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Trade between Serbia and Turkey

In 2024, Serbia exported $1.2 billion to Turkey and imported $2.4 billion. Serbia ran a deficit of $1.2 billion with Turkey, compared with a deficit of $786 million in 2019. Turkey was Serbia’s 5th largest trading partner (5% of its trade), and Serbia was Turkey’s 35th (0.6%).

Summary

Serbia → Turkey
$1.2billion
Turkey → Serbia
$2.4billion
Serbia’s balance
-$1.2billion

Balance

Serbia’s trade balance with Turkey

Trade between Serbia and Turkey grew 48.3-fold since 1996

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

  • Exports 1.2
  • Imports 2.4
  • Balance -1.2

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearExportsImportsTrade balance
1995$0$0$0
1996$31 million$43 million-$12 million
1997$33 million$74 million-$41 million
1998$26 million$109 million-$83 million
1999$27 million$83 million-$57 million
2000$51 million$124 million-$73 million
2001$9 million$97 million-$89 million
2002$12 million$142 million-$130 million
2003$30 million$185 million-$155 million
2004$88 million$243 million-$154 million
2005$97 million$258 million-$161 million
2006$40 million$258 million-$218 million
2007$76 million$542 million-$466 million
2008$65 million$607 million-$542 million
2009$67 million$412 million-$345 million
2010$125 million$443 million-$318 million
2011$224 million$534 million-$310 million
2012$214 million$555 million-$342 million
2013$274 million$651 million-$377 million
2014$334 million$705 million-$371 million
2015$343 million$682 million-$339 million
2016$339 million$761 million-$422 million
2017$499 million$931 million-$432 million
2018$381 million$1.1 billion-$715 million
2019$431 million$1.2 billion-$786 million
2020$428 million$1.3 billion-$828 million
2021$438 million$1.8 billion-$1.4 billion
2022$566 million$2.2 billion-$1.6 billion
2023$678 million$2 billion-$1.3 billion
2024$1.2 billion$2.4 billion-$1.2 billion

What they sell each other

What Serbia sells to Turkey

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

  1. Refined copper$414 million · 34.1%
    45 thousand tonnes · Turkey’s sources
  2. Cigarettes and cigars$89 million · 7.3%
    3 thousand tonnes
  3. New tires$82 million · 6.8%
    20 thousand tonnes
  4. 37 thousand tonnes
  5. Centrifuges and filters$27 million · 2.2%
    938 tonnes
  6. Liquid pumps$25 million · 2%
    895 tonnes
  7. Auto parts$23 million · 1.9%
    2 thousand tonnes · Turkey’s sources
  8. Gold$23 million · 1.9%
    1 tonne · Turkey’s sources
  9. Detergents and surfactants$23 million · 1.9%
    5 thousand tonnes
  10. Other industrial machines$23 million · 1.9%
    565 tonnes

What Turkey sells to Serbia

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

  1. Cables and wire$119 million · 5%
    14 thousand tonnes · Turkey’s destinations
  2. Unrefined copper$112 million · 4.7%
    12 thousand tonnes
  3. Buses$110 million · 4.6%
    7 thousand tonnes
  4. Other knitted fabric$61 million · 2.6%
    10 thousand tonnes
  5. Citrus fruit$44 million · 1.9%
    50 thousand tonnes
  6. Hot-rolled flat steel$42 million · 1.8%
    73 thousand tonnes
  7. Steel bars$40 million · 1.7%
    75 thousand tonnes
  8. Refined petroleum$38 million · 1.6%
    32 thousand tonnes · Turkey’s destinations
  9. Coated flat steel$37 million · 1.6%
    40 thousand tonnes
  10. Detergents and surfactants$37 million · 1.6%
    28 thousand tonnes

How it travels

Estimated sea route from Bar (Montenegro) to Istanbul.

The estimated sea route between Bar (Montenegro) and Istanbul is 871 nautical miles (1,612 km) long: ≈ 2–2.5 days at sea (at 18 and 14 knots).

Passages it crosses: Dardanelles.

Serbia is landlocked: it ships through Bar (Montenegro).

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$3.4 billion · 96%
  2. Air$144 million · 4%

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

How much each matters to the other

Turkey was Serbia’s 5th largest trading partner (5% of its trade), and Serbia was Turkey’s 35th (0.6%).

Turkey in Serbia’s trade
4.8%
Turkey’s rank among Serbia’s partners
5th
Serbia in Turkey’s trade
0.6%
Serbia’s rank among Turkey’s partners
35th

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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.