Greece
Foreign trade
Garments and cotton provide Greece with the most exports (16%), followed by petroleum products (14%); fruit, nuts, and vegetable oils (11%); and tobacco (3.0%). Tobacco exports from Greece are substantial on the world commodities export market (3.6%)
In 2000 Greece's imports were distributed among the following categories:
| Consumer goods | 17.5% |
| Food | 9.6% |
| Fuels | 13.4% |
| Industrial supplies | 24.4% |
| Machinery | 17.4% |
| Transportation | 16.8% |
| Other | 0.9% |
Principal trading partners in 2000 (in millions of US dollars) were as follows:
| COUNTRY | EXPORTS | IMPORTS | BALANCE |
| Germany | 1,346 | 3,813 | -2,467 |
| Italy | 1,011 | 3,856 | -2,845 |
| United Kingdom | 692 | 1,483 | -791 |
| United States | 638 | 1,023 | -385 |
| Turkey | 550 | 396 | 154 |
| France | 374 | 2,153 | -1,779 |
| Spain | 335 | 1,018 | -683 |
| Netherlands | 317 | 1,735 | -1,418 |
| Russia | 249 | 1,095 | -846 |
| Japan | 86 | 1,179 | -1,093 |
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