Table I.

Characteristics of top maize exporting and maize importing nations worldwide.

Rank	Top maize-exporting nations and total amount exported 2000–2009, MTs			Top maize-importing nations and total amount imported 2000–2009, MTs
	Country	Export degree (#nations)	Total amount (MTs)	Country	Import degree (#nations)	Total amount (MTs)
1	USA	181	526,670,541	Japan	40	170,279,244
2	Argentina	150	123,527,253	S. Korea	39	90,841,881
3	France	122	71,269,591	Mexico	18	69,857,045
4	China	95	65,558,093	Egypt	53	51,446,403
5	Brazil	101	54,473,911	Taiwan	24	47,282,122
6	Hungary	72	28,557,159	Spain	53	45,302,592
7	Canada	108	23,311,927	USA	66	33,978,967
8	Ukraine	72	19,568,172	Netherlands	62	28,629,716
9	South Africa	128	15,021,879	Malaysia	36	27,703,058
10	Paraguay	43	12,051,097	Iran	32	27,178,624
11	Mexico	45	11,923,079	Colombia	31	26,821,972
12	India	85	11,738,537	Canada	58	26,012,453
13	Germany	69	10,400,097	Algeria	31	20,230,143
14	Serbia	38	6,797,441	Italy	57	16,678,997
15	Thailand	70	5,366,268	Germany	66	16,548,899
16	Romania	55	4,859,320	Israel	41	15,658,213
17	Switzerland	53	3,620,319	Saudi Arabia	46	15,613,125
18	Netherlands	86	3,601,194	Portugal	34	14,245,589
19	Austria	52	3,394,665	Morocco	26	14,083,900
20	Bulgaria	47	2,962,606	UK	56	13,815,724

Data source: UN Comtrade⁽¹⁵⁾.