Exports
$567.7 billion (2012 est.)

Exports (commodities)
Machinery and transportation equipment, aircraft, plastics, chemicals, pharmaceutical products, iron and steel, beverages

Exports (partners)

Imports
$658.9 billion (2012 est.)

Imports (commodities)
Machinery and equipment, vehicles, crude oil, aircraft, plastics, chemicals

Imports (partners)

French Globalization
For about half a century now, France has been fighting hard to emerge as the leading European nation against the American hegemony. It has funded various programs for the promotion of French around the world, to compete with the spread of English as the foremost language of diplomacy, of science and technology, of business, and of navigation and telecommunication, among other things.