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Trade between China and Uzbekistan

In 2024, China exported $10.5 billion to Uzbekistan and imported $2 billion. China ran a surplus of $8.5 billion with Uzbekistan, compared with a surplus of $3.1 billion in 2019. Uzbekistan was China’s 63rd largest trading partner (0.2% of its trade), and China was Uzbekistan’s largest (21%).

Summary

China → Uzbekistan
$10.5billion
Uzbekistan → China
$2billion
China’s balance
$8.5billion

Balance

China’s trade balance with Uzbekistan

Trade between China and Uzbekistan grew 106-fold since 1995

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

  • Exports 10.5
  • Imports 2
  • Balance +8.5

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearExportsImportsTrade balance
1995$47 million$71 million-$24 million
1996$38 million$152 million-$113 million
1997$62 million$141 million-$80 million
1998$57 million$32 million$25 million
1999$27 million$13 million$14 million
2000$39 million$12 million$27 million
2001$51 million$8 million$43 million
2002$104 million$27 million$77 million
2003$147 million$200 million-$54 million
2004$172 million$403 million-$231 million
2005$230 million$450 million-$220 million
2006$405 million$566 million-$161 million
2007$764 million$363 million$400 million
2008$1.3 billion$329 million$948 million
2009$1.6 billion$349 million$1.2 billion
2010$1.2 billion$1.3 billion-$121 million
2011$1.4 billion$807 million$552 million
2012$1.8 billion$1.1 billion$691 million
2013$2.6 billion$1.9 billion$675 million
2014$2.7 billion$1.6 billion$1.1 billion
2015$2.2 billion$1.3 billion$962 million
2016$2 billion$1.6 billion$400 million
2017$2.7 billion$1.4 billion$1.3 billion
2018$3.6 billion$2.2 billion$1.4 billion
2019$5.1 billion$1.9 billion$3.1 billion
2020$4.6 billion$1.3 billion$3.3 billion
2021$5.1 billion$1.9 billion$3.1 billion
2022$6.7 billion$2 billion$4.7 billion
2023$11.9 billion$1.8 billion$10.1 billion
2024$10.5 billion$2 billion$8.5 billion

What they sell each other

What China sells to Uzbekistan

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

  1. Cars$892 million · 8.5%
    57 thousand tonnes · China’s destinations
  2. Cameras and broadcast equipment$595 million · 5.6%
    2 thousand tonnes
  3. Auto parts$391 million · 3.7%
    66 thousand tonnes · China’s destinations
  4. Diodes, transistors and solar cells$342 million · 3.3%
    117 thousand tonnes
  5. Transformers and power supplies$308 million · 2.9%
    20 thousand tonnes
  6. Other industrial machines$258 million · 2.5%
    82 thousand tonnes
  7. Generating sets$240 million · 2.3%
    23 thousand tonnes
  8. Sorting and crushing machines$211 million · 2%
    21 thousand tonnes
  9. New tires$205 million · 2%
    45 thousand tonnes · China’s destinations
  10. Seamless steel pipes$176 million · 1.7%
    110 thousand tonnes

What Uzbekistan sells to China

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

  1. Natural gas and LPG$726 million · 36.1%
    1.4 million tonnes
  2. Refined copper$525 million · 26.1%
    62 thousand tonnes · China’s sources
  3. Cotton yarn$285 million · 14.2%
    131 thousand tonnes
  4. Dried legumes (beans, lentils, peas)$90 million · 4.5%
    112 thousand tonnes
  5. Poultry meat$46 million · 2.3%
    12 thousand tonnes · China’s sources
  6. Plant extracts, pectin and thickeners$35 million · 1.7%
    7 thousand tonnes
  7. Glycosides$32 million · 1.6%
    5 thousand tonnes
  8. Gold$29 million · 1.4%
    Uzbekistan’s destinations
  9. Tanned cattle hides$29 million · 1.4%
    10 thousand tonnes
  10. Dried fruit and nut mixes$24 million · 1.2%
    20 thousand tonnes

How it travels

Estimated sea route from Shanghai to Batumi (Georgia).

The estimated sea route between Shanghai and Batumi (Georgia) is 15,470 nautical miles (28,650 km) long: ≈ 36–46 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 Gibraltar, the Dardanelles and the Bosporus (15,470 nautical miles); and 15% via the Strait of Malacca and Singapore, the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait, the Suez Canal, the Dardanelles and the Bosporus (8,743 nautical miles).

Uzbekistan is landlocked: it ships through Batumi (Georgia).

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$11.1 billion · 88.1%
  2. Air$1.5 billion · 11.9%

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

How much each matters to the other

Uzbekistan was China’s 63rd largest trading partner (0.2% of its trade), and China was Uzbekistan’s largest (21%).

Uzbekistan in China’s trade
0.2%
Uzbekistan’s rank among China’s partners
63rd
China in Uzbekistan’s trade
21.2%
China’s rank among Uzbekistan’s partners
1st

Compare with

Other partners of China

Other partners of Uzbekistan

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.