Senegal - Foreign trade
Export revenues doubled between 1997 and 2000. The most important commodity exports for Senegal are shellfish (20%), fish (14%), refined petroleum products (11%), peanut oil (9.7%), inorganic chemicals (6.7%), and fertilizers (crude and manufactured, 6.2%).
In 2000 Senegal's imports were distributed among the following categories:
| Consumer goods | 7.9% |
| Food | 21.9% |
| Fuels | 20.2% |
| Industrial supplies | 26.8% |
| Machinery | 15.2% |
| Transportation | 8.0% |
Principal trading partners in 2000 (in millions of US dollars) were as follows:
| COUNTRY | EXPORTS | IMPORTS | BALANCE |
| France | 128 | 425 | -297 |
| India | 85 | 25 | 60 |
| Italy | 77 | 48 | 29 |
| Spain | 44 | 53 | -9 |
| Netherlands | 17 | 47 | -30 |
| China (inc. Hong Kong) | 13 | 42 | -29 |
| Germany | 11 | 55 | -44 |
| Nigeria | n.a. | 293 | n.a. |
| Thailand | n.a. | 83 | n.a. |
| United States | n.a. | 57 | n.a. |
| Belgium | n.a. | 44 | n.a. |
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kani
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