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Trade between Belarus and China

In 2024, Belarus exported $1.8 billion to China and imported $6.5 billion. Belarus ran a deficit of $4.7 billion with China, compared with a deficit of $2.9 billion in 2019. China was Belarus’ largest trading partner (36% of its trade), and Belarus was China’s 73rd (0.1%).

Summary

Belarus → China
$1.8billion
China → Belarus
$6.5billion
Belarus’ balance
-$4.7billion

Balance

Belarus’ trade balance with China

Trade between Belarus and China grew 237.2-fold since 1995

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

  • Exports 1.8
  • Imports 6.5
  • Balance -4.7

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearExportsImportsTrade balance
1995$25 million$10 million$15 million
1996$26 million$9 million$17 million
1997$23 million$17 million$6 million
1998$106 million$44 million$63 million
1999$175 million$39 million$136 million
2000$164 million$44 million$120 million
2001$170 million$41 million$129 million
2002$247 million$50 million$197 million
2003$185 million$78 million$108 million
2004$305 million$158 million$147 million
2005$446 million$288 million$157 million
2006$401 million$546 million-$145 million
2007$527 million$813 million-$286 million
2008$644 million$1.4 billion-$760 million
2009$591 million$1.1 billion-$468 million
2010$501 million$1.8 billion-$1.3 billion
2011$678 million$2.2 billion-$1.5 billion
2012$456 million$2.4 billion-$1.9 billion
2013$513 million$2.7 billion-$2.2 billion
2014$660 million$1 billion-$366 million
2015$797 million$2.3 billion-$1.5 billion
2016$423 million$2.5 billion-$2 billion
2017$379 million$2.7 billion-$2.3 billion
2018$512 million$3 billion-$2.5 billion
2019$666 million$3.5 billion-$2.9 billion
2020$849 million$3.6 billion-$2.7 billion
2021$1.1 billion$3.4 billion-$2.4 billion
2022$1.8 billion$3.2 billion-$1.4 billion
2023$2.6 billion$5.8 billion-$3.2 billion
2024$1.8 billion$6.5 billion-$4.7 billion

What they sell each other

What Belarus sells to China

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

  1. Potash fertilizers$843 million · 46.6%
    2.9 million tonnes
  2. Rapeseed and mustard oil$240 million · 13.3%
    238 thousand tonnes
  3. Sawn wood$221 million · 12.2%
    699 thousand tonnes · China’s sources
  4. Poultry meat$198 million · 11%
    53 thousand tonnes · China’s sources
  5. Frozen beef$72 million · 4%
    21 thousand tonnes
  6. Whey$40 million · 2.2%
    57 thousand tonnes
  7. Chemical wood pulp$35 million · 1.9%
    54 thousand tonnes · China’s sources
  8. Raw flax$25 million · 1.4%
    8 thousand tonnes
  9. Polyamides (nylon)$25 million · 1.4%
    16 thousand tonnes
  10. Refined copper$20 million · 1.1%
    3 thousand tonnes · China’s sources

What China sells to Belarus

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

  1. Cars$1.9 billion · 28.8%
    185 thousand tonnes · China’s destinations
  2. Monitors and projectors$316 million · 4.9%
    19 thousand tonnes · China’s destinations
  3. Diesel engines$160 million · 2.5%
    12 thousand tonnes
  4. Auto parts$150 million · 2.3%
    29 thousand tonnes · China’s destinations
  5. Washing machines$85 million · 1.3%
    34 thousand tonnes
  6. Computers$80 million · 1.2%
    712 tonnes · China’s destinations
  7. Motorcycles$71 million · 1.1%
    9 thousand tonnes · China’s destinations
  8. Other industrial machines$69 million · 1.1%
    5 thousand tonnes
  9. Cameras and broadcast equipment$68 million · 1%
    1 thousand tonnes
  10. Electric heaters and hair dryers$68 million · 1%
    16 thousand tonnes

How it travels

Estimated sea route from Klaipeda (Lithuania) to Shanghai.

The estimated sea route between Klaipeda (Lithuania) and Shanghai is 15,071 nautical miles (27,912 km) long: ≈ 35–45 days at sea (at 18 and 14 knots).

Because of the 2024 disruptions, traffic is split: 85% via the Øresund, the Strait of Dover, the Cape of Good Hope and the Strait of Malacca and Singapore (15,071 nautical miles); and 15% via the Øresund, the Strait of Dover, the Strait of Gibraltar, the Suez Canal, the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait and the Strait of Malacca and Singapore (11,557 nautical miles).

Belarus is landlocked: it ships through Klaipeda (Lithuania).

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$7.8 billion · 93.7%
  2. Air$521 million · 6.3%

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

How much each matters to the other

China was Belarus’ largest trading partner (36% of its trade), and Belarus was China’s 73rd (0.1%).

China in Belarus’ trade
36.3%
China’s rank among Belarus’ partners
1st
Belarus in China’s trade
0.1%
Belarus’ rank among China’s partners
73rd

Compare with

Other partners of Belarus

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.