Korea | Imports and Exports | World | ALL COMMODITIES | Value (US$) and Value Growth, YoY (%) | 2008 - 2019

Exports structure from Korea in 2019 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 28% (153 billion US$): 85 - Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles
• 12.7% (69 billion US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 11.5% (62 billion US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• 7.77% (42 billion US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 6.01% (32 billion US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
• 4.26% (23 billion US$): 72 - Iron and steel
• 4.25% (23 billion US$): 90 - Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof
• 3.87% (20 billion US$): 29 - Organic chemicals
• 3.48% (18.8 billion US$): 89 - Ships, boats and floating structures
• 1.69% (9.17 billion US$): 73 - Articles of iron or steel

What did Korea export in 2019?

Korea's Top Exports in 2019:

• 14.5% ($79 billion): 8542 - Electronic integrated circuits and microassemblies.
• 7.46% ($40 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.
• 7.24% ($39 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.
• 3.5% ($18.9 billion): 8708 - Parts and accessories of the motor vehicles of headings 87.01 to 87.05.
• 3.15% ($17.1 billion): 8901 - Cruise ships, excursion boats, ferry-boats, cargo ships, barges and similar vessels for the transport of persons or goods.
• 2.25% ($12.2 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.
• 2.23% ($12.1 billion): 8479 - Machines and mechanical appliances having individual functions, not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter.
• 2.1% ($11.3 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.
• 1.87% ($10.1 billion): 8529 - Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of headings 85.25 to 85.28.
• 1.66% ($9.02 billion): 2902 - Cyclic hydrocarbons.

Imports structure to Korea in 2019 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 25% (127 billion US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 17.6% (89 billion US$): 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
• 9.37% (47 billion US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 4.68% (23 billion US$): 90 - Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof
• 3.31% (16.6 billion US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• 3.11% (15.6 billion US$): 72 - Iron and steel
• 2.99% (15 billion US$): 26 - Ores, slag and ash
• 2.52% (12.6 billion US$): 29 - Organic chemicals
• 2.29% (11.5 billion US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
• 1.62% (8.16 billion US$): 38 - Miscellaneous chemical products

What did Korea import in 2019?

Korea's Top Imports in 2019:

• 13.9% ($70 billion): 2709 - Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, crude.
• 7.11% ($35 billion): 8542 - Electronic integrated circuits and microassemblies.
• 4.8% ($24 billion): 2711 - Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons.
• 3.41% ($17.2 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.
• 2.8% ($14 billion): 2701 - Coal; briquettes, ovoids and similar solid fuels manufactured from coal.
• 2.2% ($11.1 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% ($7.78 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.
• 1.54% ($7.77 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.
• 1.38% ($6.95 billion): 2601 - Iron ores and concentrates, including roasted iron pyrites.
• 1.27% ($6.39 billion): 8479 - Machines and mechanical appliances having individual functions, not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter.