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According to U.S. Commerce...Selected Imports and Exports (in millions)
Alcoholic bev.,distilled: July 1999 : Exports = 30 : Imports = 228
Animal feeds: July 1999 : Exports = 242 : Imports = 48
Basketware, etc.: July 1999 : Exports = 253 : Imports = 372
Chemicals - medicinal: July 1999 : Exports = 870 : Imports = 1,258
Cereal flour: July 1999 : Exports = 110 : Imports = 122
Cigarettes: July 1999 : Exports = 239 : Imports = 10
Clothing: July 1999 : Exports = 636 : Imports = 5,557
Coal: July 1999 : Exports = 183 : Imports = 44
Coffee: July 1999 : Exports = 1 : Imports = 194
Copper: July 1999 : Exports = 82 : Imports = 256
Cork, wood, lumber: July 1999 : Exports = 322 : Imports = 881
Corn: July 1999 : Exports = 453 : Imports = 2
Cotton, raw and linters: July 1999 : Exports = 100 : Imports = 24
Crude oil: July 1999 : Exports = 72 : Imports = 4,435
Fish and preparations: July 1999 : Exports = 309 : Imports = 760
Footwear: July 1999 : Exports = 57 : Imports = 1,339
Furniture and bedding: July 1999 : Exports = 312 : Imports = 1,292
Glassware: July 1999 : Exports = 54 : Imports = 172
Iron and steel mill prod: July 1999 : Exports = 397 : Imports = 1,141
Lighting, plumbing: July 1999 : Exports = 107 : Imports = 412
Liquified propane/butane: July 1999 : Exports = 16 : Imports = 73
Meat and preparations: July 1999 : Exports = 539 : Imports = 279
Metal manufactures, n.e.s.: July 1999 : Exports = 856 : Imports = 1,229
Metalworking machinery: July 1999 : Exports = 460 : Imports = 561
Natural gas: July 1999 : Exports = 19 : Imports = 497
Nickel: July 1999 : Exports = 25 : Imports = 53
Oils/fats, vegetable: July 1999 : Exports = 77 : Imports = 117
Optical goods: July 1999 : Exports = 191 : Imports = 243
Paper and paperboard: July 1999 : Exports = 793 : Imports = 1,073
Petroleum preparations: July 1999 : Exports = 263 : Imports = 1,318
Platinum: July 1999 : Exports = 50 : Imports = 149
Pottery: July 1999 : Exports = 8 : Imports = 151
Rice: July 1999 : Exports = 66 : Imports = 10
Rubber articles, n.e.s.: July 1999 : Exports = 120 : Imports = 144
Rubber tires and tubes: July 1999 : Exports = 188 : Imports = 391
Silver and bullion: July 1999 : Exports = 19 : Imports = 62
Soybeans: July 1999 : Exports = 200 : Imports = 1
Sugar: July 1999 : Exports = 0 : Imports = 37
Textile yearn, fabric: July 1999 : Exports = 708 : Imports = 1,181
Toys/games/sporting goods: July 1999 : Exports = 266 : Imports = 1,793
Travel goods: July 1999 : Exports = 25 : Imports = 375
Vegetables and fruits: July 1999 : Exports = 561 : Imports = 652
Watches/clocks/parts: July 1999 : Exports = 30 : Imports = 271
Vehicles: July 1999 : Exports = 2,936 : Imports = 10,761
Wheat: July 1999 : Exports = 351 : Imports = 31
-- Stan Faryna (info@giglobal.com), September 23, 1999
Stan,Thanks for posting this. Not really any surprises, but it reminds me to go buy more sugar! Um, and Vodka.
Do you have a link for this? I would like to 'dig around' and see if I could find out the countries of origin for some of these imports.
Thanks!
-- Deborah (infowars@yahoo.com), September 23, 1999.
Most of the sugar used in the US is produced in the US (from sugar beets). A little is produced here in Hawaii from sugar cane.
-- Mad Monk (madmonk@hawaiian.net), September 24, 1999.
Louisiana produces a lot of cane sugar too. You can buy raw canes at the French market. Might help your storage plans to know that regular brown sugar is white sugar with molasses mixed back in. Turbinado ("Sugar in the Raw") and Demarara are less refined, hence tue brown, sugars.
-- Old Git (anon@spamproblems.com), September 24, 1999.
Mad,Cane and beet sugar: July 1999 = 39 : June 1999 = 74
Looks like we import quite a bit too. I wonder where from.
Deb,
http://www.bea.doc.gov/bea/newsrel/trad0799.htm
Git,
Louisiana is a bit far for me to go to get sugar next year! (smile)
-- Stan Faryna (faryna@groupmail.com), September 25, 1999.
Stan,Thanks for the post (as well as the others!). The one's which surprised me the most were natural gas (lots locally here - many back yards have pumps/pipes) and propane..... I just didn't realize that re relied on imports for that too!
-- Kristi (securxsys@cs.com), September 26, 1999.
Thanks for this list. Availability and PRICE are what we should be thinking about. Although some sugar may be available a couple states away, if oil producing countries for some reason or another won't be sending their fuel here...you better believe you'll see the supply and demand rules in effect. I'm guessing gas could go up another 50 cents a gallon and that'll be reflected in the prices we pay to cover the additional costs in shipping an item to where you'll buy it.Sugar and coffee are two items you might want to stock up on, if for no other reason that to buy it when prices are lower. That's my 2 cents.
beej
-- beej (beej@ppbbs.com), September 30, 1999.