Tuvalu - Manufactures imports

Manufactures imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Manufactures imports (% of merchandise imports) in Tuvalu was 15.49 as of 2008. As the graph below shows, over the past 31 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 56.61 in 1998 and a minimum value of 15.49 in 2008.

Definition: Manufactures comprise the commodities in SITC sections 5 (chemicals), 6 (basic manufactures), 7 (machinery and transport equipment), and 8 (miscellaneous manufactured goods), excluding division 68 (nonferrous metals).

Source: World Bank staff estimates through the WITS platform from the Comtrade database maintained by the United Nations Statistics Division.

See also:

Year Value
1977 47.28
1978 39.36
1979 37.46
1980 45.74
1981 44.04
1982 50.36
1985 51.99
1997 50.99
1998 56.61
1999 53.86
2001 31.16
2002 25.99
2004 28.88
2005 21.81
2006 21.19
2008 15.49

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports