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**Table 10:** _Bulgaria’s imports by end-use product categories: total pan-European partners and ROW in 1996 and 2000--2003(in millions of US dollars and percent)_

||Import V|alue(in|millions|of US do|llars)||Share|inper|cent||Index 2003<br>**1/**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**World**|1996|2000|2001|2002|2003|1996|2000|2001|2002|2003|2000=100|
|Agricultural Food & Feeds|516|422|482|557|732|10.2|6.5|6.6|7.0|6.7|<br>173|
|Industrial Raw Materials|225|368|410|364|592|4.4|5.7|5.6|4.6|5.4|<br>161|
|Machinery, excl Automobiles|653|1,172|1,420|1,554|2,220|12.9|18.0|19.5|19.5|20.4|<br>189|
|Automobiles & Parts|155|446|576|645|900|3.1|6.9|7.9|8.1|8.3|<br>202|
|Other Consumer Goods|1,809|2,412|4,021|4,594|6,023|35.7|37.1|55.2|57.5|55.3|<br>250|
|Fuels|1,716|1,683|368|274|434|33.8|25.9|5.1|3.4|4.0|<br>26|
|All Goods|5,074|6,505|7,278|7,987|10,901|100|100|100|100|100|<br>168|
|**Pan-European economies**||||||||||||
|Agricultural Food & Feeds|183|228|264|314|413|8.6|6.5|6.1|6.4|6.0|<br>181|
|Industrial Raw Materials|56|108|107|117|183|2.6|3.1|2.5|2.4|2.7|<br>170|
|Machinery, excl Automobiles|474|833|1,068|1,135|1,600|22.3|23.7|24.6|23.0|23.4|<br>192|
|Automobiles & Parts|117|400|529|590|810|5.5|11.4|12.2|11.9|11.9|<br>202|
|Other Consumer Goods|1,281|1,882|2,310|2,730|3,747|60.2|53.7|53.2|55.2|54.9|<br>199|
|Fuels|19|57|61|57|77|0.9|1.6|1.4|1.2|1.1|<br>135|
|All Goods|2,129|3,508|4,339|4,943|6,829|100|100|100|100|100|<br>195|
|**Of which the EU-15**||||||||||||
|Agricultural Food & Feeds|153|179|204|234|295|8.6|6.2|5.7|5.8|5.5|<br>165|
|Industrial Raw Materials|34|74|69|80|99|1.9|2.6|1.9|2|1.8|<br>134|
|Machinery, excl Automobiles|407|695|920|948|1,288|22.9|24.3|25.6|23.6|23.8|<br>185|
|Automobiles & Parts|105|376|501|557|754|5.9|13.1|13.9|13.9|14.0|<br>201|
|Other Consumer Goods|1,063|1,503|1,856|2,146|2,900|59.7|52.5|51.7|53.4|53.6|<br>193|
|Fuels|18|37|43|51|70|1|1.3|1.2|1.3|1.3|<br>189|
|All Goods|1,780|2,864|3,592|4,015|5,406|100|100|100|100|100|<br>189|
|**ROW**||||||||||||
|Agricultural Food & Feeds|333|195|218|243|319|11.3|6.5|7.4|8.0|7.8|<br>164|
|Industrial Raw Materials|169|260|303|248|409|5.7|8.7|10.3|8.1|10.0|<br>157|
|Machinery, excl. Automobiles|179|339|353|419|621|6.1|11.3|12.0|13.8|15.2|<br>183|
|Automobiles & Parts|38|46|47|55|90|1.3|1.5|1.6|1.8|2.2|<br>195|
|Other Consumer Goods|528|530|1,711|1,864|2,276|17.9|17.7|58.2|61.2|55.9|<br>430|
|Fuels|1,697|1,626|308|216|357|57.6|54.3|10.5|7.1|8.8|<br>22|
|All Goods|2,945|2,996|2,939|3,044|4,072|100|100|100|100|100|<br>136|
|Memorandum: Share of<br>manufactures in total imports|52%|62%|83%|85%|84%|||||||

Note: The end-use categories are defined as Agricultural Food & Feeds (SITC 0+1+2+4-27-28); Industrial Raw Materials (SITC 27+28+68); Machinery, excluding automobiles (SITC 7-78), Automobiles & Parts (SITC 78), Other Consumer Goods (SITC 5+6+8+9-68); Fuels (SITC 3); and All Goods (0 to 9). **1/** Index 2003 over 2000 refers to values of imports. Source: Based on Bulgaria's reporting to UN COMTRADE Statistics.

Third, the compositions of imports by end-use from pan-European countries and ROW differ pointing towards Bulgaria’s growing integration into Pan-European markets. Imports from the pan-European free trade area are much more processed, with fuels, agricultural foods and feeds and industrial raw materials accounting for less than ten percent. This share in Bulgaria’s imports from ROW is more than twice as large. Moreover, this gap appears to be growing. Although ROW suppliers seem to have been retained their competitive edge in Bulgaria’s markets for machinery and capital equipment excluding transportation,<sup>11</sup> they lost their share in Bulgaria’s imports of automotive products; it fell from around 20 percent in 1996-99 to 10 percent in 2003.

While suppliers from the EU-15 still tower above others, their dominant position has slightly weakened in all product categories except in automobiles and parts and agricultural foods and feeds. Their respective shares in Bulgaria’s imports of these products increased from 65 percent and 39 percent in 1998 to 84 percent and 40 percent in 2003.

11 Their share Bulgaria’s imports of these products have been relatively stable at around 25-30 percent since 1996.