European Union | Imports | China | ALL COMMODITIES | Value (US$) and Value Growth, YoY (%) | 2012 - 2023
The value of merchandise imports to European Union from China totalled $ 555 billion in 2023. Merchandise imports to European Union from China decreased by 15.5% YoY. Merchandise imports decreased by $ 101 billion (the value of merchandise imports to European Union from China were equal to $657 billion in 2022)
The share of China in total imports of commodity group TOTAL "ALL COMMODITIES" to European Union amounted to 20 percent (555 billion USD) in 2023 of 2.71 trillion USD - the value of total merchandise imports of commodity group TOTAL to European Union in 2023. The share of China in imports of commodity group TOTAL "ALL COMMODITIES" to European Union went down by -1.26 p.p. in value compared to 2022 (it was 21 percent in 2022, and total merchandise imports to European Union amounted to 3.02 trillion USD).
What did European Union import from China in 2023?
Top Imports to European Union from China in 2023:
- 9.04% ($50 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
- 7.01% ($38 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
- 4.73% ($26 billion): 8507 - Electric accumulators, including separators therefor, whether or not rectangular (including square)
- 4.31% ($23 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
- 2.84% ($15.7 billion): 8504 - Electrical transformers, static converters (for example, rectifiers) and inductors
- 2.59% ($14.4 billion): 2933 - Heterocyclic compounds with nitrogen hetero-atom(s) only
- 2.51% ($13.9 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
- 1.3% ($7.25 billion): 8708 - Parts and accessories of the motor vehicles of headings 87.01 to 87.05
- 1.24% ($6.92 billion): 9504 - Articles for funfair, table or parlour games, including pintables, billiards, special tables for casino games and automatic bowling alley equipment
- 1.17% ($6.51 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
