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a little more than one point, to 13.9%. The Imports of food, beverages and
most important chapter within this group is tobacco increased 9.4% due to the
beverages, alcoholic liquids and vinegars, with
5.4% of total imports, the result of a 14.1% recovery in private consumpt on.
increase compared with the previous year. The
second most important chapter is tobacco, with 1.8% of the total, which saw an increase of 6.1%,
notably greater than for imports as a whole.

Next are two branches with equal percentages of 11.4% - machinery and electrical equipment
and chemical products. Imports of machinery and electrical equipment saw a 10% increase
compared with 2020. This behaviour can be explained by the major increase in purchases of
electrical machinery and equipment (14.8%), together with a smaller increase in purchases of
mechanical apparatus (4.5%).

As for imports of chemical products, the trend was quite positive (14.9%), so its percentage of
the total increased from 10% in 2020 to 11.4% in 2021. The two most important chapters in
the group saw rising trends: the chapter of perfumery, with 5.9% of the total, rose 21.4%, and
pharmaceutical products, with 2.8% of the total, grew 14.3%.

The following groups of important products all have percentages of less than 10% of the total.
Specifically, the first is mineral products, with 8.8% and an increase of 46.4% in 2021. This trend

FOREIGN TRADE BY SECTORS Table 7.2

58 IMPORTS EXPORTS
M euros % var. % total M euros % var. % total
2021 2021/20 2021 2021 2021/20 2021
Live animals & animal products 62.8 3.8 4.7 0.2 84.8 0.1
Vegetable products 30.3 -2.1 2.3 0.0 -67.8 0.0
Fats & oils 5.5 16.7 0.4 0.1 71.6 0.1
Food products, beverages & tobacco 183.8 9.4 13.9 0.6 -54.6 0.4
Mineral products 116.3 46.4 8.8 0.3 3.0 0.2
Products of the chemical industries 150.8 14.9 11.4 5.4 56.1 3.8
Plast cs, rubber & art cles thereof 29.0 13.4 2.2 0.7 -32.9 0.5
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Fur, leather & art cles thereof 10.0 14.7 0.8 2.3 18.2 1.6
Wood, cork & art cles thereof 11.9 19.2 0.9 1.3 1.2 0.9
Paper & graphic arts 29.5 9.0 2.2 11.0 26.7 7.8
Text les 87.2 11.8 6.6 8.8 12.4 6.3
Footwear, headgear, umbrellas, etc. 27.8 14.5 2.1 5.9 33.1 4.2
Stone, cement & ceramic art cles 17.7 25.8 1.3 0.3 -32.8 0.2
Pearls, precious stones & metals 25.9 148.9 2.0 9.2 70.1 6.6
Base metals & art cles thereof 57.8 56.5 4.4 5.5 53.6 3.9
Machinery & electrical equipment 150.6 10.0 11.4 34.7 -1.7 24.6
Transport material 217.6 39.5 16.4 33.2 67.2 23.6
Opt cal, photographic, precision app. 53.0 32.4 4.0 17.3 17.6 12.3
Arms & ammunit on 1.0 56.0 0.1 0.2 119.8 0.1
Miscellaneous manufactured art cles 51.2 16.0 3.9 1.8 -3.4 1.3
Works of art, ant ques 2.8 -98.7 0.2 1.4 -95.5 1.0
Others 0.8 13.0 0.1 0.7 115.0 0.5

Total 1,323.1 1.0 100.0 140.9 -1.8 100.0
Source: Department of Tax and Front ers.