List of the largest trading partners of the European Union

European Commission

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Directorate-General for Trade

Directorate-General for Trade (European Commission)

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. The largest trading partners of the European Union

European Union

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with their total trade (sum of imports and exports) in millions of euro

Euro

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for calendar year 2010 are as follows.

These figures do not include foreign direct investment

Foreign direct investment

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, but only trade in goods and services

Goods and services

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	Trading partner	EU exports to	EU imports from	Total trade value	% of EU trade
1	United States	242,129.3	169,466.8	411,596.1	14.4
2	Mainland China	113,117.7	282,011.1	395,128.9	13.9
3	Russia	86,507.6	158,384.9	244,892.6	8.6
4	Switzerland	105,433.4	84,126.2	189,559.5	6.6
5	Norway	41,860.1	79,178.9	121,039.0	4.2
6	Japan	43,730.1	64,898.1	108,628.2	3.8
7	Turkey	61,189.7	42,088.0	103,277.7	3.6
8	India	34,798.8	33,147.3	67,946.1	2.4
9	South Korea	27,984.8	38,651.6	66,636.4	2.3
10	Brazil	31,282.9	32,320.4	63,603.3	2.2
11	Canada	26,589.2	20,053.3	46,642.4	1.6
12	Singapore	24,042.4	18,704.4	42,746.8	1.5
13	South Africa	21,506.6	17,912.1	39,418.7	1.4
14	Saudi Arabia	23,006.6	15,949.7	38,956.3	1.4
15	Republic of China	14,759.9	24,135.7	38,895.6	1.4
16	Hong Kong	26,940.5	10,600.6	37,541.2	1.3
17	Australia	26,752.3	9,850.6	36,602.9	1.3
18	Algeria	15,536.6	20,886.7	36,423.4	1.3
19	Libya	6,754.3	28,779.9	35,534.2	1.2
20	Mexico	21,382.1	13,111.6	34,493.7	1.2

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