China | Imports and Exports | World | ALL COMMODITIES | Netweight (kg); Quantity and Value (US$) | 2007 - 2018

Exports structure from China in 2018 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 26% (654 billion US$): 85 - Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles
• 17.6% (439 billion US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 3.86% (96 billion US$): 94 - Furniture; bedding, mattresses, mattress supports, cushions and similar stuffed furnishings; lamps and lighting fittings, not elsewhere specified or included; illuminated sign illuminated nameplates and the like; prefabricated buildings
• 3.22% (80 billion US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
• 3.01% (75 billion US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• 2.94% (73 billion US$): 61 - Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, knitted or crocheted
• 2.88% (71 billion US$): 90 - Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof
• 2.86% (71 billion US$): 62 - Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, not knitted or crocheted
• 2.62% (65 billion US$): 73 - Articles of iron or steel
• 2.39% (59 billion US$): 29 - Organic chemicals

What did China export in 2018?

China's Top Exports in 2018:

• 7.89% ($197 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.
• 6.95% ($173 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.
• 3.44% ($85 billion): 8542 - Electronic integrated circuits and microassemblies.
• 2.16% ($54 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.
• 1.82% ($45 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.
• 1.43% ($35 billion): 2710 - Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, other than crude; preparations not elsewhere specified or included, containing by weight 70 % or more of petroleum oils or of oils obtained from bituminous minerals, these oils being the basic constituents of the preparations; waste oils.
• 1.39% ($34 billion): 8708 - Parts and accessories of the motor vehicles of headings 87.01 to 87.05.
• 1.22% ($30 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.
• 1.16% ($29 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.
• 1.12% ($28 billion): 9403 - Other furniture and parts thereof.

Imports structure to China in 2018 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 24% (521 billion US$): 85 - Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles
• 16.2% (347 billion US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 8.95% (191 billion US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 6.36% (135 billion US$): 26 - Ores, slag and ash
• 5.32% (113 billion US$): 90 - Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof
• 3.81% (81 billion US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• 3.51% (75 billion US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
• 3.15% (67 billion US$): 29 - Organic chemicals
• 2.9% (61 billion US$): 71 - Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metals, metals clad with precious metal and articles thereof; imitation jewelry; coin
• 2.23% (47 billion US$): 74 - Copper and articles thereof

What did China import in 2018?

China's Top Imports in 2018:

• 14.6% ($313 billion): 8542 - Electronic integrated circuits and microassemblies.
• 11.2% ($239 billion): 2709 - Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, crude.
• 3.51% ($75 billion): 2601 - Iron ores and concentrates, including roasted iron pyrites.
• 2.34% ($50 billion): 2711 - Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons.
• 2.32% ($49 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.
• 2.14% ($45 billion): 7108 - Gold (including gold plated with platinum) unwrought or in semi-manufactured forms, or in powder form.
• 1.99% ($42 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.
• 1.78% ($38 billion): 1201 - Soya beans, whether or not broken.
• 1.58% ($33 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.
• 1.58% ($33 billion): 9013 - Liquid crystal devices not constituting articles provided for more specifically in other headings; lasers, other than laser diodes; other optical appliances and instruments, not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter.