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

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

• 30% (183 billion US$): 85 - Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles
• 12.7% (77 billion US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 10.1% (61 billion US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• 7.93% (47 billion US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 5.77% (34 billion US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
• 4.79% (29 billion US$): 90 - Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof
• 4.18% (25 billion US$): 29 - Organic chemicals
• 4.09% (24 billion US$): 72 - Iron and steel
• 3.36% (20 billion US$): 89 - Ships, boats and floating structures
• 1.73% (10.4 billion US$): 73 - Articles of iron or steel

What did Korea export in 2018?

Korea's Top Exports in 2018:

• 18.1% ($109 billion): 8542 - Electronic integrated circuits and microassemblies.
• 7.39% ($44 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.
• 6.32% ($38 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.
• 3.22% ($19.4 billion): 8708 - Parts and accessories of the motor vehicles of headings 87.01 to 87.05.
• 2.61% ($15.7 billion): 8901 - Cruise ships, excursion boats, ferry-boats, cargo ships, barges and similar vessels for the transport of persons or goods.
• 2.35% ($14.2 billion): 8479 - Machines and mechanical appliances having individual functions, not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter.
• 2.22% ($13.4 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.
• 2% ($12.1 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.
• 1.86% ($11.2 billion): 2902 - Cyclic hydrocarbons.
• 1.35% ($8.17 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.

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

• 27% (146 billion US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 15.7% (84 billion US$): 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
• 9.12% (48 billion US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 6.43% (34 billion US$): 90 - Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof
• 3.14% (16.8 billion US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• 3.07% (16.4 billion US$): 72 - Iron and steel
• 2.79% (14.9 billion US$): 26 - Ores, slag and ash
• 2.65% (14.2 billion US$): 29 - Organic chemicals
• 2.2% (11.8 billion US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
• 1.73% (9.25 billion US$): 28 - Inorganic chemicals; organic or inorganic compounds of precious metals, of rare earth metals, of radioactive elements or of isotopes

What did Korea import in 2018?

Korea's Top Imports in 2018:

• 15% ($80 billion): 2709 - Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, crude.
• 6.46% ($34 billion): 8542 - Electronic integrated circuits and microassemblies.
• 5.06% ($27 billion): 2711 - Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons.
• 3.92% ($21 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.
• 3.09% ($16.5 billion): 2701 - Coal; briquettes, ovoids and similar solid fuels manufactured from coal.
• 2.25% ($12 billion): 9010 - Apparatus and equipment for photographic (including cinematographic) laboratories (including apparatus for the projection or drawing of circuit patterns on sensitised semiconductor materials), not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter; negatoscopes; projection screens.
• 2.09% ($11.2 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.
• 1.75% ($9.4 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.
• 1.34% ($7.17 billion): 8479 - Machines and mechanical appliances having individual functions, not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter.
• 1.32% ($7.09 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.