Korea | Imports and Exports | World | ALL COMMODITIES | Value (US$) and Value Growth, YoY (%) | 2009 - 2020

Exports structure from Korea in 2020 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 31% (159 billion US$): 85 - Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles
• 12.9% (66 billion US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 10.5% (54 billion US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• 6.15% (31 billion US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
• 4.95% (25 billion US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 4.28% (21 billion US$): 90 - Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof
• 3.85% (19.7 billion US$): 72 - Iron and steel
• 3.65% (18.7 billion US$): 89 - Ships, boats and floating structures
• 2.99% (15.3 billion US$): 29 - Organic chemicals
• 1.54% (7.92 billion US$): 73 - Articles of iron or steel

What did Korea export in 2020?

Korea's Top Exports in 2020:

• 16.1% ($82 billion): 8542 - Electronic integrated circuits and microassemblies.
• 6.95% ($35 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.
• 4.51% ($23 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.
• 3.22% ($16.5 billion): 8901 - Cruise ships, excursion boats, ferry-boats, cargo ships, barges and similar vessels for the transport of persons or goods.
• 3.07% ($15.7 billion): 8708 - Parts and accessories of the motor vehicles of headings 87.01 to 87.05.
• 2.59% ($13.2 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.
• 2.5% ($12.8 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.
• 2.24% ($11.4 billion): 8479 - Machines and mechanical appliances having individual functions, not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter.
• 2.07% ($10.6 billion): 8523 - Prepared unrecorded media for sound recording or similar recording of other phenomena, other than products of Chapter 37.
• 1.54% ($7.92 billion): 8529 - Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of headings 85.25 to 85.28.

Imports structure to Korea in 2020 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 19.9% (93 billion US$): 85 - Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles
• 18.5% (86 billion US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 10.2% (47 billion US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 6.34% (29 billion US$): 90 - Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof
• 3.89% (18.2 billion US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• 3.4% (15.8 billion US$): 26 - Ores, slag and ash
• 2.58% (12 billion US$): 29 - Organic chemicals
• 2.46% (11.5 billion US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
• 2.37% (11.1 billion US$): 72 - Iron and steel
• 1.7% (7.95 billion US$): 30 - Pharmaceutical products

What did Korea import in 2020?

Korea's Top Imports in 2020:

• 9.51% ($44 billion): 2709 - Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, crude.
• 8.63% ($40 billion): 8542 - Electronic integrated circuits and microassemblies.
• 4.04% ($18.9 billion): 2711 - Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons.
• 2.72% ($12.7 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.
• 2.57% ($12 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.
• 2.21% ($10.3 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.
• 2.02% ($9.48 billion): 2701 - Coal; briquettes, ovoids and similar solid fuels manufactured from coal.
• 1.87% ($8.75 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.
• 1.75% ($8.22 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.
• 1.56% ($7.32 billion): 8479 - Machines and mechanical appliances having individual functions, not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter.