Côte D'ivoire - Foreign trade

Côte d'Ivoire has generally enjoyed a positive trade balance since independence. Cocoa is Côte d'Ivoire's largest export commodity (28%), cornering over a quarter of the world's exports in the market (26%). The country also exports wood (7.5%), coffee (8.4%), fruits and nuts (4.7%), fish (3.6%), and cotton (4.1%). Most of Côte d'Ivoire's exports go to France, the Netherlands, the US, and Mali. In 2000 Côte d'Ivoire's imports were distributed among the following categories:

Consumer goods	7.2%
Food	16.0%
Fuels	33.6%
Industrial supplies	25.0%
Machinery	11.9%
Transportation	5.8%
Other	0.4%

Principal trading partners in 2000 (in millions of US dollars) were as follows:

COUNTRY	EXPORTS	IMPORTS	BALANCE
France	541	505	36
Netherlands	353	76	277
United States	301	89	212
Mali	208	n.a.	n.a.
Italy	173	91	82
Senegal	146	16	130
Spain	137	81	56
Ghana	135	n.a.	n.a.
Germany	110	90	20