**Table 3: Shares of Developing and Industrial Countries in World Exports, 1990/91-2006/07**

||Developing C<br>|ountriesExpor<br>|t Share (%)<br>|IndustrialC<br>|ountriesExpo<br>|rts share (%)<br>|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Sector byDestination|1990-91|2000-01|2006-07|1990-91|2000-01|2006-07|
|**Agriculture**|||||||
|Total|31.8|37.4|41.5|68.2|62.6|58.5|
|Developing Countries|7.3|15.9|19.8|17.2|17.3|16.5|
|Industrial Countries|24.5|21.5|21.7|51.0|45.3|42.0|
|**Manufacturing**|||||||
|Total|19.9|34.1|42.0|80.1|65.9|58.0|
|Developing Countries|4.3|13.1|19.5|21.1|20.2|19.7|
|Industrial Countries|15.6|21.0|22.5|60.0|45.7|38.3|

Source: Based on mirror data from UN COMTRADE Statistics.

These differential growth rates are reflected in the shares of exports in world trade in developing countries (Table 3). Their share in manufacturing exports rose dramatically, from 20 percent in 1990/91, to 34 percent in 2000/01, and to 42 percent in 2006/07; with higher exports to both developing countries and industrial countries. It is the expansion of their exports to developing countries that is much more dramatic, from 4 percent in 1990/01 to 20 percent in 2006/07. It is also in an area where the world trade has grown very rapidly.

In agricultural trade developing countries also had some increases in their market shares, but not as big as the market shares in manufacturing. Their share in world agricultural exports increased from 32 percent in 1990/91 to only 42 percent in 2006/07. Most of this gain came from expansion of exports to other developing countries (about 12 percentage points). The share of their exports to industrial countries actually declined. Overall, the weight of industrial countries gradually decreases in world agricultural trade (see Table 6 also). In 1990/01, they constituted 76 percent of world imports and by 2006/07 this ratio had declined to 64 percent. In 1990/01 almost 67 percent of these imports were met by other industrial countries. In 2006/07, 66 percent were met by other industrial countries. So the change is not very large and there is little real structural change. In manufacturing, their import share decreased from 76 percent to 60 percent. More important, in 1990/01, 79 percent of these manufacturing imports were met by other industrial countries. In 2006/07 only 63 percent was supplied by industrial countries, a very large structural change.

In 1990/01, only 7 percent of world agricultural exports were among the developing countries. Despite the growth of intra developing country agricultural trade, it only accounted for about 20 percent of world exports in 2006/07. Developing countries still export a greater amount to industrial countries than to other developing countries. Despite these changes in the shares, nearly half of world agricultural trade still takes place between industrial countries.

The last point is the pattern of agricultural production growth in industrial and developing countries (Table 4). Growth rates have accelerated in developing countries and decelerated in industrial countries. So it is not the increases in domestic supply that has reduced the growth of agricultural exports from developing countries. There is also a decline in the demand for these commodities.<sup>7</sup>

> 7 As we will see in the following sections, greater growth takes place in processed commodities where the industrial countries still have some comparative advantage.

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