Angola - Foreign trade

Crude petroleum and products top the commodities export list for Angola (89%), while only accounting for a small percentage of the world's exportation. Diamonds and other precious and semiprecious stones are the second-largest export, and shellfish exports follow. A small amount of natural and manufactured gas is also exported from Angola.

As of 1999, the US was buying up to 75% of Angola's crude oil production.

Principal trading partners in 1998 (in millions of US dollars) were as follows:

COUNTRY	EXPORTS	IMPORTS	BALANCE
United States	2,228	390	1,838
Belgium	317	106	211
Taiwan	287	5	282
China (inc. Hong Kong)	140	69	71
France	102	129	-27
Italy	60	82	-22
South Africa	51	238	-187
Spain	28	108	-80
Portugal	22	451	-429
Brazil	22	132	-110