Trade in goods with USA	SITC (Standard International Trade Classification)

South Korea

Share of USA's	2019 %	2020 %	2021 %	2022 %	2023 %	2024 %
Export	3.4	3.6	3.7	3.5	3.2	3.2
Import	3.1	3.3	3.4	3.6	3.8	4.0
Trade in Goods	3.2	3.4	3.5	3.5	3.6	3.7

Export
Import

Table: USA's export to South Korea (KR) in product groups (Sitc2)

	2019		2020		2021		2022		2023		2024
	million $	%	million $	%	million $	%	million $	%	million $	%	million $	%
0. Food and live animals	6,713	11.9	6,778	13.3	8,168	12.4	8,201	11.4	6,780	10.4	7,755	11.8
00. Live animals	25	0.0	21	0.0	17	0.0	20	0.0	26	0.0	26	0.0
01. Meat and meat preparations	2,454	4.3	2,202	4.3	2,943	4.5	3,354	4.7	2,775	4.3	2,970	4.5
02. Dairy products and birds' eggs	301	0.5	335	0.7	417	0.6	483	0.7	278	0.4	336	0.5
03. Fish and fish preparations	511	0.9	423	0.8	387	0.6	435	0.6	464	0.7	329	0.5
04. Cereals and cereal preparations	883	1.6	1,160	2.3	1,597	2.4	1,216	1.7	850	1.3	1,461	2.2
05. Vegetables and fruit	987	1.7	1,052	2.1	1,105	1.7	909	1.3	920	1.4	1,006	1.5
06. Sugars,sugar preparations and honey	43	0.1	45	0.1	50	0.1	42	0.1	35	0.1	37	0.1
07. Coffee,tea,cocoa,spices	177	0.3	179	0.4	187	0.3	222	0.3	190	0.3	192	0.3
08. Feeding stuff for animals	724	1.3	769	1.5	824	1.3	955	1.3	808	1.2	795	1.2
09. Miscellaneous edible products and preparations	609	1.1	594	1.2	643	1.0	565	0.8	434	0.7	604	0.9
1. Beverages and tobacco	131	0.2	148	0.3	154	0.2	176	0.2	158	0.2	156	0.2
11. Beverages	91	0.2	105	0.2	122	0.2	145	0.2	130	0.2	125	0.2
12. Tobacco and tobacco manufactures	39	0.1	43	0.1	32	0.0	31	0.0	28	0.0	31	0.0
2. Crude materials,inedible,except fuels	2,954	5.2	2,319	4.5	2,950	4.5	3,059	4.2	2,393	3.7	2,301	3.5
21. Hides,skins,furskins,raw	151	0.3	65	0.1	129	0.2	104	0.1	67	0.1	64	0.1
22. Oil seeds,oleaginous fruits	448	0.8	291	0.6	342	0.5	497	0.7	397	0.6	394	0.6
23. Crude rubber (incl.synthetic)	63	0.1	58	0.1	58	0.1	50	0.1	48	0.1	43	0.1
24. Cork and wood	80	0.1	67	0.1	100	0.2	74	0.1	59	0.1	50	0.1
25. Pulp and waste paper	289	0.5	254	0.5	288	0.4	310	0.4	222	0.3	199	0.3
26. Textile fibres and their wastes	218	0.4	144	0.3	188	0.3	142	0.2	133	0.2	92	0.1
27. Crude fertilizers and crude minerals	64	0.1	59	0.1	66	0.1	76	0.1	63	0.1	75	0.1
28. Metalliferous ores and metal scrap	1,536	2.7	1,293	2.5	1,680	2.6	1,700	2.4	1,296	2.0	1,293	2.0
29. Crude animal,vegetable materials n.e.s.	106	0.2	88	0.2	98	0.1	104	0.1	109	0.2	91	0.1
3. Mineral fuels etc	13,068	23.1	8,602	16.9	16,186	24.6	20,400	28.3	17,565	27.0	18,489	28.2
32. Coal,coke and briquettes	519	0.9	377	0.7	307	0.5	626	0.9	470	0.7	335	0.5
33. Petroleum and products	9,919	17.6	5,277	10.4	9,864	15.0	13,350	18.5	12,486	19.2	14,269	21.8
34. Gas,natural and manufactured	2,630	4.7	2,948	5.8	6,015	9.1	6,424	8.9	4,610	7.1	3,886	5.9
4. Animal and vegetable oils and fats	323	0.6	319	0.6	236	0.4	184	0.3	37	0.1	68	0.1
41. Animal oils and fats	49	0.1	53	0.1	14	0.0	8	0.0	7	0.0	3	0.0
42. Fixed vegetable fats and oils	267	0.5	255	0.5	212	0.3	164	0.2	20	0.0	58	0.1
43. Processed animal or vegetable oils,etc.	7	0.0	11	0.0	11	0.0	13	0.0	9	0.0	7	0.0
5. Chemicals and related products,n.e.s.	8,041	14.2	7,516	14.7	8,946	13.6	9,763	13.5	8,769	13.5	8,426	12.9
51. Organic chemicals	2,515	4.5	2,240	4.4	2,433	3.7	2,966	4.1	2,001	3.1	2,086	3.2
52. Inorganic chemicals	647	1.1	622	1.2	723	1.1	692	1.0	702	1.1	771	1.2
53. Dyeing,tanning and colouring material	311	0.5	283	0.6	359	0.5	409	0.6	354	0.5	414	0.6
54. Medicinal and pharmaceutical products	1,087	1.9	1,113	2.2	1,835	2.8	1,996	2.8	2,334	3.6	1,852	2.8
55. Perfume,cleaning etc.preparations	618	1.1	516	1.0	537	0.8	492	0.7	452	0.7	464	0.7
56. Fertilizers,manufactured	149	0.3	119	0.2	131	0.2	273	0.4	107	0.2	129	0.2
57. Plastics in primary forms	1,090	1.9	969	1.9	1,059	1.6	936	1.3	905	1.4	784	1.2
58. Plastics in non-primary forms	226	0.4	227	0.4	257	0.4	275	0.4	302	0.5	263	0.4
59. Chemical materials and products,n.e.s.	1,399	2.5	1,426	2.8	1,612	2.4	1,724	2.4	1,613	2.5	1,663	2.5
6. Basic manufactures	2,392	4.2	2,446	4.8	2,673	4.1	2,205	3.1	2,336	3.6	2,597	4.0
61. Leather,dressed fur,etc.	4	0.0	4	0.0	5	0.0	5	0.0	4	0.0	4	0.0
62. Rubber manufactures,n.e.s.	149	0.3	158	0.3	121	0.2	124	0.2	129	0.2	117	0.2
63. Wood and cork manufactures	26	0.0	21	0.0	27	0.0	31	0.0	32	0.0	31	0.0
64. Paper,paperboard and articles thereof	281	0.5	258	0.5	266	0.4	274	0.4	200	0.3	225	0.3
65. Textile yarn,fabrics,made up articles,etc.	152	0.3	134	0.3	135	0.2	159	0.2	149	0.2	157	0.2
66. Non-metallic mineral manufactures,n.e.s.	367	0.6	367	0.7	405	0.6	451	0.6	463	0.7	413	0.6
67. Iron and steel	181	0.3	149	0.3	143	0.2	152	0.2	160	0.2	162	0.2
68. Non-ferrous metals	666	1.2	837	1.6	1,029	1.6	432	0.6	587	0.9	800	1.2
69. Manufactures of metals,n.e.s.	566	1.0	517	1.0	542	0.8	578	0.8	613	0.9	688	1.0
7. Machinery,transport equipment	17,268	30.6	17,580	34.5	20,594	31.3	21,035	29.2	20,234	31.1	19,116	29.2
71. Power generating machinery and equipment	1,024	1.8	1,215	2.4	1,173	1.8	1,377	1.9	1,075	1.7	1,051	1.6
72. Machinery for specialized industries	3,642	6.4	5,186	10.2	7,351	11.2	6,264	8.7	4,809	7.4	4,229	6.5
73. Metal working machinery	100	0.2	75	0.1	89	0.1	97	0.1	104	0.2	79	0.1
74. General industrial machinery n.e.s.	1,443	2.6	1,313	2.6	1,411	2.1	1,532	2.1	1,632	2.5	1,716	2.6
75. Office machines and adp machines	665	1.2	576	1.1	570	0.9	557	0.8	675	1.0	668	1.0
76. Telecommunications and sound recording equipment	589	1.0	601	1.2	581	0.9	582	0.8	693	1.1	797	1.2
77. Electric machinery,n.e.s.and parts	4,985	8.8	4,720	9.3	4,584	7.0	4,182	5.8	4,473	6.9	4,820	7.4
78. Road vehicles	2,240	4.0	2,845	5.6	3,512	5.3	4,246	5.9	2,997	4.6	2,372	3.6
79. Other transport equipment	2,580	4.6	1,048	2.1	1,324	2.0	2,198	3.0	3,776	5.8	3,384	5.2
8. Miscellaneous manufactured articles	4,755	8.4	4,528	8.9	5,060	7.7	6,001	8.3	5,608	8.6	5,430	8.3
81. Prefabr.buildings;sanitary,lighting etc.fixtrs	74	0.1	35	0.1	31	0.0	18	0.0	23	0.0	25	0.0
82. Furniture and parts thereof	73	0.1	52	0.1	53	0.1	50	0.1	44	0.1	50	0.1
83. Travel goods,handbags and sim.containers	17	0.0	15	0.0	15	0.0	17	0.0	16	0.0	11	0.0
84. Articles of apparel and clothing accessories	105	0.2	97	0.2	84	0.1	115	0.2	97	0.1	77	0.1
85. Footwear	38	0.1	21	0.0	20	0.0	16	0.0	23	0.0	16	0.0
87. Instruments and apparates n.e.s.	2,661	4.7	2,599	5.1	2,757	4.2	3,186	4.4	3,183	4.9	3,192	4.9
88. Photographic equipment,optical goods etc.	452	0.8	432	0.8	445	0.7	371	0.5	301	0.5	327	0.5
89. Miscellaneous manufactured articles,n.e.s.	1,334	2.4	1,275	2.5	1,655	2.5	2,228	3.1	1,923	3.0	1,733	2.6
9. Goods not classified elsewhere	860	1.5	742	1.5	839	1.3	1,064	1.5	1,177	1.8	1,204	1.8
93. Special transactions and commodities not classified	315	0.6	245	0.5	201	0.3	255	0.4	294	0.5	307	0.5
97. Gold,non-monetary	7	0.0	8	0.0	10	0.0	10	0.0	8	0.0	11	0.0
99. (USA Sitc) Estimate of non-canadian low value shipments; compiled low value shipments to canada; and various export shipments not identified by kind	535	0.9	484	0.9	625	0.9	799	1.1	875	1.3	886	1.4
All groups combined	56,504	100.0	50,978	100.0	65,807	100.0	72,089	100.0	65,056	100.0	65,542	100.0

Source: US Census Bureau

Table: Import from South Korea (KR) in product groups (SITC level 2)

	2019		2020		2021		2022		2023		2024
	million $	%	million $	%	million $	%	million $	%	million $	%	million $	%
0. Food and live animals	729	0.9	887	1.2	1,000	1.1	1,168	1.0	1,251	1.1	1,504	1.1
00. Live animals	1	0.0	1	0.0	2	0.0	1	0.0	3	0.0	1	0.0
01. Meat and meat preparations	5	0.0	7	0.0	7	0.0	6	0.0	8	0.0	7	0.0
02. Dairy products and birds' eggs	10	0.0	15	0.0	17	0.0	22	0.0	23	0.0	30	0.0
03. Fish and fish preparations	157	0.2	148	0.2	194	0.2	247	0.2	217	0.2	231	0.2
04. Cereals and cereal preparations	123	0.2	155	0.2	175	0.2	216	0.2	264	0.2	330	0.3
05. Vegetables and fruit	200	0.3	239	0.3	257	0.3	289	0.3	316	0.3	367	0.3
06. Sugars,sugar preparations and honey	5	0.0	5	0.0	6	0.0	7	0.0	9	0.0	12	0.0
07. Coffee,tea,cocoa,spices	17	0.0	28	0.0	26	0.0	31	0.0	35	0.0	33	0.0
08. Feeding stuff for animals	1	0.0			1	0.0	2	0.0	2	0.0	3	0.0
09. Miscellaneous edible products and preparations	209	0.3	290	0.4	315	0.3	347	0.3	375	0.3	490	0.4
1. Beverages and tobacco	177	0.2	242	0.3	224	0.2	159	0.1	156	0.1	181	0.1
11. Beverages	111	0.1	116	0.2	121	0.1	152	0.1	156	0.1	181	0.1
12. Tobacco and tobacco manufactures	65	0.1	126	0.2	103	0.1	7	0.0
2. Crude materials,inedible,except fuels	458	0.6	349	0.5	474	0.5	564	0.5	515	0.4	546	0.4
22. Oil seeds,oleaginous fruits					1	0.0	1	0.0			1	0.0
23. Crude rubber (incl.synthetic)	189	0.2	127	0.2	206	0.2	291	0.3	241	0.2	246	0.2
24. Cork and wood					2	0.0	3	0.0	1	0.0	3	0.0
26. Textile fibres and their wastes	194	0.3	152	0.2	172	0.2	169	0.1	172	0.1	176	0.1
27. Crude fertilizers and crude minerals	19	0.0	15	0.0	28	0.0	23	0.0	20	0.0	23	0.0
28. Metalliferous ores and metal scrap	16	0.0	10	0.0	6	0.0	16	0.0	20	0.0	27	0.0
29. Crude animal,vegetable materials n.e.s.	40	0.1	45	0.1	59	0.1	61	0.1	61	0.1	70	0.1
3. Mineral fuels etc	4,247	5.5	2,405	3.2	3,847	4.0	5,382	4.7	4,691	4.0	4,839	3.7
33. Petroleum and products	4,231	5.5	2,386	3.1	3,827	4.0	5,349	4.6	4,670	4.0	4,812	3.7
34. Gas,natural and manufactured	16	0.0	18	0.0	20	0.0	33	0.0	21	0.0	27	0.0
4. Animal and vegetable oils and fats	3	0.0	5	0.0	6	0.0	8	0.0	25	0.0	114	0.1
41. Animal oils and fats	1	0.0	1	0.0	1	0.0	1	0.0	6	0.0	14	0.0
42. Fixed vegetable fats and oils	2	0.0	4	0.0	5	0.0	7	0.0	6	0.0	9	0.0
43. Processed animal or vegetable oils,etc.									13	0.0	91	0.1
5. Chemicals and related products,n.e.s.	6,910	8.9	6,743	8.9	8,955	9.4	12,365	10.7	12,940	11.1	14,008	10.6
51. Organic chemicals	1,313	1.7	974	1.3	1,380	1.5	2,156	1.9	2,214	1.9	2,294	1.7
52. Inorganic chemicals	128	0.2	135	0.2	251	0.3	308	0.3	174	0.1	212	0.2
53. Dyeing,tanning and colouring material	143	0.2	132	0.2	171	0.2	191	0.2	150	0.1	183	0.1
54. Medicinal and pharmaceutical products	2,150	2.8	1,943	2.6	2,401	2.5	2,878	2.5	2,579	2.2	3,971	3.0
55. Perfume,cleaning etc.preparations	624	0.8	717	0.9	902	0.9	1,065	0.9	1,354	1.2	2,090	1.6
56. Fertilizers,manufactured	5	0.0	8	0.0	17	0.0	32	0.0	28	0.0	24	0.0
57. Plastics in primary forms	1,172	1.5	1,076	1.4	2,171	2.3	2,445	2.1	1,695	1.5	1,942	1.5
58. Plastics in non-primary forms	827	1.1	826	1.1	919	1.0	1,103	1.0	970	0.8	993	0.8
59. Chemical materials and products,n.e.s.	548	0.7	932	1.2	742	0.8	2,188	1.9	3,775	3.3	2,299	1.7
6. Basic manufactures	8,946	11.5	7,915	10.4	10,252	10.8	13,768	11.9	12,008	10.3	11,859	9.0
61. Leather,dressed fur,etc.	4	0.0	4	0.0	4	0.0	4	0.0	5	0.0	3	0.0
62. Rubber manufactures,n.e.s.	1,633	2.1	1,406	1.9	1,265	1.3	1,472	1.3	1,300	1.1	1,183	0.9
63. Wood and cork manufactures	4	0.0	8	0.0	7	0.0	6	0.0	7	0.0	9	0.0
64. Paper,paperboard and articles thereof	644	0.8	484	0.6	484	0.5	700	0.6	574	0.5	679	0.5
65. Textile yarn,fabrics,made up articles,etc.	931	1.2	958	1.3	1,081	1.1	1,179	1.0	887	0.8	856	0.7
66. Non-metallic mineral manufactures,n.e.s.	390	0.5	430	0.6	475	0.5	526	0.5	569	0.5	511	0.4
67. Iron and steel	2,661	3.4	1,681	2.2	3,142	3.3	4,736	4.1	3,810	3.3	3,323	2.5
68. Non-ferrous metals	836	1.1	1,226	1.6	1,830	1.9	2,738	2.4	2,463	2.1	2,299	1.7
69. Manufactures of metals,n.e.s.	1,842	2.4	1,718	2.3	1,965	2.1	2,406	2.1	2,394	2.1	2,995	2.3
7. Machinery,transport equipment	49,502	63.9	48,287	63.5	59,001	62.0	68,711	59.6	75,892	65.3	86,040	65.4
71. Power generating machinery and equipment	2,301	3.0	2,048	2.7	2,199	2.3	2,429	2.1	2,715	2.3	2,985	2.3
72. Machinery for specialized industries	2,908	3.8	3,053	4.0	4,399	4.6	5,280	4.6	5,874	5.1	6,065	4.6
73. Metal working machinery	631	0.8	558	0.7	552	0.6	744	0.6	964	0.8	1,327	1.0
74. General industrial machinery n.e.s.	4,062	5.2	3,784	5.0	4,279	4.5	5,187	4.5	5,962	5.1	7,493	5.7
75. Office machines and adp machines	4,708	6.1	6,435	8.5	8,299	8.7	8,090	7.0	4,284	3.7	7,404	5.6
76. Telecommunications and sound recording equipment	5,194	6.7	2,678	3.5	3,750	3.9	2,822	2.4	2,923	2.5	2,006	1.5
77. Electric machinery,n.e.s.and parts	8,422	10.9	9,192	12.1	12,302	12.9	15,579	13.5	15,950	13.7	14,338	10.9
78. Road vehicles	20,431	26.4	20,169	26.5	22,687	23.9	27,851	24.2	36,625	31.5	43,897	33.4
79. Other transport equipment	846	1.1	370	0.5	535	0.6	729	0.6	595	0.5	525	0.4
8. Miscellaneous manufactured articles	5,024	6.5	7,690	10.1	9,722	10.2	11,541	10.0	6,873	5.9	10,426	7.9
81. Prefabr.buildings;sanitary,lighting etc.fixtrs	139	0.2	135	0.2	175	0.2	192	0.2	172	0.1	191	0.1
82. Furniture and parts thereof	249	0.3	244	0.3	326	0.3	384	0.3	409	0.4	480	0.4
83. Travel goods,handbags and sim.containers	80	0.1	87	0.1	92	0.1	47	0.0	29	0.0	27	0.0
84. Articles of apparel and clothing accessories	239	0.3	195	0.3	239	0.3	292	0.3	235	0.2	207	0.2
85. Footwear	56	0.1	42	0.1	60	0.1	63	0.1	41	0.0	32	0.0
87. Instruments and apparates n.e.s.	776	1.0	803	1.1	1,019	1.1	1,146	1.0	1,263	1.1	1,551	1.2
88. Photographic equipment,optical goods etc.	188	0.2	154	0.2	147	0.2	145	0.1	136	0.1	121	0.1
89. Miscellaneous manufactured articles,n.e.s.	3,297	4.3	6,029	7.9	7,664	8.1	9,272	8.0	4,589	4.0	7,817	5.9
9. Goods not classified elsewhere	1,481	1.9	1,488	2.0	1,622	1.7	1,650	1.4	1,803	1.6	2,033	1.5
93. Special transactions and commodities not classified	1,097	1.4	1,136	1.5	1,261	1.3	1,160	1.0	1,282	1.1	1,421	1.1
96. Coin (not gold coin or legal)	1	0.0	1	0.0	1	0.0					1	0.0
97. Gold,non-monetary	11	0.0
98. (USA Sitc) Estimate of import items valued under $251 and of other low valued items nonexempt from formal entry	345	0.4	321	0.4	347	0.4	477	0.4	512	0.4	605	0.5
All groups combined	77,476	100.0	76,011	100.0	95,103	100.0	115,315	100.0	116,154	100.0	131,549	100.0

Source: US Census Bureau

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