Copper wire: top exporters and importers (2024)

1. Germany$3.7 billion · 12.4%
2. United Arab Emirates$2.5 billion · 8.3%
3. Belgium$2.2 billion · 7.2%
   re-exports
4. Spain$2 billion · 6.7%
5. Canada$1.9 billion · 6.4%
6. United States$1.6 billion · 5.2%
7. China$1.4 billion · 4.5%
8. Poland$1.3 billion · 4.3%
9. Italy$1.2 billion · 4.2%
10. Thailand$1.1 billion · 3.7%
11. Turkey$1.1 billion · 3.7%
12. Egypt$930 million · 3.1%
13. Indonesia$889 million · 3%
14. Malaysia$851 million · 2.8%
15. France$820 million · 2.7%
16. Russia$793 million · 2.6%
17. Uzbekistan$781 million · 2.6%
18. India$607 million · 2%
19. Peru$493 million · 1.6%
20. South Korea$460 million · 1.5%

Germany went from 13.5% to 12.4% of world exports of copper wire

In 2024, Germany accounted for 12.4% of recorded world exports and the three largest exporters together for 27.9%. HHI: 537 out of 10,000; equivalent to 19 exporters of the same size.

Share of recorded exports, not of production: a country that produces a lot and consumes almost all of it may export little

Some of these goods may have been produced in another country: countries record origin in different ways.

Countries where Germany sells more than half of what they buy

Countries that buy more than half of this product from its largest exporter, with its share.

• Poland: 89.2% of its purchases · Dependence of Poland on Germany
• Austria: 73.6% of its purchases · Dependence of Austria on Germany
• Serbia: 83.1% of its purchases
• Finland: 61.9% of its purchases · Dependence of Finland on Germany
• Honduras: 61.2% of its purchases
• Lithuania: 56% of its purchases
• Trinidad and Tobago: 89.5% of its purchases
• Yemen: 89.8% of its purchases
• Oman: 55.4% of its purchases

1. United States$2.5 billion · 8.5%
2. Saudi Arabia$2.1 billion · 7.1%
3. Morocco$1.7 billion · 5.6%
4. India$1.6 billion · 5.5%
5. Italy$1.5 billion · 5%
6. Turkey$1.4 billion · 4.7%
7. Mexico$1.2 billion · 3.9%
8. Vietnam$950 million · 3.2%
9. China$873 million · 2.9%
10. Czechia$853 million · 2.8%
11. Germany$838 million · 2.8%
12. France$702 million · 2.3%
13. Romania$661 million · 2.2%
14. Egypt$644 million · 2.2%
15. Hungary$614 million · 2.1%
16. Philippines$611 million · 2%
17. Poland$513 million · 1.7%
18. Austria$500 million · 1.7%
19. Portugal$500 million · 1.7%
20. South Africa$493 million · 1.6%

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Products in the same chapter

• Refined copper
• Copper scrap
• Unrefined copper
• Copper plates and strip
• Copper pipes
• Copper foil
• Copper bars and profiles
• Copper pipe fittings

Sources and licenses

• CEPII BACI · Licence Ouverte Etalab 2.0
• Natural Earth · Public domain

Methodology

Goods trade from CEPII BACI (BACI_HS92_V202601), which reconciles what exporters and importers report: countries that stopped reporting (Russia since 2022) appear with their partners’ data. FOB values in current US dollars; tonnes when BACI reports them. The price per tonne is the value of the rows with a weight divided by that weight. The transport mode is our own estimate based on value per kilo and geography. Data up to 2024.

Hong Kong, Singapore, the Netherlands and Belgium re-export goods from other countries: their figures include transit.