Guatemala - Foreign trade

The Guatemalan commodity export market is dominated by coffee (21%) and sugar (7.5%). Other main exports are bananas (6.6%), medicinal and pharmaceutical products (3.2%), vegetables (3.2%), and cardamom (2.9%). Most exports go to the US. Nontraditional exports, such as cut flowers, fruits and berries, shrimp, and textile assembly, are of growing importance to the Guatemalan economy.

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

Consumer goods	13.1%
Food	10.1%
Fuels	12.5%
Industrial supplies	31.7%
Machinery	20.3%
Transportation	12.2%
Other	0.1%

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

COUNTRY	EXPORTS	IMPORTS	BALANCE
United States	975	1,940	-965
El Salvador	341	314	27
Honduras	233	84	149
Costa Rica	127	201	-74
Mexico	120	571	-451
Germany	108	127	-19
Canada	63	99	-36
Japan	63	152	-89
Panama	55	163	-108
Nicaragua	114	n.a.	n.a.