U.S. Still Number One Arms Exporter
By Rachel Stohl, Senior Analyst,
Center for Defense Information (
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The Congressional Research Service (CRS) has released its annual report,
"Conventional Arms Transfers to Developing Nations, 1992-1999," revealing
that the United States again leads the world in arms exports. According
to the report, worldwide arms transfer agreements, those that take into
consideration both developed and developing countries, totaled
approximately $30.3 billion in 1999.
The CRS report (also known as the Grimmett Report after its author,
Richard Grimmett) defines developing nations as all countries except the
United States, Russia, the European nations, Canada, Japan, Australia, and
New Zealand. The report examines the export of fourteen categories of
conventional weapons: tanks and self-propelled guns, artillery, armored
personnel carriers and armored cars, major surface combatants, minor
surface combatants, submarines, guided missile patrol boats, supersonic
combat aircraft, subsonic combat aircraft, other aircraft, helicopters,
surface-to-air missiles, surface-to-surface missiles, and anti-ship
missiles.
The United States ranked first in all major categories. The U.S. led the
way with $11.8 billion worth of arms transfer agreements worldwide (38.9%),
up from the world leading $10.3 billion in 1998. For 1999 Russia was
second with $4.8 billion and Germany was third at $4 billion. The United
States also had the highest value of international arm deliveries in 1999
with $18.4 billion worth of weapons, more than 54% of the world total.
The United Kingdom was second with $4.5 billion worth of deliveries and
Russia was third with $2.7 billion.
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