In 2024, the EU exported goods worth €213.3 billion to China and imported €517.8 billion, resulting in a trade deficit of €304.5 billion.
China was the EU’s largest trade partner for imports (21.3% of all extra-EU imports) and the third-largest partner for exports (8.3% of all extra-EU exports).
Compared with 2023, both imports and exports decreased, by 0.5% and 4.5%, respectively.
Between 2014 and 2024, imports from China increased by 101.9%, while exports grew by 47.0%.
Source dataset: ext_st_eu27_2020sitc
In 2024, the most imported products from China were electrical machinery, appliances and electrical parts (valued at €96.8 billion); telecommunications and audio equipment (€60.9 billion) and office machines and data-processing machines, such as personal computers, servers and others (€45.9 billion), as classified under the Standard International Trade Classification (SITC) divisions. Together, these 3 divisions accounted for 39.3% of all imports from China.
Source dataset: ds-059331
Source: Eurostat, https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/product?code=ddn-20250304-1
