China | Imports and Exports | World | ALL COMMODITIES | Value (US$) and Value Growth, YoY (%) | 2012 - 2023

Exports structure from China in 2023 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 26% (896 billion US$): 85 - Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles
• 15.1% (510 billion US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 5.69% (192 billion US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• 3.88% (131 billion US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
• 3.59% (121 billion US$): 94 - Furniture; bedding, mattresses, mattress supports, cushions and similar stuffed furnishings; lamps and lighting fittings, n.e.s.; illuminated signs, illuminated name-plates and the like; prefabricated buildings
• 2.87% (97 billion US$): 73 - Articles of iron or steel
• 2.61% (88 billion US$): 95 - Toys, games and sports requisites; parts and accessories thereof
• 2.43% (82 billion US$): 61 - Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, knitted or crocheted
• 2.3% (77 billion US$): 29 - Organic chemicals
• 2.07% (70 billion US$): 62 - Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, not knitted or crocheted

What did China export in 2023?

China's Top Exports in 2023:

• 6.47% ($218 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
• 4.41% ($149 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
• 4.03% ($136 billion): 8542 - Electronic integrated circuits and microassemblies
• 2.29% ($77 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
• 2.06% ($69 billion): 8507 - Electric accumulators, including separators therefor, whether or not rectangular (including square)
• 1.81% ($61 billion): 8541 - Semiconductor devices (e.g. diodes, transistors, semiconductor based transducers); including photovoltaic cells assembled or not in modules or panels, light-emitting diodes (LED) assembled with other LEDs or not, mounted piezo-electric crystals
• 1.57% ($53 billion): 8708 - Parts and accessories of the motor vehicles of headings 87.01 to 87.05
• 1.42% ($48 billion): 2710 - Petroleum oils and oils from bituminous minerals, not crude; preparations n.e.c. containing by weight 70% or more of petroleum oils or oils from bituminous minerals; these being the basic constituents of the preparations; waste oils
• 1.37% ($46 billion): 8504 - Electrical transformers, static converters (for example, rectifiers) and inductors

Imports structure to China in 2023 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 21% (548 billion US$): 85 - Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles
• 20% (515 billion US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 9.3% (237 billion US$): 26 - Ores, slag and ash
• 7.71% (197 billion US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 4.45% (114 billion US$): 71 - Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metals, metals clad with precious metal and articles thereof; imitation jewelry; coin
• 3.03% (77 billion US$): 90 - Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof
• 2.76% (70 billion US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• 2.68% (68 billion US$): 12 - Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruits; industrial or medicinal plants; straw and fodder
• 2.45% (62 billion US$): 74 - Copper and articles thereof
• 2.42% (61 billion US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof

What did China import in 2023?

China's Top Imports in 2023:

• 13.6% ($350 billion): 8542 - Electronic integrated circuits and microassemblies
• 13.2% ($337 billion): 2709 - Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, crude
• 5.26% ($134 billion): 2601 - Iron ores and concentrates, including roasted iron pyrites
• 3.59% ($91 billion): 7108 - Gold (including gold plated with platinum) unwrought or in semi-manufactured forms, or in powder form
• 3.3% ($84 billion): 2711 - Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons
• 2.34% ($59 billion): 2603 - Copper ores and concentrates
• 2.32% ($59 billion): 1201 - Soya beans, whether or not broken
• 1.79% ($45 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
• 1.61% ($41 billion): 2701 - Coal; briquettes, ovoids and similar solid fuels manufactured from coal
• 1.54% ($39 billion): 8486 - Machines and apparatus of a kind used solely or principally for the manufacture of semiconductor boules or wafers, semiconductor devices, electronic integrated circuits or flat panel displays; machines & apparatus specified in note 11 (C) to this Chapter