Lebanese Trade by HS Sections for the Year 2006
Imports Thousand $ Exports Thousand $
# DESCRIPTION Value Share (%) Rank Value Share (%) Rank
1  Live animals; animal products 443,720 5% 8 11,523 1% 19
2  Vegetable products 365,761 4% 9 80,252 4% 10
3  Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fat… 93,681 1% 17 12,212 1% 18
4  Prepared foodstuffs; beverages, spirits and vinegar; tobacco… 534,160 6% 6 187,076 8% 4
5  Mineral products 2,412,631 26% 1 85,570 4% 8
6  Products of the chemical or allied industries 886,756 9% 3 162,389 7% 5
7  Plastics and articles thereof; rubber and articles thereof 360,640 4% 10 84,626 4% 9
8  Raw hides and skins; leather; furskins; travel goods, handbag… 41,436 0% 19 13,525 1% 17
9  Wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal; cork and articles of cork...  127,312 1% 16 18,937 1% 15
10 Pulp of wood (or of others); recovered paper and paperboard… 241,703 3% 12 133,708 6% 6
11  Textiles and textile articles 464,318 5% 7 87,259 4% 7
12 Footwear, headgear, umbrellas, walking sticks, whips, riding-crops… 69,573 1% 18 15,110 1% 16
13  Articles of stone, plaster, cement, asbestos… ; ceramic products; glass and glassware 147,835 2% 15 47,977 2% 12
14  Pearls (nat. or cult.), stones and metals (precious or semi-pr.), imitation jewellery… 290,935 3% 11 554,557 24% 1
15  Base metals and articles of base metal 682,210 7% 5 320,841 14% 3
16 Machinery and mech. appl.; electrical eq.; sound, TV, recorders, reproducers…. 1,123,268 12% 2 333,550 15% 2
17  Vehicles, aircraft, vessels and associated transport equipment 764,295 8% 4 33,587 1% 13
18  Optical, photo, precision, surgical instr., watches; musical instruments… 183,807 2% 13 20,093 1% 14
19 Arms and ammunition; parts and accessories thereof 2,941 0% 21 267 0% 21
20  Miscellaneous manufactured articles 155,095 2% 14 69,957 3% 11
21 Works of art, collectors pieces and antiquities 5,512 0% 20 9,508 0% 20
TOTAL 7,509,519 100% 1,856,018 100%
TOTAL 9,397,586 100%   2,282,526 100%