ay, the US and Japan are important trading partners. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, economic relations with the former communist countries in Eastern Europe have increased rapidly and trade with Poland has become particularly significant. While agricultural products used to dominate, industrial products now account for the greater part of Danish exports. Machines and instruments for the industry are the principal export goods, followed by chemical products and industrially processed agricultural products. Denmark needs to import a wide range of goods. Consumer goods constitute about 30% of imports, while raw materials and semi-manufactured products, including energy, machinery, other capital equipment, and means of transport, account for the rest.
             The Whitsun package had the desired effect and during 1999 and 2000, household consumption hardly increased. Growth was sustained by a considerable increase in exports and in 2000, also by important investments in private properties mainly due to repairs following the December 1999 hurricane. This development also resulted in improvements in the trade balance and the current account, which both showed a large surplus in 1999 and 2000. The
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