Editing Economy of Spain (section)

===External trade===
Traditionally until 2008, most exports and imports from Spain were held with the countries of the European Union: France, Germany, Italy, UK and Portugal.

In recent years foreign trade has taken refuge outside the European Union. Spain's main customers are Latin America, Asia (Japan, China, India), Africa (Morocco, Algeria, Egypt) and the United States. Principal trading partners in Asia are Japan, China, South Korea, Taiwan. In Africa, countries producing oil (Nigeria, Algeria, Libya) are important partners, as well as Morocco. Latin American countries are very important trading partners, like Argentina, Mexico, Cuba (tourism), Colombia, Brazil, Chile (food products) and Mexico, Venezuela and Argentina (petroleum). [http://www.revistasice.com/es-ES/Paginas/default.aspx] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181117181728/http://www.revistasice.com/es-ES/Paginas/default.aspx |date=17 November 2018 }}

After the crisis that began in 2008 and the fall of the domestic market, Spain (since 2010) has turned outwards widely increasing the export supply and export amounts.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://bizpages.org/countries--ES--Spain|title=Spain Business Directory &#124; List of Companies|website=bizpages.org}}</ref> It has diversified its traditional destinations and has grown significantly in product sales of medium and high technology, including highly competitive markets like the US and Asia. [http://www.revistasice.com/es-ES/Paginas/default.aspx] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181117181728/http://www.revistasice.com/es-ES/Paginas/default.aspx |date=17 November 2018 }}

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! colspan="2" | Top trading partners for Spain in 2015<ref>{{cite web| url = http://wits.worldbank.org/CountryProfile/en/Country/ESP/Year/2015/TradeFlow/EXPIMP/Partner/by-country| title = Spain trade balance, exports, imports by country 2015 {{!}} WITS Data}}</ref>
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! colspan="5" class="unsortable" | Imports into Spain 2015
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! Ranking || style="text-align:center;"| Country || style="text-align:center;"|Value (USD) || style="text-align:center;"| % 
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|   || style="text-align:center;"| World|| style="text-align:center;"| $305,266MM || style="text-align:center;"| 100.0%
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| 1 || style="text-align:center;"| Germany|| style="text-align:center;"| $39,854MM || style="text-align:center;"| 13.1%
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| 2 || style="text-align:center;"| France|| style="text-align:center;"| $33,031MM || style="text-align:center;"| 10.8%
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| 3 || style="text-align:center;"| China|| style="text-align:center;"| $26,474MM || style="text-align:center;"| 8.7%
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| 4 || style="text-align:center;"| Italy|| style="text-align:center;"| $19,241MM || style="text-align:center;"| 6.3%
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| 5 || style="text-align:center;"| United States|| style="text-align:center;"| $14,247MM || style="text-align:center;"| 4.7%
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| 6 || style="text-align:center;"| United Kingdom|| style="text-align:center;"| $13,966MM || style="text-align:center;"| 4.6%
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| 7 || style="text-align:center;"| Netherlands|| style="text-align:center;"| $12,706MM || style="text-align:center;"| 4.2%
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| 8 || style="text-align:center;"| Portugal|| style="text-align:center;"| $11,901MM || style="text-align:center;"| 3.9%
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| 9 || style="text-align:center;"| Belgium|| style="text-align:center;"| $7,849MM || style="text-align:center;"| 2.6%
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| 10 || style="text-align:center;"| Algeria|| style="text-align:center;"| $7,198MM || style="text-align:center;"| 2.4%
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center"
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! colspan="5" class="unsortable" | Exports from Spain for 2015
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! Ranking || style="text-align:center;"| Country || style="text-align:center;"|Value (USD) || style="text-align:center;"| % 
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|   || style="text-align:center;"| World|| style="text-align:center;"| $278,122MM || style="text-align:center;"| 100.0%
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| 1 || style="text-align:center;"| France|| style="text-align:center;"| $42,998MM || style="text-align:center;"| 15.5%
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| 2 || style="text-align:center;"| Germany|| style="text-align:center;"| $30,077MM || style="text-align:center;"| 10.8%
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| 3 || style="text-align:center;"| Italy|| style="text-align:center;"| $20,758MM || style="text-align:center;"| 7.5%
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| 4 || style="text-align:center;"| United Kingdom|| style="text-align:center;"| $20,258MM || style="text-align:center;"| 7.3%
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| 5 || style="text-align:center;"| Portugal|| style="text-align:center;"| $19,914MM || style="text-align:center;"| 7.2%
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| 6 || style="text-align:center;"| United States|| style="text-align:center;"| $12,668MM || style="text-align:center;"| 4.6%
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| 7 || style="text-align:center;"| Netherlands|| style="text-align:center;"| $8,820MM || style="text-align:center;"| 3.2%
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| 8 || style="text-align:center;"| Belgium|| style="text-align:center;"| $7,384MM || style="text-align:center;"| 2.7%
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| 9 || style="text-align:center;"| Morocco|| style="text-align:center;"| $6,811MM || style="text-align:center;"| 2.5%
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| 10 || style="text-align:center;"| Turkey|| style="text-align:center;"| $5,650MM || style="text-align:center;"| 2.0%
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