Global trade network, 2024
The network in 2024, in words
World trade of $23.5tn between 235 economies, in 31,789 flows (the mirror rule).
The ten largest flows
- Mexico → United States $510bn
- China → United States $463bn
- Canada → United States $420.7bn
- China → Hong Kong $286.7bn
- United States → Canada $275bn
- United States → Mexico $263.2bn
- Taiwan → China $217.9bn
- Korea → China $181.4bn
- China → Germany $169.5bn
- China → Japan $167.1bn
Products on the map
All goods
HS chapters
- Live animals
- Meat and offal
- Fish and seafood
- Dairy, eggs and honey
- Other animal products
- Live plants and cut flowers
- Vegetables
- Fruit and nuts
- Coffee, tea and spices
- Cereals
- Flour, malt and starch
- Oilseeds, seeds and fodder
- Lac, gums and resins
- Vegetable plaiting materials
- Animal and vegetable fats and oils
- Meat and fish preparations
- Sugar and confectionery
- Cocoa and chocolate
- Cereal preparations and bakery
- Vegetable and fruit preparations
- Miscellaneous food preparations
- Beverages, spirits and vinegar
- Food residues and animal feed
- Tobacco and nicotine products
- Salt, sulphur, stone and cement
- Ores, slag and ash
- Mineral fuels and oils
- Inorganic chemicals
- Organic chemicals
- Pharmaceuticals
- Fertilisers
- Dyes, pigments, paints and inks
- Essential oils and cosmetics
- Soap, detergents and waxes
- Albumins, starches, glues and enzymes
- Explosives, fireworks and matches
- Photographic and film goods
- Miscellaneous chemical products
- Plastics and plastic articles
- Rubber and rubber articles
- Raw hides, skins and leather
- Leather goods and handbags
- Furskins and artificial fur
- Wood, wood articles and charcoal
- Cork and cork articles
- Straw goods and basketware
- Wood pulp and recovered paper
- Paper and paperboard
- Books, newspapers and printed matter
- Silk
- Wool and animal hair
- Cotton
- Other vegetable fibres
- Man-made filaments
- Man-made staple fibres
- Wadding, felt, nonwovens and rope
- Carpets and floor coverings
- Special fabrics, lace and embroidery
- Coated and industrial textiles
- Knitted fabrics
- Knitted apparel
- Apparel, not knitted
- Made-up textiles and worn clothing
- Footwear
- Headgear
- Umbrellas and walking sticks
- Feathers, artificial flowers, wigs
- Articles of stone, cement and mica
- Ceramic products
- Glass and glassware
- Precious metals, gems and jewellery
- Iron and steel
- Iron and steel articles
- Copper and copper articles
- Nickel and nickel articles
- Aluminium and aluminium articles
- Lead and lead articles
- Zinc and zinc articles
- Tin and tin articles
- Other base metals and cermets
- Tools and cutlery
- Miscellaneous base-metal articles
- Nuclear reactors and machinery
- Electrical machinery and electronics
- Railway vehicles and equipment
- Vehicles and parts
- Aircraft and spacecraft
- Ships and boats
- Optical and medical instruments
- Clocks and watches
- Musical instruments
- Arms and ammunition
- Furniture, bedding and lighting
- Toys, games and sports goods
- Miscellaneous manufactures
- Works of art and antiques
Baskets
- Semiconductors
- Integrated circuits
- Chip-making equipment
- Rare earths
- Lithium chemicals
- Cobalt
- Natural graphite
- Nickel
- Lithium-ion batteries
- Solar cells and modules
- Electric cars
- Passenger cars
- Car parts
- Crude oil
- Refined oil products
- Natural gas
- Coal
- Wheat
- Maize (corn)
- Soybeans
- Fertilisers
- Vaccines and blood products
- Medicines
- Masks and other textile goods
- Ventilators
- Rubber gloves
- Aircraft and spacecraft
- Mobile phones
- Computers
Chain stages
- Lithium ore (spodumene concentrate)
- Nickel ore
- Cobalt ore
- Natural graphite
- Lithium carbonate
- Lithium hydroxide
- Nickel mattes and intermediates (incl. MHP)
- Cobalt intermediates, oxides and hydroxides
- Cathode active material
- Anode graphite (artificial)
- Battery parts (separators, cans, other parts)
- Lithium-ion cells and packs
- Battery-electric and plug-in cars
- Quartz
- Silicon metal (below 99.99%)
- Polysilicon (99.99% and purer)
- Gallium, germanium, indium (unwrought)
- Doped wafers
- Chip-making machines (side input)
- Photoresists and photographic chemicals (side input)
- Integrated circuits
- Discrete semiconductors (diodes, transistors, thyristors)
- Printed circuit boards (bare)
- Flat panel display modules
- Phone and computer parts (assembled boards and others)
- Smartphones
- Laptops and computer units
- Solar cells
- Solar modules
- Static converters (incl. solar inverters)
- Iron ore (fines, lump, pellets)
- Bituminous coal (incl. coking coal)
- Ferrous scrap
- Coke
- Pig iron
- Direct-reduced iron
- Ferro-alloys
- Semi-finished steel (slabs, billets)
- Flat-rolled steel (hot, cold, coated)
- Electrical steel
- Car parts and engines
- Passenger cars
- Bauxite
- Alumina
- Calcined petroleum coke (anode input)
- Unwrought aluminium
- Aluminium scrap
- Bars, profiles, sheet and foil
- Structures, cans and containers
- Copper concentrate
- Mattes, blister and anodes
- Refined copper cathode
- Copper scrap
- Wire, strip and foil
- Insulated wire and cable
- Power transformers
- Rare-earth ore (no own code)
- Rare-earth compounds (oxides, carbonates)
- Rare-earth metals and alloys
- Permanent magnets of metal (NdFeB, SmCo)
- Electric motors (multi-phase AC, large DC)
- Wind turbines
- Crude oil
- Natural gas and LPG
- Light oils (naphtha, with gasoline)
- Olefins and aromatics
- PTA, ethylene glycol, vinyl chloride
- Polymers (PE, PP, PVC, PET, PS)
- Synthetic rubber (SBR)
- Film, sheets and packaging
- Car tyres
- Raw cotton
- PTA and ethylene glycol
- Cotton yarn
- Polyester fibre and filament
- Woven and knitted fabric
- Clothing (knitted and woven)
- Natural gas
- Phosphate rock
- Ammonia
- Phosphoric acid
- Nitrogen fertilisers (urea, ammonium nitrate)
- Phosphate fertilisers (DAP, MAP)
- Potash (potassium chloride)
- Wheat, maize and soybeans
Source: UN Comtrade, Final data, HS6; mirror rule, 2024.