Where your netbooks are coming from
For our North American readers (USA and Canada), here are some interesting statistics on where your netbooks originate from, as of Feb 13, 2010.
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In all of 2009, the US imported laptops (notebooks and netbooks) worth $26.9 billion from 80 different countries.
In all of 2009, Canadians imported $2.5 billion worth from 78 countries.
That’s a 2.5% decline from the purchase made by the US from Jan-Nov of 2008. (Should we point the finger at the recession of ‘09?). (Numbers of comparison to 2008 for Canada were unavailable.
The US imported the majority of it’s laptops from China. A whopping $22.9billion worth- 85.1% of all imports! (this is up 19% from 2008).
Other top countries the US imports from: Malaysia, Japan, Ireland, Mexico, Taiwan, Singapore, Canada, Philippines and South Korea. Of all these, imports have increased Y/Y (2008 to 2009) only Taiwan where they increased by 6.1%. Taiwan only supplies 0.4% of the US’s laptop imports.
For Canada, China accounted for $2.2billion worth of imports – again, 85.9% of imports (down 1.3% from 2008).
Other top countries Canada imports from: Malaysia, United States, Japan, Mexico, Taiwan, S. Korea, Singapore, UK, Philippines. The UK was a relatively new source in 2009, with an increase of 96.5% of 2008’s UK based imports.
It’s interesting that both the US and Canada import computers from each other – with the US importing almost twice as much.
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Source: Suite101.com, c/o US and Canadian trade data.
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