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meaningless, its not even adjusted for country gdp or size.
You need to think about margins also, for example whenever an american buys a new laptop ~70% of the profit/margin goes to intel and microsfot (for windows) yet it shows up in trade balance as a negative movement because its assembled in some emerging country (for an almost zero margin).
At the top of the list above you will get countried that do have balanced economies (Netherlands), cheap labor exporting countries (China), and countries with sellable natural resources (i.e. oil) whose population is not able to use the money to import what they want/need (Nigeria).
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