China | Imports and Exports | World | ALL COMMODITIES | Value (US$) and Value Growth, YoY (%) | 2009 - 2020

Exports structure from China in 2020 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 26% (698 billion US$): 85 - Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles
• 17.4% (450 billion US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 4.22% (109 billion US$): 94 - Furniture; bedding, mattresses, mattress supports, cushions and similar stuffed furnishings; lamps and lighting fittings, not elsewhere specified or included; illuminated sign illuminated nameplates and the like; prefabricated buildings
• 3.74% (96 billion US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
• 3.13% (81 billion US$): 90 - Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof
• 2.94% (76 billion US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• 2.91% (75 billion US$): 63 - Other made up textile articles; sets; worn clothing and worn textile articles; rags
• 2.76% (71 billion US$): 95 - Toys, games and sports requisites; parts and accessories thereof
• 2.74% (71 billion US$): 73 - Articles of iron or steel
• 2.4% (62 billion US$): 62 - Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, not knitted or crocheted

What did China export in 2020?

China's Top Exports in 2020:

• 7.23% ($187 billion): 8471 - Automatic data processing machines and units thereof; magnetic or optical readers, machines for transcribing data onto data media in coded form and machines for processing such data, not elsewhere specified or included.
• 7.22% ($187 billion): 8525 - Transmission apparatus for radio-telephony, radio-telegraphy, radio-broadcasting or television, whether or not incorporating reception apparatus or sound recording or reproducing apparatus; television cameras; still image video cameras and other video camera recorders; digital cameras.
• 4.56% ($118 billion): 8542 - Electronic integrated circuits and microassemblies.
• 2.13% ($55 billion): 6307 - Other made up articles, including dress patterns.
• 1.8% ($46 billion): 8517 - Electrical apparatus for line telephony or line telegraphy, including line telephone sets with cordless handsets and telecommunication apparatus for carrier-current line systems or for digital line systems; videophones.
• 1.45% ($37 billion): 9405 - Lamps and lighting fittings including searchlights and spotlights and parts thereof, not elsewhere specified or included; illuminated signs, illuminated name-plates and the like, having a permanently fixed light source, and parts thereof not elsewhere specified or included.
• 1.37% ($35 billion): 8541 - Diodes, transistors and similar semiconductor devices; photosensitive semiconductor devices, including photovoltaic cells whether or not assembled in modules or made up into panels; light emitting diodes; mounted piezo-electric crystals.
• 1.29% ($33 billion): 9503 - Other toys; reduced-size (scale) models and similar recreational models, working or not; puzzles of all kinds.
• 1.27% ($32 billion): 8708 - Parts and accessories of the motor vehicles of headings 87.01 to 87.05.
• 1.23% ($32 billion): 8473 - Parts and accessories (other than covers, carrying cases and the like) suitable for use solely or principally with machines of headings 84.69 to 84.72.

Imports structure to China in 2020 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 26% (548 billion US$): 85 - Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles
• 13% (267 billion US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 8.75% (180 billion US$): 26 - Ores, slag and ash
• 8.68% (178 billion US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 5.48% (112 billion US$): 90 - Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof
• 3.59% (73 billion US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• 3.46% (71 billion US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
• 2.36% (48 billion US$): 74 - Copper and articles thereof
• 2.21% (45 billion US$): 29 - Organic chemicals
• 2.18% (44 billion US$): 12 - Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruits; industrial or medicinal plants; straw and fodder

What did China import in 2020?

China's Top Imports in 2020:

• 17% ($351 billion): 8542 - Electronic integrated circuits and microassemblies.
• 8.57% ($176 billion): 2709 - Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, crude.
• 5.78% ($118 billion): 2601 - Iron ores and concentrates, including roasted iron pyrites.
• 2.18% ($44 billion): 8703 - Motor cars and other motor vehicles principally designed for the transport of persons (other than those of heading 87.02), including station wagons and racing cars.
• 2.04% ($42 billion): 2711 - Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons.
• 1.92% ($39 billion): 1201 - Soya beans, whether or not broken.
• 1.74% ($35 billion): 8517 - Electrical apparatus for line telephony or line telegraphy, including line telephone sets with cordless handsets and telecommunication apparatus for carrier-current line systems or for digital line systems; videophones.
• 1.74% ($35 billion): 8471 - Automatic data processing machines and units thereof; magnetic or optical readers, machines for transcribing data onto data media in coded form and machines for processing such data, not elsewhere specified or included.
• 1.66% ($34 billion): 2603 - Copper ores and concentrates.
• 1.48% ($30 billion): 7403 - Refined copper and copper alloys, unwrought.