United Arab Emirates - Foreign trade
UAE's commodity exports were crude oil (45%), natural gas, reexports, dried fish, and dates as of 2000. Imports include machinery, vehicles, electrical equipment, aircraft, cosmetics, tobacco, steel, furniture, plastics, chemicals, and food products.
Principal trading partners in 1998 (in millions of US dollars) were as follows:
| COUNTRY | EXPORTS | IMPORTS | BALANCE |
| Japan | 7,583 | 3,150 | 4,433 |
| Korea | 1,930 | 1,647 | 283 |
| India | 1,638 | 1,789 | -151 |
| Singapore | 957 | 1,127 | -170 |
| United Kingdom | 842 | 2,845 | -2,003 |
| United States | 644 | 2,607 | -1,963 |
| Germany | 187 | 2,102 | -1,915 |
| China (inc. Hong Kong) | 147 | 1,417 | -1,270 |
| France | 107 | 1,352 | -1,245 |
| Italy | 101 | 1,772 | -1,671 |
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