European Union (28) | Imports | China | ALL COMMODITIES | Value (US$) | 2015 - 2017
| Commodities | Reporter | Partner | Trade flow | Indicator | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 |
| TOTAL. ALL COMMODITIES | European Union (28) | China | Imports | Value (US$) | 388 674 560 102.00 | 386 969 912 540.00 | 422 458 349 551.00 |
The value of total imports to European Union (28) from China totalled $ 422 billion in 2017. Grows of merchandise imports to European Union (28) from China reached 9.17% compared to 2016. goods imports grew up by $ 35 billion in 2017 (value of merchandise imports to European Union (28) from China were equal to $386 billion in 2016)
The share of China in total imports of commodity group TOTAL "ALL COMMODITIES" to European Union (28) amounted to 20 percent (422 billion USD) in 2017 of 2.09 trillion USD - the value of total imports of commodity group TOTAL to European Union (28) in 2017. The share of China in imports of commodity group TOTAL "ALL COMMODITIES" to European Union (28) went down by -0.264 p.p. in value compared to 2016 (it was 20 peercent in 2016, and total merchandise imports to European Union (28) amounted to 1.89 trillion USD).
What did European Union (28) import from China in 2017?
TOP-10 Imports commodities to European Union (28) from China in 2017:
- 12.1% ($51 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.
- 11.3% ($47 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.
- 1.78% ($7.54 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.
- 1.77% ($7.47 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.
- 1.69% ($7.15 billion): 9503 - Other toys; reduced-size (scale) models and similar recreational models, working or not; puzzles of all kinds.
- 1.58% ($6.67 billion): 4202 - Trunks, suit-cases, vanity-cases, executive-cases, brief-cases, school satchels, spectacle cases, binocular cases, camera cases, musical instrument cases, gun cases, holsters and similar containers; travelling-bags, insulated food or beverages bags, toilet bags, rucksacks, handbags, shopping-bags, wallets, purses, map-cases, cigarette-cases, tobacco-pouches, tool bags, sports bags, bottle-cases, jewellery boxes, powder-boxes, cutlery cases and similar containers, of leather
- 1.32% ($5.58 billion): 9401 - Seats (other than those of heading 94.02), whether or not convertible into beds, and parts thereof.
- 1.29% ($5.46 billion): 8504 - Electrical transformers, static converters (for example, rectifiers) and inductors.
- 1.28% ($5.43 billion): 8529 - Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of headings 85.25 to 85.28.
- 1.24% ($5.24 billion): 9504 - Articles for funfair, table or parlour games, including pintables, billiards, special tables for casino games and automatic bowling alley equipment.
