Trade in goods with China in 2025 in World Economy News 17/04/2026 In 2025, the EU exported €199.6 billion worth of goods to China and imported €559.4 billion, resulting in a trade deficit of €359.8 billion. Compared with 2024, exports decreased by 6.5% while imports increased by 6.4%. When looking at 2015, exports increased by 37.1% from €145.6 billion and imports by 89.0% from €295.9 billion. Machinery products – top trading products When looking into the breakdown, according to the Harmonized System (HS), the top 5 most exported product groups in 2025 accounted for 59.8% of all exports to China. Machinery, mechanical appliances and parts was the most exported product group, totaling €45.3 billion (22.7% of all exports to China), followed by electrical machinery and parts, audio-visual equipment and accessories (€29.0 billion; 14.5%) and vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock (€16.4 billion;8.2%). Optical, photographic, cinematographic, precision, medical or surgical instruments (€15.1 billion; 7.5%) and pharmaceutical products (€13.6 billion; 6.8%) came next. For imports, the top 5 categories accounted for 63.8% of all imported goods. Electrical machinery and parts, audio-visual equipment and accessories was the most imported product category in 2025, with €164.9 billion in products (29.5% of all imports), followed by machinery, mechanical appliances and parts (€106.5 billion; 19.0%). The category organic chemicals (€34.1 billion; 6.1%) was next, followed by vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock (€29.9 billion; 5.4%) and furniture and lighting, bedding and mattresses and prefabricated buildings (€21.3 billion; 3.8%). Source: European Union 2026-04-17 hellenicshippingnews... window.___gcfg = {lang: 'en-US'}; (function(w, d, s) { function go(){ var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0], load = function(url, id) { if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;} js = d.createElement(s); js.src = url; js.id = id; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }; load('//connect.facebook.net/en/all.js#xfbml=1', 'fbjssdk'); load('https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js', 'gplus1js'); load('//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js', 'tweetjs'); } if (w.addEventListener) { w.addEventListener("load", go, false); } else if (w.attachEvent) { w.attachEvent("onload",go); } }(window, document, 'script')); tweet Share