Table 10 - World exports of Jute, Kenaf and Allied Fibres (crop year)
	1996/97	1997/98	1998/99	1999/00	2000/01	2001/02
	( . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . thousand tonnes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . )
Kenaf and Allied fibres:
World	7.3	3.8	4.0	3.2	4.0	3.5
Developing countries	7.3	3.8	4.0	3.2	4.0	3.5
Far East	7.3	3.8	4.0	3.2	4.0	3.5
China	3.5	1.3	1.2	0.7	0.5	0.5
Thailand	3.8	2.5	2.8	2.5	3.5	3.0
Other Developing	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Developed countries	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Jute fibre:
World	372.3	455.7	338.6	324.1	302.0	309.0
Developing countries	362.1	441.7	326.5	310.7	289.4	296.5
Far East	361.9	441.5	326.3	310.2	288.9	296.3
Bangladesh	355.8	433.3	316.8	297.2	279.8	288.0
Myanmar	2.0	5.0	5.0	9.3	5.7	5.0
Nepal	1.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Other Developing	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.5	0.5	0.2
Developed countries	10.2	14.0	12.1	13.4	12.6	12.5
Total Jute, Kenaf and Allied Fibres:
World	379.6	459.5	342.6	327.3	306.0	312.5
Developing countries	369.4	445.5	330.5	313.9	293.4	300.0
Far East	369.2	445.3	330.3	313.4	292.9	299.8
Bangladesh	355.8	433.3	316.8	297.2	279.8	288.0
China	3.5	1.3	1.2	0.7	0.5	0.5
Myanmar	2.0	5.0	5.0	9.3	5.7	5.0
Nepal	1.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Thailand	3.8	2.5	2.8	2.5	3.5	3.0
Other Developing	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.5	0.5	0.2
Developed countries	10.2	14.0	12.1	13.4	12.6	12.5

Table 11 - World exports of products of jute, kenaf and allied fibres 1/
		1996/97	1997/98	1998/99	1999/00	2000/01
		( . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . thousand tonnes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . )
WORLD		728.8	725.9	718.1	670.6	678.4
DEVELOPING		643.0	639.2	636.6	602.2	613.3
Africa		1.0	1.3	0.8	1.4	1.4
Latin America		0.5	1.1	0.4	0.4	0.3
El Salvador		0.0	0.4	0.0	0.0	0.0
Guatemala		0.5	0.3	0.1	0.0	0.0
Mexico		0.0	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.3
Near East		9.0	8.9	2.0	0.8	0.9
Egypt		1.2	0.5	0.1	0.1	0.1
Syria		1.0	7.7	0.0	0.3	0.3
Turkey		6.7	0.7	1.8	0.3	0.3
Far East		632.5	627.9	633.4	599.6	610.7
Bangladesh		409.6	343.9	431.4	405.2	408.5
China		16.7	14.8	7.5	6.6	5.0
India		180.7	245.4	173.1	166.7	176.5
Nepal		10.0	10.0	10.0	10.0	10.0
Thailand		11.7	9.8	8.9	8.2	6.9
DEVELOPED		85.8	86.7	81.5	68.4	65.1
North America		3.5	2.9	2.4	1.9	2.1
USA		3.4	2.8	2.4	1.8	2.1
Europe		70.3	71.5	67.3	55.6	52.2
EC (15)		68.4	69.7	65.7	53.9	50.4
Belgium-Lux.		38.8	38.2	40.1	26.4	26.6
France		2.8	2.6	2.9	3.7	3.7
Germany		4.4	4.5	5.5	4.5	5.4
Netherlands		13.3	14.7	8.5	7.4	6.5
UK		4.5	5.5	4.8	8.9	5.1
Oceania		0.4	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.2
Australia		0.4	0.4	0.3	0.2	0.2
Other Developed		1.6	1.7	1.5	0.6	0.6
Japan		1.6	1.7	1.5	0.6	0.6
Former USSR		10.0	10.0	10.0	10.0	10.0

Table 12 - World total exports of raw and processed jute, kenaf and allied fibres 1/
	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
	(. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . thousand tonnes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . )
WORLD	1 116.8	1 239.2	1 144.8	1 071.7	1 032.1
DEVELOPING	1 014.5	1 132.4	1 045.4	984.9	949.2
Africa	1.1	1.6	0.9	1.8	1.5
Latin America	0.5	1.2	0.4	0.4	0.4
Near East	9.8	9.5	2.3	1.1	1.1
Egypt	1.5	0.5	0.3	0.3	0.3
Syria	1.1	8.2	0.0	0.3	0.3
Turkey	7.2	0.7	1.9	0.3	0.0
Far East	1 003.1	1 120.1	1 041.9	981.6	946.2
Bangladesh	708.6	857.3	734.1	768.3	716.4
China	21.4	17.1	9.2	7.8	5.9
India	229.7	208.4	261.5	172.3	190.2
Myanmar	2.0	5.0	5.0	5.0	5.3
Nepal	11.7	10.7	10.7	10.7	10.7
Thailand	22.5	14.1	14.1	10.9	10.2
Viet Nam	3.0	3.0	3.0	3.0	3.0
DEVELOPED	102.3	106.8	99.4	86.5	82.1
Europe	84.1	89.5	83.0	70.8	66.9
EC (15)	81.8	87.4	81.2	69.0	65.0

Table 13 - World imports of raw jute, kenaf and allied fibres 1 /
	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
	( . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . thousand tonnes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . )
WORLD	272.4	435.0	348.1	330.4	332.1
DEVELOPING	222.9	387.3	305.8	289.4	293.8
Africa	42.9	41.0	24.4	18.4	16.2
Algeria	4.4	4.0	4.0	3.5	3.5
Côte d'Ivoire	15.5	25.0	15.0	11.0	10.0
Kenya	0.4	0.4	0.2	0.0	0.0
Morocco	16.3	5.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Tunisia	0.3	1.4	0.0	0.7	0.5
Latin America	15.9	21.1	14.0	7.6	8.0
Brazil	6.1	11.3	5.6	5.6	6.0
El Salvador	0.1	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4
Mexico	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
Nicaragua	1.9	2.2	1.0	0.6	0.6
Near East	16.9	16.2	26.3	10.5	12.9
Egypt	9.7	10.0	17.6	5.8	8.5
Iran	1.9	2.8	5.2	2.6	2.5
Saudi Arabia	1.6	0.5	0.7	0.5	0.5
Turkey	3.6	2.8	2.7	1.5	1.4
Far East	147.2	309.0	241.1	252.9	256.7
China	21.2	165.9	100.2	8.7	5.0
India	48.3	49.7	54.0	160.9	130.0
Indonesia	4.3	7.7	5.7	5.9	6.0
Pakistan	59.8	80.1	78.8	73.1	70.0
Thailand	11.7	2.4	0.2	1.1	42.2
DEVELOPED	49.5	47.7	42.3	41.0	38.3
North America	4.6	2.3	2.6	2.8	1.1
United States	4.2	1.9	2.3	2.4	0.8
Europe	27.7	31.5	26.2	24.8	23.8
EC (15)	19.7	22.8	19.8	20.8	18.6
Belgium-Lux.	3.1	4.8	4.3	3.5	4.1
Germany	3.5	3.3	3.1	3.8	2.6
Netherlands	0.7	0.5	0.5	0.8	0.5
Spain	1.8	1.7	2.3	2.6	3.5
United Kingdom	5.3	7.3	4.5	4.9	2.6
Former USSR	7.5	5.0	5.0	5.0	5.0
Oceania	4.8	4.7	4.7	5.3	5.3
Australia	4.7	4.7	4.7	4.8	4.8
Other Developed	4.9	4.2	3.8	3.1	3.1
Japan	3.7	3.6	3.5	3.0	3.0

Table 14 - World imports of products of jute, kenaf and allied fibres 1/ 2/
	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
	( . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . thousand tonnes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . )
WORLD	776.3	781.8	716.6	649.8	670.3
DEVELOPING	309.1	310.0	290.8	243.3	270.0
Africa	46.4	37.7	32.8	27.6	25.2
Algeria	6.0	6.0	5.0	5.0	5.0
Cameroon	3.1	4.2	4.0	4.0	3.0
Ghana	12.6	10.0	7.9	5.1	5.0
Kenya	0.6	0.7	0.8	2.8	3.0
Morocco	1.7	0.6	1.2	1.8	1.5
Tanzania	4.8	4.0	3.2	3.5	3.0
Zimbabwe	3.0	6.5	5.7	1.7	1.5
Latin America	17.1	19.1	16.5	12.3	11.5
Argentina	4.7	4.4	5.1	2.9	3.0
Brazil	2.9	4.2	2.7	2.9	2.5
Mexico	4.1	5.6	3.1	2.5	2.0
Near East	203.6	224.1	215.0	174.9	207.0
Egypt	13.8	12.0	8.8	8.1	14.3
Iran	42.4	58.8	56.2	55.8	56.0
Saudi Arabia	10.9	9.0	9.8	9.0	7.8
Sudan	25.6	33.9	45.9	40.0	38.0
Syria	55.7	51.7	23.0	9.3	36.9
Turkey	52.9	55.5	67.6	50.7	52.0
Far East	42.0	28.0	26.5	28.5	26.3
China	4.2	4.1	8.4	8.5	7.0
Indonesia	12.6	4.4	3.0	2.4	2.5
Korea Rep.	6.1	5.7	3.9	4.5	3.5
Malaysia	1.1	1.6	2.5	2.9	3.0
Pakistan	11.8	6.0	1.5	1.7	1.5
Sri Lanka	1.0	1.5	1.9	2.6	2.5
DEVELOPED	467.1	471.8	425.8	406.5	400.2
North America	60.0	71.9	69.9	70.8	73.3
United States	51.1	65.6	63.5	63.5	66.2
Europe	292.7	276.6	239.6	218.6	208.3
EC (15)	282.5	267.5	233.3	210.9	201.1
Belgium-Lux.	135.8	125.6	106.9	89.1	99.0
Germany	21.6	17.6	19.4	17.6	16.2
Netherlands	36.9	31.9	28.7	32.5	19.8
Spain	8.8	9.8	9.7	7.4	8.5
United Kingdom	41.3	44.3	35.8	33.2	29.2
Former USSR	30.0	30.0	30.0	30.0	30.0
Oceania	37.6	48.5	52.7	57.3	58.6
Australia	32.9	38.1	38.9	40.4	43.0
Other Developed	46.9	44.8	33.6	29.8	30.0
Japan	37.0	34.5	27.1	23.9	24.0
South Africa	9.9	10.3	6.5	5.9	6.0

Table 15 - World total imports of raw and processed jute, kenaf and allied fibres 1 /
	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
	( . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . thousand tonnes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . )
WORLD	1 103.3	1 271.5	1 114.9	1 025.9	1 049.4
DEVELOPING	553.7	719.0	617.0	549.9	582.9
Africa	92.5	75.3	59.5	48.1	43.2
Algeria	10.8	10.4	9.4	8.9	8.9
Cameroon	3.3	4.5	4.3	4.3	3.2
Côte d' Ivoire	15.5	25.0	15.2	11.0	10.0
Ghana	13.5	10.7	8.5	5.5	5.4
Kenya	1.0	1.1	1.1	3.0	3.2
Morocco	18.1	5.6	1.3	1.9	1.6
Tanzania	5.1	4.3	3.4	3.7	3.2
Zimbabwe	3.2	7.0	6.1	1.8	1.6
Latin America	34.2	41.5	31.7	20.8	20.3
Argentina	5.0	4.7	5.5	3.1	3.2
Brazil	9.2	15.8	8.5	8.7	8.7
El Salvador	0.2	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5
Mexico	4.4	6.1	3.3	2.7	2.1
Nicaragua	2.0	2.3	1.1	0.8	0.8
Near East	234.8	256.0	256.4	197.6	234.5
Egypt	24.5	22.8	27.0	14.5	23.8
Iran	47.3	65.7	65.3	62.3	62.4
Saudi Arabia	13.3	10.1	11.2	10.1	8.8
Sudan	27.4	36.3	49.1	42.8	40.7
Syria	59.6	55.3	24.6	10.0	39.5
Turkey	60.2	62.2	75.0	55.7	57.1
Far East	192.1	339.0	269.5	283.4	284.9
China	25.7	170.3	109.2	17.8	12.5
India	48.3	49.7	54.0	160.9	130.0
Indonesia	17.8	12.4	8.9	8.5	8.7
Korea Rep.	7.9	8.3	5.2	7.0	6.8
Malaysia	1.4	2.0	3.3	4.0	3.7
Pakistan	72.4	86.5	80.4	74.9	71.6
Sri Lanka	1.2	1.6	2.1	2.9	2.7
Thailand	12.4	2.9	0.5	1.8	42.8
DEVELOPED	549.3	552.5	497.9	476.0	466.5
North America	68.8	79.2	77.4	78.6	79.5
United States	58.9	72.1	70.2	70.3	71.6
Europe	340.9	327.5	282.8	258.8	246.7
EC (15)	322.0	309.0	269.4	246.5	233.7
Belgium-Lux.	148.4	139.2	118.7	98.8	110.0
France	23.8	25.3	21.1	18.2	15.3
Germany	26.6	22.1	23.9	22.6	19.9
Netherlands	40.2	34.6	31.2	35.6	21.7
Spain	11.2	12.2	12.7	10.5	12.6
United Kingdom	49.5	54.7	42.8	40.4	33.7
Former USSR	39.6	37.1	37.1	37.1	37.1
Oceania	45.0	56.6	61.1	66.6	68.0
Australia	39.9	45.5	46.3	48.0	50.8
New Zealand	5.1	11.1	14.8	18.6	17.2
Other Developed	55.1	52.1	39.8	35.0	35.2
Japan	43.3	40.5	32.5	28.5	28.7
South Africa	11.8	11.6	7.3	6.4	6.5

Table 16 - Monthly exports of raw jute and products by type from Bangladesh
		RAW FIBRE		MANUFACTURES
			Yarn	Hessian	Sacking	Carpet backing	TOTAL 1 /
		( . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . thousand tonnes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . )
1995/96	Season	214.86	103.13	97.15	163.78	45.68	427.86
1996/97	Season	355.82	134.59	79.03	153.75	32.92	409.61
1997/98	Season	433.26	122.95	78.19	83.77	36.73	343.90
1998/99	Season	316.73	158.70	107.29	134.40	25.55	431.40
1999/2000	Season	297.14	156.56	87.00	123.69	34.62	405.19
1999	July	21.96	13.62	8.86	7.56	2.89	33.33
	August	14.34	12.94	7.70	7.96	1.86	30.76
	September	16.55	12.22	8.98	20.49	3.90	45.82
	October	14.90	13.57	8.45	12.40	3.25	37.99
	November	20.68	15.13	7.30	11.34	3.04	36.93
	December	25.99	13.66	9.90	7.33	2.88	34.08
2000	January	25.53	12.33	4.40	6.82	4.31	27.91
	February	40.63	13.21	4.18	11.91	1.73	31.15
	March	31.49	11.88	4.45	12.53	2.46	31.94
	April	34.65	11.90	4.50	11.90	2.40	30.93
	May	17.71	13.10	3.80	8.75	1.80	27.57
	June	32.69	13.00	14.48	4.70	4.10	36.78
2000/01	Season	279.82	15.90	75.20	144.10	31.34	408.54
2000	July	15.90	13.27	5.30	5.80	2.64	27.13
	August	13.25	13.47	6.50	5.10	4.00	29.17
	September	27.09	13.20	7.40	8.40	1.60	30.94
	October	17.00	13.20	5.10	8.80	1.60	29.00
	November	30.01	12.80	3.90	20.20	1.60	38.90
	December	25.98	13.10	4.30	16.40	2.20	36.60
2001	January	17.98	12.20	2.50	17.50	5.00	37.60
	February	25.93	12.80	3.70	13.30	1.80	31.80
	March	38.28	13.10	3.80	10.70	3.50	31.40
	April	17.73	9.90	7.90	9.70	1.40	29.40
	May	32.97	11.10	10.60	17.90	4.00	44.20
	June	17.71	15.40	14.20	10.30	2.00	42.40
2001/02	Season	101.83	70.90	41.30	64.20	13.80	192.40
2001	July	6.85	12.00	7.60	8.10	1.50	29.80
	August	6.09	14.70	6.30	7.70	2.90	31.80
	September	19.53	11.90	6.40	4.10	2.90	25.70
	October	27.45	15.10	9.30	8.30	3.10	36.10
	November	22.26	16.20	6.70	19.80	1.40	44.40
	December	19.65	1.00	5.00	16.20	2.00	24.60
1998	Calendar Year	310.68	123.17	101.44	120.53	31.06	395.73
1999	Calendar Year	304.25	170.79	106.05	122.18	30.82	433.71
2000	Calendar Year	311.94	154.46	68.31	121.31	30.44	378.02
2001	Calendar Year	252.43	145.40	84.00	143.60	31.50	409.20

Table 17 - Monthly exports of jute products by type from India
		MANUFACTURES
		Yarn	Hessian	Sacking	Carpet backing	TOTAL 1 /
		( . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . thousand tonnes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .)
1995/96	Season	64.6	130.2	3.4	26.6	229.4
1996/97	Season	68.7	82.7	9.5	11.8	180.7
1997/98	Season	109.3	91.6	20.3	17.0	245.4
1998/99	Season	79.2	54.6	9.4	15.6	173.1
1999/00	Season	83.8	56.5	5.4	5.1	166.7
1999	July	4.4	5.3	0.9	0.8	13.2
	August	6.2	6.7	0.5	0.3	15.5
	September	7.4	7.1	0.2	0.6	17.0
	October	7.6	6.7	0.7	0.3	16.6
	November	8.0	4.6	0.3	0.2	14.4
	December	8.3	4.7	0.3	0.6	15.2
2000	January	7.3	3.2	0.4	0.4	13.1
	February	7.1	3.9	0.2	0.4	13.0
	March	8.0	2.9	0.3	0.4	13.1
	April	7.0	2.7	0.6	0.4	10.7
	May	6.8	3.0	0.5	0.3	11.6
	June	6.7	6.1	0.6	0.4	14.6
2000/01	Season	69.7	56.8	13.1	5.1	157.4
2000	July	7.4	7.6	1.8	0.4	18.3
	August	7.5	7.4	1.8	0.9	19.2
	September	7.8	8.2	3.5	0.4	21.5
	October	5.6	5.2	1.5	0.5	13.7
	November	6.5	5.6	1.5	0.5	15.2
	December	6.6	5.6	1.4	0.5	15.1
2001	January	6.4	4.6	0.6	0.5	13.4
	February	6.6	5.1	0.3	0.5	13.9
	March	8.6	3.9	0.4	0.5	15.1
	April	6.7	3.6	0.3	0.4	12.0
	May	5.8	3.1	0.1	0.4	10.3
	June	5.0	2.4	0.2	0.3	8.8
2001/02	Season	24.5	13.4	4.8	1.3	49.4
2001	July	5.1	2.9	0.8	0.4	10.3
	August	6.2	3.6	0.8	0.2	12.4
	September	6.5	4.0	0.9	0.4	13.4
	October	6.7	2.9	2.3	0.3	13.3
1998	Calendar Year	107.3	85.6	17.3	20.4	242.5
1999	Calendar Year	76.6	55.1	5.1	8.7	161.0
2000	Calendar Year	83.3	61.0	14.0	5.5	177.8

Table 18 - Monthly exports of raw kenaf and products by type from Thailand
		RAW FIBRE		MANUFACTURES
				Yarn & Twine	Fabrics	Gunny Bags	TOTAL
		( . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . thousand tonnes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . )
1995/96	Season	3.12		20.64	1.00	3.06	24.70
1996/97	Season	3.82		8.57	0.64	2.52	11.73
1997/98	Season	2.66		6.21	0.41	3.19	9.81
1998/99	Season	2.53		5.06	0.57	3.30	8.90
1998	July	0.09		0.69	0.02	0.80	1.50
	August	0.22		0.48	0.01	0.55	1.05
	September	0.39		0.27	0.00	0.11	0.39
	October	0.17		0.51	0.03	0.15	0.69
	November	0.31		0.39	0.21	0.03	0.62
	December	0.28		0.53	0.08	0.14	0.75
1999	January	0.21		0.33	0.08	0.14	0.54
	February	0.21		0.29	0.05	0.08	0.42
	March	0.27		0.26	0.00	0.25	0.51
	April	0.15		0.25	0.05	0.29	0.59
	May	0.12		0.45	0.04	0.38	0.87
	June	0.10		0.60	0.00	0.38	0.98
1999/2000	Season	2.50		5.67	0.32	2.23	8.22
1999	July	. . .		0.79	0.06	0.55	1.40
	August	. . .		0.51	0.03	0.17	0.70
	September	. . .		0.43	0.00	0.03	0.46
	October	. . .		0.28	0.00	0.26	0.54
	November	. . .		0.37	0.05	0.16	0.57
	December	. . .		0.44	0.04	0.04	0.52
2000	January	. . .		0.22	0.01	0.04	0.27
	February	. . .		0.43	0.00	0.09	0.52
	March	. . .		0.61	0.10	0.06	0.77
	April	. . .		0.33	0.00	0.31	0.64
	May	. . .		0.64	0.03	0.27	0.94
	June	. . .		0.62	0.00	0.27	0.89
2000/01	Season	2.50		3.25	0.17	2.40	5.82
2000	July	. . .		0.50	0.00	0.32	0.82
	August	. . .		0.32	0.00	0.14	0.45
	September	. . .		0.20	0.04	0.07	0.30
	October	. . .		0.42	0.05	0.00	0.47
	November	. . .		0.29	0.02	0.25	0.55
	December	. . .		0.31	0.02	0.23	0.56
2001	January	. . .		0.25	0.00	0.55	0.80
	February	. . .		0.29	0.04	0.30	0.63
	March	. . .		0.36	0.00	0.36	0.72
	April	. . .		0.33	0.01	0.19	0.53
1998	Calendar Year	3.00		5.84	0.51	4.07	10.42
1999	Calendar Year	2.23		5.00	0.40	2.72	8.10
2000	Calendar Year	. . .		4.88	0.26	2.02	7.17