Year % of total merchandise imports 1960 0.9300257526192748 1961 0.6161326625441628 1962 0.946531790756867 1963 1.2719086212616713 1964 1.6038972138339695 1965 1.8340159647650516 1966 2.0401336349039174 1967 1.7566094108089003 1968 2.0584148633007193 1969 2.3114884485630096 1970 2.275835003142218 1971 2.4931657469552357 1972 2.748207417907929 1973 3.41110247806388 1974 6.473893468923918 1975 6.123430945057631 1976 7.43245968923665 1977 7.290461591215422 1978 7.305326855175574 1979 9.805630788957709 1980 9.73463201069815 1981 7.074872670329685 1982 8.239347641513332 1983 9.288667919351285 1984 9.657904548784382 1985 9.882339580775202 1986 6.100394849951588 1987 6.710061968766275 1988 5.319375089582218 1989 5.377241017280862 1990 5.083050922449816 1991 3.3604862197721554 1992 2.5483663312660743 1993 3.3354798240047736 1994 3.727704451380314 1995 4.299073307926774 1996 4.970689252928989 1997 5.113421248110286 1998 4.910140821466241 1999 5.127277757890222 2000 6.333411639500539 2001 7.367033790209082 2002 8.06732116404089 2003 9.961603354066078 2004 12.293809405775207 2005 13.632475569729358 2006 15.661593586328216 2007 17.626107973369237 2008 19.130713638635246 2009 19.446018889471894 2010 21.54595583681756 2011 22.33922754705377 2012 22.6091955156882 2013 23.76744181322465 2014 24.752109446780185 2015 25.859959315175416 2016 25.443824548570877 2017 25.741649427108637 2018 26.557824839194456 2019 27.623096085443034 2020 28.796262285245927