Year % of merchandise exports 1996 9.768013101043078 1997 9.229038219949034 1998 8.181166829439219 1999 7.33784229606563 2000 5.9042750296144115 2001 6.388638646280369 2002 6.30964190554133 2003 6.114941875844128 2004 5.8619672279674155 2005 6.4765526698535725 2006 6.113604785390646 2007 6.434001301757229 2008 6.274240649054333 2009 8.236452219399041 2010 7.511004544473277 2011 7.435496567493768 2012 8.3652890357257 2013 9.06535271852635 2014 9.578773104456097 2015 10.359794777690018 2016 10.932689213802325 2017 10.625512409509156 2018 10.332255471782183 2019 10.892933344837614 2020 12.55730021443506 2021 11.270439158627038