Summary
- Share of its imports
- 19.9%
- Value imported
- $14billion
- Rank among its suppliers
- 1st
- Products where it sells over 50%
- 146
- Products where it sells over 75%
- 43
- Dominated value
- $7.4billion
- Share of total imports
- 10.6%
Trend
Trend in shares
China went from 1.3% to 19.9% of what Ukraine buys
Share (%)
- China 19.9%
Source: CEPII BACI
Show the numbers
| Year | Value (USD millions) | Share | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 73 | 1.3% | 18 |
| 1996 | 110 | 0.61% | 23 |
| 1997 | 156 | 0.87% | 19 |
| 1998 | 141 | 0.92% | 22 |
| 1999 | 126 | 1% | 18 |
| 2000 | 162 | 1.1% | 20 |
| 2001 | 207 | 1.3% | 14 |
| 2002 | 306 | 1.7% | 10 |
| 2003 | 607 | 2.5% | 6 |
| 2004 | 913 | 3% | 6 |
| 2005 | 2,122 | 5.5% | 4 |
| 2006 | 2,748 | 5.6% | 5 |
| 2007 | 4,041 | 6.2% | 4 |
| 2008 | 6,579 | 7.2% | 3 |
| 2009 | 2,991 | 6.2% | 3 |
| 2010 | 5,164 | 8.1% | 2 |
| 2011 | 6,411 | 7.4% | 3 |
| 2012 | 8,372 | 9.4% | 2 |
| 2013 | 8,555 | 10.3% | 2 |
| 2014 | 5,672 | 9.7% | 2 |
| 2015 | 4,172 | 10.3% | 2 |
| 2016 | 4,981 | 11.6% | 2 |
| 2017 | 5,917 | 11.2% | 2 |
| 2018 | 7,890 | 12.9% | 2 |
| 2019 | 9,397 | 14.6% | 1 |
| 2020 | 8,258 | 14.7% | 1 |
| 2021 | 10,737 | 14.8% | 1 |
| 2022 | 8,480 | 15.2% | 1 |
| 2023 | 10,220 | 16.1% | 1 |
| 2024 | 13,999 | 19.9% | 1 |
Products where China sells more than half
| Product | Supplier | Share | Second | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Video recorders and players | China | 78%over 75% | Poland · 10.2% | $1.4 billion |
| Batteries | China | 78.7%over 75% | Poland · 4.5% | $775 million |
| Cameras and broadcast equipment | China | 57.6% | Vietnam · 14.2% | $773 million |
| Computers | China | 75%over 75% | Poland · 5.8% | $498 million |
| Transformers and power supplies | China | 64.2% | Turkey · 9.2% | $390 million |
| Diodes, transistors and solar cells | China | 85.3%over 75% | Malaysia · 3% | $293 million |
| Electric motors and generators | China | 75.4%over 75% | Germany · 4.3% | $255 million |
| Computer and office machine parts | China | 53% | Vietnam · 11.2% | $179 million |
| Other electrical devices | China | 54.1% | Lithuania · 23.7% | $156 million |
| Toys | China | 75.3%over 75% | Czechia · 8.1% | $147 million |
| Monitors and projectors | China | 50.7% | Hungary · 11.4% | $118 million |
| Home appliances | China | 62.8% | Vietnam · 6.7% | $105 million |
| Air conditioners | China | 66.8% | Moldova · 9.4% | $104 million |
| Bags, suitcases and cases | China | 69.9% | Poland · 7.3% | $89 million |
| Phones and telecom equipment | China | 74.5% | Germany · 4.5% | $88 million |
| Lamps and light fittings | China | 72.3% | Poland · 7% | $83 million |
| Vacuum cleaners | China | 83%over 75% | Germany · 4.1% | $82 million |
| Synthetic filament fabric | China | 59.2% | Turkey · 12.9% | $81 million |
| Textile footwear | China | 56.2% | Vietnam · 19.8% | $77 million |
| Seats and chairs | China | 61.8% | Poland · 7% | $77 million |
| Aluminum sheet | China | 60% | Germany · 18% | $73 million |
| Parts for broadcast equipment | China | 55.9% | United Kingdom · 5.9% | $72 million |
| Nitrogen heterocyclic compounds | China | 58.1% | India · 10.3% | $62 million |
| Rubber and plastic footwear | China | 64.6% | Vietnam · 10.4% | $61 million |
| Microphones and speakers | China | 55.3% | Vietnam · 13.9% | $61 million |
| Amino acids and amino alcohols (lysine) | China | 70.6% | Poland · 6.9% | $55 million |
| Motorcycles | China | 56.9% | Japan · 14.5% | $49 million |
| Thermometers, barometers and hygrometers | China | 66.5% | Israel · 15.7% | $47 million |
| Printed circuit boards | China | 87.8%over 75% | Hungary · 4.8% | $45 million |
| Power and pneumatic hand tools | China | 68.9% | Germany · 11.3% | $42 million |
and 116 more
A product has a dominant supplier when a single country sells more than 50% of what is bought of it; we flag it separately above 75%.
Are there other suppliers in the world?
- China sells 35.8% of what the world exports of video recorders and players; next come Vietnam (8.4%), Thailand (8.3%) and Japan (6.1%). The rest of the world exported 23.7 times what Ukraine buys from China.
- China sells 50.8% of what the world exports of batteries; next come South Korea (6.1%), United States (5.4%) and Poland (5.4%). The rest of the world exported 97.4 times what Ukraine buys from China.
- China sells 46.2% of what the world exports of cameras and broadcast equipment; next come Vietnam (13.1%), Taiwan (4.4%) and India (4.3%). The rest of the world exported 439.3 times what Ukraine buys from China.
- China sells 38.7% of what the world exports of computers; next come Taiwan (14.2%), Mexico (12.6%) and Vietnam (7%). The rest of the world exported 516.5 times what Ukraine buys from China.
- China sells 34.6% of what the world exports of transformers and power supplies; next come Germany (7%), Mexico (4.5%) and Japan (3.9%). The rest of the world exported 254.2 times what Ukraine buys from China.
- China sells 39.2% of what the world exports of diodes, transistors and solar cells; next come Malaysia (8.6%), Japan (7.4%) and Vietnam (5.9%). The rest of the world exported 279.3 times what Ukraine buys from China.
- China sells 25% of what the world exports of electric motors and generators; next come Germany (11%), United States (7%) and Mexico (6.6%). The rest of the world exported 216.2 times what Ukraine buys from China.
- China sells 30.3% of what the world exports of computer and office machine parts; next come Taiwan (15%), Vietnam (10.6%) and South Korea (7.3%). The rest of the world exported 1,247.4 times what Ukraine buys from China.
- China sells 30.3% of what the world exports of other electrical devices; next come United States (8.6%), Mexico (7.3%) and Germany (7%). The rest of the world exported 297.9 times what Ukraine buys from China.
- China sells 66.3% of what the world exports of toys; next come Vietnam (5.8%), Czechia (4.1%) and Mexico (2.6%). The rest of the world exported 135.9 times what Ukraine buys from China.
Exports from the rest of the world already have buyers; the figure shows scale, not availability.
Seen from China
Ukraine is China’s 42nd-largest customer, with 0.39% of its exports.
Links
Sources and method
Sources and licenses
- CEPII BACI · Licence Ouverte Etalab 2.0
- Natural Earth · Public domain
Methodology
The data come from CEPII BACI (Etalab 2.0 licence), which reconciles what the exporting and the importing country report, in current USD, FOB. Data up to 2024.
Dependence is the share of a country’s imports (or exports) that each partner accounts for. It does not measure whether a product has a substitute or how much it would cost to change supplier.
The concentration index (HHI) adds up the square of each partner’s share, in percent: it runs from 0 to 10,000. Its equivalent is 10,000 ÷ HHI, the number of partners of the same size that would give that value.
Products are HS4 headings of the 1992 nomenclature (some combine different goods), with a floor of $1 million per product and country.
The EU is the 27 current members in every year; the United Kingdom is outside the EU throughout the series.
Re-exports: countries that act as redistribution hubs carry their notice and the figures are not corrected.