Float glass: top exporters and importers (2024)

1. China$612 million · 10.5%
2. Germany$598 million · 10.3%
3. United States$409 million · 7%
4. Malaysia$391 million · 6.7%
5. Belgium$383 million · 6.6%
   re-exports
6. Japan$345 million · 5.9%
7. Poland$269 million · 4.6%
8. Indonesia$200 million · 3.4%
9. France$196 million · 3.4%
10. South Korea$161 million · 2.8%
11. Taiwan$158 million · 2.7%
12. Czechia$154 million · 2.6%
13. Thailand$153 million · 2.6%
14. Turkey$142 million · 2.5%
15. Italy$137 million · 2.4%
16. Spain$124 million · 2.1%
17. Bulgaria$111 million · 1.9%
18. Egypt$103 million · 1.8%
19. Saudi Arabia$96 million · 1.7%
20. Vietnam$92 million · 1.6%

China went from 5% to 10.5% of world exports of float glass

In 2024, China accounted for 10.5% of recorded world exports and the three largest exporters together for 27.8%. HHI: 503 out of 10,000; equivalent to 20 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.

• Peru: 50.8% of its purchases · Dependence of Peru on China
• Ecuador: 59.3% of its purchases · Dependence of Ecuador on China
• Dominican Republic: 76.5% of its purchases · Dependence of the Dominican Republic on China
• Guatemala: 59.4% of its purchases · Dependence of Guatemala on China
• Myanmar: 70.3% of its purchases · Dependence of Myanmar on China
• Djibouti: 80.3% of its purchases · Dependence of Djibouti on China
• Tanzania: 75.4% of its purchases · Dependence of Tanzania on China
• Bangladesh: 78.3% of its purchases · Dependence of Bangladesh on China
• Honduras: 63.5% of its purchases · Dependence of Honduras on China
• Zimbabwe: 50.1% of its purchases

1. China$536 million · 9.2%
2. Canada$324 million · 5.6%
3. India$287 million · 4.9%
4. Poland$223 million · 3.8%
5. United States$179 million · 3.1%
6. South Korea$159 million · 2.7%
7. Mexico$133 million · 2.3%
8. Spain$133 million · 2.3%
9. Germany$128 million · 2.2%
10. Vietnam$127 million · 2.2%
11. Czechia$125 million · 2.2%
12. Hong Kong$125 million · 2.2%
    re-exports
13. Turkey$125 million · 2.1%
14. France$123 million · 2.1%
15. Morocco$106 million · 1.8%
16. Hungary$102 million · 1.8%
17. Romania$101 million · 1.7%
18. Belgium$99 million · 1.7%
    re-exports
19. Portugal$96 million · 1.7%
20. Ukraine$92 million · 1.6%

• 7005 · Float glass

Products in the same chapter

• Glass bottles and jars
• Fiberglass and glass wool
• Safety glass (tempered and laminated)
• Glassware for table, kitchen and decor
• Mirrors and rear-view mirrors
• Other glass articles
• Bent or worked flat glass
• Insulating glass units

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.