Developing countries' exports and imports by SITC headings

Table 1.3
Developing countries' exports and imports of minerals and metals by SITC headings

	Exports (fob)							Imports (cif)
	1992		1994	1995	1996	1997		1992		1994	1995	1996	1997
	(million US$ and % of the world total)
		%					%		%					%
MINERALS AND METALS 1	32'364	27.5	35'100	46'857	43'585	47'723	29.0	32'578	24.9	37'876	51'954	49'511	53'296	29.0
MINERALS 2	3'246	26.2	3'604	4'142	4'137	4'514	33.1	4'197	27.1	4'278	4'960	4'963	5'443	30.0
Fertilizers crude	762	67.1	734	764	916	1'040	69.9	747	38.3	576	634	667	703	36.4
Animal/veget. fertilizers	18	20.7	23	27	28	27	26.2	17	19.1	22	21	25	25	16.1
Sodium nitrate	51	69.9	32	46	45	46	64.7	25	26.8	23	21	21	19	25.4
Phosphate rock	691	71.2	677	686	825	953	73.6	702	40.5	525	584	599	643	38.4
Potassium salts, natural	3	40.5	2	4	18	14	72.5	3	7.9	6	7	22	16	62.2
Stone and gravel	615	20.5	760	823	849	879	24.4	621	17.0	946	1'035	1'164	1'374	28.7
Marble	49	15.3	56	56	67	72	19.8	97	28.0	124	133	165	222	50.5
Granite	302	39.7	369	376	392	343	39.5	170	15.7	322	352	389	502	34.0
Gypsum, plaster...	119	25.3	159	183	194	213	29.7	153	23.1	209	243	256	274	30.3
Gravel, crushed stone....	70	7.8	79	88	90	96	10.1	83	8.0	122	127	151	142	12.8
Sands, natural	62	11.9	78	93	86	124	19.3	115	18.3	163	175	194	224	28.4
other	14	33.3	20	27	20	30	54.5	4	9.3	6	6	8	10	14.3
Sulphur	244	24.7	167	235	201	202	26.4	722	58.8	568	760	627	874	72.8
Sulphur	243	25.3	165	234	200	201	27.0	721	60.5	567	759	626	873	74.4
Pyrites unroasted	1	3.3	2	1	1	1	5.0	1	2.8	1	1	1	1	3.6
Natural abrasives	210	25.0	334	291	290	276	29.2	280	24.3	287	293	231	243	20.8
Industrial diamonds	162	43.3	259	197	184	188	41.8	95	26.5	92	96	46	64	19.8
Abrasives n.e.s, natural	47	10.2	75	95	106	89	17.9	185	23.4	196	196	185	179	21.1
Other crude minerals	1'415	22.0	1'608	2'030	1'881	2'117	31.0	1'827	24.4	1'901	2'239	2'274	2'248	24.9
Graphite	71	54.9	67	82	71	74	59.7	29	19.3	29	34	36	36	20.4
Dolomite	21	18.4	22	30	28	27	17.5	13	9.1	17	24	22	29	14.2
Magnesite/Magnesia	260	38.1	262	420	338	371	42.3	159	18.8	181	249	219	206	20.1
Kaolinic clays	67	5.9	103	109	122	141	10.5	262	18.5	325	348	328	356	21.9
Common salt	160	21.7	198	197	233	212	23.3	271	28.1	278	288	316	345	28.3
Asbestos	92	19.3	100	115	111	106	30.0	358	59.1	361	376	359	317	69.1
Mica	29	54.7	21	25	25	24	42.1	10	16.9	10	10	12	12	15.8
Fluorspar	134	76.7	130	194	186	200	80.5	26	12.3	29	43	45	33	9.5
Baryte	51	49.8	72	88	104	138	69.4	43	30.0	42	49	54	62	23.4
Borates/boric acid, natural	140	82.3	135	149	164	174	79.6	27	17.4	30	37	43	54	29.8
other	390	14.7	498	622	500	650	27.8	630	22.6	600	780	840	800	23.0
Ores and scrap materials3	12'477	34.7	12'479	16'661	15'997	16'528	34.8	10'487	23.8	11'779	15'247	14'832	16'159	27.6
Iron ore and conc.	3'760	46.8	3'495	3'892	3'974	4'292	44.4	2'717	24.4	2'986	3'403	3'695	4'385	32.1
Roasted iron pyrites	2	2.5	2	1	1	1	1.1	98	76.4	81	80	80	85	48.6
Iron ore not agglom.	2'783	47.7	2'370	2'594	2'597	2'855	44.7	2'202	26.3	2'306	2'563	2'753	3'233	33.5
Iron ore agglom.	975	46.0	1'123	1'297	1'376	1'437	45.2	417	15.8	599	760	863	1'066	27.9
Waste & scrap of iron/steel	309	7.1	447	576	512	624	8.8	2'869	50.3	3'593	3'895	3'701	3'928	45.5
Copper ores ...	2'684	64.3	2'963	4'851	4'590	4'324	73.7	802	18.7	1'071	1'723	1'656	1'678	29.1
Copper ores	2'623	64.5	2'875	4'775	4'532	4'277	74.8	793	19.1	1'057	1'696	1'646	1'667	29.6
Copper matte	58	55.6	82	60	50	43	29.4	5	3.9	11	24	7	9	8.0
Copper cement	2	34.8	7	16	7	5	76.3	4	24.3	4	3	2	1	14.6
Nickel ores..	709	44.9	659	924	1'036	976	50.1	161	8.9	119	194	183	156	7.4
Nickel ores	149	89.8	110	179	213	213	54.7	0	0.0	1	0	0	3	0.5
Nickel int. prod.	561	39.7	549	745	824	763	48.9	161	10.1	119	193	183	153	9.4
Aluminium ores..	1'966	39.5	1'852	2'139	2'156	2'193	36.8	1'201	21.1	1'264	1'423	1'375	1'476	21.7
Bauxite..	754	85.3	591	620	644	620	79.6	117	8.2	89	98	103	102	8.6
Alumina	1'211	29.6	1'261	1'519	1'512	1'573	30.4	1'084	25.4	1'175	1'324	1'272	1'375	24.4
Ores of uranium/thorium	280	50.9	270	260	240	280	60.9	0	0.0	2	2	2	2	0.4
Ores of base metals ...	1'519	32.9	1'490	2'265	1'933	2'186	33.2	1'118	20.2	1'132	1'669	1'668	1'741	24.9
Lead ores	138	38.6	200	240	258	232	48.6	95	18.5	98	115	161	138	28.2
Zinc ores	660	29.9	558	668	684	974	32.7	308	13.5	222	257	361	482	17.9
Tin ores	103	61.5	100	103	124	95	58.9	186	94.3	214	251	259	227	95.1
Manganese ores	262	38.9	224	285	278	261	43.4	201	23.7	183	229	255	260	36.3
Molybdenum... ores	158	18.6	229	592	291	366	19.6	170	13.9	302	541	433	459	21.2
Molybdenum ores	108	30.3	167	528	240	315	37.6	46	12.6	130	296	127	142	16.9
Titanium ores	42	12.5	54	51	34	27	4.3	70	11.8	101	137	168	194	23.7
Zirconium ores	2	1.4	3	5	8	6	1.6	47	26.7	63	97	114	95	23.5
Niobium... ores4	7	12.4	6	8	10	18	31.6	7	7.9	7	11	24	28	28.4
other non-ferrous ores	198	54.4	179	377	297	259	51.2	158	32.7	113	277	199	176	26.0
Chromium ores	168	58.3	137	320	244	213	63.7	137	37.0	84	231	150	138	30.5
Tungsten ores	19	65.8	11	18	11	9	28.2	10	28.5	8	14	11	6	13.7
Cobalt ores	4	54.8	20	24	24	21	79.1	4	52.2	8	16	20	13	51.2
other	7	17.7	12	15	17	15	13.6	7	10.0	14	16	19	19	12.3
waste & scrap	886	13.5	1'069	1'499	1'281	1'414	16.6	1'615	21.1	1'605	2'921	2'526	2'770	23.7
Ashes & residues	250	15.0	270	235	220	320	29.1	330	17.6	340	380	450	415	15.9
Waste & scrap	636	13.0	799	1'264	1'061	1'094	14.7	1'285	22.3	1'265	2'541	2'076	2'355	26.0
Copper	436	15.7	505	808	679	672	17.4	889	25.9	752	1'610	1'335	1'363	29.2
Nickel	12	4.2	10	16	15	27	11.0	6	1.6	3	5	9	43	11.7
Aluminium	163	10.6	263	400	337	365	12.3	251	14.9	417	820	638	833	22.5
Lead	8	9.6	7	17	12	10	12.5	31	32.4	18	18	12	18	18.4
Zinc	14	7.3	10	18	14	17	7.0	106	59.9	70	85	77	95	45.3
Tin	4	16.4	4	5	4	3	11.6	3	15.9	4	3	4	2	10.0
Ores, scrap, sweepings of precious metals	365	31.4	235	256	275	240	18.3	5	0.3	7	17	26	24	1.1
ores and concentrates	343	68.4	218	242	256	210	48.5	1	0.2	3	12	10	4	0.6
waste and scrap (excl. gold)	22	3.4	16	14	19	30	3.4	4	0.3	4	5	16	20	1.2
Aluminium hydroxide 5	19	5.8	27	28	27	24	5.4	113	30.1	111	129	133	139	28.1
Non-ferrous metals 6	16'550	23.9	18'745	25'746	23'425	26'359	25.6	17'626	24.8	21'608	31'460	29'284	31'555	29.6
Precious metals	501	7.7	709	1'000	1'156	1'273	12.3	718	10.6	1'167	1'416	1'467	1'752	15.7
Silver	482	25.0	627	940	1'050	921	27.4	544	24.8	929	1'103	1'015	993	25.5
Platinum	19	0.4	82	60	105	352	5.1	174	3.8	239	313	452	759	10.5
Copper	8'129	36.0	8'715	12'797	11'639	12'584	40.1	7'881	33.2	9'183	13'466	12'686	13'279	41.1
unwrought	6'452	56.3	6'387	9'421	8'458	9'340	60.6	4'131	33.5	4'296	6'701	6'203	6'471	41.5
unrefined	959	69.4	1'065	1'275	1'163	961	58.7	468	27.6	378	551	641	694	43.1
refined	5'449	56.2	5'268	7'997	7'180	8'243	62.4	3'581	35.2	3'825	6'026	5'429	5'645	41.9
master alloys	2	4.1	6	4	2	4	6.4	6	12.0	7	9	11	11	13.3
other alloys	41	12.0	49	146	113	131	26.6	76	19.0	87	115	122	120	28.1
1/2 manufact.	1'677	15.1	2'328	3'376	3'181	3'244	20.3	3'750	32.7	4'887	6'765	6'483	6'809	40.7
Nickel	122	3.3	288	239	194	261	4.7	705	20.9	656	1'110	990	1'077	19.1
unwrought	107	3.8	174	198	159	214	5.2	534	22.2	435	852	720	780	19.4
1/2 manufact.	16	1.8	114	41	35	46	3.2	171	17.6	221	259	271	298	18.2
Aluminium	4'971	17.7	6'035	8'103	6'872	7'855	17.8	6'071	21.1	8'016	12'273	10'802	11'648	26.0
unwrought	3'418	26.2	4'162	5'665	4'601	5'303	24.5	2'594	19.1	3'778	6'426	5'212	5'471	23.3
not alloyed	2'811	34.6	3'389	4'604	3'695	4'062	29.5	1'671	19.4	2479	4582	3643	3791	26.0
alloyed	607	12.3	774	1'061	906	1'242	15.7	923	18.5	1299	1844	1569	1681	18.9
1/2 manufact.	1'553	10.3	1'873	2'438	2'272	2'552	11.4	3'477	23.0	4'238	5'846	5'590	6'177	28.9
Lead	273	24.9	329	430	531	424	26.8	429	35.9	442	554	759	679	37.1
unwrought	241	25.1	297	400	505	405	28.7	352	34.1	367	483	688	619	37.4
1/2 manufact.	33	23.8	32	30	26	19	11.1	78	46.8	75	71	71	59	33.6
Zinc	847	21.5	1'009	1'183	1'060	1'882	35.5	1'117	28.7	1'259	1'534	1'503	2'039	34.0
unwrought	800	22.7	903	1'049	913	1'695	35.9	993	29.5	1'118	1'361	1'328	1'850	35.2
1/2 manufact.	47	11.0	106	134	147	187	31.6	124	23.9	141	172	175	189	25.6
Tin	1'108	84.4	965	1'138	1'225	1'283	82.5	345	27.5	378	458	461	439	31.0
unwrought	1'068	92.6	923	1'096	1'168	1'214	88.6	286	24.8	290	360	355	311	25.5
not alloyed	1'033	94.9	874	977	1'109	1'145	90.3	245	24.4	253	286	293	262	23.7
alloyed	34	53.6	49	119	58	69	67.3	41	27.7	36	74	62	49	42.2
1/2 manufact.	40	25.1	42	42	57	69	37.5	59	57.9	88	98	106	129	65.3
Misc. non-ferrous metals	599	30.8	696	857	748	798	24.8	360	16.6	508	650	616	642	18.3
Cobalt	384	40.2	341	352	337	317	23.4	162	15.0	171	226	211	201	14.8
Molybdenum	1	1.8	4	3	5	5	7.4	5	14.2	6	11	10.9	9.6	11.4
Tungsten	6	11.6	12	22	20	24	23.1	5	8.8	8	11	10	35	26.3
Tantalum	4	5.0	11	20	22	27	10.0	2	2.1	4	5	5	9	3.6
Magnesium	25	7.0	26	152	120	164	24.9	32	10.0	43	76	64	71	10.0
Magnesium scrap	2	11.8	2	4	2	1	2.4	1	6.3	0	5	1	1	1.4
Manganese	34	22.4	60	90	70	81	39.4	17	10.6	18	23	20	22	10.0
Antimony	63	87.0	126	140	93	75	87.2	51	42.1	95	119	101	69	39.2
Chromium	20	24.7	21	28	18	24	12.9	13	14.1	9	15	16	19	10.0
Zirconium	0	0.5	1	1	1	1	6.8	2	15.0	2	2	2	2	6.9
other	60	44.4	94	47	60	80	34.8	70	37.2	151	157	175	205	62.1
n.e.s.	73		246	280	0	298		156		101	158	298	0

1/ SITC 27 + 28 + 522.66 + 68
2/ SITC 27
3/ SITC 28
4/ Niobium, tantalum or vanadium ores and concentrates
5/ SITC 522.66
6/ SITC 68

Last Updated on 15.01.99
By OM
Email: olivier.matringe@unctad.org

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