That dollar amount results from a 12.3% increase in revenue compared to $3.662 trillion 5 years earlier in 2021.
Year over year, the overall value of mainland China’s exported products rose 5.6% from $3.575 trillion for 2024.
The value of China’s total exports represents 15.8% of overall global exports (based on the world’s total $23.926 trillion one year prior for 2024). That percentage surpasses the 15.1% for 2024.
Applying a continental lens, just over half (50.5%) of mainland China’s exports by value was delivered to fellow Asian countries while another 20.7% was sold to importers in Europe. China shipped 14.8% worth of goods to buyers in North America.
Smaller percentages went to customers in Africa (6%), Latin America (5.5%) excluding Mexico but including the Caribbean, then Oceania (2.5%) led by Australia and New Zealand.
China’s Top Trading Partners
Below is a list highlighting 15 of China’s top trading partners in terms of export sales. That is, these countries imported the most Chinese shipments by dollar value during 2025. Also shown is each import country’s percentage of total Chinese exports.
- United States: US$421 billion (11.1% of China’s total exports)
- Hong Kong: $337.1 billion (8.9%)
- Vietnam: $198.6 billion (5.3%)
- Japan: $157.5 billion (4.2%)
- South Korea: $144.5 billion (3.8%)
- India: $136 billion (3.6%)
- Germany: $118.3 billion (3.1%)
- Malaysia: $103.8 billion (2.7%)
- Thailand: $103.7 billion (2.7%)
- Russia: $103.5 billion (2.7%)
- Netherlands: $93.9 billion (2.5%)
- Mexico: $89.2 billion (2.4%)
- Indonesia: $85.4 billion (2.3%)
- United Kingdom: $85.2 billion (2.3%)
- Taiwan: $83.6 billion (2.2%)
About three-fifths (59.9%) of China’s exports in 2025 was delivered to the above 15 trade partners.
Focusing on these top 15 customers, the strongest gainers in import purchases from mainland China were: Vietnam (up 22.7% from 2024), Thailand (up 20.6%), Hong Kong (up 15.7%), India (up 12.8%), Indonesia (up 11.2%) and Taiwan (also up 11.2%).
Recording year-over-year declines were the United States of America (down -19.8%), Russia (down -10.4%), South Korea (down -1.3%) and Mexico (down -1%).
For a more comprehensive listing of 100 trade partners, peruse the following section Searchable Datalist of Top Countries Importing China’s Exports.
Searchable Database of Top Countries Consuming China’s Exports
You can change the presentation order by clicking the triangle icon at the top of any of the columns below. The right-most shows the year-over-year percentage change in value for each importing country benchmarked against 2024.
Mainland China’s 100 major trade partners account for $3.691 trillion or 97.8% of all exported goods consumed by trade partners that imported from the People’s Republic during 2025.
| Rank | Importer | China's Exports (US$) | 2024-5 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | United States | $420,987,792,000 | -19.8% |
| 2. | Hong Kong | $337,056,713,000 | +15.7% |
| 3. | Vietnam | $198,629,477,000 | +22.7% |
| 4. | Japan | $157,475,022,000 | +3.6% |
| 5. | South Korea | $144,518,988,000 | -1.3% |
| 6. | India | $135,963,516,000 | +12.8% |
| 7. | Germany | $118,302,858,000 | +10.6% |
| 8. | Malaysia | $103,789,984,000 | +2.6% |
| 9. | Thailand | $103,652,226,000 | +20.6% |
| 10. | Russia | $103,457,524,000 | -10.4% |
| 11. | Netherlands | $93,913,799,000 | +3.1% |
| 12. | Mexico | $89,190,202,000 | -1% |
| 13. | Indonesia | $85,403,951,000 | +11.2% |
| 14. | United Kingdom | $85,210,403,000 | +8.1% |
| 15. | Taiwan | $83,640,308,000 | +11.2% |
| 16. | Singapore | $83,014,651,000 | +4.7% |
| 17. | Australia | $76,493,417,000 | +8.2% |
| 18. | United Arab Emirates | $72,902,935,000 | +11.2% |
| 19. | Brazil | $71,604,385,000 | -0.6% |
| 20. | Philippines | $55,689,008,000 | +6.5% |
| 21. | Saudi Arabia | $53,440,342,000 | +7.1% |
| 22. | Italy | $51,263,522,000 | +11.1% |
| 23. | France | $48,464,481,000 | +8.1% |
| 24. | Canada | $47,969,679,000 | +3.4% |
| 25. | Spain | $45,712,841,000 | +12.2% |
| 26. | Poland | $44,176,161,000 | +10.4% |
| 27. | Türkiye | $40,079,889,000 | +5.1% |
| 28. | Belgium | $34,062,125,000 | +3.6% |
| 29. | Kazakhstan | $29,739,397,000 | +5.8% |
| 30. | Chile | $25,133,211,000 | +21.8% |
| 31. | Nigeria | $24,911,818,000 | +31.8% |
| 32. | South Africa | $23,004,498,000 | +5.5% |
| 33. | Bangladesh | $22,812,627,000 | -0.4% |
| 34. | Pakistan | $22,400,594,000 | +10.7% |
| 35. | Kyrgyzstan | $21,977,411,000 | +10.3% |
| 36. | Egypt | $19,979,174,000 | +18.9% |
| 37. | Cambodia | $19,607,701,000 | +28% |
| 38. | Liberia | $19,569,889,000 | +49.9% |
| 39. | Colombia | $18,079,452,000 | +22.3% |
| 40. | Czech Republic | $17,245,230,000 | -1.6% |
| 41. | Iraq | $17,208,763,000 | +7.5% |
| 42. | Israel | $16,589,083,000 | +16% |
| 43. | Hungary | $16,352,106,000 | +43.7% |
| 44. | Peru | $16,309,795,000 | +17% |
| 45. | Argentina | $14,453,971,000 | +55.1% |
| 46. | Uzbekistan | $14,264,952,000 | +21.2% |
| 47. | Algeria | $13,913,871,000 | +19.1% |
| 48. | Panama | $12,787,466,000 | +0.3% |
| 49. | Ghana | $11,449,691,000 | +16.3% |
| 50. | Myanmar | $11,370,895,000 | +23.3% |
| 51. | Greece | $11,287,729,000 | -4.3% |
| 52. | Denmark | $10,711,398,000 | +14% |
| 53. | Tanzania | $10,536,793,000 | +28.8% |
| 54. | Sweden | $10,390,268,000 | +3.2% |
| 55. | Kenya | $10,066,044,000 | +17.2% |
| 56. | Morocco | $9,877,500,000 | +27.6% |
| 57. | Romania | $9,708,386,000 | +4.1% |
| 58. | Switzerland | $8,122,663,000 | +8.4% |
| 59. | New Zealand | $8,067,441,000 | +4.5% |
| 60. | Ecuador | $7,781,375,000 | +30.4% |
| 61. | Belarus | $7,195,579,000 | +9.2% |
| 62. | Portugal | $7,184,576,000 | +17.9% |
| 63. | Iran | $6,930,590,000 | -22.4% |
| 64. | Slovenia | $6,904,009,000 | +12.7% |
| 65. | Jordan | $6,288,846,000 | +27.8% |
| 66. | Guinea | $6,242,704,000 | +58.7% |
| 67. | Ivory Coast | $6,118,423,000 | +47.1% |
| 68. | Kuwait | $6,045,829,000 | +25.6% |
| 69. | Ireland | $5,980,220,000 | +13.8% |
| 70. | Norway | $5,799,755,000 | +16.4% |
| 71. | Sri Lanka | $5,753,977,000 | +15.7% |
| 72. | Marshall Islands | $5,733,574,000 | +8.1% |
| 73. | Oman | $5,613,311,000 | -3.3% |
| 74. | Qatar | $5,547,699,000 | +33.2% |
| 75. | Guatemala | $5,507,028,000 | +11.4% |
| 76. | Senegal | $5,448,662,000 | +15% |
| 77. | Venezuela | $5,332,785,000 | +11% |
| 78. | Democratic Republic Congo | $5,112,463,000 | +17.6% |
| 79. | Ukraine | $5,040,695,000 | +36.9% |
| 80. | Angola | $4,815,835,000 | +48.4% |
| 81. | Dominican Republic | $4,805,880,000 | +3.8% |
| 82. | Austria | $4,607,318,000 | +12.5% |
| 83. | Slovakia | $4,392,273,000 | +11.4% |
| 84. | Bulgaria | $4,350,607,000 | +53.7% |
| 85. | Cameroon | $4,346,104,000 | +19.2% |
| 86. | Laos | $4,322,990,000 | +17.7% |
| 87. | Congo | $4,274,380,000 | +184% |
| 88. | Macao | $4,175,559,000 | +5.2% |
| 89. | Togo | $4,157,347,000 | +26.5% |
| 90. | Serbia | $4,132,420,000 | +20% |
| 91. | Libya | $4,045,882,000 | +12.8% |
| 92. | Mongolia | $4,037,405,000 | -10.9% |
| 93. | Ethiopia | $3,934,753,000 | +25.1% |
| 94. | Mozambique | $3,810,865,000 | +12.5% |
| 95. | Djibouti | $3,772,641,000 | +24.1% |
| 96. | Tajikistan | $3,752,171,000 | +6.8% |
| 97. | Uruguay | $3,685,237,000 | +12.7% |
| 98. | Costa Rica | $3,678,944,000 | +8.8% |
| 99. | Finland | $3,671,214,000 | -0.8% |
| 100. | Azerbaijan | $3,157,916,000 | +31.3% |
Expanding the scope to encompass the top 100 customers for Chinese exports, the fastest-growing buyer countries compared to 2024 were Congo (up 184%), Guinea (up 58.7%), Argentina (up 55.1%), Bulgaria (up 53.7%) and Liberia (up 49.9%).
Leading the decliners buying Chinese exports were Iran (down -22.4% from 2024), United States of America (down -19.8%), Mongolia (down -10.9%), Russia (down -10.4%) then Greece (down -4.3%).
Countries Causing China’s Greatest Trading Deficits
As defined by Investopedia, a country whose total value of all imported goods is higher than its value of all exports is said to have a negative trade balance or deficit.
It would be unrealistic for any exporting nation to expect across-the-board positive trade balances with all its importing partners. Similarly, that export country doesn’t necessarily post a negative trade balance with each individual partner with which it exchanges exports and imports.
China incurred the highest trade deficits with the following countries.
- Taiwan: -US$147.2 billion (country-specific trade deficit in 2025)
- Australia: -$51.6 billion
- Brazil: -$44.6 billion
- South Korea: -$42.7 billion
- Switzerland: -$33.2 billion
- Oman: -$21.7 billion
- Russia: -$20.5 billion
- Peru: -$17.8 billion
- Iraq: -$16.7 billion
- Democratic Republic Congo: -$16.4 billion
Among China’s trading partners that cause the greatest negative trade balances, Chinese deficits with Russia (up 51.5%), South Korea (up 20.5%) and Peru (up 16.6%) grew at the fastest pace from 2024 to 2025.
These cashflow deficiencies clearly indicate China’s competitive disadvantages with the above countries, but also represent key opportunities for China to develop country-specific strategies to strengthen its overall position in international trade.
Countries Generating China’s Biggest Trading Surpluses
Overall, mainland China posted a US$1.197 trillion trade surplus in 2025 expanding by 21.1% from $988.2 billion in black ink during one year earlier for 2024.
Based on Investopedia’s definition of net importer, a country whose total value of all imported goods is lower than its value of all exports is said to have a positive trade balance or surplus.
China incurred the highest trade surpluses at the expense of the following countries.
- Hong Kong: US$305 billion (country-specific trade surplus in 2025)
- United States: $279.8 billion
- India: $116.2 billion
- Vietnam: $100.6 billion
- Netherlands: $73.5 billion
- Mexico: $69.1 billion
- United Kingdom: $66.6 billion
- Thailand: $53.8 billion
- Singapore: $46.4 billion
- Poland: $39.7 billion
Among China’s trading partners that generate the greatest positive trade balances, Chinese surpluses with Vietnam (up 59.8%), Thailand (up 41.8%) and India (up 13.4%) grew at the fastest pace from 2024 to 2025.
These positive cashflow streams clearly indicate China’s competitive advantages with the above countries, but also represent key opportunities for China to develop country-specific strategies to optimize its overall position in international trade.
China’s Major Exports Companies
China placed about 150 corporations on the Forbes Global 2000. Below is a sample of the major Chinese export companies that Forbes included.
- Aluminum Corporation of China (aluminum)
- BYD (cars, trucks)
- Dongfang Electric (electrical equipment)
- Dongfeng Motor Group (cars, trucks)
- Gree Electric Appliances (household appliances)
- Midea Group Co. Ltd. (household appliances)
- PetroChina (oil, gas)
- SAIC Motor (cars, trucks)
- Sinopec-China Petroleum (oil, gas)
- Sinopharm Group (pharmaceuticals)
- Tsingtao Brewery (beverages)
According to the China Trade Directory, the following Chinese companies ship products from China to its trading partners around the globe. Shown within parenthesis is the product category that the Chinese manufacturer specializes in.
- AA Technology Co., Ltd (advanced electronic components)
- EPOLAB Chemical Industries Inc. (epoxy chemical compounds, adhesives)
- Fu Feng Co., Ltd. (full range of plastic gear products)
- Myday machinery Inc. (lathes)
- Seal King (foam tapes)
- Shuz Tung Machinery Industrial Co. Ltd. (electronic equipment, machinery)
Taiwan & China Products Online provides comprehensive supplier listings for companies sitused in the People’s Republic encompassing both mainland China and its province of Taiwan.
- Apex Science & Engineering Corp. (infrared, LCD products)
- Asia Bicycle Trading Company (bicycles, parts and accessories)
- Hei Full Industrial Co., Ltd. (food processing equipment)
- Shenzhen Yongerjia Industry Co., Ltd. (LED displays, other LED products)
- Tai Erh Enterprise Co., Ltd. (polyester fabrics)
- Yancheng Meiyi Arts & Crafts Factory (solar powered signs)
See also China’s Top 10 Imports, China’s Top 10 Exports, Top Chinese Trade Balances and China’s Top 10 Major Export Companies
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Central Intelligence Agency, The World Factbook Country Profiles, Central Intelligence Agency. Accessed on February 13, 2026
China Trade Directory, Database with China and Taiwan Manufacturers. Accessed on February 13, 2026
Forbes 2021 Global 2000 rankings, The World’s Biggest Public Companies. Accessed on February 13, 2026
G.T. Internet Information Co., Ltd., Taiwan & China Products Online. Accessed on February 13, 2026
International Monetary Fund, World Economic Outlook Database (GDP based on Purchasing Power Parity). Accessed on February 13, 2026
International Trade Centre, Trade Map. Accessed on February 13, 2026
Investopedia, Net Exports Definition. Accessed on February 13, 2026
Wikipedia, List of Companies of China. Accessed on February 13, 2026