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Exports
Portugal has become a diversified and increasingly service-based economy since joining the European Community in 1986. Over the past decade, successive governments have privatized many state-controlled firms and liberalized key areas of the economy, including the financial and telecommunications sectors.
Agriculture in Portugal is based on small to medium-sized family-owned dispersed units. However, the sector also includes larger scale intensive farming export-oriented agrobusinesses backed by companies. The country produces a wide variety of crops and livestock products, including tomatoes, citrus, green vegetables, rice, corn, barley, olives, oil seeds, nuts, cherries, bilberry, table grapes, edible mushrooms, dairy products, poultry and beef.
Forestry has also played an important economic role among the rural communities and industry (namely paper industry that includes Portucel Soporcel Group, engineered wood that includes Sonae Indstria, and furniture that includes several manufacturing plants in and around Paos de Ferreira, the core of Portugal's major industrial operations of IKEA).
Traditionally a sea-power, Portugal has had a strong tradition in the Portuguese fishing sector and is one of the countries with the highest fish consumption per capita. Portuguese processed fish products are exported through several companies, under a number of different brands and registered trademarks, such as Ramirez (the world's oldest active canned fish producer), Bom Petisco, Nero, Combate, Comur, General, etc.
Portugal is a significant European minerals producer and is ranked among Europe's leading copper producers. The nation is also a notable producer of tin, tungsten and uranium. Main export partners of Portugal are Spain, Germany, France and Italy.
Industry is diversified, ranging from automotive (Volkswagen Autoeuropa and Peugeot Citroen), aerospace (Embraer and OGMA), electronics and textiles, to food, chemicals, cement and wood pulp.
Portugal major exports are clothing and footwear, machinery, chemicals, cork and paper products, hides. Portugal is the world's fifth-largest producer of tungsten, and the world's eighth-largest producer of wine (Port Wine, Vinho Verde and Madeira Wine) and the world's largest producer of cork.