China | Imports and Exports | World | ALL COMMODITIES | Value (US$) and Value Growth, YoY (%) | 2007 - 2018

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

• 26% (664 billion US$): 85 - Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles
• 17.2% (429 billion US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 3.83% (95 billion US$): 94 - Furniture; bedding, mattresses, mattress supports, cushions and similar stuffed furnishings; lamps and lighting fittings, n.e.s.; illuminated signs, illuminated name-plates and the like; prefabricated buildings
• 3.2% (79 billion US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
• 3.01% (75 billion US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• 2.95% (73 billion US$): 61 - Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, knitted or crocheted
• 2.87% (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
• 2.61% (65 billion US$): 73 - Articles of iron or steel
• 2.4% (59 billion US$): 29 - Organic chemicals

What did China export in 2018?

China's Top Exports in 2018:

• 9.65% ($240 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
• 6.18% ($153 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
• 3.42% ($85 billion): 8542 - Electronic integrated circuits and microassemblies
• 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
• 1.44% ($35 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
• 1.4% ($34 billion): 8708 - Parts and accessories of the motor vehicles of headings 87.01 to 87.05
• 1.34% ($33 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
• 1.2% ($30 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
• 1.16% ($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
• 1.12% ($27 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
• 9.47% (202 billion US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 6.36% (135 billion US$): 26 - Ores, slag and ash
• 4.8% (102 billion US$): 90 - Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof
• 3.82% (81 billion US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• 3.65% (78 billion US$): 71 - Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metals, metals clad with precious metal and articles thereof; imitation jewelry; coin
• 3.5% (74 billion US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
• 3.15% (67 billion US$): 29 - Organic chemicals
• 2.22% (47 billion US$): 74 - Copper and articles thereof

What did China import in 2018?

China's Top Imports in 2018:

• 14.6% ($312 billion): 8542 - Electronic integrated circuits and microassemblies
• 11.2% ($240 billion): 2709 - Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, crude
• 3.55% ($75 billion): 2601 - Iron ores and concentrates, including roasted iron pyrites
• 2.91% ($62 billion): 7108 - Gold (including gold plated with platinum) unwrought or in semi-manufactured forms, or in powder form
• 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
• 2.28% ($48 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
• 2.24% ($47 billion): 2711 - Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons
• 1.78% ($38 billion): 1201 - Soya beans, whether or not broken
• 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
• 1.49% ($31 billion): 2603 - Copper ores and concentrates