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Trade between China and Croatia

In 2024, China exported $1.7 billion to Croatia and imported $162 million. China ran a surplus of $1.5 billion with Croatia, compared with a surplus of $746 million in 2019. Croatia was China’s 125th largest trading partner (0% of its trade), and China was Croatia’s 12th (3%).

Summary

China → Croatia
$1.7billion
Croatia → China
$162million
China’s balance
$1.5billion

Balance

China’s trade balance with Croatia

Trade between China and Croatia grew 26.2-fold since 1995

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

  • Exports 1.7
  • Imports 0.2
  • Balance +1.5

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearExportsImportsTrade balance
1995$44 million$27 million$17 million
1996$56 million$32 million$23 million
1997$70 million$7 million$63 million
1998$69 million$6 million$63 million
1999$89 million$7 million$82 million
2000$93 million$6 million$87 million
2001$162 million$4 million$158 million
2002$265 million$5 million$260 million
2003$415 million$9 million$406 million
2004$663 million$23 million$640 million
2005$928 million$48 million$880 million
2006$1.2 billion$66 million$1.2 billion
2007$1.6 billion$68 million$1.6 billion
2008$2 billion$84 million$1.9 billion
2009$1.5 billion$75 million$1.4 billion
2010$1.6 billion$68 million$1.5 billion
2011$1.6 billion$94 million$1.5 billion
2012$1.5 billion$80 million$1.4 billion
2013$838 million$107 million$731 million
2014$708 million$110 million$598 million
2015$680 million$111 million$570 million
2016$755 million$161 million$594 million
2017$785 million$176 million$609 million
2018$946 million$226 million$720 million
2019$906 million$161 million$746 million
2020$1.3 billion$150 million$1.1 billion
2021$1.3 billion$337 million$983 million
2022$1.6 billion$141 million$1.4 billion
2023$1.5 billion$119 million$1.4 billion
2024$1.7 billion$162 million$1.5 billion

What they sell each other

What China sells to Croatia

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

  1. Other electrical devices$97 million · 5.7%
    806 tonnes
  2. Industrial fatty acids and oils$93 million · 5.5%
    2 thousand tonnes
  3. Cameras and broadcast equipment$90 million · 5.3%
    315 tonnes
  4. Air conditioners$76 million · 4.5%
    11 thousand tonnes · China’s destinations
  5. Computers$62 million · 3.6%
    333 tonnes · China’s destinations
  6. Diodes, transistors and solar cells$50 million · 3%
    18 thousand tonnes
  7. Seats and chairs$38 million · 2.2%
    5 thousand tonnes
  8. Refrigerators, freezers and heat pumps$37 million · 2.2%
    9 thousand tonnes · China’s destinations
  9. Lamps and light fittings$35 million · 2.1%
    2 thousand tonnes
  10. Cars$28 million · 1.7%
    2 thousand tonnes · China’s destinations

What Croatia sells to China

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

  1. Sawn wood$49 million · 30.2%
    92 thousand tonnes · China’s sources
  2. Logs$12 million · 7.2%
    19 thousand tonnes · China’s sources
  3. Marble and travertine$10 million · 6.2%
    44 thousand tonnes
  4. Special-purpose vehicles$9 million · 5.5%
    240 tonnes
  5. Resistors$8 million · 5.1%
    87 tonnes
  6. Plastic and rubber processing machines$7 million · 4.1%
    412 tonnes
  7. Pet and animal feed$5 million · 2.9%
    795 tonnes
  8. Aluminum foil$5 million · 2.9%
    461 tonnes
  9. Organosulfur compounds$5 million · 2.9%
    795 tonnes
  10. Control instruments$4 million · 2.5%
    85 tonnes

How it travels

Estimated sea route from Shanghai to Rijeka.

The estimated sea route between Shanghai and Rijeka is 14,747 nautical miles (27,312 km) long: ≈ 34–44 days at sea (at 18 and 14 knots).

Because of the 2024 disruptions, traffic is split: 85% via the Strait of Malacca and Singapore, the Cape of Good Hope and the Strait of Gibraltar (14,747 nautical miles); and 15% via the Strait of Malacca and Singapore, the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait and the Suez Canal (8,626 nautical miles).

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$1.4 billion · 73%
  2. Air$505 million · 27%

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

How much each matters to the other

Croatia was China’s 125th largest trading partner (0% of its trade), and China was Croatia’s 12th (3%).

Croatia in China’s trade
0%
Croatia’s rank among China’s partners
125th
China in Croatia’s trade
2.7%
China’s rank among Croatia’s partners
12th

Compare with

Other partners of China

Other partners of Croatia

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.