Wallpaper: top exporters and importers (2024)

1. China$392 million · 30.1%
2. Germany$184 million · 14.2%
3. Belgium$122 million · 9.4%
   re-exports
4. United Kingdom$89 million · 6.9%
5. Russia$78 million · 6%
6. Italy$77 million · 6%
7. France$53 million · 4.1%
8. United States$46 million · 3.6%
9. South Korea$44 million · 3.4%
10. Sweden$31 million · 2.4%
11. Japan$25 million · 2%
12. Ukraine$23 million · 1.8%
13. Turkey$20 million · 1.6%
14. Netherlands$19 million · 1.5%
    re-exports
15. Poland$18 million · 1.4%
16. Uzbekistan$9 million · 0.69%
17. Belarus$8 million · 0.65%
18. Spain$7 million · 0.51%
19. Philippines$5 million · 0.4%
20. Canada$4 million · 0.28%

China went from 0.85% to 30.1% of world exports of wallpaper

In 2024, China accounted for 30.1% of recorded world exports and the three largest exporters together for 53.7%. HHI: 1,377 out of 10,000; equivalent to 7 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 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.

• Uzbekistan: 64.5% of its purchases · Dependence of Uzbekistan on China
• Vietnam: 93.8% of its purchases · Dependence of Vietnam on China
• Tajikistan: 91% of its purchases · Dependence of Tajikistan on China
• Indonesia: 84.8% of its purchases · Dependence of Indonesia on China
• Iran: 97.4% of its purchases · Dependence of Iran on China
• United Arab Emirates: 57.2% of its purchases · Dependence of the United Arab Emirates on China
• Malaysia: 83.9% of its purchases · Dependence of Malaysia on China
• India: 59.1% of its purchases · Dependence of India on China
• Philippines: 92.4% of its purchases · Dependence of the Philippines on China
• North Korea: 100% of its purchases · Dependence of North Korea on China

1. United States$134 million · 10.3%
2. France$111 million · 8.6%
3. Netherlands$85 million · 6.5%
   re-exports
4. United Kingdom$82 million · 6.3%
5. Kazakhstan$65 million · 5%
6. Uzbekistan$63 million · 4.8%
7. Russia$48 million · 3.7%
8. Vietnam$36 million · 2.8%
9. Azerbaijan$31 million · 2.4%
10. United Arab Emirates$29 million · 2.2%
11. Poland$27 million · 2.1%
12. India$26 million · 2%
13. Belgium$25 million · 2%
    re-exports
14. Germany$25 million · 1.9%
15. Indonesia$21 million · 1.6%
16. Canada$21 million · 1.6%
17. Tajikistan$20 million · 1.5%
18. Malaysia$19 million · 1.5%
19. Saudi Arabia$19 million · 1.4%
20. Spain$18 million · 1.4%

• 4814 · Wallpaper

Products in the same chapter

• Toilet paper and tissues
• Paper boxes and packaging
• Coated paper
• Treated paper and cellulose wadding
• Uncoated paper
• Kraft paper and paperboard
• Other paper and paperboard articles
• Writing and printing paper

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.