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

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

• 30% (184 billion US$): 85 - Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles
• 12.8% (77 billion US$): 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$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
• 4.6% (27 billion US$): 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 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
• 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): 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
• 2.22% ($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
• 1.43% ($8.66 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

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

• 27% (146 billion US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 15.8% (84 billion US$): 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
• 11.2% (60 billion US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 4.18% (22 billion US$): 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
• 6.45% ($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 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
• 3.15% ($16.8 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
• 3.09% ($16.5 billion): 2701 - Coal; briquettes, ovoids and similar solid fuels manufactured from coal
• 2.22% ($11.8 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
• 2.09% ($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
• 1.54% ($8.26 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% ($5.4 billion): 2601 - Iron ores and concentrates, including roasted iron pyrites