# China Import Opportunities

Explore China's import opportunities by product, supplier concentration, demand growth, and market size.

- Latest import year: 2024
- Latest imports: $2.3T
- Import CAGR: -1.3%
- Trade openness: 34.6%

## Top Import Opportunities

| Rank | Product | Description | Market size | Demand growth | Suppliers | Concentration |
| ---: | --- | --- | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: |
| 1 | HS 260111 | Iron ores and concentrates: non-agglomerated | $111.0B | +18.9% | 72 | 4518 |
| 2 | HS 270900 | Oils: petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, crude | $291.6B | +18.1% | 46 | 1091 |
| 3 | HS 854231 | Electronic integrated circuits: processors and controllers, whether or not combined with memories, converters, logic circuits, amplifiers, clock and timing circuits, or other circuits | $158.0B | +18.1% | 96 | 1781 |
| 4 | HS 854232 | Electronic integrated circuits: memories | $80.6B | +17.4% | 67 | 3278 |
| 5 | HS 710812 | Metals: gold, non-monetary, unwrought (but not powder) | $80.8B | +33.7% | 44 | 2335 |
| 6 | HS 120190 | Soya beans: other than seed, whether or not broken | $47.8B | +24.6% | 22 | 5187 |
| 7 | HS 854239 | Electronic integrated circuits: n.e.c. in heading no. 8542 | $81.8B | +15.9% | 111 | 2636 |
| 8 | HS 260300 | Copper ores and concentrates | $62.6B | +20.3% | 69 | 1794 |
| 9 | HS 271111 | Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons: liquefied, natural gas | $39.7B | +39.1% | 24 | 2139 |
| 10 | HS 851712 | Telephones for cellular networks or for other wireless networks | $34.6B | +15.4% | 101 | 3054 |
| 11 | HS 720260 | Ferro-alloys: ferro-nickel | $13.9B | +40.3% | 21 | 8337 |
| 12 | HS 710813 | Metals: gold, semi-manufactured | $17.6B | +31.4% | 30 | 4010 |
| 13 | HS 848620 | Machines and apparatus of a kind used solely or principally for the manufacture of semiconductor devices or of electronic integrated circuits | $34.2B | +29.9% | 35 | 2070 |
| 14 | HS 740311 | Copper: refined, unwrought, cathodes and sections of cathodes | $30.3B | +17.5% | 47 | 1748 |
| 15 | HS 847180 | Data processing machines: automatic, units thereof n.e.s. in heading no. 8471 | $15.7B | +19.1% | 80 | 4722 |
| 16 | HS 271121 | Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons: in gaseous state, natural gas | $19.1B | +53.3% | 10 | 3593 |
| 17 | HS 270210 | Lignite: whether or not pulverised, but not agglomerated, excluding jet | $9.3B | +47.5% | 15 | 8058 |
| 18 | HS 270112 | Coal: bituminous, whether or not pulverised, but not agglomerated | $31.4B | +24.7% | 24 | 2069 |
| 19 | HS 870323 | Vehicles: spark-ignition internal combustion reciprocating piston engine, cylinder capacity exceeding 1500cc but not exceeding 3000cc | $23.5B | +13.2% | 58 | 2456 |
| 20 | HS 260600 | Aluminium ores and concentrates | $8.8B | +29.3% | 40 | 6077 |
| 21 | HS 020230 | Meat: of bovine animals, boneless cuts, frozen | $10.7B | +30.8% | 33 | 3379 |
| 22 | HS 271112 | Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons: liquefied, propane | $12.9B | +16.8% | 29 | 3238 |
| 23 | HS 852990 | Reception and transmission apparatus: for use with the apparatus of heading no. 8525 to 8528, excluding aerials and aerial reflectors | $15.7B | +7.9% | 88 | 3572 |
| 24 | HS 880240 | Aeroplanes and other aircraft: of an unladen weight exceeding 15,000kg | $11.4B | +8.7% | 17 | 4665 |
| 25 | HS 851770 | Telephone sets and other apparatus for the transmission or reception of voice, images or other data, via a wired or wireless network: parts | $12.9B | +8.7% | 113 | 2671 |
| 26 | HS 870340 | Vehicles: with both spark-ignition internal combustion piston engine and electric motor for propulsion, incapable of being charged by plugging to external source of electric power | $5.7B | +49.3% | 25 | 4683 |
| 27 | HS 750120 | Nickel: oxide sinters and other intermediate products of nickel metallurgy | $4.8B | +23.4% | 26 | 6520 |
| 28 | HS 081060 | Fruit, edible: durians, fresh | $5.8B | +27.5% | 6 | 5319 |
| 29 | HS 470329 | Wood pulp: chemical wood pulp, soda or sulphate, (other than dissolving grades), semi-bleached or bleached, of non-coniferous wood | $8.4B | +17.0% | 27 | 3318 |
| 30 | HS 847330 | Machines: parts and accessories of automatic data processing, magnetic or optical readers, digital processing units | $21.3B | +9.1% | 99 | 1637 |
| 31 | HS 854129 | Electrical apparatus: transistors, (other than photosensitive), with a dissipation rate of 1W or more | $8.3B | +19.4% | 74 | 2507 |
| 32 | HS 271019 | Not reported | $17.9B | +8.8% | 97 | 1452 |
| 33 | HS 290243 | Cyclic hydrocarbons: p-xylene | $8.5B | +19.3% | 20 | 2522 |
| 34 | HS 080929 | Fruit, edible: cherries, other than sour cherries (Prunus cerasus), fresh | $3.2B | +43.6% | 13 | 9399 |
| 35 | HS 270119 | Coal: (other than anthracite and bituminous), whether or not pulverised but not agglomerated | $3.5B | +30.6% | 25 | 7605 |
| 36 | HS 253090 | Mineral substances: n.e.c. in chapter 25 | $4.4B | +23.6% | 111 | 4756 |
| 37 | HS 870840 | Vehicles: parts, gear boxes | $7.2B | +19.9% | 76 | 2641 |
| 38 | HS 999999 | Commodities not specified according to kind | $2.9B | +42.1% | 36 | 8604 |
| 39 | HS 810520 | Cobalt: mattes and other intermediate products of cobalt metallurgy, unwrought cobalt, powders | $3.1B | +20.5% | 33 | 9025 |
| 40 | HS 261000 | Chromium ores and concentrates | $4.3B | +12.8% | 31 | 6054 |
| 41 | HS 853224 | Electrical capacitors: fixed, ceramic dielectric, multilayer | $5.7B | +21.4% | 81 | 2668 |
| 42 | HS 282200 | Cobalt oxides and hydroxides: commercial cobalt oxides | $2.4B | +29.0% | 22 | 9307 |
| 43 | HS 120510 | Oil seeds: low erucic acid rape or colza seeds, whether or not broken | $2.9B | +16.2% | 6 | 9998 |
| 44 | HS 740200 | Copper: unrefined, copper anodes for electrolytic refining | $6.8B | +13.9% | 56 | 2522 |
| 45 | HS 841191 | Turbines: parts of turbo-jets and turbo-propellers | $5.6B | +18.5% | 54 | 2645 |
| 46 | HS 740400 | Copper: waste and scrap | $15.6B | +12.9% | 128 | 819 |
| 47 | HS 300215 | Blood, human or animal, antisera, other blood fractions and immunological products: immunological products, put up in measured doses or in forms or packings for retail sale | $10.2B | +19.7% | 45 | 1844 |
| 48 | HS 852351 | Semiconductor media: solid-state non-volatile storage devices, whether or not recorded, excluding products of Chapter 37 | $7.5B | +19.5% | 80 | 2168 |
| 49 | HS 400280 | Rubber: mixtures of natural and synthetic rubbers of heading no. 4001 and 4002, in primary forms or in plates, sheets or strip | $5.5B | +34.7% | 19 | 3329 |
| 50 | HS 760110 | Aluminium: unwrought, (not alloyed) | $4.8B | +9.2% | 52 | 5076 |

## Supply Gaps

Products with higher supplier concentration may deserve closer continuity and sourcing review. This is a screening signal, not a recommendation by itself.

## Method

Reported trade observations and calculated indicators are shown separately. Validate suppliers, tariffs, standards, logistics, pricing, and continuity before acting.

## Data sources

- Primary trade series: OECD (2025), Balanced international merchandise trade statistics (BIMTS) - HS2017-6D, OECD Data Explorer (accessed on 2026-08-30). [OECD Data Explorer](https://data-explorer.oecd.org/) - [OECD Terms & Conditions](https://www.oecd.org/termsandconditions/)
- CEPII BACI bilateral trade flows (202601): [dataset page](https://www.cepii.fr/CEPII/en/bdd_modele/bdd_modele_item.asp?id=37) - [BACI documentation](https://www.cepii.fr/DATA_DOWNLOAD/baci/doc/baci_webpage.html) - [Etalab 2.0 Open Licence](https://www.etalab.gouv.fr/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/open-licence.pdf)

This page presents derived Yugalinks views of reported observations and calculated indicators.