
ANNUAL REVISION FOR 1997

PART B:     NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

EXHIBIT 14. EXPORTS AND IMPORTS OF GOODS BY PRINCIPAL SITC COMMODITY 
            GROUPINGS - 1997 DATA

(In millions of dollars. Details may not equal totals due to rounding.
(-) Represents zero or less than one half unit of measurement shown.  
(X) Not applicable. 
               Item                         Exports          Imports

Balance of Payment Basis                    679,325          877,279
Net Adjustments                              -9,858            6,609
Total Census Basis (2)                      689,182          870,671

Manufactured goods (3)                      550,529          728,928
Agricultural commodities (3)                 55,639           35,164
Mineral fuels (3)                            12,682           78,277

Selected commodities (3)        

  ADP equipment; office mach                 43,698           74,993
  Airplane parts                             13,266            4,917
  Airplanes                                  25,552            4,557
  Alcoholic bev.,distilled                      385            2,186
  Aluminum                                    3,768            5,558
  Animal feeds                                4,621              648
  Artwork/antiques                            1,120            3,587
  Basketware, etc.                            2,494            3,364
  Cereal flour                                1,241            1,328
  Chemicals - cosmetics                       4,873            2,677
  Chemicals - dyeing                          3,294            2,485

  Chemicals - fertilizers                     3,123            1,374
  Chemicals - inorganic                       5,264            5,132
  Chemicals - medicinal                       8,087            8,748
  Chemicals - n.e.s.                         11,160            4,821
  Chemicals - organic                        16,408           16,874
  Chemicals - plastics                       17,274            8,237
  Cigarettes                                  4,417               75
  Clothing                                    8,396           48,408
  Coal                                        3,586              655
  Coffee                                          7            3,575
  Copper                                      1,441            3,254
  Cork, wood, lumber                          5,146            8,179
  Corn                                        5,426              103
  Cotton, raw and linters                     2,716               20
  Crude fertilizers                           1,621            1,334
  Crude oil                                   1,040           54,226

  Electrical machinery                       65,816           80,370
  Fish and preparations                       2,624            7,687
  Footwear                                      800           14,026
  Furniture and bedding                       3,942           11,144
  Gem diamonds                                  108            7,595
  General industrial mach                    30,603           26,321
  Glass                                       2,125            1,750
  Glassware                                     813            1,553
  Gold, nonmonetary                           5,673            3,035
  Hides and skins                             1,503              130
  Iron and steel mill prod                    5,637           14,285
  Jewelry                                       729            4,588
  Lighting, plumbing                          1,535            2,944
  Liquified propane/butane                      298            1,158
  Live animals                                  685            1,655

  Meat and preparations                       6,885            2,656
  Metal manufactures, n.e.s.                 10,309           12,242
  Metal ores; scrap                           4,662            4,156
  Metalworking machinery                      5,702            7,325
  Mineral fuels, other                        3,355            1,864
  Natural gas                                   275            5,477
  Nickel                                        347            1,144
  Oils/fats, vegetable                        1,398            1,381
  Optical goods                               1,697            2,493
  Paper and paperboard                       10,283           11,697
  Petroleum preparations                      3,899           13,904
  Photographic equipment                      3,865            5,759
  Plastic articles, n.e.s.                    5,092            5,676

  Platinum                                      437            1,973
  Pottery                                       101            1,683
  Power generating mach.                     27,221           24,601
  Printed materials                           4,605            2,871
  Pulp and waste paper                        3,868            2,639
  Records/magnetic media                      6,815            4,137
  Rice                                          933              217
  Rubber articles, n.e.s.                     1,256            1,553
  Rubber tires and tubes                      2,394            3,417
  Scientific instruments                     24,039           13,969
  Ships, boats                                1,366              875
  Silver and bullion                            641              472

  Soybeans                                    7,479               86
  Spacecraft                                    994              239
  Specialized ind. mach.                     29,162           21,182
  Sugar                                           3              956
  Television, VCR, etc.                      24,093           36,771
  Textile yearn, fabric                       8,975           11,951
  Tobacco, unmanufactured                     1,548            1,129
  Toys/games/sporting goods                   3,827           17,374
  Travel goods                                  330            3,841
  Vegetables and fruits                       7,472            7,752
  Vehicles                                   55,669          112,926
  Watches/clocks/parts                          310            2,838
  Wheat                                       4,196              359
  Wood manufactures                           1,958            4,668

Re-exports                                   44,153              (X)
  Agricultural commodities                    1,439              (X)
  Manufactured goods                         41,958              (X)
  Mineral fuels                                 284              (X)

(1) Detailed data are presented on a Census basis.  The information 
    needed to convert to a BOP basis is not available.

(2) Total exports (Domestic and Foreign)

(3) Domestic exports


SOURCE: Report FT900 (97) (CB-98-104), Bureau of the Census, Foreign Trade
        Division, FINAL 1997. For more information, contact Haydn R. 
        Mearkle (301-457-2246) or Richard M. Preuss (301-457-2311), 
        Foreign Trade Division.
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