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Trade between Azerbaijan and China

In 2024, Azerbaijan exported $20 million to China and imported $3.7 billion. Azerbaijan ran a deficit of $3.7 billion with China, compared with a deficit of $627 million in 2019. China was Azerbaijan’s 4th largest trading partner (8% of its trade), and Azerbaijan was China’s 100th (0.1%).

Summary

Azerbaijan → China
$20million
China → Azerbaijan
$3.7billion
Azerbaijan’s balance
-$3.7billion

Balance

Azerbaijan’s trade balance with China

Trade between Azerbaijan and China grew 988.8-fold since 1995

USD billions (current). Azerbaijan’s exports and imports; bars: its balance (green surplus, red deficit).

  • Exports 0
  • Imports 3.7
  • Balance -3.7

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearExportsImportsTrade balance
1995$3 million$1 million$2 million
1996$455 thousand$4 million-$3 million
1997$15 million$8 million$7 million
1998$941 thousand$7 million-$6 million
1999$175 thousand$14 million-$14 million
2000$5 million$24 million-$19 million
2001$3 million$47 million-$44 million
2002$1 million$88 million-$87 million
2003$21 million$176 million-$155 million
2004$37 million$173 million-$136 million
2005$109 million$254 million-$145 million
2006$20 million$338 million-$318 million
2007$10 million$459 million-$449 million
2008$499 million$733 million-$234 million
2009$141 million$679 million-$539 million
2010$320 million$976 million-$656 million
2011$198 million$964 million-$766 million
2012$211 million$886 million-$675 million
2013$126 million$776 million-$649 million
2014$289 million$761 million-$472 million
2015$216 million$552 million-$337 million
2016$386 million$711 million-$326 million
2017$460 million$849 million-$390 million
2018$117 million$1.2 billion-$1 billion
2019$770 million$1.4 billion-$627 million
2020$457 million$1.4 billion-$944 million
2021$151 million$1.7 billion-$1.5 billion
2022$238 million$1.9 billion-$1.7 billion
2023$79 million$3 billion-$2.9 billion
2024$20 million$3.7 billion-$3.7 billion

What they sell each other

What Azerbaijan sells to China

The top 10 headings in 2024, with their share of the total.

  1. Petroleum coke and bitumen$10 million · 53.2%
    124 thousand tonnes
  2. Fluorine, chlorine, bromine and iodine$4 million · 20.7%
    74 tonnes
  3. Raw cotton$1 million · 6%
    991 tonnes · China’s sources
  4. Medicinal and aromatic plants$717 thousand · 3.6%
    871 tonnes
  5. Refined petroleum$596 thousand · 3%
    477 tonnes · China’s sources
  6. Glycosides$459 thousand · 2.3%
    62 tonnes
  7. Tanned cattle hides$447 thousand · 2.3%
    193 tonnes
  8. Navigation instruments$309 thousand · 1.6%
  9. Surveying instruments$261 thousand · 1.3%
    1 tonne
  10. Silkworm cocoons$206 thousand · 1.1%
    19 tonnes

What China sells to Azerbaijan

The top 10 headings in 2024, with their share of the total.

  1. Cars$459 million · 12.3%
    33 thousand tonnes · China’s destinations
  2. Cameras and broadcast equipment$432 million · 11.6%
    2 thousand tonnes
  3. Computers$148 million · 4%
    806 tonnes · China’s destinations
  4. Coated flat steel$97 million · 2.6%
    89 thousand tonnes
  5. Air conditioners$76 million · 2%
    11 thousand tonnes · China’s destinations
  6. New tires$69 million · 1.8%
    25 thousand tonnes · China’s destinations
  7. Monitors and projectors$56 million · 1.5%
    2 thousand tonnes · China’s destinations
  8. Buses$56 million · 1.5%
    3 thousand tonnes
  9. Bulldozers and excavators$54 million · 1.4%
    13 thousand tonnes · China’s destinations
  10. Generating sets$51 million · 1.4%
    8 thousand tonnes

How it travels

Estimated sea route from Batumi (Georgia) to Shanghai.

The estimated sea route between Batumi (Georgia) and Shanghai is 15,470 nautical miles (28,650 km) long: ≈ 36–46 days at sea (at 18 and 14 knots).

Because of the 2024 disruptions, traffic is split: 85% via the Bosporus, the Dardanelles, the Strait of Gibraltar, the Cape of Good Hope and the Strait of Malacca and Singapore (15,470 nautical miles); and 15% via the Bosporus, the Dardanelles, the Suez Canal, the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait and the Strait of Malacca and Singapore (8,743 nautical miles).

Azerbaijan is landlocked: it ships through Batumi (Georgia).

Sailing estimate without port calls, waiting or transshipment; not a schedule. One main reference port per country: in large countries it does not represent all of its ports.

Split by transport mode

  1. Sea$3 billion · 80.9%
  2. Air$714 million · 19.1%

Mode estimated from value per kilo and geography; both directions together.

How much each matters to the other

China was Azerbaijan’s 4th largest trading partner (8% of its trade), and Azerbaijan was China’s 100th (0.1%).

China in Azerbaijan’s trade
7.6%
China’s rank among Azerbaijan’s partners
4th
Azerbaijan in China’s trade
0.1%
Azerbaijan’s rank among China’s partners
100th

Compare with

Other partners of Azerbaijan

Other partners of China

Sources and methodology

Sources and licenses

Methodology

Goods trade from CEPII BACI (BACI_HS92_V202601), in current US dollars, with exports and imports reconciled between countries. The transport mode is our own estimate based on value per kilo and geography. The sea route comes from our own network derived from World Bank shipping density (not from nautical charts), between one main reference port per country (World Port Index); days are the distance at 14 and 18 knots, without port calls or waiting. Data up to 2024.