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Market Opportunities

Market Opportunities

According to the Bolivian National Statistics Institute (Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas, or INE), prospects for U.S. exports of non-agricultural products to Bolivia include the following sectors:

  1. Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, other than crude; preparations not elsewhere specified or included (as defined by the U.S. International Trade Commission Database), containing by weight 70 percent or more of petroleum oils or of oils obtained from bituminous minerals, these oils being the basic constituents of the preparations; waste oils.
  2. Motor cars and other motor vehicles principally designed for the transport of persons including station wagons and racing cars (other than those under the category 8702, defined as motor vehicles for the transport of 10 or more persons including the driver).
  3. Motor vehicles for the transport of goods.
  4. Bars and rods of iron or non-alloy steel, not further worked than forged, hot-rolled, hot-drawn or hot-extruded, but including those twisted after rolling.
  5. Self-propelled devices, angle-dozers, graders, levelers, scrapers, mechanical shovels, excavators, shovel loaders, tamping machines, and road rollers.
  6. Insecticides, rodenticides, fungicides, herbicides, anti-sprouting products and plant-growth regulators, disinfectants, and similar products.
  7. Packing material for retail sale, or as preparations or articles (for example, sulfur-treated bands, wicks and candles, and flypaper).
  8. Tractors (other than tractors of heading 8709, defined as: work trucks, self propelled, not fitted with lifting or handling equipment, of the types used in factories, warehouses, dock areas or airports for short distance transport of goods; tractors of the type used on railway station platforms, etc.).
  9. Turbojets, turbo propellers, and other gas turbines.

10.  Additionally, though not part of the INE list, machinery and mechanical appliances are also strong prospects for U.S. exports.

The best prospects for U.S. agricultural products include:

  1. cane or beet sugar and chemically pure sucrose, in solid form (top imports for 2011), and
  2. wheat or meslin flour.