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Trade between China and Honduras

In 2024, China exported $2.6 billion to Honduras and imported $106 million. China ran a surplus of $2.5 billion with Honduras, compared with a surplus of $1.5 billion in 2019. Honduras was China’s 113th largest trading partner (0.1% of its trade), and China was Honduras’ 2nd (10%).

Summary

China → Honduras
$2.6billion
Honduras → China
$106million
China’s balance
$2.5billion

Balance

China’s trade balance with Honduras

Trade between China and Honduras grew 85.4-fold since 1995

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

  • Exports 2.6
  • Imports 0.1
  • Balance +2.5

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearExportsImportsTrade balance
1995$32 million$90 thousand$32 million
1996$30 million$2 million$28 million
1997$37 million$964 thousand$36 million
1998$55 million$2 million$53 million
1999$61 million$413 thousand$60 million
2000$59 million$146 thousand$59 million
2001$65 million$591 thousand$65 million
2002$48 million$1 million$47 million
2003$78 million$6 million$73 million
2004$114 million$13 million$100 million
2005$139 million$21 million$118 million
2006$201 million$27 million$173 million
2007$299 million$25 million$274 million
2008$323 million$16 million$307 million
2009$304 million$57 million$247 million
2010$551 million$134 million$418 million
2011$712 million$198 million$514 million
2012$859 million$285 million$574 million
2013$799 million$235 million$564 million
2014$1 billion$222 million$796 million
2015$1.3 billion$49 million$1.3 billion
2016$1.2 billion$37 million$1.1 billion
2017$1.3 billion$43 million$1.3 billion
2018$1.5 billion$51 million$1.5 billion
2019$1.5 billion$33 million$1.5 billion
2020$1.3 billion$55 million$1.3 billion
2021$2.1 billion$31 million$2.1 billion
2022$1.6 billion$29 million$1.5 billion
2023$2.4 billion$87 million$2.3 billion
2024$2.6 billion$106 million$2.5 billion

What they sell each other

What China sells to Honduras

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

  1. Coated flat steel$208 million · 7.9%
    276 thousand tonnes
  2. 2 thousand tonnes
  3. Motorcycles$117 million · 4.4%
    20 thousand tonnes · China’s destinations
  4. New tires$69 million · 2.6%
    24 thousand tonnes · China’s destinations
  5. Air conditioners$62 million · 2.4%
    11 thousand tonnes · China’s destinations
  6. Auto parts$55 million · 2.1%
    10 thousand tonnes · China’s destinations
  7. 10 thousand tonnes · China’s destinations
  8. 6 thousand tonnes
  9. Computers$42 million · 1.6%
    776 tonnes · China’s destinations
  10. Semi-finished steel$40 million · 1.5%
    76 thousand tonnes

What Honduras sells to China

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

  1. Iron ore$40 million · 37.6%
    382 thousand tonnes · China’s sources
  2. Logs$20 million · 18.7%
    33 thousand tonnes · China’s sources
  3. Coffee$13 million · 12.5%
    3 thousand tonnes
  4. Iron oxides$12 million · 10.9%
    46 thousand tonnes
  5. Copper scrap$11 million · 10.2%
    1 thousand tonnes
  6. T-shirts$3 million · 2.8%
    54 tonnes
  7. Parts for switchgear$1 million · 0.97%
    22 tonnes
  8. Prepared shellfish$768 thousand · 0.72%
    10 tonnes
  9. Synthetic filament yarn$642 thousand · 0.6%
    1 thousand tonnes
  10. Sweaters and pullovers$586 thousand · 0.55%
    22 tonnes

How it travels

Estimated sea route from Shanghai to Puerto Cortés.

The estimated sea route between Shanghai and Puerto Cortés is 9,566 nautical miles (17,716 km) long: ≈ 22–28.5 days at sea (at 18 and 14 knots).

Passages it crosses: Panama Canal.

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$2.5 billion · 92.2%
  2. Air$213 million · 7.8%

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

How much each matters to the other

Honduras was China’s 113th largest trading partner (0.1% of its trade), and China was Honduras’ 2nd (10%).

Honduras in China’s trade
0.1%
Honduras’ rank among China’s partners
113th
China in Honduras’ trade
9.6%
China’s rank among Honduras’ partners
2nd

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Sources and methodology

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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.