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Trade between China and Finland

In 2024, China exported $7.6 billion to Finland and imported $4.2 billion. China ran a surplus of $3.4 billion with Finland, compared with a surplus of $1 billion in 2019. Finland was China’s 66th largest trading partner (0.2% of its trade), and China was Finland’s 3rd (8%).

Summary

China → Finland
$7.6billion
Finland → China
$4.2billion
China’s balance
$3.4billion

Balance

China’s trade balance with Finland

Trade between China and Finland grew 10.8-fold since 1995

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

  • Exports 7.6
  • Imports 4.2
  • Balance +3.4

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearExportsImportsTrade balance
1995$404 million$694 million-$290 million
1996$464 million$696 million-$232 million
1997$562 million$840 million-$279 million
1998$623 million$1.3 billion-$701 million
1999$744 million$1.3 billion-$586 million
2000$1.1 billion$1.5 billion-$438 million
2001$1.1 billion$1.6 billion-$547 million
2002$1.2 billion$1.4 billion-$169 million
2003$1.9 billion$1.6 billion$213 million
2004$2.6 billion$2.7 billion-$80 million
2005$3.2 billion$2.3 billion$912 million
2006$5.3 billion$2.8 billion$2.4 billion
2007$6.2 billion$3.2 billion$3 billion
2008$6.6 billion$3.2 billion$3.3 billion
2009$4.9 billion$3 billion$1.8 billion
2010$5.1 billion$4 billion$1.1 billion
2011$3.3 billion$4.2 billion-$807 million
2012$6 billion$3.6 billion$2.4 billion
2013$4.7 billion$3.6 billion$1.2 billion
2014$5 billion$3.7 billion$1.3 billion
2015$4.1 billion$3.1 billion$958 million
2016$4.2 billion$3.2 billion$1 billion
2017$5.1 billion$3.9 billion$1.2 billion
2018$5.4 billion$4.4 billion$1 billion
2019$5.3 billion$4.2 billion$1 billion
2020$6.1 billion$4 billion$2.1 billion
2021$7.7 billion$4.8 billion$2.9 billion
2022$9 billion$5.1 billion$3.9 billion
2023$7.5 billion$4.6 billion$2.9 billion
2024$7.6 billion$4.2 billion$3.4 billion

What they sell each other

What China sells to Finland

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

  1. Batteries$978 million · 12.9%
    35 thousand tonnes · China’s destinations
  2. Cameras and broadcast equipment$783 million · 10.3%
    2 thousand tonnes
  3. Computers$534 million · 7%
    2 thousand tonnes · China’s destinations
  4. Cars$253 million · 3.3%
    10 thousand tonnes · China’s destinations
  5. Transformers and power supplies$181 million · 2.4%
    7 thousand tonnes
  6. Computer and office machine parts$154 million · 2%
    3 thousand tonnes
  7. Other engines and motors$138 million · 1.8%
    16 thousand tonnes
  8. Microphones and speakers$132 million · 1.7%
    2 thousand tonnes
  9. Lamps and light fittings$103 million · 1.4%
    7 thousand tonnes
  10. Diodes, transistors and solar cells$81 million · 1.1%
    25 thousand tonnes

What Finland sells to China

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

  1. Chemical wood pulp$1.1 billion · 27%
    1.7 million tonnes · Finland’s destinations
  2. Nickel ore$322 million · 7.6%
    41 thousand tonnes · China’s sources
  3. Nickel matte$215 million · 5.1%
    33 thousand tonnes
  4. Pulp and papermaking machinery$193 million · 4.6%
    6 thousand tonnes
  5. Sawn wood$112 million · 2.6%
    258 thousand tonnes · Finland’s destinations
  6. Medicines in measured doses or retail packs$105 million · 2.5%
    90 tonnes · Finland’s destinations
  7. Other industrial machines$102 million · 2.4%
    2 thousand tonnes
  8. Transformers and power supplies$81 million · 1.9%
    2 thousand tonnes
  9. Mixed fertilizers$69 million · 1.6%
    112 thousand tonnes
  10. Sulfates and alums$64 million · 1.5%
    17 thousand tonnes

How it travels

Estimated sea route from Shanghai to Helsinki.

The estimated sea route between Shanghai and Helsinki is 15,333 nautical miles (28,397 km) long: ≈ 35.5–45.5 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, the Strait of Dover and the Øresund (15,333 nautical miles); and 15% via the Strait of Malacca and Singapore, the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait, the Suez Canal, the Strait of Gibraltar, the Strait of Dover and the Øresund (11,818 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$8.3 billion · 70.2%
  2. Air$3.5 billion · 29.8%

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

How much each matters to the other

Finland was China’s 66th largest trading partner (0.2% of its trade), and China was Finland’s 3rd (8%).

Finland in China’s trade
0.2%
Finland’s rank among China’s partners
66th
China in Finland’s trade
7.6%
China’s rank among Finland’s partners
3rd

Compare with

Other partners of China

Other partners of Finland

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.