Australia | Imports and Exports | World | Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof | Value (US$) and Value Growth, YoY (%) | 2012 - 2023
The value of exports of commodity group 90 "Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof" from Australia totalled $ 3.88 billion in 2023. Sales of commodity group 90 from Australia went up by 7.3% compared to 2022: exports of commodity group 90 "Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof" went up by $ 264 million (cumulative exports of commodity group 90 from Australia amounted $3.61 billion in 2022)
Exports of commodity group 90 "Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof" amounted to 1.05% of total exports from Australia (cumulative merchandise exports from Australia totalled $ 369 billion in 2023). The share of commodity group 90 in total exports from Australia increased by 0.169 p.p. compared to 2022 (it was 0.882% in 2022 and cumulative exports from Australia were equal to $ 410 billion).
Where does Australia export Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof?
Top export destinations of "Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof" from Australia in 2023:
- USA with a share of 33% (1.28 billion US$)
- New Zealand with a share of 12.6% (493 million US$)
- United Kingdom with a share of 8.35% (324 million US$)
- Netherlands with a share of 6.84% (265 million US$)
- China with a share of 5.67% (220 million US$)
- Japan with a share of 5.21% (202 million US$)
- Germany with a share of 3.77% (146 million US$)
- Singapore with a share of 2.68% (104 million US$)
- Malaysia with a share of 2.52% (98 million US$)
- Hong Kong with a share of 1.75% (67 million US$)
Exports structure of 90 - Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof - from Australia in 2023 represented by the following main commodity groups:
- 28% (1.12 billion US$): 9019 - Mechano-therapy appliances; massage apparatus; psychological aptitude-testing apparatus; ozone therapy, oxygen therapy, aerosol therapy, artificial respiration or other therapeutic respiration apparatus
- 15.9% (619 million US$): 9033 - Parts and accessories (not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter) for machines, appliances, instruments or apparatus of Chapter 90
- 13.8% (538 million US$): 9018 - Instruments and appliances used in medical, surgical, dental or veterinary sciences, including scintigraphic apparatus, other electro-medical apparatus and sight-testing instruments
- 10% (391 million US$): 9021 - Orthopaedic appliances, including crutches, surgical belts and trusses; splints and other fracture appliances; artificial parts of the body; hearing aids and other appliances which are worn or carried, or implanted in the body, to compensate for a defect or disability.
- 5.69% (221 million US$): 9027 - Instruments and apparatus; for physical or chemical analysis (e.g. polarimeters, spectrometers), for measuring or checking viscosity, porosity, etc, for measuring quantities of heat, sound or light
- 4.23% (164 million US$): 9015 - Surveying (including photogrammetrical surveying), hydrographic, oceanographic, hydrological, meteorological or geophysical instruments and appliances, excluding compasses; rangefinders
- 3.49% (135 million US$): 9031 - Measuring or checking instruments, appliances and machines, not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter; profile projectors
- 2% (77 million US$): 9030 - Oscilloscopes, spectrum analysers and other instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking electrical quantities, excluding meters of heading 90.28; instruments and apparatus for measuring or detecting alpha, beta, gamma, X-ray, cosmic or other ionising radiations.
- 1.84% (71 million US$): 9026 - Instruments, apparatus for measuring or checking the flow, level, pressure of liquids, gases (e.g. flow meters, heat meters etc), not instruments and apparatus of heading no. 9014, 9015, 9028 or 9032
- 1.81% (70 million US$): 9014 - Direction finding compasses; other navigational instruments and appliances
The value of imports of commodity group 90 "Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof" to Australia totalled $ 10.1 billion in 2023. Sales of commodity group 90 to Australia went up by 2.96% compared to 2022: imports of commodity group 90 "Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof" went up by $ 292 million (the value of imports of commodity group 90 to Australia was equal to $9.84 billion in 2022)
Imports of commodity group 90 "Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof" accounted for 3.52% of total import flow to Australia (in 2023, total imports to Australia amounted to $ 287 billion). The share of commodity group 90 in total imports to Australia increased by 0.338 p.p. compared to 2022 (it was 3.18% in 2022 and cumulative imports to Australia were equal to $ 309 billion).
Where does Australia import Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof from?
Top trading partners (import of "Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof") of Australia in 2023:
- USA with a share of 28% (2.88 billion US$)
- China with a share of 13.8% (1.4 billion US$)
- Germany with a share of 8.65% (877 million US$)
- Ireland with a share of 4% (406 million US$)
- United Kingdom with a share of 3.92% (397 million US$)
- Switzerland with a share of 3.75% (380 million US$)
- Mexico with a share of 3.62% (367 million US$)
- Japan with a share of 3.58% (363 million US$)
- Malaysia with a share of 3.51% (356 million US$)
- France with a share of 2.42% (245 million US$)
Imports structure of 90 - Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof - to Australia in 2023 represented by the following main commodity groups:
- 28% (2.89 billion US$): 9018 - Instruments and appliances used in medical, surgical, dental or veterinary sciences, including scintigraphic apparatus, other electro-medical apparatus and sight-testing instruments
- 16.3% (1.65 billion US$): 9021 - Orthopaedic appliances, including crutches, surgical belts and trusses; splints and other fracture appliances; artificial parts of the body; hearing aids and other appliances which are worn or carried, or implanted in the body, to compensate for a defect or disability.
- 6.77% (686 million US$): 9027 - Instruments and apparatus; for physical or chemical analysis (e.g. polarimeters, spectrometers), for measuring or checking viscosity, porosity, etc, for measuring quantities of heat, sound or light
- 5.31% (538 million US$): 9019 - Mechano-therapy appliances; massage apparatus; psychological aptitude-testing apparatus; ozone therapy, oxygen therapy, aerosol therapy, artificial respiration or other therapeutic respiration apparatus
- 5.12% (519 million US$): 9031 - Measuring or checking instruments, appliances and machines, not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter; profile projectors
- 4.09% (415 million US$): 9004 - Spectacles, goggles and the like, corrective, protective or other
- 4.07% (412 million US$): 9032 - Automatic regulating or controlling instruments and apparatus
- 4.01% (406 million US$): 9022 - X-ray, alpha, beta, gamma radiation apparatus; x-ray tubes, x-ray generators, high tension generators, control panels and desks, screens, examination or treatment tables, chairs and the like
- 3.63% (368 million US$): 9014 - Direction finding compasses; other navigational instruments and appliances
- 3.5% (355 million US$): 9026 - Instruments, apparatus for measuring or checking the flow, level, pressure of liquids, gases (e.g. flow meters, heat meters etc), not instruments and apparatus of heading no. 9014, 9015, 9028 or 9032
