Top 25 U.S. Import Sources for
Books:  Publishing or Printing & Publishing
SIC 2731                    U.S. Imports for Consumption              Customs Value
Annual Data
 
Country 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 Percent Change
1999 - 2000
In 1,000 Dollars
United Kingdom 206,709 210,030 248,199 270,486 279,532 283,380 314,290 278,252 317,660 14.2%
Canada 94,418 101,775 96,841 111,597 146,009 189,413 215,825 221,462 229,045 3.4%
Hong Kong 174,534 171,113 167,575 210,827 221,894 203,243 200,242 229,293 224,834 -1.9%
China 6,203 16,496 26,015 44,685 57,402 73,310 101,012 142,459 220,895 55.1%
Italy 58,653 69,850 72,743 91,563 91,268 85,514 102,525 100,475 94,983 -5.5%
Singapore 67,950 66,610 69,139 85,813 96,124 92,134 94,672 89,000 86,630 -2.7%
Japan 101,923 90,777 91,792 83,021 66,034 66,281 58,755 55,087 59,268 7.6%
Germany 50,405 76,422 57,804 48,149 54,147 57,536 63,066 57,082 57,345 0.5%
Spain 31,473 23,734 29,668 34,412 31,375 36,673 37,596 46,590 55,506 19.1%
Korea 17,509 16,370 16,516 20,653 21,229 17,544 25,816 29,728 29,430 -1.0%
Belgium 10,505 11,513 14,225 19,769 14,341 14,955 19,426 19,886 27,088 36.2%
France 19,683 13,388 17,567 33,828 33,285 40,983 23,948 25,158 25,345 0.7%
Mexico 13,193 12,550 14,670 23,318 15,645 19,041 17,404 22,748 24,656 8.4%
Netherlands 15,829 11,656 12,318 15,678 13,958 13,986 17,551 20,538 20,214 -1.6%
Colombia 15,988 12,781 14,525 10,417 7,666 6,981 6,327 7,602 11,878 56.3%
Israel 7,060 6,560 6,914 7,693 8,530 8,305 9,929 10,648 10,609 -0.4%
Malaysia 649 2,610 3,640 4,908 3,715 4,087 4,522 9,019 10,443 15.8%
Australia 6,540 8,341 9,825 10,459 9,586 8,518 7,722 10,060 9,155 -9.0%
Thailand 2,652 2,238 3,475 4,341 5,821 5,585 4,649 6,789 8,563 26.1%
Taiwan 12,072 7,804 9,877 8,676 12,198 11,796 9,930 9,427 8,226 -12.7%
Sweden 5,102 3,077 4,000 5,026 6,385 4,836 5,047 4,717 5,500 16.6%
Switzerland 8,166 6,415 7,707 7,327 8,078 7,919 9,579 5,454 4,967 -8.9%
Russia 389 504 1,127 1,246 779 3,720 1,227 2,228 4,857 118.0%
Indonesia 30 50 512 611 193 373 1,113 1,980 4,047 104.3%
United Arab Em 27 74 269 616 2,146 2,423 2,214 2,490 3,708 48.9%
Subtotal : 927,661 942,740 996,942 1,155,120 1,207,339 1,258,534 1,354,388 1,408,174 1,554,853 10.4%
All Other: 25,451 22,913 25,997 29,370 32,734 38,983 29,358 33,224 35,634 7.3%
Total 953,111 965,653 1,022,939 1,184,489 1,240,073 1,297,517 1,383,746 1,441,398 1,590,487 10.3%

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Sources: Data on this site have been compiled from tariff and trade data from the U.S. Department of Commerce, the U.S. Treasury, and the U.S. International Trade Commission.

Last Updated by Nate Herman, Office of Consumer Goods, on April 10, 2001.