Plastic sheets and film: top exporters and importers (2024)

1. China$10.5 billion · 16%
2. Germany$6.7 billion · 10.2%
3. Japan$5.8 billion · 8.8%
4. United States$5.6 billion · 8.5%
5. South Korea$3.2 billion · 4.9%
6. Italy$2.8 billion · 4.3%
7. Turkey$2 billion · 3%
8. Canada$1.8 billion · 2.8%
9. Belgium$1.8 billion · 2.7%
   re-exports
10. France$1.5 billion · 2.3%
11. Taiwan$1.5 billion · 2.3%
12. United Kingdom$1.5 billion · 2.3%
13. Poland$1.4 billion · 2.2%
14. India$1.4 billion · 2.2%
15. Netherlands$1.3 billion · 2%
    re-exports
16. Spain$1.2 billion · 1.8%
17. Thailand$1.1 billion · 1.7%
18. Mexico$1.1 billion · 1.6%
19. Malaysia$976 million · 1.5%
20. Austria$896 million · 1.4%

1. United States$6.5 billion · 10%
2. China$5.9 billion · 9%
3. Germany$3.6 billion · 5.5%
4. France$2.8 billion · 4.2%
5. Mexico$2.4 billion · 3.7%
6. United Kingdom$2.2 billion · 3.4%
7. Italy$2.2 billion · 3.4%
8. Vietnam$2 billion · 3%
9. Canada$1.9 billion · 2.9%
10. Poland$1.8 billion · 2.8%
11. South Korea$1.8 billion · 2.8%
12. India$1.7 billion · 2.6%
13. Spain$1.7 billion · 2.6%
14. Japan$1.6 billion · 2.5%
15. Netherlands$1.6 billion · 2.4%
    re-exports
16. Taiwan$1.3 billion · 2%
17. Belgium$1.3 billion · 1.9%
    re-exports
18. Turkey$1.1 billion · 1.6%
19. Czechia$891 million · 1.4%
20. Russia$837 million · 1.3%

• 3920 · Plastic sheets and film

Products in the same chapter

• Other plastic articles
• Polyethylene
• Plastic packaging
• Polyethers, polyesters and epoxy resins
• Polypropylene
• Plastic pipes and hoses
• Other plastic sheets
• Self-adhesive plastic sheets

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.