; miscellaneous manufactured goods 10% (1998)

Slovenia:
machinery and transport equipment 31%, manufactured goods 31%, chemicals 11%, fuels and lubricants, food (1997)

Solomon Islands:
plant and equipment, manufactured goods, food and live animals, fuel

Somalia:
manufactures, petroleum products, foodstuffs, construction materials (1995)

South Africa:
machinery, foodstuffs and equipment, chemicals, petroleum products, scientific instruments

Spain:
machinery and equipment, fuels, chemicals, semifinished goods; foodstuffs, consumer goods (1997)

Sri Lanka:
machinery and equipment, textiles, petroleum, foodstuffs (1998)

Sudan:
foodstuffs, petroleum products, manufactured goods, machinery and transport equipment, medicines and chemicals, textiles

Suriname:
capital equipment, petroleum, foodstuffs, cotton, consumer goods

Swaziland:
motor vehicles, machinery, transport equipment, foodstuffs, petroleum products, chemicals

Sweden:
machinery, petroleum and petroleum products, chemicals, motor vehicles, iron and steel; foodstuffs, clothing

Switzerland:
machinery, chemicals, vehicles, metals; agricultural products, textiles

Syria:
machinery and equipment 23%, foodstuffs/animals 20%, metal and metal products 15%, textiles 10%, chemicals 10% (1998 est.)

Tajikistan:
electricity, petroleum products, aluminum oxide, machinery and equipment, foodstuffs

Tanzania:
consumer goods, machinery and transportation equipment, industrial raw materials, crude oil

Thailand:
capital goods, intermediate goods and raw materials, consumer goods, fuels

Togo:
machinery and equipment, foodstuffs, petroleum products

Tokelau:
foodstuffs, building materials, fuel

Tonga:
foodstuffs, machinery and transport equipment, fuels, chemicals

Trinidad and Tobago:
machinery, transportation equipment, manufactured goods, food, live animals

Tunisia:
machinery and equipment, hydrocarbons, chemicals, fuel, food

Turkey:
machinery 29%, semi-finished goods 16%, chemicals 14%, transport equipment 11%, fuels 8% (1998)

Turkmenistan:
machinery and equipment 45%, chemicals, foodstuffs (1998)

Turks and Caicos Islands:
food and beverages, tobacco, clothing, manufactures, construction materials

Tuvalu:
food, animals, mineral fuels, machinery, manufactured goods

Uganda:
vehicles, petroleum, medical supplies; cereals

Ukraine:
energy, machinery and parts, transportation equipment, chemicals

United Arab Emirates:
machinery and transport equipment, chemicals, food

United Kingdom:
manufactured goods, machinery, fuels; foodstuffs

United States:
crude oil and refined petroleum products, machinery, automobiles, consumer goods, industrial raw materials, food and beverages

Uruguay:
road vehicles, electrical machinery, metal manufactures, heavy industrial machinery, crude petroleum

Uzbekistan:
machinery and equipment, chemicals, metals; foodstuffs

Vanuatu:
machinery and equipment, foodstuffs, fuels

Venezuela:
raw materials, machinery and equipment, transport equipment, construction materials (1999)

Vietnam:
machinery and equipment, petroleum products, fertilizer, steel products, raw cotton, grain, cement, motorcycles

Virgin Islands:
crude oil, foodstuffs, consumer goods, building materials

Wallis and Futuna:
foodstuffs, manufactured goods, transportation equipment, fuel, clothing

West Bank:
food, consumer goods, construction materials

Western Sahara:
fuel for fishing fleet, foodstuffs

World:
the whole range of industrial and agricultural goods and services

Yemen:
food and live animals, machinery and equipment, manufactured goods

Zambia:
machinery, transportation equipment, foodstuffs, fuels, petroleum products, electricity, fertilizer

Zimbabwe:
machinery and transport equipment 39%, other manufactures 18%, chemicals 15%, fuels 10% (1997 est.)

Taiwan:
electronics, electric and machinery equipment 45%, minerals, precision instruments

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