Qatar - Foreign trade
Qatar's most important commodity exports are crude petroleum (56%), natural and manufactured gas (30%), and refined petroleum products (2.1%). Other exports include manufactured polymers (3.2%), steel (2.1%), and fertilizers (1.9%).
In 1999, imports were distributed among the following categories:
| Consumer goods | 17.6% |
| Food | 14.0% |
| Fuels | 0.6% |
| Industrial supplies | 27.1% |
| Machinery | 23.5% |
| Transportation | 17.0% |
| Other | 0.2% |
Principal trading partners in 2000 (in millions of US dollars) were as follows:
| COUNTRY | EXPORTS | IMPORTS | BALANCE |
| Japan | 5,216 | 358 | 4,858 |
| Korea | 1,952 | 174 | 1,778 |
| Singapore | 824 | 14 | 810 |
| United Arab Emirates | 513 | 225 | 288 |
| United States | 361 | 335 | 26 |
| China (inc. Hong Kong) | 332 | 97 | 235 |
| Thailand | 249 | 35 | 214 |
| Sa'udi Arabia | 115 | 183 | -68 |
| United Kingdom | 17 | 253 | -236 |
| Germany | n.a. | 266 | n.a. |
| France | n.a. | 178 | n.a. |