Table 1. Top maize exporting and maize importing nations worldwide, based on volume of trade from 2000–2009.

Rank	Top maize exporting nations and total amount exported 2000–2009, MTs		Top maize importers and total amount imported 2000–2009, MTs
1	USA	526,670,541	Japan	170,279,244
2	Argentina	123,527,253	Republic of Korea	90,841,881
3	France	71,269,591	Mexico	69,857,045
4	China	65,558,093	Egypt	51,446,403
5	Brazil	54,473,911	Taiwan	47,282,122
6	Hungary	28,557,159	Spain	45,302,592
7	Canada	23,311,927	USA	33,978,967
8	Ukraine	19,568,172	Netherlands	28,629,716
9	South Africa	15,021,879	Malaysia	27,703,058
10	Paraguay	12,051,097	Iran	27,178,624
11	Mexico	11,923,079	Colombia	26,821,972
12	India	11,738,537	Canada	26,012,453
13	Germany	10,400,097	Algeria	20,230,143
14	Serbia	6,797,441	Italy	16,678,997
15	Thailand	5,366,268	Germany	16,548,899
16	Romania	4,859,320	Israel	15,658,213
17	Switzerland	3,620,319	Saudi Arabia	15,613,125
18	Netherlands	3,601,194	Portugal	14,245,589
19	Austria	3,394,665	Morocco	14,083,900
20	Bulgaria	2,962,606	United Kingdom	13,815,724

Source: United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics Database (UN Comtrade, comtrade.un.org). MTs  =  metric tonnes.