Electrical insulators: top exporters and importers (2024)

1. China$920 million · 32.3%
2. Italy$227 million · 8%
3. Germany$218 million · 7.7%
4. United States$191 million · 6.7%
5. India$143 million · 5%
6. Japan$111 million · 3.9%
7. France$69 million · 2.4%
8. Spain$69 million · 2.4%
9. Portugal$62 million · 2.2%
10. Switzerland$62 million · 2.2%
11. Mexico$60 million · 2.1%
12. Russia$52 million · 1.8%
13. Poland$50 million · 1.8%
14. Canada$48 million · 1.7%
15. Taiwan$47 million · 1.7%
16. Czechia$41 million · 1.4%
17. United Kingdom$38 million · 1.3%
18. Sweden$37 million · 1.3%
19. Austria$33 million · 1.2%
20. Turkey$30 million · 1.1%

China went from 2.4% to 32.3% of world exports of electrical insulators

In 2024, China accounted for 32.3% of recorded world exports and the three largest exporters together for 48%. HHI: 1,307 out of 10,000; equivalent to 8 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

Countries where China sells more than half of what they buy

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

• India: 67.4% of its purchases · Dependence of India on China
• Brazil: 69.2% of its purchases · Dependence of Brazil on China
• Vietnam: 73.4% of its purchases · Dependence of Vietnam on China
• Iraq: 90.5% of its purchases · Dependence of Iraq on China
• Thailand: 50.9% of its purchases · Dependence of Thailand on China
• Philippines: 56% of its purchases · Dependence of the Philippines on China
• Russia: 58.9% of its purchases · Dependence of Russia on China
• Ethiopia: 95.3% of its purchases · Dependence of Ethiopia on China
• Algeria: 70.5% of its purchases · Dependence of Algeria on China
• Pakistan: 95.5% of its purchases · Dependence of Pakistan on China

1. United States$439 million · 15.4%
2. Saudi Arabia$163 million · 5.7%
3. India$124 million · 4.4%
4. Germany$119 million · 4.2%
5. Mexico$111 million · 3.9%
6. Canada$102 million · 3.6%
7. Italy$94 million · 3.3%
8. France$71 million · 2.5%
9. China$69 million · 2.4%
10. Brazil$63 million · 2.2%
11. Vietnam$59 million · 2.1%
12. Switzerland$54 million · 1.9%
13. United Kingdom$50 million · 1.8%
14. Malaysia$45 million · 1.6%
15. Thailand$45 million · 1.6%
16. Poland$43 million · 1.5%
17. Spain$43 million · 1.5%
18. Turkey$41 million · 1.5%
19. Czechia$39 million · 1.4%
20. Taiwan$38 million · 1.4%

• 8546 · Electrical insulators

Products in the same chapter

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• Cameras and broadcast equipment
• Mobile phones
• Electric cables
• Batteries
• Transformers and power supplies
• Diodes, transistors and solar cells
• Low-voltage switches and connectors

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.