Talk:List of countries by exports/Archives/2013

export 2008
In the schematic diagram, the colour by which India is shown is wrong. India is in the 100,000 to 400,000 category, which should be dark blue. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.56.86.228 (talk) 08:36, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

EU total error
The EU total is much less than the combined total of EU member states. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.38.26.187 (talk) 15:32, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Sure. If you sum up all EU member states export this will include intra-European trade. The EU total explicitly excludes that.213.160.108.26 (talk) 23:40, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

Ukraine 2006
Ukraine 2006 45.9 billion dollars of exports

Government site source: http://www.ukrstat.gov.ua/operativ/operativ2007/so_ek_r_u/soekru_u/02_2007/images/page_116.jpg

Can someone fix, thanks.

flags
Hi, Can someone place the flags on the Export page like on the List_of_countries_by_exports?

Perhaps if one person from every contry did their part.

EU in lists
DSuser and I have drafted a complete analysis of why it would be a good or a bad idea to include the EU in lists of countries in some form (either directly in the list or as a special note outside the list). We'd kindly invite all editors who are interested in the EU and/or lists of countries to take a look at Talk:European Union/inclusion in lists of countries, read all of the arguments presented and then state their opinion on what a sensible compromise might look like. Thanks! — Nightstallion 09:15, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

Fixed ranking error
Commutator (talk) 15:49, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

hey italy export volume is 501,400,000,000 ..ther' s an error —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.127.104.126 (talk) 19:12, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

Why is Iran twice on this list? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mengoxon (talk • contribs) 14:03, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

Also Iraq and Qatar are in the list twice. Why isn't Israel in the list? According to the World Factbook it should be between Portugal and the Philippines. UMCPGreg (talk) 18:53, 13 May 2009 (UTC)Umcpgreg

Germany and the EU
How is it possible that Germany exports more than the European Union. Even if every other EU country had no exports whatsoever that would still not make it able to have a lower number than Germany--Lairor (talk) 01:17, 2 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Ive not looked at the source and dont know if the figure is accurate but i would presume that its only talking about external trade of the European Union. Most of Germanys trade and other eu countries trade are with each other and there for wouldnt be included in the "EU"s exports. I agree it looks pretty odd though :) BritishWatcher (talk) 17:44, 10 December 2008 (UTC)


 * As stated on the World Factbook site for the EU and as BritishWatcher said, the EU figure does not include trade which is conducted internally between member states. -23:35, 4 January 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.65.116.35 (talk)


 * Hah, wish I'd spotted this one before doing the math to work out that the EU had exports of $6,026,000,000,000 (including internal trade). :S Ok, whatever. Anyone have a figure for North American exports minus internal trade, for comparison? Could there be a "by continent" or "by trade zone" (EU / NAFTA / ...) list? --HAdG (talk) 16:14, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

The numbers regarding the EU exports and imports have been switched in the CIA Factbook. According to the WTO in 2007 extraEU exports totaled $1697.8 billion and imports were $1952.0 billion.The source is here []. Also according to Eurostat in 2007 EU exports were €1241.57 billion and imports €1434.07 billion. Clearly the numbers have been switched by accident in factbook.

HAdG according to the same WTO source extra NAFTA exports in 2007 totaled $901.08 billion while intra NAFTA exports were $951.6 billion. Total exports(extra+intra)were $1853.4 billion. On the other hand as I said extra EU exports were $1697.8 billion. The intra EU exports were $3621.9 billion or a total(intra+extra) of $5319.7 billion. In other words 68.1% of all export transactions occurred within the EU which shows the high level of integration of its countries as compared to 51.3% for NAFTA.--Avidius (talk) 14:51, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

New Discussion
A discussion has been started at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Countries/Lists of countries which could affect the inclusion criteria and title of this and other lists of countries. Editors are invited to participate. Pfainuk talk 11:24, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

Taiwan
You knew it was going to happen sooner or later, why is Taiwan (or the Republic of China, whichever you like) not a 'sovereign state'? It has an army, a navy, an elected president and legislature, borders, has diplomatic relations with 20+ other states, yet Wiki lists have started not including it as a sovereign state. Whatever your opinion of the political situation, Taiwan (or the ROC, whatever) is not a dependent territory or colony. Its government officially claims the entirety of China, and the PRC claims it, this does not make it a subordinate territory of the PRC. If we are going by UN membership, then remember that Switzerland was not a member of the UN until 2002. FOARP (talk) 12:51, 1 July 2009 (UTC)


 * I fixed this to Republic of China, ROC is the official name of the country and should be stay as it is. However, to not confuse anyone, I added Taiwan in the back. Please be neutral --Lennlin (talk) 02:45, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

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China overtakes Germany
China overtakes Germany as top exporter (2009) http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126272143898416853.html?mod=googlenews_wsj#articleTabs%3Darticle Polylepsis (talk) 15:41, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

I agree. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34788997/ns/business-world_business/ Trueshow111 (talk) 06:28, 10 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Ranks are not updated until the source which they come from is updated. All export/import ranks come from the World Fact Book, just as all GDP ranks come from the IMF. This is to prevent rank conflicts from various sources, cherry picking sources which state something most others sources don't (basically POV, there's always some obscure source out there which will state something you want it to, even if incorrect), and because the World Fact Book and IMF are seen as the most reliable sources to take all ranks from. China may have overtaken Germany in exports just as it may have overtaken Japan in GDP but these ranks are not updated until the World Fact Book and IMF sources are updated and say so or else there's loads of different sources stating conflicting figures and many of the sources would be unreliable and cherry picked, with some sources stating something the majority of other sources don't agree with, which leads to edit warring over which source is correct. I expect new World Fact Book and IMF figures will be released early this year. This conversation has been had sooo many times before on all country articles regarding GDP ranks where some newpaper article has stated a country's GDP has overtaken anothers and the same consensus as I've just stated has always been found. Bambuway (talk) 15:52, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
 * I notice that there has been a bit of edit warring over the past few days and hope that this can end and consensus can be reached on the talk. I think there is some merit in what Bambuway has stated. Now, it is true that China will in all likelihood be the largest exporter this year given the data we have so far. However, I don't believe we should change the ranking until data for the entire year has been confirmed for both countries. China announced its full-year trade data today and Germany will announce its full-year trade figures on February 9. So I believe we should wait until then to update the rankings. The World Factbook is generally a reliable source (as a understand it mainly borrows data from other organizations); however, data from the World Trade Organization would be more authoritative. By the same token, data from the IMF or World Bank is more reliable than the WFB. Nirvana888 (talk) 17:36, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
 * If the WTO published a list of its own then it could be used. However, the point I was trying to make is that all ranks must come from a single relible source to prevent a clash of ranks. Bambuway (talk) 22:56, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
 * I actually mainly agree with you. You'll see that I said I don't think the rankings should be changed in the list or China described as the largest exporter until Germany releases it full-year figures. It is widely expected that China will be announced as the largest exporter of 2009 but WP is not a crystal ball. Also, I just pointed out that the WFB, though generally reliable, may not be the most authoritative source of information depending on the data of interest. Though I also agree with you that it would be preferable to have a single reliable source for the list. If others disagree though, it would be better to discuss here than to edit war. Nirvana888 (talk) 23:49, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

CIA 2009 update !
Link : https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2078rank.html China first ! Polylepsis (talk) 16:32, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

Australia Error?
it says that it has $284 billion in exports, even though it's $161.5 billion on the CIA site, and even if the $284 billion were true it's not even placed correctly.--CombustionMan1 (talk) 09:04, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Data restored according to the source ($161.5 billion). Elockid ( Talk·Contribs ) 12:26, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

Merchandise versus total trade
This list looks to be by exports of goods only. Maybe should either specify that or modify the list to include exports of services. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Trickydonut (talk • contribs) 06:25, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

Netherlands
According to the WTO source at the bottom of this article page the netherlands export volume is bigger then its french counterpart. The netherlands having exported 499 billion or so dont know exact number but stil needs adjustment. NH90 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.212.36.246 (talk) 08:55, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

Graph should have a shade of color for 300-400 billion
There are only 11 countries that export more than 300 billion and 4 of them get grouped with countries that export less than half of them (there's a big difference between countries like Canada and South Korea and Australia and Turkey). The graph doesn't reflect the data very well.Grmike (talk) 15:21, 26 September 2010 (UTC)grmike
 * I made a standard quartile map of the data. Hopefully this is more uniformly neutral. --—  r obbiemuffin  page talk 20:25, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

Why Mexico is not in the list?... According to the WTO, Mexico is the number 15 in the list.
According to the WTO source, Mexico is the number 15 (230 billion), and Spain is 16 (218 billion).--oyashirosama (talk) 08:44, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

about the amount
Is this annual export or is it cumulative export of all time or something else? Numbers and source alone is not enough for proper interpretation. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.192.246.76 (talk) 20:01, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
 * These values represent export earnings for calendar year using information provided by CIA.--RoadTrain (talk) 19:33, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

without re-export?
is a list available from osme source without reexports? This also seems an important measure. --—  r obbiemuffin  page talk 16:37, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
 * I dont know if there is importance in such a list. Exports consist of all goods the nation sales abroad, no matter if it's re-exports or not 'cause the nation gets profit in such trade and it contributes to its international investment position --RoadTrain (talk) 18:26, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Well thank you but it was important enough to note in the opening paragraph that the list specifically includes re-exports. If one wanted to know the rate of manufacture of different nations than a list with re-exports is near useless and dangerously close to misinformation. --—  r obbiemuffin  page talk 20:27, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
 * ps, Can I take it to mean you don't know of any source for national level of exportation less re-exports? --—  r obbiemuffin  page talk 20:31, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
 * I might have found where the CIA World Factbook keeps the data to calculate it. (sector composition) --—  r obbiemuffin  page talk 20:49, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Yes, I personally don't know where to get this information from. I'm not sure it's worth it to create a separate article since there are few countries whose exports consist of mainly re-exports; rather we can note it in this article by using references for each re-exporting state. But firstly we should find a source.--RoadTrain (talk) 01:29, 30 March 2011 (UTC)

Rename to List of countries by merchandise exports ?
These figures do not include the export of services. Should we rename it and create separate lists about exports and imports of services?--Avidius (talk) 10:52, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
 * It's worth it only after we find a reliable source about trade on services.--RoadTrain (talk) 16:59, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
 * The WTO provides information for trade in services. The top 40 trading entities are listed here . The rest will probably be available with their annual "International Trade Statistics" factbook that will be released in the near future.--Avidius (talk) 05:06, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
 * And is there a list about total trade? I think we can either include these data into this list to separate paragraphs (or even into a single table which will be sortable), or create separate articles for each type of exports. Of these two alternatives I suggest the former. It'll be much better since I've found the good data from WTO. There are both merchandise trade and trade on services. I could take my time creating a script to transform these data to a wikitable and incorporate it into this article.--RoadTrain (talk) 17:49, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
 * I agree that that including them here would be better but I don't have the time to do it soon :).--Avidius (talk) 19:16, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
 * So I've put it to my todo list, I'm gonna do it in the near future.--RoadTrain (talk) 21:01, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

US Exports
I thought it might be important to note that the actual trade data for US exports are now available online at the BEA website: http://www.bea.gov/international/xls/table1.xls Table. This shows US exports at over 2 trillion last year. I thought it might be important to make mention that US exports are now the highest or what is the point of this list? 99.1.34.6 (talk) 22:04, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

- why should CIA be wrong and some private agency be right??--Shokioto22 (talk) 01:35, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

-Since when is the US Department of Commerce a private organization? Fail. Link is .gov, check it yourself. CIA isn't wrong, it's an out of date estimate. Real 2011 data is available. Don't ever change something until you check the source. If you want to make a wikipedia page based on out of date estimates it should be called "List of Out of Date Export Estimates by Country" 99.1.34.6 (talk) 02:40, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

-Why the CIA Datas? They have a [a] higher Validity (statistics) and [b] higher reliability (statistics), and those allows a comparability of the numbers.; thats the whole point of the list.

Actually the 2 trillion figure includes exports of goods and services, while this list is based only on export of goods. That is why your edit is not valid.--Avidius (talk) 11:15, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

The title of this page is wrong. I concur with the previous talk. The CIA mid-year estimate isn't more valid or reliable when it comes to exports than the DOC. 99.1.34.6 (talk) 16:51, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

- like Avidius said the 2 trillion includes goods and services, this list is about goods (real products)--Shokioto22 (talk) 21:27, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

-Let's not start pretending that services aren't exports and let's not pretend that you didn't just called the DOC a private organization. Obviously service exports are real if they sum to half a trillion 99.1.34.6 (talk) 21:33, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

- make an own article where you count services and goods together in a list --Shokioto22 (talk) 15:30, 8 March 2012 (UTC)