
ANNUAL REVISION FOR 1998

PART B:     NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

EXHIBIT 14. EXPORTS AND IMPORTS OF GOODS BY PRINCIPAL SITC COMMODITY 
            GROUPINGS - 1998 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 (1)                     Exports          Imports

Balance of Payment Basis                         670,246          917,178
Net Adjustments                                  -11,892            5,282
Total Census Basis (2)                           682,138          911,896
Manufactured goods (3)                           552,778          790,754
Agricultural commodities (3)                      50,654           35,748
Mineral fuels (3)                                 10,251           57,323

Selected commodities (3)        

  ADP equipment; office mach                      40,735           76,755
  Airplane parts                                  15,035            5,912
  Airplanes                                       35,242            7,052
  Alcoholic bev.,distilled                           385            2,296
  Aluminum                                         3,606            5,970
  Animal feeds                                     4,054              607
  Artwork/antiques                                 1,140            3,976
  Basketware, etc.                                 2,583            3,834
  Cereal flour                                     1,274            1,461
  Chemicals - cosmetics                            4,763            2,895
  Chemicals - dyeing                               3,471            2,472

  Chemicals - fertilizers                          3,231            1,570
  Chemicals - inorganic                            4,709            5,126
  Chemicals - medicinal                            9,341           10,908
  Chemicals - n.e.s.                              10,838            4,833
  Chemicals - organic                             14,920           18,327
  Chemicals - plastics                            16,608            8,565
  Cigarettes                                       4,165              102
  Clothing                                         8,497           53,742
  Coal                                             3,176              724
  Coffee                                              10            3,069
  Copper                                           1,276            3,046
  Cork, wood, lumber                               4,091            7,616
  Corn                                             4,618              142
  Cotton, raw and linters                          2,572               19
  Crude fertilizers                                1,600            1,300
  Crude oil                                          895           37,252

  Electrical machinery                            65,575           79,365
  Fish and preparations                            2,172            8,104
  Footwear                                           720           13,881
  Furniture and bedding                            4,411           13,339
  Gem diamonds                                       124            8,497
  General industrial mach                         30,121           28,811
  Glass                                            2,030            1,774
  Glassware                                          709            1,609
  Gold, nonmonetary                                5,464            3,587
  Hides and skins                                  1,130              110
  Iron and steel mill prod                         5,481           17,159
  Jewelry                                            769            5,270
  Lighting, plumbing                               1,405            3,393
  Liquified propane/butane                           203              933
  Live animals                                       675            1,717

  Meat and preparations                            6,427            2,848
  Metal manufactures, n.e.s.                      10,699           13,506
  Metal ores; scrap                                3,581            4,099
  Metalworking machinery                           5,270            7,926
  Mineral fuels, other                             2,619            1,132
  Natural gas                                        243            5,273
  Nickel                                             365              893
  Oils/fats, vegetable                             1,852            1,326
  Optical goods                                    1,907            2,727
  Paper and paperboard                             9,930           12,793
  Petroleum preparations                           2,857           10,947
  Photographic equipment                           3,481            5,661
  Plastic articles, n.e.s.                         5,554            6,137

  Platinum                                           388            3,051
  Pottery                                            103            1,719
  Power generating mach.                          28,743           28,160
  Printed materials                                4,671            3,075
  Pulp and waste paper                             3,443            2,442
  Records/magnetic media                           6,057            4,383
  Rice                                             1,207              182
  Rubber articles, n.e.s.                          1,301            1,645
  Rubber tires and tubes                           2,554            4,095
  Scientific instruments                          24,169           15,500
  Ships, boats                                     1,716            1,132
  Silver and bullion                                 629              662

  Soybeans                                         4,885               54
  Spacecraft                                       1,102               91
  Specialized ind. mach.                          27,305           22,986
  Sugar                                                3              715
  Television, VCR, etc.                           23,417           42,449
  Textile yearn, fabric                            8,976           12,896
  Tobacco, unmanufactured                          1,459              780
  Toys/games/sporting goods                        3,342           18,695
  Travel goods                                       302            3,946
  Vegetables and fruits                            7,324            8,365
  Vehicles                                        53,536          119,726
  Watches/clocks/parts                               312            3,210
  Wheat                                            3,690              283
  Wood manufactures                                1,690            5,647

Re-exports                                        45,683              (X)
  Agricultural commodities                         1,391              (X)
  Manufactured goods                              43,773              (X)
  Mineral fuels                                      113              (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 (98) (CB-99-109), Bureau of the Census, Foreign Trade
        Division, FINAL 1998. For more information, contact Haydn R. 
        Mearkle (301-457-2246), Foreign Trade Division.
