Portugal Imports from United States of Tools of Two or More, Put up in Sets for Retail Sale was US$6.29 Thousand during 2024, according to the United Nations COMTRADE database on international trade. Portugal Imports from United States of Tools of Two or More, Put up in Sets for Retail Sale - data, historical chart and statistics - was last updated on July of 2025.

Portugal PT: Trade Balance: Advanced Economies: United States data was reported at 2.087 USD bn in 2017. This records an increase from the previous number of 1.758 USD bn for 2016. Portugal PT: Trade Balance: Advanced Economies: United States data is updated yearly, averaging -13.250 USD mn from Dec 1948 (Median) to 2017, with 70 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 2.087 USD bn in 2017 and a record low of -965.800 USD mn in 1981. Portugal PT: Trade Balance: Advanced Economies: United States data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by International Monetary Fund. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Portugal – Table PT.IMF.DOT: Trade Balance: by Country: Annual.

United States Imports from Portugal of Containers for one or more modes of transport was US$10.99 Thousand during 2024, according to the United Nations COMTRADE database on international trade. United States Imports from Portugal of Containers for one or more modes of transport - data, historical chart and statistics - was last updated on August of 2025.

United States US: Trade Balance: Advanced Economies: Portugal data was reported at -561.117 USD mn in Mar 2018. This records an increase from the previous number of -581.495 USD mn for Dec 2017. United States US: Trade Balance: Advanced Economies: Portugal data is updated quarterly, averaging -3.000 USD mn from Mar 1960 (Median) to Mar 2018, with 233 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 310.500 USD mn in Mar 1983 and a record low of -692.662 USD mn in Sep 2015. United States US: Trade Balance: Advanced Economies: Portugal data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by International Monetary Fund. The data is categorized under Global Database’s USA – Table US.IMF.DOT: Trade Balance: by Country: Quarterly.

Portugal Imports from United States of Containers for one or more modes of transport was US$333.59 Thousand during 2024, according to the United Nations COMTRADE database on international trade. Portugal Imports from United States of Containers for one or more modes of transport - data, historical chart and statistics - was last updated on July of 2025.

United States Import: Customs: Portugal: Manufactured Goods data was reported at 102.745 USD mn in May 2018. This records an increase from the previous number of 85.727 USD mn for Apr 2018. United States Import: Customs: Portugal: Manufactured Goods data is updated monthly, averaging 54.311 USD mn from Jan 1996 (Median) to May 2018, with 269 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 104.016 USD mn in Aug 2017 and a record low of 21.154 USD mn in Feb 1996. United States Import: Customs: Portugal: Manufactured Goods data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by US Census Bureau. The data is categorized under Global Database’s USA – Table US.JA063: Trade Statistics: Portugal and Russia: SITC.

Import: Customs: Portugal data was reported at 429.442 USD mn in May 2018. This records an increase from the previous number of 348.954 USD mn for Apr 2018. Import: Customs: Portugal data is updated monthly, averaging 132.254 USD mn from Jan 1985 (Median) to May 2018, with 401 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 429.442 USD mn in May 2018 and a record low of 35.600 USD mn in Feb 1985. Import: Customs: Portugal data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by US Census Bureau. The data is categorized under Global Database’s USA – Table US.JA063: Trade Statistics: Portugal and Russia: SITC.

United States Import: Customs: Portugal: Others not Classified Elsewhere data was reported at 8.224 USD mn in May 2018. This records an increase from the previous number of 7.673 USD mn for Apr 2018. United States Import: Customs: Portugal: Others not Classified Elsewhere data is updated monthly, averaging 4.999 USD mn from Jan 1996 (Median) to May 2018, with 269 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 32.706 USD mn in Jan 2018 and a record low of 1.012 USD mn in Jan 1998. United States Import: Customs: Portugal: Others not Classified Elsewhere data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by US Census Bureau. The data is categorized under Global Database’s USA – Table US.JA063: Trade Statistics: Portugal and Russia: SITC.

United States Exports of tools of two or more, put up in sets for retail sale to Portugal was US$3.08 Thousand during 2022, according to the United Nations COMTRADE database on international trade. United States Exports of tools of two or more, put up in sets for retail sale to Portugal - data, historical chart and statistics - was last updated on July of 2025.

United States Export: FAS: Portugal: Misc Manufactured Articles data was reported at 9.584 USD mn in May 2018. This records an increase from the previous number of 6.904 USD mn for Apr 2018. United States Export: FAS: Portugal: Misc Manufactured Articles data is updated monthly, averaging 6.772 USD mn from Jan 1996 (Median) to May 2018, with 269 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 18.932 USD mn in Nov 1996 and a record low of 3.546 USD mn in Feb 2016. United States Export: FAS: Portugal: Misc Manufactured Articles data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by US Census Bureau. The data is categorized under Global Database’s USA – Table US.JA063: Trade Statistics: Portugal and Russia: SITC.

Portugal Imports from United States of Mineral wools, expanded mineral material and mixture was US$222.46 Thousand during 2024, according to the United Nations COMTRADE database on international trade.

United States Import: Customs: Portugal: Telecomm , Sound Record & Reproduce Eqp data was reported at 6.078 USD mn in May 2018. This records an increase from the previous number of 5.049 USD mn for Apr 2018. United States Import: Customs: Portugal: Telecomm , Sound Record & Reproduce Eqp data is updated monthly, averaging 3.543 USD mn from Jan 1996 (Median) to May 2018, with 269 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 10.291 USD mn in Oct 2011 and a record low of 0.573 USD mn in Jan 1996. United States Import: Customs: Portugal: Telecomm , Sound Record & Reproduce Eqp data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by US Census Bureau. The data is categorized under Global Database’s USA – Table US.JA063: Trade Statistics: Portugal and Russia: SITC.

Portugal Exports of tools of two or more, put up in sets for retail sale to United States was US$38.77 Thousand during 2024, according to the United Nations COMTRADE database on international trade. Portugal Exports of tools of two or more, put up in sets for retail sale to United States - data, historical chart and statistics - was last updated on July of 2025.

United States Export: FAS: Portugal: Machinery & Transport Equipment data was reported at 31.369 USD mn in Sep 2018. This records an increase from the previous number of 25.296 USD mn for Aug 2018. United States Export: FAS: Portugal: Machinery & Transport Equipment data is updated monthly, averaging 36.481 USD mn from Jan 1996 (Median) to Sep 2018, with 273 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 230.498 USD mn in Sep 1999 and a record low of 16.379 USD mn in Oct 2016. United States Export: FAS: Portugal: Machinery & Transport Equipment data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by US Census Bureau. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.JA063: Trade Statistics: Portugal and Russia: SITC.

Statistics illustrates the import volume of Fabrics, woven; containing 85% or more by weight of cotton, printed, 3-thread or 4-thread twill, including cross twill, weighing more than 200g/m2 in Portugal from Jan 2019 to Jul 2025 by trade partner.

Beginning in the 16th century, European traders began to buy or capture people in the African continent to enslave and sell for profit. This trade began with Portugal and Spain, but it later expanded to include France, England, the Netherlands and other European countries. By the time the trading of enslaved people was finally put to an end in the 19th century, Europeans had abducted an estimated 12.5 million African people from their homelands, forced them onto ships, trafficked them to the Americas, and sold them on the auction block. Almost two million people died during transport; most of the rest were forced into labor camps, also called plantations. This extensive and gruesome human trafficking is commonly referred to as the transatlantic slave trade. The Portuguese began human trafficking in Africa by trading manufactured goods or money for Africans who had been captured during local wars. Later, some Europeans captured Africans themselves or paid other local Africans to do it for them. Europeans traded for or kidnapped Africans from many points on Africa’s coast, including Angola, Senegambia and Mozambique. Most of the people who were enslaved by the Europeans came from West and Central Africa.The most brutal segment of the route was the Middle Passage, which transported chained African people across the Atlantic Ocean as they were packed tightly below the decks of purpose-built ships in unsanitary conditions. This trip could last weeks or even months depending on conditions, and the trafficked people were subjected to abuse, dangerously high heat, inadequate food and water, and low-oxygen environments. Olaudah Equiano, a young boy who was forced into the Middle Passage after being captured in his home country of Nigeria, later described the foul conditions as “intolerably loathsome” and detailed how people died from sickness and lack of air. Approximately 1.8 million African people are thought to have died during the passage, accounting for about 15–25 percent of those who were taken from Africa.For many enslaved Africans trafficked across the Atlantic, the port at which their ship landed was not their final destination. Enslaved people were often transported by ship between two points in the Americas, particularly from Portuguese, Dutch and British colonies to Spanish ones. This was the intra-American slave trade. No matter where they landed, enslaved Africans faced brutal living conditions and high mortality rates. Moreover, any children born to enslaved persons were also born into slavery, usually with no hope of ever gaining freedom.This data set is the culmination of decades of archival research compiled by the SlaveVoyages Consortium. This data represents the trafficking of enslaved Africans from 1514 to 1866. All mapmakers must make choices when presenting data. This map layer represents individuals who experts can definitively place at a given location on one of at least 36,000 transatlantic and at least 10,000 intra-American human trafficking routes. However, this means the enslaved people for whom records cannot place their departure or arrival with certainty do not appear on this map (approximately 170,985 people). This map, therefore, is part of the story and not a complete accounting. You can learn more about the methodology of this data collection here.

From the sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries, Portuguese and Brazilian traders were responsible for transporting the highest volume of slaves during the transatlantic slave trade. It is estimated that, of the 12.5 million African slaves captured during this time, more than 5.8 million were transported in ships that sailed under the Portuguese and, later, Brazilian flags. British traders transported the second-highest volume of slaves across the Atlantic, totaling at almost 3.3 million; over 2.5 million of these were transported in the 18th century, which was the highest volume of slaves transported by one nation in one century.

Portugal Imports from United States of Artificial Monofilament of 67 Decitex or More was US$40 during 2023, according to the United Nations COMTRADE database on international trade. Portugal Imports from United States of Artificial Monofilament of 67 Decitex or More - data, historical chart and statistics - was last updated on July of 2025.

United States Export: FAS: Portugal: Food and Live Animals data was reported at 5.858 USD mn in Sep 2018. This records an increase from the previous number of 5.446 USD mn for Aug 2018. United States Export: FAS: Portugal: Food and Live Animals data is updated monthly, averaging 7.308 USD mn from Jan 1996 (Median) to Sep 2018, with 273 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 45.835 USD mn in Jul 2011 and a record low of 1.265 USD mn in Jan 2009. United States Export: FAS: Portugal: Food and Live Animals data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by US Census Bureau. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.JA063: Trade Statistics: Portugal and Russia: SITC.

Portuguese and Brazilian traders were responsible for transporting the highest volume of slaves during the transatlantic slave trade. Portugal held a near-monopoly on the transatlantic slave trade in the 16th century, due to their network of factories along the African coast, and also imported hundreds of thousands of slaves into Brazil and the Caribbean in the 19th century.

Emergence of other powers The rise of the British, French and Dutch empires in the 17th century was also fueled by profits made from slave labor, and, to a lesser extent, the slave trade. Throughout the 1700s especially, British ships transported more slaves across the Atlantic, as the empire expanded across the Caribbean and North America. Similarly to Britain, ships flying under the flag of the Thirteen Colonies or the U.S. saw relatively large growth from the mid-1700s onwards (apart from a brief disruption caused by the American Revolutionary War), with the number of slave imports peaking in the early years of the 1800s. However, both Britain and the U.S. abolished the slave trade in 1807 and 1808 respectively, which ended their official participation in the widespread importation of slaves. French imports of slaves peaked in the late 1780s, however the numbers then plummeted from 1790 onwards, due to the instability and turmoil caused by the French Revolution and Haitian Revolution.

The largest empire was one of the smallest slave importers While a significant number of slaves eventually ended up in the Spanish Americas, Spanish merchants did not explicitly transport slaves in the same quantities as other powers' merchants. The was rooted in the Spanish legacy of importing slaves through foreign powers (namely Portugal, largely due to the Treaty of Tordesillas), and the forced labor of indigenous societies. However this changed drastically in the 19th century, as independence movements swept across Spain's mainland colonies in the Americas, and Spain then invested heavily into its Caribbean colonies (particularly Cuba).