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Top Trading Partners - Total Trade, Exports, Imports

For month of August 2012

Data are goods only, on a Census Basis, in billions of dollars, unrevised.

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    • Total Trade (Goods)

    Rank Country Exports (August) Imports (August) Total Trade (August) Percent of Total Trade
    --- Total, All Countries 128.5 194.9 323.4 100.0%
    --- Total, Top 15 Countries 89.7 145.7 235.4 72.8%
    1 Canada
    		24.7 27.0 51.7 16.0%
    2 China
    		8.6 37.3 45.9 14.2%
    3 Mexico
    		19.2 23.7 42.9 13.3%
    4 Japan
    		6.3 13.0 19.3 6.0%
    5 Germany
    		4.1 9.8 13.8 4.3%
    6 United Kingdom
    		4.2 4.9 9.2 2.8%
    7 Korea, South
    		3.2 4.8 8.0 2.5%
    8 Brazil
    		4.0 3.1 7.0 2.2%
    9 India
    		2.1 3.9 6.0 1.9%
    10 France
    		2.6 3.4 6.0 1.9%
    11 Saudi Arabia
    		1.5 4.2 5.7 1.7%
    12 Taiwan
    		1.9 3.3 5.3 1.6%
    13 Netherlands
    		3.3 1.9 5.2 1.6%
    14 Venezuela
    		1.5 3.6 5.1 1.6%
    15 Singapore
    		2.7 1.7 4.4 1.4%

    Exports (Goods)

    Rank Country Exports (August) Percent of Total Exports
    --- Total, All Countries 128.5 100.0%
    --- Total, Top 15 Countries 92.4 71.9%
    1 Canada
    		24.7 19.2%
    2 Mexico
    		19.2 14.9%
    3 China
    		8.6 6.7%
    4 Japan
    		6.3 4.9%
    5 United Kingdom
    		4.2 3.3%
    6 Germany
    		4.1 3.2%
    7 Brazil
    		4.0 3.1%
    8 Netherlands
    		3.3 2.6%
    9 Korea, South
    		3.2 2.5%
    10 Singapore
    		2.7 2.1%
    11 Australia
    		2.7 2.1%
    12 France
    		2.6 2.0%
    13 Belgium
    		2.5 2.0%
    14 Hong Kong
    		2.4 1.9%
    15 India
    		2.1 1.6%

    Imports (Goods)

    Rank Country Imports (August) Percent of Total Imports
    --- Total, All Countries 194.9 100.0%
    --- Total, Top 15 Countries 148.2 76.0%
    1 China
    		37.3 19.1%
    2 Canada
    		27.0 13.9%
    3 Mexico
    		23.7 12.2%
    4 Japan
    		13.0 6.7%
    5 Germany
    		9.8 5.0%
    6 United Kingdom
    		4.9 2.5%
    7 Korea, South
    		4.8 2.5%
    8 Saudi Arabia
    		4.2 2.2%
    9 India
    		3.9 2.0%
    10 Venezuela
    		3.6 1.9%
    11 France
    		3.4 1.8%
    12 Taiwan
    		3.3 1.7%
    13 Italy
    		3.2 1.6%
    14 Brazil
    		3.1 1.6%
    15 Ireland
    		2.9 1.5%

    August 2012
    Trade Numbers

    Deficit: $44.2 Billion
    Exports: $181.3 Billion
    Imports: $225.5 Billion

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