Leading exporters and importers in world merchandise trade (excluding European Union intra-trade), 1995

Appendix :Table 2
(Billion dollars and percentage)

Rank	EXPORTERS	Value (f.o.b.)	Share	Change in value in 1995	Rank	IMPORTERS	Value (c.i.f.)	Share	Change in value in 1995
1	European Union (15)	750 .8	20 .0	20	1	United States	770 .8	19 .9	12
2	United States	583 .9	15 .5	14	2	European Union (15)	736 .1	18 .9	19
3	Japan	443 .0	11 .8	12	3	Japan	335 .9	8 .6	22
4	Canada	192 .1	5 .2	16	4	Hong Kong	197 .6	5 .1	19
5	Hong Kong	173 .8	4 .6	15		- retained imports	53 .7	1 .4	24
	- domestic exports	29 .9	0 .8	4	5	Canada	171 .8	4 .5	11
6	China	148 .8	4 .0	23	6	Korea, Rep. of	135 .1	3 .5	32
7	Korea, Rep. of	125 .2	3 .3	30	7	China	132 .0	3 .4	14
8	Singapore	118 .6	3 .2	23	8	Singapore	124 .7	3 .2	22
	-domestic exports	69 .7	1 .9	20		- retained importsa	76 .0	2 .0	19
9	Chinese Taipei	111 .4	3 .0	20	9	Chinese Taipei	103 .8	2 .7	21
10	Switzerland	81 .3	2 .2	16	10	Switzerland	80 .2	2 .1	18

11	Mexico	79 .8	2 .1	31	11	Malaysia	77 .7	2 .0	30
12	Malaysia	74 .0	2 .0	26	12	Mexico	72 .5	1 .9	-11
13	Russian Fed.a	64 .8	1 .7	26	13	Thailand	69 .1	1 .8	27
14	Thailand	55 .8	1 .5	23	14	Australia	59 .9	1 .5	12
15	Australia	53 .0	1 .4	12	15	Brazil	54 .0	1 .4	50
16	Brazil	46 .8	1 .2	7	16	Indonesia	42 .2	1 .1	32
17	Saudi Arabia	45 .5	1 .2	11	17	Russian Fed.a	38 .1	1 .0	12
18	Indonesia	45 .0	1 .2	12	18	Turkey	33 .1	0 .9	42
19	Norway	41 .8	1 .1	20	19	Norway	32 .6	0 .8	19
20	India	30 .2	0 .8	20	20	India	31 .7	0 .8	18

21	South Africa	28 .5	0 .8	7	21	South Africa	30 .4	0 .8	30
22	Poland	22 .5	0 .6	30	22	Poland	30 .0	0 .8	32
23	Turkey	22 .5	0 .6	24	23	Israel	29 .5	0 .8	17
24	United Arab Emirates	22 .0	0 .6	16	24	Philippines	27 .1	0 .7	20
25	Argentina	20 .8	0 .6	33	25	United Arab Emirates	23 .0	0 .6	12
26	Israel	18 .2	0 .5	8	26	Saudi Arabia	22 .8	0 .6	0
27	Venezuela	17 .8	0 .5	15	27	Argentina	19 .8	0 .5	-8
28	Philippines	17 .3	0 .5	30	28	Czech Rep.b	17 .9	0 .5	42
29	Iran, Islamic Rep. of	16 .1	0 .4	10	29	Chile	15 .7	0 .4	33
30	Chile	16 .0	0 .4	39	30	Hungary	15 .7	0 .4	8
	World c	3750.0	100.0	18		World c	3890.0	100.0	18

  a Data exclude trade with the former Republics of the USSR. Including trade with these states would lift Russian exports and imports to $80.2 billion and $55.7 billion, respectively.
  b Excluding imports from the Slovak Republic. Including them would lift Czech imports to $ 20.5 billion.
  c Excluding trade among the former Republics of the USSR and between the Czech and Slovak Republic. Hong Kong re-exports are included.