In 1996, the metals, engineering, and electronics industries accounted for 58% of all exports; the forestry industry, 27%; the chemical industry, 10%; and others, 5%. Finland is a major producer of paper and paperboard, and accounts for a large percentage of the world export market (10.7%). Other important exports include telecommunications equipment (21.3%), iron(4.2%), and ships (2.3%).
In 2000 Finland's imports were distributed among the following categories:
Consumer goods | 13.1% |
Food | 4.7% |
Fuels | 11.8% |
Industrial supplies | 26.1% |
Machinery | 31.2% |
Transportation | 10.6% |
Other | 2.4% |
Principal trading partners in 2000 (in millions of US dollars) were as follows:
COUNTRY | EXPORTS | IMPORTS | BALANCE |
Germany | 5,548 | 4,813 | 735 |
Sweden | 4,133 | 3,491 | 642 |
United States | 3,350 | 2,398 | 952 |
United Kingdom | 4,052 | 2,186 | 1,866 |
France | 2,283 | 1,306 | 977 |
Italy | 1,937 | 1,083 | 854 |
Russia | 1,936 | 3,165 | -1,229 |
China (inc. Hong Kong) | 1,778 | 1,015 | 763 |
Netherlands | 1,725 | 1,296 | 429 |
Norway | 1,161 | 1,297 | 136 |
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