List of the largest trading partners of the United States

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The 15 largest trade partners of the United States represent 73.9% of U.S. imports, and 71.7% of U.S. exports as of December 2011.^[1] These figures do not include services or foreign direct investment. The largest U.S. partners with their total trade (sum of imports and exports) in billions of US Dollars for calendar year 2012 are as follows: ^[2]

A flow map of the largest trade partners of the US

Country	Exports	Imports	Total Trade	Trade Balance
Canada	292.9	324.2	616.7	-31.8
China	110.6	425.6	536.2	-315
Mexico	216.3	277.7	494	-61.4
European Union	184.3	260.6	444.8	-76.3
Japan	70	146.4	216.4	-76.4
Germany	48.8	108.5	157.3	-59.7
United Kingdom	54.8	54.9	109.8	-0.1
South Korea	42.3	58.9	101.2	-16.6
Brazil	43.7	32.1	75.8	11.6
Saudi Arabia	13.8	55.7	73.8	-37.6
France	30.8	41.6	72.4	-10.8
Taiwan	24.4	38.9	63.2	-14.5
Netherlands	40.7	22.3	63	18.4
India	22.3	40.5	62.9	-18.2
Venezuela	17.6	38.7	56.4	-21.1
Italy	16	36.9	52.9	-20.9

This list does not include the European Union (EU), which includes five (Germany, UK, France, Netherlands and Italy) of the above states in a single economic entity. As a single economy, the EU is the largest trading partner of the US with $367.8 billion worth of EU goods going to the US and $268.6 billion of US goods going to the EU as of 2011, totaling approximately $636.4 billion in total trade.^[3]

Countries of which United States is the largest trading partner[edit]

The United States is also the primary export or import partner of several countries. The percentages on these tables are based on 2012 data as shown on the CIA World Factbook. Some countries are repeated from the previous table.

Exports^[4]
Region	Percentage
Chad	81.9%
Haiti	81.7%
Mexico	78.0%
Canada	74.5%
Saint Kitts and Nevis	56.0%
Nicaragua	55.6%
Jamaica	48.0%
El Salvador	47.3%
Dominican Republic	47.0%
Trinidad and Tobago	42.1%
Guatemala	40.2%
Venezuela	39.1%
Costa Rica	38.9%
Ecuador	37.3%
Colombia	36.6%
Honduras	34.5%
Cambodia	32.6%
Belize	31.8%
Guyana	30.8%
Israel	27.8%
Suriname	25.7%
Iraq	21.1%
Sri Lanka	20.4%
Panama	20.2%
Bangladesh	18.7%
Ireland	17.9%
Vietnam	17.8%
Nigeria	16.8%
Jordan	16.6%
Fiji	14.6%
Saudi Arabia	14.2%
Saint Lucia	13.9%
Pakistan	13.6%

Imports^[5]
Region	Percentage
Canada	50.6%
Mexico	49.9%
Costa Rica	49.8%
Aruba	46.4%
Honduras	44.3%
Dominican Republic	43.3%
Guatemala	38.0%
Jamaica	36.1%
El Salvador	35.4%
Trinidad and Tobago	33.1%
Saint Kitts and Nevis	31.7%
Venezuela	31.7%
Bahamas	30.1%
Ecuador	28.4%
Suriname	26.0%
Peru	24.6%
Colombia	24.2%
Belize	23.6%
Panama	23.6%
Chile	22.9%
Guyana	22.2%
Nicaragua	19.0%
Qatar	14.2%
Israel	12.9%
Kuwait	11.8%
Philippines	11.5%
Lebanon	11.2%