Sa'udi Arabia - Foreign trade

Sa'udi Arabia's commodity exports are dominated by mineral fuels, which account for 13% of the world's mineral fuel exports. Crude petroleum (79% of total exports, 16.3% of world crude petroleum exports) and refined petroleum products (12% and7.1%, respectively) are the largest exports. Other exports include polymers (1.2%) and industrial alcohols (1.4%, accounting for8.1% of the world's industrial alcohol exports).

In 2000 Sa'udi Arabia's imports were distributed among the following categories:

Consumer goods	17.3%
Food	15.9%
Fuels	0.2%
Industrial supplies	24.2%
Machinery	19.9%
Transportation	21.2%
Other	1.3%

Principal trading partners in 1998 (in millions of US dollars) were as follows:

COUNTRY	EXPORTS	IMPORTS	BALANCE
Japan	6,524	4,392	2,132
United States	6,517	11,577	-5,060
Korea	3,986	1,456	2,530
Singapore	2,982	420	2,562
India	2,338	767	1,571
France	1,622	1,570	52
Netherlands	1,538	691	847
United Kingdom	1,345	4,896	-3,551
Italy	1,259	1,814	-555
Germany	527	2,652	-2,125