Table 2. 6. 6 : Phosphatic fertilizers
Imports
SITC Rev.3 : 562.2
HS : 31.03

  Quantity (thousand tons, actual weight) Value (million US $)
  1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997
WORLD 5428.7 4590.0 4382.6 4720.5 5192.7 4861.3 786.1 621.5 650.9 782.0 881.9 798.4
DEVELOPED MARKET ECONOMY COUNTRIES 2677.5 2163.7 2561.6 2567.3 2819.7 2678.8 332.3 247.1 346.0 395.7 450.1 399.2
AMERICA 47.0 97.0 107.6 53.1 162.1 95.0 5.6 8.1 15.2 8.5 16.3 13.9
Canada 27.7 58.3 32.7 22.4 23.8 23.0 4.2 5.7 5.6 3.5 4.4 3.4
United States 19.3 38.7 74.9 30.7 138.3 72.0 1.4 2.4 9.6 5.0 11.9 10.5
EUROPE 2204.8 1620.9 1951.0 2004.7 2105.6 2065.9 272.5 186.1 261.1 308.3 335.5 297.9
European Union 15 2165.5 1583.6 1925.5 1977.4 2087.9 2052.8 266.8 180.2 256.6 303.3 332.5 296.1
Austria 23.9 20.5 34.2 10.7 14.4 7.3 3.5 3.0 5.1 2.1 2.4 1.3
Belgium-Luxembourg 54.9 71.3 104.9 103.1 142.3 153.5 7.9 9.2 13.0 14.8 22.1 23.7
Denmark 9.6 9.8 11.2 9.0 8.2 15.0 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.5 1.6 3.0
Finland 5.1 1.6 2.9 3.4 5.2 7.1 0.3 0.1 0.3 0.4 1.1 1.2
France 750.4 497.7 546.7 705.6 676.0 744.6 84.9 51.9 70.4 101.1 95.2 93.8
Germany 430.7 290.2 232.1 195.6 226.2 222.6 45.8 29.7 26.4 28.1 32.9 30.4
Greece 13.5 55.5 43.0 58.2 40.6 42.9 1.3 3.3 3.9 7.0 5.2 4.7
Ireland 81.0 89.9 84.5 40.8 78.7 50.9 13.3 13.1 13.0 8.2 15.9 9.5
Italy 234.5 156.1 240.7 255.1 271.2 276.5 26.2 18.1 33.1 39.7 44.5 39.3
Netherlands 210.4 93.1 148.4 146.6 165.2 121.5 30.7 14.8 22.8 26.7 30.3 21.0
Portugal 4.0 0.5 3.0 0.3 0.4 1.3 0.7 0.1 0.6 0.1 0.1 0.1
Spain 62.7 105.1 170.7 124.9 129.8 130.0 7.2 9.9 17.4 12.2 15.1 15.0
Sweden 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
United Kingdom 284.8 192.3 303.2 324.0 329.7 279.6 43.4 25.3 48.8 61.4 66.1 53.1
Other Europe 39.3 37.3 25.5 27.3 17.7 13.1 5.7 5.9 4.5 5.0 3.0 1.8
Iceland 1.0 0.6 1.0 0.4 0.1 0.1 0.3 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.0
Norway 1.0 2.5 3.0 2.0 1.6 1.0 0.3 0.8 0.9 0.7 0.4 0.1
Switzerland 37.3 34.2 21.5 24.9 16.0 12.0 5.1 5.0 3.4 4.2 2.6 1.7
SOUTH AFRICA 14.4 12.0 12.3 0.5 0.0 0.0 2.2 2.0 2.4 0.1 0.0 0.0
ASIA 136.2 132.1 134.0 145.3 142.4 125.5 19.3 18.7 20.7 24.4 27.2 24.3
Japan 136.2 132.1 134.0 145.3 142.4 125.5 19.3 18.7 20.7 24.4 27.2 24.3
OCEANIA 275.1 301.7 356.7 363.7 409.6 392.4 32.7 32.2 46.6 54.4 71.1 63.1
Australia 260.0 280.0 273.1 323.5 343.9 326.4 29.5 30.3 35.0 46.6 60.1 52.6
New Zealand 15.1 21.7 83.6 40.2 65.7 66.0 3.2 1.9 11.6 7.8 11.0 10.5
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES AND TERRITORIES 2212.7 1839.4 1556.8 1873.5 2104.7 1998.2 385.4 301.1 265.4 340.5 381.3 372.4
AMERICA 642.4 762.2 852.9 754.4 1069.3 996.4 101.0 99.9 127.5 133.8 186.9 186.7
Argentina 33.4 17.2 25.9 43.1 43.0 29.4 5.1 2.9 3.9 8.0 8.7 5.7
Barbados 0.1 0.2 0.2 1.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.3 0.0 0.0
Belize 0.2 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1
Bolivia 1.7 0.5 0.0 4.4 4.5 0.0 1.0 0.2 0.0 3.5 3.5 0.0
Brazil 240.0 360.4 441.4 294.4 498.9 527.7 34.8 38.4 62.3 45.6 69.0 92.7
Chile 176.0 155.5 163.3 173.1 209.5 163.6 25.6 21.2 24.7 30.0 41.7 30.6
Colombia 10.8 8.5 10.2 8.9 7.6 6.1 1.5 1.1 1.6 1.6 1.5 1.2
Costa Rica 10.0 10.0 15.9 14.2 6.5 7.0 1.8 1.8 2.9 3.3 1.8 1.9
Cuba 29.0 33.0 26.0 80.0 80.0 80.0 4.4 5.0 3.9 12.5 12.5 13.0
Ecuador 10.1 4.5 11.1 4.4 8.9 11.5 2.7 1.9 2.1 1.6 2.2 3.0
El Salvador 10.0 10.0 13.7 10.9 36.2 28.2 1.3 1.2 1.6 2.0 7.0 6.1
French Guiana 0.4 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1
Guadeloupe 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Guatemala 15.0 16.0 26.8 34.7 34.4 35.1 1.5 1.5 5.0 7.7 7.6 6.3
Honduras 10.0 13.8 2.7 0.8 5.0 9.5 1.8 2.5 1.1 0.5 1.9 3.7
Jamaica 0.4 0.3 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0
Martinique 0.1 0.1 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1
Mexico 28.0 79.7 32.7 30.1 38.1 30.3 7.8 12.3 5.4 5.4 7.2 5.9
Nicaragua 0.1 0.2 0.8 0.4 0.1 0.6 0.0 0.0 0.3 0.1 0.1 0.3
Panama 0.0 0.0 0.0 16.0 19.0 4.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 3.6 4.4 1.3
Paraguay 6.8 3.3 17.0 12.6 9.4 9.0 1.4 0.7 2.7 3.1 4.0 4.0
Peru 12.0 28.6 42.5 7.0 12.7 20.5 2.1 6.1 6.2 1.3 2.7 4.2
Trinidad and Tobago 1.8 0.4 0.3 1.4 2.9 0.4 0.7 0.2 0.3 0.5 1.0 0.2
Uruguay 17.0 19.8 21.7 14.0 49.8 30.3 2.2 2.6 3.3 2.5 9.4 5.8
Venezuela 29.5 0.0 0.0 1.8 2.0 2.0 5.0 0.0 0.0 0.4 0.5 0.5
AFRICA 219.9 244.8 192.2 177.7 194.1 236.7 43.5 59.9 48.8 44.5 51.0 58.4
North Africa 149.7 156.1 130.4 141.7 160.3 189.6 27.6 37.7 33.3 35.4 42.2 47.6
Algeria 7.7 8.1 45.4 20.7 36.7 66.6 2.0 2.2 9.2 3.1 9.1 14.7
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya 110.0 130.0 70.0 110.0 120.0 120.0 20.0 31.2 20.0 29.0 32.0 32.0
Sudan 30.0 18.0 15.0 11.0 3.6 3.0 5.4 4.3 4.1 3.3 1.1 0.9
Tunisia 2.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Sub-Saharan Africa 70.2 88.7 61.8 36.0 33.8 47.1 15.9 22.2 15.5 9.1 8.8 10.8
Cameroon 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.0 1.5 1.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.4 0.4
Côte d'Ivoire 4.0 4.5 5.0 5.0 5.6 5.6 0.8 0.8 1.0 1.0 1.2 1.2
Gabon 0.5 0.7 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1
Ghana 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1
Kenya 5.0 13.0 8.7 5.9 3.3 6.0 1.0 3.4 1.5 1.3 0.6 1.3
Madagascar 0.1 0.3 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0
Malawi 15.0 10.0 1.6 0.4 0.4 0.4 5.2 3.5 0.6 0.2 0.2 0.2
Mauritius 1.0 1.1 2.6 1.5 1.0 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.5 0.3 0.3 0.1
Nigeria 40.0 55.0 40.0 20.0 20.0 20.0 7.3 13.0 11.0 5.5 5.5 5.5
Reunion 0.6 0.3 0.0 0.5 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0
Zimbabwe 1.7 1.5 1.1 0.0 1.3 13.0 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.0 0.3 1.9
ASIA 1341.8 821.8 495.1 925.8 824.7 747.9 239.0 139.8 86.4 159.5 140.2 124.3
West Asia 133.0 171.5 38.6 65.8 78.9 77.5 26.6 34.1 11.5 18.1 22.4 22.9
Cyprus 1.0 0.4 0.2 2.3 1.1 1.3 0.2 0.3 0.0 0.5 0.2 0.3
Iran, Islamic Rep. of 15.0 20.0 30.0 40.0 50.0 50.0 3.4 7.0 8.5 11.0 14.0 14.0
Jordan 0.4 0.3 0.2 3.0 3.0 3.0 0.3 0.2 0.0 1.0 1.0 1.0
Oman 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.4 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.1
Qatar 0.5 0.6 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1
Saudi Arabia 96.6 133.2 3.6 13.2 18.3 20.0 20.4 23.5 1.7 3.8 5.4 5.7
Turkey 18.5 14.2 1.7 4.2 3.7 0.4 1.8 1.8 0.3 0.6 0.7 0.7
United Arab Emirates 0.9 2.6 2.5 2.5 2.5 2.5 0.2 0.8 0.8 1.0 1.0 1.0
Other Asia 1208.8 650.3 456.5 860.0 745.8 670.4 212.4 105.7 74.9 141.4 117.8 101.4
Bangladesh 478.6 262.5 250.0 613.0 361.7 400.0 95.4 44.9 42.8 97.4 49.7 55.0
China 340.6 183.5 60.2 36.4 13.6 3.9 54.4 31.8 10.5 5.7 2.1 0.7
India 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Indonesia 259.0 47.8 0.3 17.2 195.8 33.2 40.6 7.4 0.1 2.3 35.7 4.6
Korea, Republic of 18.2 17.4 10.1 14.1 15.8 16.5 3.2 2.6 1.1 1.6 1.6 3.0
Kyrgyzstan 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.9 4.4 5.0 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.7 1.0
Malaysia 33.4 41.2 38.9 15.3 54.0 60.0 2.6 4.2 4.3 1.8 5.3 6.2
Pakistan 30.0 40.0 47.1 119.7 67.7 0.0 4.1 5.0 6.4 23.7 15.1 0.0
Philippines 7.6 2.5 1.0 0.8 0.1 114.3 3.8 1.2 0.5 0.2 0.0 22.7
Singapore 0.5 1.3 1.3 0.2 0.9 0.8 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.0 1.0 0.8
Sri Lanka 33.4 46.1 33.5 33.0 30.0 30.0 6.7 6.9 6.0 6.6 6.0 6.0
Taiwan, Province of China 0.6 1.2 1.2 0.9 1.2 1.6 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.3 0.4 0.4
Thailand 4.7 4.8 10.9 6.5 0.6 5.1 1.0 1.0 2.4 1.5 0.2 1.0
OCEANIA 4.2 7.7 13.8 14.0 14.0 14.0 1.1 1.1 2.3 2.5 2.5 2.5
Fiji 4.2 7.7 13.8 14.0 14.0 14.0 1.1 1.1 2.3 2.5 2.5 2.5
EUROPE 4.4 2.9 2.8 1.6 2.6 3.2 0.8 0.4 0.4 0.2 0.7 0.5
Croatia 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.4 0.3 0.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1
Slovenia 2.4 1.8 2.5 1.1 2.1 2.2 0.4 0.2 0.4 0.1 0.6 0.4
Yugoslavia, Fed. Rep. of 2.0 1.0 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.4 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
COUNTRIES IN EASTERN EUROPE 538.5 586.9 264.2 279.7 268.3 184.3 68.4 73.3 39.5 45.8 50.5 26.8
Albania 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.6 7.7 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.3 1.4
Belarus 400.0 415.0 32.0 36.0 50.0 50.0 44.0 45.5 4.5 5.4 9.0 9.0
Bulgaria 21.4 22.0 26.0 26.0 30.0 30.0 3.2 3.1 3.5 3.8 4.3 4.4
Czech Republic - 17.1 58.5 65.2 46.0 27.1 - 2.6 6.2 7.8 5.1 2.1
Czechoslovakia (former) 30.0 - - - - - 4.6 - - - - -
Hungary 10.0 25.0 37.1 44.7 45.7 42.6 1.5 3.8 5.2 5.4 6.3 5.2
Latvia 4.0 4.0 4.2 9.3 11.3 4.7 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.9 1.8 0.6
Lithuania 5.0 5.0 11.0 1.0 0.5 2.9 0.3 0.3 0.6 0.1 0.1 0.5
Moldova, Republic of 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1
Poland 1.0 1.5 1.1 0.1 0.4 5.8 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.2 1.2
Romania 5.0 5.2 3.0 5.0 5.0 5.0 0.7 0.7 0.2 0.8 1.0 1.0
Russian Federation 60.0 60.0 60.0 60.0 58.9 1.4 13.5 13.0 15.0 17.0 19.6 0.4
Slovakia - 30.0 29.2 30.1 17.6 6.8 - 3.7 3.7 4.3 2.7 0.9


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