Commodity Export and Import Database by Country

The United Nations (UN) maintains a database of annual commodity exports and imports for most, if not all, countries.  The database includes the trade value and the net weight of the commodity.  Click here to go to this UN database where you can search on a country and a commodity.

By clicking here, you will be taken to a list identifying the commodities covered by the database.  The list includes commodity categories of interest to the chemical enterprise such as inorganic chemicals, organic chemicals, plastics, and fertilizers. 

Using this database, I was able to fairly quickly compare 2015 zinc exports for ten countries.  The data I found is shown in this table:

2015 Zinc exports, not alloyed, unwrought, greater than 99% pure
country	weight exported in metric tons	trade value of exports, USD	trade value per ton
Australia	398,392	$        790,860,075	$       1,985.13
Canada	326,153	$        701,990,454	$       2,152.33
India	291,724	$        628,283,369	$       2,153.69
China	94,936	$        210,412,497	$       2,216.36
Brazil	45,392	$          90,554,533	$       1,994.95
Russia	28,023	$          59,187,414	$       2,112.11
United States	22,578	$          51,279,262	$       2,271.19
Indonesia	253	$                342,555	$       1,353.97
Chile	145	$                299,180	$       2,059.35
South Africa	30	$                   83,282	$       2,776.07
		average	$       2,107.52

From the data in the table, we can separate countries by the amount of zinc (not alloyed, unwrought, greater than 99% pure) they exported into three ranges: large (Australia, Canada, and India); moderate (Brazil, China, Russia, and the United States); and immaterial (Chile, Indonesia, and South America).   We also see from the table the trade values per metric ton that each country received for its zinc exports.