Foreign Trade by Countries Trade with EU countries is becoming more and more important in the Lithuanian trade. To EU Lithuania exports textile articles, machinery and equipment, products of chemical industry, wood and articles of wood, miscellaneous manufactured articles, transport means, mineral products. CIS countries still remain important markets for the Lithuanian exports. Lithuanian Department of Statistics Major Lithuanian imports markets are EU countries. Lithuania's major imports from EU are machinery and equipment, textile articles, different means of transport, products of chemical industry, plastics and rubber, mineral products, base metals and articles of base metals.
CIS countries are important suppliers of raw materials.
These trends will prevail for a considerable length of time, because any changes would be very expensive. In the first half of 2001 key export partners were Latvia, United Kingdom, Germany and Russia. Main import partners were Russia, Germany, Poland and Italy. According to the 2001 IH trade statistics, Latvia Lithuania's main trade partner followed by the UK, Germany and Russia. The main commodities exported to Latvia were mineral products, prepared foodstuffs, beverages and tobacco products, machinery and equipment, products of chemical industry, textile and textile articles and other.