China | Imports and Exports | World | Salt; sulphur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement | Value (US$) and Value Growth, YoY (%) | 2012 - 2023
The value of exports of commodity group 25 "Salt; sulfur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement" from China totalled $ 3.56 billion in 2023. Sales of commodity group 25 from China decreased by 16.9% in value terms compared to 2022. exports of commodity group 25 "Salt; sulfur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement" decreased by $ 728 million (cumulative exports of commodity group 25 from China amounted $4.29 billion in 2022)
Exports of commodity group 25 "Salt; sulfur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement" amounted to 0.105% of total exports from China (cumulative merchandise exports from China totalled $ 3.37 trillion in 2023). The share of commodity group 25 in total exports from China decreased by 0.013 p.p. compared to 2022 (it was 0.119% in 2022 and cumulative exports from China were equal to $ 3.59 trillion).
Where does China export Salt; sulfur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement?
Top export destinations of "Salt; sulfur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement" from China in 2023:
- Japan with a share of 12.4% (445 million US$)
- Korea with a share of 10.8% (386 million US$)
- USA with a share of 7.53% (268 million US$)
- Hong Kong with a share of 6.82% (243 million US$)
- India with a share of 6.67% (237 million US$)
- Indonesia with a share of 6.2% (221 million US$)
- Other Asia, nes with a share of 5.53% (197 million US$)
- Malaysia with a share of 4.67% (166 million US$)
- Thailand with a share of 4.37% (155 million US$)
- Netherlands with a share of 3.85% (137 million US$)
Exports structure of 25 - Salt; sulfur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement - from China in 2023 represented by the following main commodity groups:
- 23% (832 million US$): 2519 - Natural magnesium carbonate (magnesite); fused magnesia; dead-burned (sintered) magnesia, whether or not containing small quantities of other oxides added before sintering; other magnesium oxide, whether or not pure
- 11.3% (404 million US$): 2508 - Other clays (not including expanded clays of heading 68.06), andalusite, kyanite and sillimanite, whether or not calcined; mullite; chamotte or dinas earths
- 8.07% (287 million US$): 2523 - Portland cement, aluminous cement, slag cement, supersulphate cement and similar hydraulic cements, whether or not coloured or in the form of clinkers
- 8.01% (285 million US$): 2504 - Natural graphite.
- 7.41% (264 million US$): 2517 - Pebbles, gravel, broken or crushed stone, of a kind commonly used for concrete aggregates, for road metalling or for railway or other ballast, shingle and flint, whether or not heat-treated; macadam of slag, dross or similar industrial waste, whether or not incorporating the materials cited in the first part of the heading; tarred macadam; granules, chippings and powder, of stones of heading 25.15 or 25.16, whether or not heat-treated
- 5.55% (198 million US$): 2506 - Quartz (other than natural sands); quartzite, whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape
- 5.4% (192 million US$): 2529 - Feldspar; leucite, nepheline and nepheline syenite; fluorspar
- 5.12% (182 million US$): 2507 - Kaolin and other kaolinic clays, whether or not calcined
- 4.76% (169 million US$): 2530 - Mineral substances not elsewhere specified or included.
- 3.97% (141 million US$): 2526 - Natural steatite, whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape; talc
The value of imports of commodity group 25 "Salt; sulfur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement" to China totalled $ 21 billion in 2023. Sales of commodity group 25 to China went up by 30% compared to 2022: imports of commodity group 25 "Salt; sulfur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement" went up by $ 5.02 billion (the value of imports of commodity group 25 to China was equal to $16.6 billion in 2022)
Imports of commodity group 25 "Salt; sulfur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement" accounted for 0.847% of total import flow to China (in 2023, total imports to China amounted to $ 2.55 trillion). The share of commodity group 25 in total imports to China increased by 0.234 p.p. compared to 2022 (it was 0.612% in 2022 and cumulative imports to China were equal to $ 2.71 trillion).
Where does China import Salt; sulfur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement from?
Top trading partners (import of "Salt; sulfur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement") of China in 2023:
- Australia with a share of 62% (13.5 billion US$)
- India with a share of 4.98% (1.07 billion US$)
- USA with a share of 4.09% (886 million US$)
- Brazil with a share of 3.56% (771 million US$)
- Turkey with a share of 2.85% (617 million US$)
- Zimbabwe with a share of 2.44% (530 million US$)
- Canada with a share of 1.63% (353 million US$)
- Nigeria with a share of 1.41% (305 million US$)
- Norway with a share of 1.02% (222 million US$)
- Italy - 208 million US$
Imports structure of 25 - Salt; sulfur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement - to China in 2023 represented by the following main commodity groups:
- 71% (15.5 billion US$): 2530 - Mineral substances not elsewhere specified or included.
- 5.18% (1.12 billion US$): 2503 - Sulphur of all kinds, other than sublimed sulphur, precipitated sulphur and colloidal sulphur.
- 5.15% (1.11 billion US$): 2515 - Marble, travertine, ecaussine and other calcareous monumental or building stone of an apparent specific gravity of 2.5 or more, and alabaster, whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape
- 4.39% (951 million US$): 2506 - Quartz (other than natural sands); quartzite, whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape
- 4.14% (898 million US$): 2516 - Granite, porphyry, basalt, sandstone and other monumental or building stone, whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape
- 2.09% (453 million US$): 2501 - Salt (including table salt and denatured salt) and pure sodium chloride, whether or not in aqueous solution or containing added anti-caking or free-flowing agents; sea water
- 1.63% (354 million US$): 2505 - Natural sands of all kinds, whether or not coloured, other than metalbearing sands of Chapter 26.
- 0.78% (169 million US$): 2529 - Feldspar; leucite, nepheline and nepheline syenite; fluorspar
- 0.682% (147 million US$): 2510 - Natural calcium phosphates, natural aluminium calcium phosphates and phosphatic chalk.
- 0.652% (141 million US$): 2507 - Kaolin and other kaolinic clays, whether or not calcined
