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Table II. Imports of raw sisal and henequen


1965

1966

1967

1968

1969

1970

1971

1972

1973

1974

1975

1976

1977

1978

1979

1980

1981

1982

thousand tonnes

WORLD

595.2

600.6

516.9

562.1

515.8

524.9

529.5

499.6

479.5

412.0

275.0

275.4

246.2

203.0

230.9

213.0

184.6

165.4

DEVELOPED

580.0

586.1

498.9

542.2

495.4

503.2

498.1

464.6

446.5

390.0

255.0

245.4

221.2

181.0

208.6

188.5

162.9

154.2

North America

127.7

123.1

99.7

98.6

72.5

72.9

78.8

62.1

42.5

14.0

12.6

20.2

17.0

15.5

12.5

7.6

6.0

4.3

Canada

39.4

38.6

31.6

23.3

17.8

13.3

16.9

12.1

10.1

4.8

4.3

6.2

5.0

4.7

4.2

2.7

2.5

1.3

U.S.A.

88.3

84.5

68.1

75.3

54.7

59.6

61.9

50.0

32.4

9.2

8.3

14.0

12.0

10.8

8.3

4.9

3.5

3.0

Europe

399.3

407.7

349.3

391.8

370.0

379.5

366.4

355.0

354.9

328.7

214.3

199.0

177.3

137.3

166.9

137.4

124.7

117.2

EEC (15)

367.2

365.6

319.3

352.1

336.5

338.7

325.5

310.5

318.4

291.6

178.2

170.5

154.8

109.2

135.3

111.8

92.7

94.0

Austria

7.0

7.1

6.3

7.0

7.3

6.2

7.2

5.7

5.3

2.7

1.7

1.0

1.0

0.9

1.1

0.8

0.8

0.7

Belgium-Lux

37.6

41.2

30.2

36.8

33.9

39.9

42.4

40.6

39.7

45.1

25.7

21.9

12.6

7.9

8.7

6.7

5.3

4.6

Denmark

15.2

15.2

14.6

16.2

15.2

14.3

13.3

10.4

11.1

11.6

7.7

3.9

3.1

1.0

1.8

3.7

1.6

3.2

Finland

1.5

1.7

1.1

1.0

1.4

0.8

0.6

0.6

0.4

0.4

0.3

0.3

0.2

0.1

0.0

0.2

0.3

0.3

France

58.9

58.4

51.4

57.8

66.1

61.4

50.5

54.5

64.3

72.6

32.3

37.5

28.1

26.2

31.5

22.0

18.1

19.8

Germany

56.2

52.5

34.5

54.6

48.1

40.9

40.7

40.1

35.9

30.9

17.3

15.0

9.0

7.4

5.0

5.0

4.4

5.3

Greece

3.1

2.2

2.4

3.1

3.1

3.0

3.2

2.2

3.5

3.0

1.5

2.2

2.5

2.3

1.5

1.8

0.6

0.4

Ireland

5.8

6.3

6.3

8.1

7.9

7.5

8.3

9.4

7.6

12.7

5.8

9.8

5.6

8.7

6.0

4.0

7.4

5.2

Italy

22.2

30.1

28.6

30.4

30.4

33.6

29.2

35.8

34.1

24.9

23.8

27.0

20.2

15.9

23.1

17.4

18.8

15.0

Netherlands

37.4

30.7

29.1

22.6

16.3

14.5

16.3

16.6

14.5

10.1

7.5

2.5

1.9

0.8

0.8

0.6

0.0

0.5

Portugal

44.8

47.7

42.6

51.6

39.7

46.6

50.9

39.9

43.6

38.1

22.1

22.1

38.8

18.0

33.6

33.8

23.5

26.2

Spain

11.2

13.3

14.6

14.1

15.8

17.3

18.8

16.7

19.0

15.7

17.6

15.2

16.6

12.4

12.6

10.8

9.1

9.9

U.K.

61.8

59.2

57.6

48.8

51.3

52.7

44.1

38.0

39.4

23.8

14.9

12.1

15.2

7.6

9.6

5.0

2.8

2.9

Other Europe

32.1

42.1

30.0

39.7

33.5

40.8

40.9

44.5

36.5

37.1

36.1

28.5

22.5

28.1

31.6

25.6

32.0

23.2

Bulgaria

0.0

5.2

1.6

8.3

1.1

1.6

1.8

1.8

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

Czech Rep.



















Czechoslovakia

5.1

5.5

6.2

7.5

7.7

9.0

7.5

8.0

5.5

4.1

2.5

3.3

3.5

3.0

2.5

2.8

2.5

2.5

Hungary

4.1

11.1

10.3

9.2

7.2

5.0

7.0

7.0

7.0

5.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

1.5

Poland

13.7

12.2

7.2

8.1

8.4

13.5

15.0

17.7

14.3

15.9

20.5

20.6

12.2

20.4

22.2

16.0

20.5

16.0

Romania

0.6

1.1

0.5

2.4

0.7

2.9

0.8

2.0

2.2

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

1.5

0.7

1.2

Switzerland

3.1

1.7

1.1

1.9

2.0

1.3

1.4

1.0

0.4

0.2

0.1

0.0

0.1

0.2

0.2

0.2

0.1

0.0

Yugoslavia



















Yugoslavia SFR

5.5

5.3

3.1

2.3

6.4

7.5

7.4

7.0

7.1

9.9

11.0

2.6

4.7

2.5

4.7

5.1

8.2

2.0

Croatia



















Former USSR

6.4

9.9

4.6

7.7

9.9

7.0

9.4

5.5

8.0

9.3

9.2

8.0

7.0

12.0

11.0

29.5

19.0

18.0

Oceania

27.3

26.8

24.2

20.5

20.1

21.1

20.4

20.3

18.3

20.9

9.6

7.6

10.0

8.2

6.5

6.2

5.8

6.5

Australia

21.5

19.2

18.9

16.1

14.6

14.8

15.2

13.0

11.9

13.2

4.0

3.6

4.9

3.4

2.9

2.7

2.3

3.0

New Zealand

5.8

7.6

5.3

4.4

5.5

6.3

5.2

7.3

6.4

7.7

5.6

4.0

5.1

4.8

3.6

3.5

3.5

3.5

Other Developed

19.3

18.6

21.1

23.6

22.9

22.7

23.1

21.7

22.8

17.1

9.3

10.6

9.9

8.0

11.7

7.8

7.4

8.2

Japan

15.1

16.3

18.1

16.7

20.6

21.1

19.0

20.5

21.9

15.8

8.7

10.0

9.5

7.5

11.4

6.3

5.5

6.1

South Africa

3.4

1.7

1.5

5.2

1.0

0.4

2.7

0.2

0.9

0.7

0.2

0.4

0.2

0.3

0.1

1.3

1.7

1.9

Israel

0.8

0.6

1.5

1.7

1.3

1.2

1.4

1.0

0.0

0.6

0.4

0.2

0.2

0.2

0.2

0.2

0.2

0.2

DEVELOPING

15.2

14.5

18.0

19.9

20.4

21.7

31.4

35.0

33.0

22.0

20.0

30.0

25.0

22.0

22.3

24.5

21.7

11.2

Africa

5.4

5.4

9.7

9.2

8.4

9.8

12.0

14.2

15.2

11.5

10.6

13.5

11.4

9.1

10.2

11.2

10.6

3.6

Algeria

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

1.9

3.0

2.0

1.3

Côte d'Ivoire

0.0

0.0

1.8

1.4

1.4

1.8

2.8

4.5

6.2

4.1

3.0

6.3

4.8

3.0

2.6

2.0

2.5

2.3

Morocco

3.0

3.0

4.9

6.3

5.4

6.2

7.2

7.0

6.0

4.7

4.6

4.5

4.0

3.9

3.8

5.9

5.6

0.0

Senegal

2.4

2.4

2.3

1.5

1.6

1.8

2.0

2.7

3.0

2.7

3.0

2.7

2.6

2.2

1.9

0.3

0.5

0.0

Tunisia

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

Latin America

3.4

3.9

2.5

2.9

2.8

3.2

3.9

2.7

2.4

2.1

2.0

2.4

1.9

1.9

2.1

2.2

1.5

0.4

Argentina

2.2

2.5

1.6

1.4

1.2

1.6

1.2

0.7

0.8

0.6

0.5

0.8

0.4

0.4

0.3

0.7

0.6

0.0

Chile

0.3

0.3

0.2

0.3

0.6

0.8

1.4

1.4

1.2

1.0

0.9

1.1

0.8

0.6

0.5

0.4

0.3

0.2

Colombia

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

El Salvador

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

Mexico

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

Peru

0.7

0.9

0.6

1.0

0.7

0.6

0.9

0.4

0.2

0.2

0.3

0.1

0.1

0.1

0.1

0.2

0.2

0.0

Uruguay

0.2

0.2

0.1

0.2

0.3

0.2

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

Near East

1.1

1.0

0.0

0.0

0.2

0.2

2.0

2.2

2.6

2.1

1.9

2.8

2.9

2.8

3.6

3.1

4.3

2.0

Egypt

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.6

1.0

1.2

1.0

1.0

1.5

1.3

1.0

1.4

1.0

2.0

1.8

Saudi Arabia

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

Turkey

1.1

1.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.2

0.1

0.2

0.2

Far East

4.3

3.2

4.9

7.2

8.7

8.2

10.3

9.8

9.0

4.3

3.7

5.7

5.8

5.2

5.4

7.0

4.3

5.2

China

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

2.2

3.8

1.0

2.1

India

4.3

3.2

4.9

7.2

8.7

8.2

8.7

8.3

7.4

3.2

2.7

3.0

3.7

3.3

1.2

1.2

1.0

1.0

Indonesia

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

Korea rep.

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

1.6

1.5

1.6

1.1

1.0

1.3

1.1

0.9

0.8

1.0

1.3

1.1

Pakistan

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0



1983

1984

1985

1986

1987

1988

1989

1990

1991

1992

1993

1994

1995

1996

1997

1998

1999

2000

thousand tonnes

WORLD

188.7

170.4

155.2

125.9

113.9

108.3

116.9

116.6

91.9

78.2

80.3

82.6

81.0

73.3

73.2

64.4

71.4


DEVELOPED

178.8

170.4

155.2

125.9

113.9

108.3

116.9

92.5

70.9

58.8

59.4

63.2

64.4

59.2

53.7

54.5

49.7


North America

4.4

3.1

4.2

3.7

2.1

0.7

0.8

0.6

0.9

0.6

0.7

0.7

0.7

0.5

0.7

0.6

0.5


Canada

1.8

1.3

1.6

1.7

1.3

0.3

0.2

0.3

0.4

0.4

0.4

0.3

0.5

0.4

0.6

0.5

0.4


U.S.A.

2.6

1.8

2.6

2.0

0.8

0.4

0.6

0.3

0.5

0.2

0.3

0.4

0.2

0.1

0.1

0.1

0.1

0.1

Europe

141.8

132.8

122.8

99.4

91.3

86.1

96.4

74.6

58.8

51.5

52.3

55.8

57.1

51.9

47.2

48.0

43.7


EEC (15)

102.6

98.6

84.6

71.8

68.2

70.0

79.0

64.4

54.8

47.0

47.5

51.6

53.1

49.1

46.0

47.3

43.0


Austria

0.6

0.6

0.7

0.3

0.5

0.5

0.6

0.6

0.5

0.6

0.4

0.5

0.7

0.6

0.5

0.6

0.6


Belgium-Lux

3.5

3.5

2.1

1.3

0.7

1.3

1.5

1.6

2.2

1.2

2.0

2.7

2.7

2.9

2.7

2.8

1.8


Denmark

2.0

3.2

3.5

1.7

1.1

0.7

1.6

1.8

2.0

1.8

0.4

1.7

0.7

0.2

0.1

0.0

0.0


Finland

0.3

0.3

0.2

0.1

0.1

0.0

0.0

0.1

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.1

0.1

0.0

0.0

0.0


France

23.7

18.7

16.2

17.0

12.8

15.7

16.6

13.5

7.1

7.0

4.4

3.6

4.4

3.8

3.5

2.3

2.0


Germany

3.8

2.4

2.2

2.5

1.7

2.1

3.9

2.3

2.2

2.3

2.1

1.7

2.8

2.3

1.2

1.9

2.1


Greece

0.3

0.6

0.5

0.9

0.2

0.5

0.3

0.3

0.2

0.3

0.1

0.0

0.0

0.1

0.1

0.1

0.1


Ireland

3.8

2.1

1.4

0.4

0.2

0.1

0.0

0.0

0.1

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.5

0.0


Italy

17.0

17.8

11.3

6.7

8.6

4.9

5.1

4.9

3.5

1.6

1.9

1.9

0.8

0.7

0.5

0.5

0.6


Netherlands

0.6

0.5

0.5

0.4

0.1

0.9

0.6

0.5

0.5

0.4

0.4

1.1

1.5

0.8

1.2

0.9

0.4


Portugal

34.9

37.3

34.5

29.6

33.8

33.9

37.9

28.0

30.2

20.6

28.4

27.6

28.9

27.5

26.1

25.1

24.4


Spain

8.6

8.9

7.7

6.5

5.1

5.2

6.5

7.6

3.6

8.3

4.4

7.6

6.7

7.0

8.4

9.4

8.1


U.K.

3.5

2.7

3.8

4.4

3.3

4.1

4.5

2.9

2.6

2.8

3.1

3.1

3.7

3.2

1.7

3.3

2.7


Other Europe

39.2

34.2

38.2

27.6

23.1

16.1

17.4

10.2

4.0

4.5

4.8

4.2

4.0

2.8

1.2

0.7

0.7


Bulgaria

4.0

0.0

1.0

0.3

14.9

5.2

5.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.1

0.1

0.1

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0


Czech Rep.











0.3

0.4

0.2

0.1

0.1

0.1

0.1


Czechoslovakia

1.2

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

0.5

0.3

0.5









Hungary

12.9

10.4

10.3

7.8

3.2

0.2

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0


Poland

17.7

16.3

18.0

12.6

2.6

5.1

5.7

6.2

2.7

2.5

2.7

2.6

3.0

2.1

0.5

0.0

0.0


Romania

0.8

0.5

0.5

0.5

0.5

0.5

0.5

0.3

0.0

0.0

0.1

0.1

0.1

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0


Switzerland

0.1

0.1

0.0

0.1

0.1

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.1

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0


Yugoslavia










0.8

0.8

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0


Yugoslavia SFR

2.5

5.9

7.4

5.3

0.8

4.1

5.2

3.2

1.0










Croatia










0.6

0.8

1.0

0.7

0.6

0.6

0.6

0.6


Former USSR

20.0

20.6

17.8

14.5

14.5

14.5

13.8

11.4

6.0

1.3

1.2

1.2

1.2

1.2

1.2

1.2

1.2


Oceania

4.5

5.9

3.9

2.3

1.9

2.0

1.4

2.2

2.0

2.1

2.0

1.8

1.5

2.1

0.8

0.7

0.9


Australia

1.0

1.4

0.6

0.9

0.7

0.5

0.7

0.7

0.6

1.0

0.9

0.7

0.8

0.8

0.7

0.4

0.4


New Zealand

3.5

4.5

3.3

1.4

1.2

1.5

0.7

1.5

1.4

1.1

1.1

1.1

0.7

1.3

0.1

0.3

0.5


Other Developed

8.1

8.0

6.5

6.0

4.1

5.0

4.5

3.7

3.2

3.3

3.2

3.7

4.0

3.6

3.8

4.0

3.3


Japan

6.4

7.0

6.3

5.8

3.9

4.8

4.3

3.7

3.2

3.3

3.2

2.8

3.1

2.3

2.5

2.2

1.9


South Africa

1.5

0.8

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.9

1.0

1.3

1.3

1.8

1.4


Israel

0.2

0.2

0.2

0.2

0.2

0.2

0.2












DEVELOPING

9.9

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

24.1

21.0

19.4

20.9

19.4

16.5

14.1

19.5

9.9

21.7


Africa

3.4

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

7.6

7.8

6.0

5.8

4.5

3.3

3.8

3.2

2.7

2.9


Algeria

1.5

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.7

0.7

0.5

0.2

0.2

0.2

0.2

0.2

0.0

0.0


Côte d'Ivoire

1.9

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

1.2

1.0

0.5

0.6

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0


Morocco

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

4.7

5.8

4.6

4.6

3.9

2.7

3.6

2.8

2.7

2.8


Senegal

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0


Tunisia

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

1.0

0.3

0.4

0.4

0.4

0.4

0.0

0.2

0.0

0.1


Latin America

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

4.2

3.6

2.3

3.1

3.3

3.3

1.3

6.4

5.8

17.5


Argentina

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.1

0.2

0.3

0.1

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0


Chile

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.5

1.3

0.7

1.2

0.6

0.2

0.0

0.7

0.0

0.0


Colombia

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

1.4

0.2

0.0

0.0

0.6


El Salvador

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.4

0.6

0.5

0.5

1.0

0.6

0.2

0.9

0.0

15.2


Mexico

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

3.0

1.4

0.7

1.2

1.1

0.2

0.2

4.2

5.8

1.5


Peru

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.1

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.5

0.7

0.5

0.5

0.0

0.3


Uruguay

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.1

0.1

0.1

0.1

0.0

0.0


Near East

0.3

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

4.3

2.0

2.3

2.1

5.0

4.0

2.8

3.2

0.6

0.4


Egypt

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

1.9

1.5

1.7

0.3

4.6

2.5

1.5

1.5

0.0

0.4


Saudi Arabia

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.9

0.6

1.1

0.5

0.0


Turkey

0.3

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.4

0.3

0.4

1.6

0.4

0.6

0.7

0.6

0.0

0.0


Far East

6.2

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

8.0

7.6

8.8

9.9

6.6

5.9

6.3

6.6

0.7

0.9


China

2.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

2.6

2.5

2.2

2.5

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.6

0.0

0.1


India

1.5

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.2

0.2

0.2

0.1

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0


Indonesia

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.4

0.2

0.2

0.1

0.1

0.0

0.1


Korea rep.

1.7

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

4.4

3.8

5.3

5.7

5.5

4.8

5.2

5.0

0.0

0.0


Pakistan

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.8

1.1

1.1

1.2

0.8

0.9

0.9

0.9

0.3

0.0



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