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The Great Trade War : ONE-COMMODITY COUNTRIES

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The following nations depend to varying degrees on single commodities for large percentages of their total exports.

MORE THAN 80%

Dominica--bananas

Rwanda--coffee

Uganda--coffee

Algeria--crude oil and petroleum products

Angola--crude oil and petroleum products

Brunei--crude oil and petroleum products

Iran--crude oil and petroleum products

Iraq--crude oil and petroleum products

Kuwait--crude oil and petroleum products

Nigeria--crude oil and petroleum products

Oman--crude oil and petroleum products

Qatar--crude oil and petroleum products

Saudi Arabia--crude oil and petroleum products

Trinidad and Tobago--crude oil and petroleum products

United Arab Emirates--crude oil and petroleum products

Nauru--phosphates

Zambia--copper

60-80%

French Guiana--seafood

Guadeloupe--bananas

Malawi--tobacco

Maldives--seafood

Martinique--bananas

St. Lucia--bananas

Seychelles--seafood

Bahrain--crude oil and petroleum products

Gabon--crude oil and petroleum products

Libya--crude oil and petroleum products

Venezuela--crude oil and petroleum products

Botswana--diamonds

Guinea--aluminum

Niger--uranium

Papua New Guinea--copper

Suriname--aluminum

40-59%

Chad--cotton

Cocos (Keeling) Islands--dried coconut meat

Comoro Islands--spices

El Salvador--coffee

Equatorial Guinea--cocoa, lumber

Finland--wood products

Ghana--cocoa

Grenada--spices

Honduras--bananas

Iceland--seafood

Kiribati--dried coconut meat, seafood

Mali--cotton

Nicaragua--coffee

Sudan--cotton

Congo--crude oil and petroleum products

Ecuador--crude oil and petroleum products

Syria--crude oil and petroleum products

Yemen--crude oil and petroleum products

Central African Republic--diamonds

Chile--copper

Jamaica--aluminum

Liberia--iron ore

Mauritania--iron ore

Togo--phosphates

Source: Handbook of International Economic Statistics, 1992-CIA Directorate of Intelligence

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