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China Imports

Last Release
Feb 28, 2025
Actual
369.43
Units In
USD HML
Previous
230.79
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Monthly
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369.43
Feb 2025
1.39
Feb 1983
73.05 USD HML1981-2025General Administration of Customs
In 2019 imports to China fell 2.7 percent, the first yearly decline in three years, on weak domestic demand and persistent trade tensions with the US. Machinery and transport equipment accounted for 38 percent of total imports on the back of electrical machinery, apparatus and appliances (21 percent), road vehicles (4 percent), telecommunications and sound recording and reproducing apparatus and equipment (3 percent), and office machines and automatic data processing machines (3 percent). Other important categories were: mineral fuels, lubricants and related materials (17 percent) led by petroleum, petroleum products and related materials (13 percent) and gas, natural and manufactured (3 percent); crude materials, inedible, except fuels (14 percent), such as metalliferous ores and metal scrap (9 percent); chemicals and related products (11 percent) due to organic chemicals (3 percent) and plastics in primary forms (3 percent); miscellaneous manufactured articles (7 percent); manufactured goods classified chiefly by material (7 percent); and food and live animals (4 percent). The biggest source of imports was the EU (13 percent of imports) of which Germany (5 percent) and France (2 percent), followed by South Korea, Taiwan, Japan (8 percent each), the US and Australia (6 percent each), Brazil (4 percent), Malaysia, Vietnam, Russia and Saudi Arabia (3 percent each), and Thailand, Singapore and Indonesia (2 percent each).

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China announced on Saturday that it will impose a 100% tariff on imports of certain Canadian agricultural products, including rapeseed oil, oil cakes, and peas, along with a 25% levy on aquatic products and pork. These levies, set to take effect on March 20, were introduced by China's Customs Tariff Commission of the State Council in response to Ottawa's trade measures. Canada had previously imposed a 100% tariff on Chinese-made electric vehicles starting October 1 last year, aligning with similar actions by the US. and the European Union over concerns of unfair competition. Additionally, Canada implemented a 25% tariff on Chinese steel and aluminum imports, effective since October 15. In an online statement, Beijing said: "Canada’s unilateral imposition of tariffs... seriously infringes on China’s legitimate rights and interests, and undermines China-Canada economic and trade relations."

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