Malta - Foreign trade


Because it depends on external sources for much of its food, fuel, raw materials, and manufactured articles, Malta imports considerably more than it exports.

Most of Malta's commodity exports are electronic microcircuits (62%). Other export commodities include clothes(5.9%), refined petroleum products (4.4%), and toys (4.3%).

In 2000 Malta's imports were distributed among the following categories:

Malta

Consumer goods 11.9%
Food 7.1%
Fuels 7.2%
Industrial supplies 14.6%
Machinery 53.1%
Transportation 6.1%

Principal trading partners in 2000 (in millions of US dollars) were as follows:

Malta

COUNTRY EXPORTS IMPORTS BALANCE
United States 667 361 306
Singapore 378 502 -124
Germany 234 278 -44
France 195 642 -447
United Kingdom 177 273 -96
Switzerland 157 52 105
Japan 92 67 25
Italy 82 569 -487
Belgium 47 38 9
Libya 35 37 -2