European Union | Imports | China | ALL COMMODITIES | Value (US$) and Value Growth, YoY (%) | 2009 - 2020
| Commodity | Reporter | Partner | Trade flow | Indicator | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 |
| TOTAL. ALL COMMODITIES | European Union | China | Imports | Value (US$) | 300 059 364 759.00 | 374 248 667 140.00 | 410 570 825 407.00 | 375 365 973 532.00 | 371 903 108 386.00 | 400 507 721 664.00 | 388 674 560 102.00 | 389 092 653 960.00 | 422 718 741 838.00 | 466 353 183 054.00 | 470 490 996 333.00 | 442 605 831 588.00 |
| Value Growth, YoY (%) | -17.765 | 24.724 | 9.705 | -8.574 | -0.922 | 7.691 | -2.954 | 0.107 | 8.642 | 10.322 | 0.887 | -5.926 |
The value of merchandise imports to European Union from China totalled $ 442 billion in 2020. Merchandise imports to European Union from China decreased by 5.92% YoY. Merchandise imports decreased by $ 27 billion (the value of merchandise imports to European Union from China were equal to $470 billion in 2019)
The share of China in total imports of commodity group TOTAL "ALL COMMODITIES" to European Union amounted to 24 percent (442 billion USD) in 2020 of 1.79 trillion USD - the value of total merchandise imports of commodity group TOTAL to European Union in 2020. The share of China in imports of commodity group TOTAL "ALL COMMODITIES" to European Union increased by 4.27 p.p. compared to 2019 (it was 20 percent in 2019, and total merchandise imports to European Union amounted to 2.3 trillion USD).
What did European Union import from China in 2020?
Top Imports to European Union from China in 2020:
- 11.4% ($50 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.
- 11.1% ($49 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.
- 5.31% ($23 billion): 6307 - Other made up articles, including dress patterns.
- 1.81% ($8.04 billion): 8541 - Diodes, transistors and similar semiconductor devices; photosensitive semiconductor devices, including photovoltaic cells whether or not assembled in modules or made up into panels; light emitting diodes; mounted piezo-electric crystals.
- 1.58% ($7.02 billion): 8504 - Electrical transformers, static converters (for example, rectifiers) and inductors.
- 1.41% ($6.25 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.
- 1.41% ($6.24 billion): 9405 - Lamps and lighting fittings including searchlights and spotlights and parts thereof, not elsewhere specified or included; illuminated signs, illuminated name-plates and the like, having a permanently fixed light source, and parts thereof not elsewhere specified or included.
- 1.24% ($5.51 billion): 3926 - Other articles of plastics and articles of other materials of headings 39.01 to 39.14.
- 1.2% ($5.32 billion): 9401 - Seats (other than those of heading 94.02), whether or not convertible into beds, and parts thereof.
- 1.14% ($5.08 billion): 8507 - Electric accumulators, including separators therefor, whether or not rectangular (including square).
