Bulgaria | Imports and Exports | World | Glass and glassware | Value (US$) and Value Growth, YoY (%) | 2012 - 2023
The value of exports of commodity group 70 "Glass and glassware" from Bulgaria totalled $ 816 million in 2023. Sales of commodity group 70 from Bulgaria went up by 2.24% compared to 2022: exports of commodity group 70 "Glass and glassware" went up by $ 17.8 million (cumulative exports of commodity group 70 from Bulgaria amounted $798 million in 2022)
Exports of commodity group 70 "Glass and glassware" amounted to 1.7% of total exports from Bulgaria (cumulative merchandise exports from Bulgaria totalled $ 47 billion in 2023). The share of commodity group 70 in total exports from Bulgaria increased by 0.115 p.p. compared to 2022 (it was 1.58% in 2022 and cumulative exports from Bulgaria were equal to $ 50 billion).
Where does Bulgaria export Glass and glassware?
Top export destinations of "Glass and glassware" from Bulgaria in 2023:
- Romania with a share of 22% (180 million US$)
- Italy with a share of 14.9% (121 million US$)
- Turkey with a share of 12.7% (104 million US$)
- Greece with a share of 10.6% (86 million US$)
- Serbia with a share of 5.91% (48 million US$)
- Germany with a share of 4.92% (40 million US$)
- Ukraine with a share of 3.16% (25 million US$)
- United Kingdom with a share of 2.97% (24 million US$)
- Poland with a share of 2.46% (20 million US$)
- North Macedonia with a share of 1.89% (15.4 million US$)
Exports structure of 70 - Glass and glassware - from Bulgaria in 2023 represented by the following main commodity groups:
- 41% (339 million US$): 7010 - Carboys, bottles, flasks, jars, pots, phials, ampoules and other containers, of glass, of a kind used for the conveyance or packing of goods; preserving jars of glass; stoppers, lids and other closures, of glass
- 25% (206 million US$): 7013 - Glassware of a kind used for table, kitchen, toilet, office, indoor decoration or similar purposes (other than that of heading 70.10 or 70.18)
- 14% (114 million US$): 7005 - Float glass and surface ground or polished glass, in sheets, whether or not having an absorbent, reflecting or non-reflecting layer, but not otherwise worked
- 13.4% (110 million US$): 7007 - Safety glass, consisting of toughened (tempered) or laminated glass
- 2.31% (18.9 million US$): 7009 - Glass mirrors, whether or not framed, including rear-view mirrors
- 1.23% (10 million US$): 7019 - Glass fibres (including glass wool) and articles thereof (for example, yarn, woven fabrics)
- 0.718% (5.86 million US$): 7008 - Multiple-walled insulating units of glass.
- 0.502% (4.1 million US$): 7003 - Cast glass and rolled glass, in sheets or profiles, whether or not having an absorbent, reflecting or non-reflecting layer, but not otherwise worked.
- 0.213% (1.73 million US$): 7020 - Other articles of glass
- 0.077% (631 thousand US$): 7015 - Clock or watch glasses and similar glasses, glasses for non-corrective or corrective spectacles, curved, bent, hollowed or the like, not optically worked; hollow glass spheres and their segments, for the manufacture of such glasses
The value of imports of commodity group 70 "Glass and glassware" to Bulgaria totalled $ 239 million in 2023. Sales of commodity group 70 to Bulgaria went up by 1.46% compared to 2022: imports of commodity group 70 "Glass and glassware" went up by $ 3.46 million (the value of imports of commodity group 70 to Bulgaria was equal to $236 million in 2022)
Imports of commodity group 70 "Glass and glassware" accounted for 0.447% of total import flow to Bulgaria (in 2023, total imports to Bulgaria amounted to $ 53 billion). The share of commodity group 70 in total imports to Bulgaria increased by 0.041 p.p. compared to 2022 (it was 0.406% in 2022 and cumulative imports to Bulgaria were equal to $ 58 billion).
Where does Bulgaria import Glass and glassware from?
Top trading partners (import of "Glass and glassware") of Bulgaria in 2023:
- Turkey with a share of 20% (48 million US$)
- Romania with a share of 17.2% (41 million US$)
- Germany with a share of 8.65% (20 million US$)
- China with a share of 7.93% (19 million US$)
- Czech Republic with a share of 5.38% (12.8 million US$)
- Poland with a share of 5.27% (12.6 million US$)
- Greece with a share of 3.57% (8.56 million US$)
- France with a share of 2.92% (7 million US$)
- Italy with a share of 2.81% (6.75 million US$)
- Austria with a share of 2.79% (6.69 million US$)
Imports structure of 70 - Glass and glassware - to Bulgaria in 2023 represented by the following main commodity groups:
- 20% (49 million US$): 7005 - Float glass and surface ground or polished glass, in sheets, whether or not having an absorbent, reflecting or non-reflecting layer, but not otherwise worked
- 19.7% (47 million US$): 7010 - Carboys, bottles, flasks, jars, pots, phials, ampoules and other containers, of glass, of a kind used for the conveyance or packing of goods; preserving jars of glass; stoppers, lids and other closures, of glass
- 16.6% (39 million US$): 7019 - Glass fibres (including glass wool) and articles thereof (for example, yarn, woven fabrics)
- 11.5% (27 million US$): 7007 - Safety glass, consisting of toughened (tempered) or laminated glass
- 9.9% (23 million US$): 7013 - Glassware of a kind used for table, kitchen, toilet, office, indoor decoration or similar purposes (other than that of heading 70.10 or 70.18)
- 4.19% (10 million US$): 7009 - Glass mirrors, whether or not framed, including rear-view mirrors
- 2.98% (7.14 million US$): 7001 - Cullet and other waste and scrap of glass; glass in the mass
- 2.18% (5.23 million US$): 7020 - Other articles of glass
- 2.11% (5.06 million US$): 7003 - Cast glass and rolled glass, in sheets or profiles, whether or not having an absorbent, reflecting or non-reflecting layer, but not otherwise worked.
- 1.57% (3.76 million US$): 7006 - Glass of heading 70.03, 70.04 or 70.05, bent, edge-worked, engraved, drilled, enamelled or otherwise worked, but not framed or fitted with other materials
