China | Imports and Exports | World | ALL COMMODITIES | Value (US$) and Value Growth, YoY (%) | 2006 - 2017

Exports structure from China in 2017 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 26% (598 billion US$): 85 - Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles
• 16.9% (383 billion US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 3.93% (88 billion US$): 94 - Furniture; bedding, mattresses, mattress supports, cushions and similar stuffed furnishings; lamps and lighting fittings, n.e.s.; illuminated signs, illuminated name-plates and the like; prefabricated buildings
• 3.24% (73 billion US$): 62 - Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, not knitted or crocheted
• 3.17% (71 billion US$): 61 - Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, knitted or crocheted
• 3.11% (70 billion US$): 90 - Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof
• 3.09% (70 billion US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
• 2.97% (67 billion US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• 2.5% (56 billion US$): 73 - Articles of iron or steel
• 2.41% (54 billion US$): 95 - Toys, games and sports requisites; parts and accessories thereof

What did China export in 2017?

China's Top Exports in 2017:

• 9.68% ($219 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
• 6.27% ($141 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
• 2.96% ($67 billion): 8542 - Electronic integrated circuits and microassemblies
• 1.5% ($34 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
• 1.39% ($31 billion): 8528 - Monitors and projectors, not incorporating television reception apparatus; reception apparatus for television, whether or not incorporating radio-broadcast receivers or sound or video recording or reproducing apparatus
• 1.37% ($31 billion): 8708 - Parts and accessories of the motor vehicles of headings 87.01 to 87.05
• 1.25% ($28 billion): 9405 - Luminaires and light fittings; including searchlights, spotlights and parts thereof, n.e.s.; illuminated signs, name-plates and the like, having permanently fixed light source and parts thereof n.e.s. or included
• 1.25% ($28 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
• 1.17% ($26 billion): 4202 - Trunks, suit-cases, vanity-cases, executive-cases, brief-cases, school satchels, spectacle cases, binocular cases, camera cases, musical instrument cases, gun cases, holsters and similar containers; travelling-bags, insulated food or beverages bags, toilet bags, rucksacks, handbags, shopping-bags, wallets, purses, map-cases, cigarette-cases, tobacco-pouches, tool bags, sports bags, bottle-cases, jewellery boxes, powder-boxes, cutlery cases and similar containers, of leather
• 1.17% ($26 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

Imports structure to China in 2017 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 24% (457 billion US$): 85 - Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles
• 13.5% (249 billion US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 9.19% (169 billion US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 6.85% (126 billion US$): 26 - Ores, slag and ash
• 5.28% (97 billion US$): 90 - Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof
• 4.29% (79 billion US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• 3.73% (68 billion US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
• 3.54% (65 billion US$): 71 - Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metals, metals clad with precious metal and articles thereof; imitation jewelry; coin
• 3.02% (55 billion US$): 29 - Organic chemicals
• 2.41% (44 billion US$): 12 - Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruits; industrial or medicinal plants; straw and fodder

What did China import in 2017?

China's Top Imports in 2017:

• 14.1% ($261 billion): 8542 - Electronic integrated circuits and microassemblies
• 8.88% ($163 billion): 2709 - Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, crude
• 4.14% ($76 billion): 2601 - Iron ores and concentrates, including roasted iron pyrites
• 2.78% ($51 billion): 7108 - Gold (including gold plated with platinum) unwrought or in semi-manufactured forms, or in powder form
• 2.7% ($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
• 2.59% ($47 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
• 2.14% ($39 billion): 1201 - Soya beans, whether or not broken
• 2.02% ($37 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
• 1.79% ($33 billion): 2711 - Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons
• 1.52% ($28 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