Garments and cotton provide Greece with the most exports (16%), followed by petroleum products (14%); fruit, nuts, and vegetable oils (11%); and tobacco (3.0%). Tobacco exports from Greece are substantial on the world commodities export market (3.6%)
In 2000 Greece's imports were distributed among the following categories:
Consumer goods | 17.5% |
Food | 9.6% |
Fuels | 13.4% |
Industrial supplies | 24.4% |
Machinery | 17.4% |
Transportation | 16.8% |
Other | 0.9% |
Principal trading partners in 2000 (in millions of US dollars) were as follows:
COUNTRY | EXPORTS | IMPORTS | BALANCE |
Germany | 1,346 | 3,813 | -2,467 |
Italy | 1,011 | 3,856 | -2,845 |
United Kingdom | 692 | 1,483 | -791 |
United States | 638 | 1,023 | -385 |
Turkey | 550 | 396 | 154 |
France | 374 | 2,153 | -1,779 |
Spain | 335 | 1,018 | -683 |
Netherlands | 317 | 1,735 | -1,418 |
Russia | 249 | 1,095 | -846 |
Japan | 86 | 1,179 | -1,093 |