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:

Côte D'ivoire

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:

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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
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