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Trade between Croatia and France

In 2024, Croatia exported $525 million to France and imported $1.8 billion. Croatia ran a deficit of $1.3 billion with France, compared with a deficit of $372 million in 2019. France was Croatia’s 7th largest trading partner (3% of its trade), and Croatia was France’s 58th (0.2%).

Summary

Croatia → France
$525million
France → Croatia
$1.8billion
Croatia’s balance
-$1.3billion

Balance

Croatia’s trade balance with France

Trade between Croatia and France grew 6.9-fold since 1995

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

  • Exports 0.5
  • Imports 1.8
  • Balance -1.3

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearExportsImportsTrade balance
1995$139 million$204 million-$65 million
1996$106 million$219 million-$112 million
1997$100 million$309 million-$209 million
1998$131 million$414 million-$283 million
1999$129 million$417 million-$288 million
2000$145 million$446 million-$301 million
2001$189 million$410 million-$221 million
2002$180 million$568 million-$388 million
2003$187 million$768 million-$581 million
2004$191 million$733 million-$542 million
2005$215 million$782 million-$567 million
2006$234 million$848 million-$615 million
2007$275 million$908 million-$633 million
2008$319 million$959 million-$640 million
2009$226 million$624 million-$398 million
2010$189 million$555 million-$365 million
2011$613 million$682 million-$68 million
2012$217 million$636 million-$419 million
2013$214 million$474 million-$260 million
2014$296 million$535 million-$240 million
2015$275 million$487 million-$212 million
2016$279 million$525 million-$247 million
2017$369 million$600 million-$231 million
2018$397 million$742 million-$345 million
2019$406 million$778 million-$372 million
2020$503 million$699 million-$196 million
2021$558 million$859 million-$302 million
2022$602 million$933 million-$331 million
2023$530 million$1.2 billion-$621 million
2024$525 million$1.8 billion-$1.3 billion

What they sell each other

What Croatia sells to France

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

  1. Cables and wire$53 million · 10.2%
    6 thousand tonnes · France’s sources
  2. Vaccines, blood and antisera$35 million · 6.6%
    29 tonnes · France’s sources
  3. Aluminum foil$28 million · 5.4%
    3 thousand tonnes
  4. Auto parts$19 million · 3.7%
    2 thousand tonnes · France’s sources
  5. Socks and tights$18 million · 3.4%
    658 tonnes
  6. 86 tonnes · France’s sources
  7. Steam boilers$13 million · 2.5%
    685 tonnes
  8. 850 tonnes
  9. Plastic sheets and film$12 million · 2.3%
    5 thousand tonnes
  10. Engine parts$12 million · 2.3%
    520 tonnes

What France sells to Croatia

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

  1. Airplanes and helicopters$339 million · 18.4%
    88 tonnes · France’s destinations
  2. Cars$203 million · 11%
    20 thousand tonnes · France’s destinations
  3. Yachts and pleasure boats$138 million · 7.5%
    3 thousand tonnes
  4. Aircraft parts$110 million · 6%
    284 tonnes
  5. 48 tonnes
  6. Makeup and skin care$60 million · 3.3%
    2 thousand tonnes · France’s destinations
  7. Trucks$50 million · 2.7%
    5 thousand tonnes · France’s destinations
  8. Ethers and organic peroxides$41 million · 2.2%
    42 thousand tonnes
  9. 225 tonnes · France’s destinations
  10. Unwrought aluminum$38 million · 2.1%
    13 thousand tonnes

How it travels

Estimated sea route from Rijeka to Le Havre.

The estimated sea route between Rijeka and Le Havre is 2,894 nautical miles (5,360 km) long: ≈ 6.5–8.5 days at sea (at 18 and 14 knots).

Passages it crosses: Strait of Gibraltar.

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$1.3 billion · 56.7%
  2. Air$1 billion · 43.3%

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

How much each matters to the other

France was Croatia’s 7th largest trading partner (3% of its trade), and Croatia was France’s 58th (0.2%).

France in Croatia’s trade
3.5%
France’s rank among Croatia’s partners
7th
Croatia in France’s trade
0.2%
Croatia’s rank among France’s partners
58th

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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.