United States - Ores and metals imports

Ores and metals imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Ores and metals imports (% of merchandise imports) in United States was 2.87 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 12.58 in 1962 and a minimum value of 1.70 in 2003.

Definition: Ores and metals comprise commodities in SITC sections 27 (crude fertilizer, minerals nes); 28 (metalliferous ores, scrap); and 68 (non-ferrous metals).

Source: World Bank staff estimates through the WITS platform from the Comtrade database maintained by the United Nations Statistics Division.

See also:

Year Value
1962 12.58
1963 11.43
1964 11.10
1965 11.30
1966 11.17
1967 10.46
1968 9.67
1969 7.90
1970 7.71
1971 6.30
1972 5.85
1973 5.93
1974 6.15
1975 5.15
1976 5.10
1977 4.53
1978 4.66
1979 4.69
1980 4.73
1981 4.23
1982 3.35
1983 3.84
1984 3.44
1985 2.81
1986 2.85
1987 2.63
1989 3.37
1990 3.04
1991 2.68
1992 2.42
1993 2.24
1994 2.42
1995 2.67
1996 2.41
1997 2.41
1998 2.38
1999 2.18
2000 2.21
2001 2.11
2002 1.82
2003 1.70
2004 2.01
2005 2.17
2006 2.77
2007 2.82
2008 2.61
2009 2.02
2010 2.31
2011 2.60
2012 2.26
2013 2.17
2014 2.14
2015 1.96
2016 1.90
2017 2.24
2018 2.26
2019 2.17
2020 2.32
2021 2.87

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports