US trade (export - import) with Libya in 2015
Published or Updated: Feb 18, 2017
The report on US foreign trade in goods with Libya in 2015: exports, imports, balance, product types and groups, dynamics.
US Trade with Libya
In 2015, US trade with Libya was $385.1 million, down 49.55% ($378.3 million) from 2014.
US exports to Libya in 2015 were $218.0 million, down 59.01% ($313.9 million) from 2014.
US imports from Libya in 2015 were $167.1 million, down 27.81% ($64.4 million) from 2014.
US trade surplus with Libya in 2015 was $50.9 million, a 83.06% decrease ($249.5 million) over 2014.
Libya was the US 118th largest trading partner in 2015 (down from 110th in 2014), accounting for 0.0101% of US total trade (down from 0.0189% in 2014).
Libya was the US 122nd largest export market in 2015 (down from 102nd in 2014), accounting for 0.0145% of US total exports (down from 0.0328% in 2014).
Libya was the US 111th largest supplier in 2015 (down from 107th in 2014), accounting for 0.0072% of US total imports (down from 0.0096% in 2014).
US Exports to Libya
The major share of US exports to Libya in 2015 (and in 2014) was accounted for the following product types:
- Food products and agricultural raw materials (HS codes 01-24) - 59.93% of US total exports to Libya (19.62% in 2014);
- Machinery, equipment and vehicles (HS codes 84-90) - 19.66% of US total exports to Libya (56.20% in 2014);
- Chemical products (HS codes 28-40) - 14.31% of US total exports to Libya (8.13% in 2014);
- Wood and wood products (HS codes 44-49) - 2.57% of US total exports to Libya (1.86% in 2014);
- Metals and products from them (HS codes 72-83) - 0.63% of US total exports to Libya (1.50% in 2014);
- Mineral products (HS codes 25-27) - 0.43% of US total exports to Libya (8.09% in 2014);
- Textiles, textile products and footwear (HS codes 50-67) - 0.40% of US total exports to Libya (1.29% in 2014).
The largest gains in US exports to Libya in 2015 over 2014 were recorded for the following product groups:
- Cereals (HS code 10) - an increase of $20.5 million;
- Residues and waste from the food industries; prepared animal feed (HS code 23) - an increase of $17.1 million;
- Tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes (HS code 24) - an increase of $1.2 million.
The largest declines in US exports to Libya in 2015 over 2014 were recorded for the following product groups:
- Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof (HS code 84) - a decrease of $80.8 million;
- Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles (HS code 85) - a decrease of $76.3 million;
- Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof (HS code 87) - a decrease of $74.8 million;
- Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes (HS code 27) - a decrease of $42.1 million;
- Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof (HS code 90) - a decrease of $19.3 million;
- Commodities not specified according to kind (HS code 99) - a decrease of $6.9 million;
- Pharmaceutical products (HS code 30) - a decrease of $6.5 million;
- Edible fruit and nuts; peel of citrus fruit or melons (HS code 08) - a decrease of $5.6 million;
- Wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal (HS code 44) - a decrease of $4.5 million;
- Dairy produce; birds eggs; natural honey; edible products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included (HS code 04) - a decrease of $3.2 million;
- Tools, implements, cutlery, spoons and forks, of base metal; parts thereof of base metal (HS code 82) - a decrease of $3.2 million;
- Furniture; bedding, mattresses, mattress supports, cushions and similar stuffed furnishings; lamps and lighting fittings, not elsewhere specified or included; illuminated sign illuminated nameplates and the like; prefabricated buildings (HS code 94) - a decrease of $2.9 million;
- Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, not knitted or crocheted (HS code 62) - a decrease of $2.6 million;
- Ships, boats and floating structures (HS code 89) - a decrease of $2.5 million;
- Articles of iron or steel (HS code 73) - a decrease of $2.5 million;
- Aircraft, spacecraft, and parts thereof (HS code 88) - a decrease of $2.2 million;
- Miscellaneous edible preparations (HS code 21) - a decrease of $1.5 million;
- Toys, games and sports requisites; parts and accessories thereof (HS code 95) - a decrease of $1.4 million;
- Footwear, gaiters and the like; parts of such articles (HS code 64) - a decrease of $1.4 million;
- Rubber and articles thereof (HS code 40) - a decrease of $1.3 million;
- Organic chemicals (HS code 29) - a decrease of $1.2 million;
- Photographic or cinematographic goods (HS code 37) - a decrease of $0.9 million;
- Other made up textile articles; sets; worn clothing and worn textile articles; rags (HS code 63) - a decrease of $0.9 million;
- Albuminoidal substances; modified starches; glues; enzymes (HS code 35) - a decrease of $0.8 million;
- Articles of leather; saddlery and harness; travel goods, handbags and similar containers; articles of animal gut (other than silkworm gut) (HS code 42) - a decrease of $0.8 million;
- Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, knitted or crocheted (HS code 61) - a decrease of $0.7 million.
| HS code |
Name of product group | Value of exports in 2015 (USD thousand) |
Share in total export (%) |
Value of exports in 2014 (USD thousand) |
Change in 2015 over 2014 (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 02 | Meat and edible meat offal | 17,729.4 | 8.13 | 17,978.7 | -1.39 |
| 04 | Dairy produce; birds eggs; natural honey; edible products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included | 2,422.5 | 1.11 | 5,651.5 | -57.14 |
| 07 | Edible vegetables and certain roots and tubers | 72.9 | 0.03 | 69.6 | 4.70 |
| 08 | Edible fruit and nuts; peel of citrus fruit or melons | 2,209.9 | 1.01 | 7,816.9 | -71.73 |
| 10 | Cereals | 29,813.9 | 13.68 | 9,352.7 | 218.77 |
| 11 | Products of the milling industry; malt; starches; inulin; wheat gluten | 0.0 | 0.00 | 3.0 | -100.00 |
| 12 | Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruits; industrial or medicinal plants; straw and fodder | 3,802.9 | 1.74 | 4,255.6 | -10.64 |
| 15 | Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their cleavage products prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes | 51,248.1 | 23.51 | 51,327.0 | -0.15 |
| 16 | Preparations of meat, of fish or of crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates | 0.0 | 0.00 | 283.1 | -100.00 |
| 17 | Sugars and sugar confectionery | 59.7 | 0.03 | 82.9 | -27.94 |
| 18 | Cocoa and cocoa preparations | 0.0 | 0.00 | 47.6 | -100.00 |
| 19 | Preparations of cereals, flour, starch or milk; bakers’ wares | 110.2 | 0.05 | 682.4 | -83.86 |
| 20 | Preparations of vegetables, fruit, nuts or other parts of plants | 4,249.9 | 1.95 | 4,680.8 | -9.21 |
| 21 | Miscellaneous edible preparations | 428.8 | 0.20 | 1,911.0 | -77.56 |
| 22 | Beverages, spirits and vinegar | 50.4 | 0.02 | 28.5 | 76.62 |
| 23 | Residues and waste from the food industries; prepared animal feed | 17,267.9 | 7.92 | 168.5 | 10,147.02 |
| 24 | Tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes | 1,179.6 | 0.54 | 0.0 | ∞ |
| 25 | Salt; sulfur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement | 5.2 | 0.00 | 49.2 | -89.49 |
| 27 | Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes | 938.3 | 0.43 | 42,991.4 | -97.82 |
| 28 | Inorganic chemicals; organic or inorganic compounds of precious metals, of rare-earth metals,of radioactive elements or of isotopes | 60.4 | 0.03 | 189.4 | -68.13 |
| 29 | Organic chemicals | 1,393.4 | 0.64 | 2,640.8 | -47.24 |
| 30 | Pharmaceutical products | 7,155.9 | 3.28 | 13,694.8 | -47.75 |
| 32 | Tanning or dyeing extracts; dyes, pigments, paints, varnishes, putty and mastics | 113.2 | 0.05 | 428.4 | -73.57 |
| 33 | Essential oils and resinoids; perfumery, cosmetic or toilet preparations | 2,117.3 | 0.97 | 1,954.9 | 8.31 |
| 34 | Soap, organic surface-active agents, washing preparations, lubricating preparations, artificial waxes, prepared waxes, polishing or scouring preparations, candles and similar articles, modeling pastes, "dental waxes" and dental preparations with a basis of plaster | 744.3 | 0.34 | 1,319.6 | -43.60 |
| 35 | Albuminoidal substances; modified starches; glues; enzymes | 396.3 | 0.18 | 1,216.5 | -67.43 |
| 36 | Explosives; pyrotechnic products; matches; pyrophoric alloys; certain combustible preparations | 80.5 | 0.04 | 100.1 | -19.59 |
| 37 | Photographic or cinematographic goods | 227.2 | 0.10 | 1,161.3 | -80.44 |
| 38 | Miscellaneous chemical products | 3,703.7 | 1.70 | 4,013.7 | -7.72 |
| 39 | Plastics and articles thereof | 14,956.7 | 6.86 | 14,988.3 | -0.21 |
| 40 | Rubber and articles thereof | 241.5 | 0.11 | 1,556.7 | -84.48 |
| 42 | Articles of leather; saddlery and harness; travel goods, handbags and similar containers; articles of animal gut (other than silkworm gut) | 15.4 | 0.01 | 808.6 | -98.10 |
| 44 | Wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal | 4,075.4 | 1.87 | 8,579.3 | -52.50 |
| 47 | Pulp of wood or of other fibrous cellulosic material; waste and scrap of paper or paperboard | 1,041.0 | 0.48 | 754.8 | 37.92 |
| 48 | Paper and paperboard; articles of paper pulp, of paper or of paperboard | 465.9 | 0.21 | 388.7 | 19.85 |
| 49 | Printed books, newspapers, pictures and other products of the printing industry; manuscripts, typescripts and plans | 24.3 | 0.01 | 183.5 | -86.76 |
| 56 | Wadding, felt and nonwovens; special yarns, twine, cordage, ropes and cables and articles thereof | 0.0 | 0.00 | 67.0 | -100.00 |
| 57 | Carpets and other textile floor coverings | 152.9 | 0.07 | 342.2 | -55.32 |
| 58 | Special woven fabrics; tufted textile fabrics; lace, tapestries; trimmings; embroidery | 0.0 | 0.00 | 187.8 | -100.00 |
| 59 | Impregnated, coated, covered or laminated textile fabrics; textile articles of a kind suitable for industrial use | 13.0 | 0.01 | 4.2 | 205.90 |
| 61 | Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, knitted or crocheted | 9.1 | 0.00 | 667.1 | -98.64 |
| 62 | Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, not knitted or crocheted | 576.7 | 0.26 | 3,204.5 | -82.00 |
| 63 | Other made up textile articles; sets; worn clothing and worn textile articles; rags | 100.0 | 0.05 | 1,002.0 | -90.02 |
| 64 | Footwear, gaiters and the like; parts of such articles | 10.5 | 0.00 | 1,369.8 | -99.23 |
| 65 | Headgear and parts thereof | 0.0 | 0.00 | 40.8 | -100.00 |
| 67 | Prepared feathers and down and articles made of feathers or of down; artificial flowers; articles of human hair | 4.5 | 0.00 | 0.0 | ∞ |
| 68 | Articles of stone, plaster, cement, asbestos, mica or similar materials | 3.5 | 0.00 | 463.2 | -99.24 |
| 69 | Ceramic products | 0.0 | 0.00 | 89.6 | -100.00 |
| 70 | Glass and glassware | 29.6 | 0.01 | 353.7 | -91.63 |
| 72 | Iron and steel | 0.0 | 0.00 | 155.1 | -100.00 |
| 73 | Articles of iron or steel | 1,164.9 | 0.53 | 3,646.0 | -68.05 |
| 74 | Copper and articles thereof | 0.0 | 0.00 | 67.3 | -100.00 |
| 75 | Nickel and articles thereof | 10.1 | 0.00 | 68.7 | -85.33 |
| 76 | Aluminum and articles thereof | 48.1 | 0.02 | 166.0 | -70.99 |
| 82 | Tools, implements, cutlery, spoons and forks, of base metal; parts thereof of base metal | 129.0 | 0.06 | 3,333.7 | -96.13 |
| 83 | Miscellaneous articles of base metal | 21.0 | 0.01 | 531.3 | -96.04 |
| 84 | Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof | 15,036.4 | 6.90 | 95,875.4 | -84.32 |
| 85 | Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles | 4,256.4 | 1.95 | 80,573.8 | -94.72 |
| 86 | Railway or tramway locomotives, rolling-stock and parts thereof; railway or tramway track fixtures and fittings and parts thereof; mechanical (including electro-mechanical) traffic signalling equipment of all kinds | 6.5 | 0.00 | 25.0 | -74.00 |
| 87 | Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof | 16,445.4 | 7.54 | 91,213.1 | -81.97 |
| 88 | Aircraft, spacecraft, and parts thereof | 196.6 | 0.09 | 2,444.4 | -91.96 |
| 89 | Ships, boats and floating structures | 297.2 | 0.14 | 2,846.7 | -89.56 |
| 90 | Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof | 6,629.6 | 3.04 | 25,941.9 | -74.44 |
| 91 | Clocks and watches and parts thereof | 62.3 | 0.03 | 143.3 | -56.51 |
| 92 | Musical instruments; parts and accessories of such articles | 11.8 | 0.01 | 0.0 | ∞ |
| 94 | Furniture; bedding, mattresses, mattress supports, cushions and similar stuffed furnishings; lamps and lighting fittings, not elsewhere specified or included; illuminated sign illuminated nameplates and the like; prefabricated buildings | 352.7 | 0.16 | 3,218.6 | -89.04 |
| 95 | Toys, games and sports requisites; parts and accessories thereof | 218.1 | 0.10 | 1,599.7 | -86.37 |
| 96 | Miscellaneous manufactured articles | 50.3 | 0.02 | 178.6 | -71.83 |
| 99 | Commodities not specified according to kind | 3,762.7 | 1.73 | 10,675.2 | -64.75 |
US Imports from Libya
The major share of US imports from Libya in 2015 (and in 2014) was accounted for the following product types:
- Mineral products (HS codes 25-27) - 84.39% of US total imports from Libya (92.70% in 2014);
- Chemical products (HS codes 28-40) - 14.29% of US total imports from Libya (6.78% in 2014).
The largest gains in US imports from Libya in 2015 over 2014 were recorded for the following product groups:
- Fertilizers (HS code 31) - an increase of $4.6 million;
- Organic chemicals (HS code 29) - an increase of $3.6 million;
- Commodities not specified according to kind (HS code 99) - an increase of $1.0 million.
The largest declines in US imports from Libya in 2015 over the 2014 were recorded for the following product groups:
- Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes (HS code 27) - a decrease of $73.6 million.
| HS code |
Name of product group | Value of imports in 2015 (USD thousand) |
Share in total import (%) |
Value of imports in 2014 USD thousand) |
Change in 2015 over 2014 (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 | Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes | 141,044.3 | 84.39 | 214,622.8 | -34.28 |
| 29 | Organic chemicals | 3,605.9 | 2.16 | 0.0 | ∞ |
| 31 | Fertilizers | 20,286.2 | 12.14 | 15,701.4 | 29.20 |
| 61 | Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, knitted or crocheted | 0.3 | 0.00 | 0.0 | ∞ |
| 62 | Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, not knitted or crocheted | 0.0 | 0.00 | 44.9 | -100.00 |
| 73 | Articles of iron or steel | 18.5 | 0.01 | 0.0 | ∞ |
| 78 | Lead and articles thereof | 2.2 | 0.00 | 0.0 | ∞ |
| 90 | Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof | 3.0 | 0.00 | 0.0 | ∞ |
| 95 | Toys, games and sports requisites; parts and accessories thereof | 11.4 | 0.01 | 0.0 | ∞ |
| 97 | Works of art, collectors’ pieces and antiques | 37.2 | 0.02 | 25.6 | 45.68 |
| 99 | Commodities not specified according to kind | 2,130.1 | 1.27 | 1,140.0 | 86.85 |