Thailand supplies the world with a large proportion of its natural rubber, rice, and seafood exports. The top 10 exports are as follows:
% OF COUNTRY TOTAL | |
Transistors and valves | 8.5 |
Automatic data processing equipment and parts thereof | 12.4 |
Apparel | 5.5 |
Telecommunications equipment | 3.1 |
Preserved fish | 3.0 |
Articles of plastic | 3.0 |
Textiles | 2.9 |
Shellfish | 2.7 |
Rice | 2.4 |
Natural rubber and gums | 2.3 |
In 2000 Thailand's imports were distributed among the following categories:
Consumer goods | 5.8% |
Food | 3.3% |
Fuels | 12.3% |
Industrial supplies | 33.2% |
Machinery | 39.7% |
Transportation | 5.1% |
Other | 0.6% |
Principal trading partners in 2000 (in millions of US dollars) were as follows:
COUNTRY | EXPORTS | IMPORTS | BALANCE |
United States | 14,728 | 7,295 | 7,433 |
Japan | 10,210 | 15,286 | -5,076 |
China (inc. Hong Kong) | 6,293 | 4,253 | 2,040 |
Singapore | 6,016 | 3,402 | 2,614 |
Malaysia | 2,820 | 3,342 | -522 |
United Kingdom | 2,366 | 949 | 1,417 |
Netherlands | 2,251 | 529 | 1,722 |
Germany | 1,639 | 1,948 | -309 |
Australia | 1,618 | 1,161 | 457 |
Korea | 1,271 | 2,164 | -893 |
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