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Trade between China and Czechia

In 2024, China exported $36 billion to Czechia and imported $4 billion. China ran a surplus of $31.9 billion with Czechia, compared with a surplus of $23 billion in 2019. Czechia was China’s 33rd largest trading partner (0.7% of its trade), and China was Czechia’s 2nd (9%).

Summary

China → Czechia
$36billion
Czechia → China
$4billion
China’s balance
$31.9billion

Balance

China’s trade balance with Czechia

Trade between China and Czechia grew 111.9-fold since 1995

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

  • Exports 36
  • Imports 4
  • Balance +31.9

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearExportsImportsTrade balance
1995$224 million$133 million$90 million
1996$308 million$95 million$213 million
1997$304 million$29 million$276 million
1998$557 million$52 million$505 million
1999$580 million$85 million$495 million
2000$713 million$86 million$627 million
2001$1.1 billion$105 million$974 million
2002$2 billion$182 million$1.9 billion
2003$2.7 billion$309 million$2.4 billion
2004$3.5 billion$371 million$3.1 billion
2005$3.8 billion$366 million$3.5 billion
2006$5.6 billion$489 million$5.1 billion
2007$9.1 billion$789 million$8.3 billion
2008$12.2 billion$924 million$11.3 billion
2009$10.4 billion$987 million$9.4 billion
2010$15 billion$1.4 billion$13.6 billion
2011$17.7 billion$2 billion$15.7 billion
2012$14.8 billion$1.9 billion$12.9 billion
2013$14.4 billion$2.1 billion$12.3 billion
2014$16.3 billion$2.3 billion$13.9 billion
2015$17.1 billion$2.2 billion$14.9 billion
2016$17.4 billion$2.3 billion$15.1 billion
2017$20.1 billion$2.8 billion$17.4 billion
2018$20.4 billion$3.1 billion$17.3 billion
2019$26.1 billion$3.1 billion$23 billion
2020$27.5 billion$3.4 billion$24.2 billion
2021$27.7 billion$4.1 billion$23.6 billion
2022$43.5 billion$3.7 billion$39.8 billion
2023$39.5 billion$3.5 billion$36 billion
2024$36 billion$4 billion$31.9 billion

What they sell each other

What China sells to Czechia

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

  1. Cameras and broadcast equipment$10.7 billion · 29.9%
    15 thousand tonnes
  2. Computer and office machine parts$3.2 billion · 9%
    86 thousand tonnes
  3. Batteries$2.2 billion · 6.1%
    87 thousand tonnes · China’s destinations
  4. Computers$2.2 billion · 6.1%
    15 thousand tonnes · China’s destinations
  5. Microchips$1.1 billion · 3%
    1 thousand tonnes · China’s destinations
  6. Transformers and power supplies$939 million · 2.6%
    24 thousand tonnes
  7. Auto parts$626 million · 1.7%
    83 thousand tonnes · China’s destinations
  8. Low-voltage switches and connectors$397 million · 1.1%
    8 thousand tonnes
  9. Toys$392 million · 1.1%
    28 thousand tonnes · China’s destinations
  10. Microphones and speakers$381 million · 1.1%
    11 thousand tonnes

What Czechia sells to China

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

  1. Electron microscopes$319 million · 8%
    758 tonnes
  2. Auto parts$288 million · 7.2%
    10 thousand tonnes · Czechia’s destinations
  3. Vehicle lights and signals$174 million · 4.3%
    894 tonnes
  4. Cameras and broadcast equipment$161 million · 4%
    225 tonnes
  5. Dissolving wood pulp$132 million · 3.3%
    135 thousand tonnes
  6. Computer and office machine parts$129 million · 3.2%
    540 tonnes
  7. Low-voltage switches and connectors$119 million · 3%
    2 thousand tonnes
  8. Women's knitted suits and dresses$116 million · 2.9%
    2 thousand tonnes
  9. Liquid pumps$98 million · 2.5%
    2 thousand tonnes
  10. Valves and taps$84 million · 2.1%
    1 thousand tonnes

How it travels

Estimated sea route from Shanghai to Hamburg (Germany).

The estimated sea route between Shanghai and Hamburg (Germany) is 14,474 nautical miles (26,806 km) long: ≈ 33.5–43 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 Dover (14,474 nautical miles); and 15% via the Strait of Malacca and Singapore, the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait, the Suez Canal, the Strait of Gibraltar and the Strait of Dover (10,960 nautical miles).

Czechia is landlocked: it ships through Hamburg (Germany).

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$19.8 billion · 49.5%
  2. Air$20.2 billion · 50.5%

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

How much each matters to the other

Czechia was China’s 33rd largest trading partner (0.7% of its trade), and China was Czechia’s 2nd (9%).

Czechia in China’s trade
0.7%
Czechia’s rank among China’s partners
33rd
China in Czechia’s trade
8.9%
China’s rank among Czechia’s partners
2nd

Compare with

Other partners of China

Other partners of Czechia

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.