Croatia
Foreign trade
Ships are the Croatia's major export (13.6% of exports), while other commodities fall close behind, including refined petroleum products (8.1%), polymers (2.9%), men's outerwear (3.4%), and women's outerwear (2.6%). Croatia's diverse export market also includes various chemicals, foodstuff, and raw materials.
In 2000 Croatia's imports were distributed among the following categories:
| Consumer goods | 16.3% |
| Food | 7.2% |
| Fuels | 14.5% |
| Industrial supplies | 29.6% |
| Machinery | 16.1% |
| Transportation | 16.2% |
| Other | 0.1% |
Principal trading partners in 1998 (in millions of US dollars) were as follows:
| COUNTRY | EXPORTS | IMPORTS | BALANCE |
| Italy | 990 | 1,311 | -321 |
| Germany | 632 | 1,298 | -666 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 495 | 82 | 413 |
| Slovenia | 480 | 627 | -147 |
| Austria | 292 | 529 | -237 |
| Liberia | 224 | n.a. | n.a. |
| France | 126 | 437 | -311 |
| United States | 109 | 248 | -139 |
| Russia | 57 | 672 | -615 |
| Belgium | 43 | 115 | -72 |
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