Year % of merchandise imports 1970 0.5728340890786447 1971 0.5779441420141559 1972 0.6837822331339566 1973 0.6637607348451569 1974 1.294801371981449 1975 1.324326781692813 1976 0.9795800375997812 1977 1.0452486121208737 1978 1.1997266109150206 1979 1.1047233619109822 1981 1.0114528823238234 1991 0.4892366118171471 1992 0.45583429334782016 1997 0.5241260691706954 1998 0.50648106809336 1999 0.4378560235010766 2000 0.4490153362519374 2001 0.3429309046164208 2002 0.4186577695265369 2003 0.4873559423771013 2004 0.374504838239867 2005 0.6678805379622238 2006 0.47010172895708385 2007 0.6638561554614228 2008 0.49716254080946365 2009 0.7091328545424407 2010 0.7040167870398487 2011 0.6172473576481315 2012 0.5811847229409565 2013 0.5233374100179274 2014 0.5435550419069594 2015 0.7446600389837251 2016 0.8992770009649955 2017 0.883273617019297 2018 1.4536326364924457 2019 0.6910310153322269 2020 1.0536294682728307 2021 0.5890696131454768 2022 0.9152386719301585 2023 1.5521941508693589