Top 10 Countries U.S. Imports From (2005)
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To provide materials and goods that the US has a shortage of. Almost every country in the world imports what they are unable to produce on their own.
The US is number 1 in the manufacturing of goods, followed closely by China. China is expected to surpass the US by 2011. Germany is #3.
The United States' largest exporting partner is Canada with approximately $277 Billion in goods exported there yearly. The second importer of US goods is China with approximately $109 Billion in goods imported yearly.
Capital goods have been the largest category of U.S exports. This includes automobiles, engines, parts, and industrial equipments. U.S. mostly imports consumer goods including clothing, makeup, electronics etc.
Canada.
For the same reasons that any country imports goods. They get goods that are not available in Ireland, like food that cannot be grown in Ireland and products that are not made in Ireland.
The import and exporting that the United States participates in provides them with goods and products or makes the country money.
Depending on the product and recipient country, it can be 0% up to 3000% of the original cost. For the US it is 0%.
The Seller pays no import taxes, but the buyer might have to when it arrives in their country depending on the declared value of the goods.
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They import at least 400,000,000 million$ worth of goods each year.
We import more. http://www.bls.gov/news.release/ximpim.nr0.htm
Saudi Arabia
To provide materials and goods that the US has a shortage of. Almost every country in the world imports what they are unable to produce on their own.
We import most of our oil from Canada. We are also the world's number two EXPORTER of oil.
The biggest supplier of OIL to the US is Canada. Most of the gasoline is from our own country, as we refine the oil we import. So don't go blaming the Arabs for high gasoline prices!