South Africa
Trade With China
| 2021 | |
|---|---|
| Imports from China | $19.2b |
| Exports to China | $33.0b |
Imports from China
Exports to China
Source: United Nations
Top Imports from China
| Description | Trade Value | Trade Quantity1 | Measurement |
|---|---|---|---|
| Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers; television image and sound recorders and reproducers, parts and accessories of such articles | $4.65b | ||
| Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof | $4.21b | ||
| Telephone sets, including telephones for cellular networks or for other wireless networks; other apparatus for the transmission or reception of voice, images or other data (including wired/wireless networks), excluding items of 8443, 8525, 8527, or 8528 | $1.97b | ||
| Automatic data processing machines and units thereof, magnetic or optical readers, machines for transcribing data onto data media in coded form and machines for processing such data, not elsewhere specified or included | $1.53b | 13.6m | Number of items |
| Automatic data processing machines; portable, weighing not more than 10kg, consisting of at least a central processing unit, a keyboard and a display | $1.25b | 3.3m | Number of items |
| Telephones for cellular networks or for other wireless networks | $1.15b | 14.7m | Number of items |
| Iron and steel | $822.79m | ||
| Vehicles; other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof | $804.29m | ||
| Organic chemicals | $690.82m | ||
| Plastics and articles thereof | $585.16m |
Top Exports to China
| Description | Trade Value | Trade Quantity1 | Measurement |
|---|---|---|---|
| Natural, cultured pearls; precious, semi-precious stones; precious metals, metals clad with precious metal, and articles thereof; imitation jewellery; coin | $15.35b | ||
| Ores, slag and ash | $12.31b | ||
| Iron ores and concentrates; including roasted iron pyrites | $7.16b | 40.2b | Weight in kilograms |
| Iron ores and concentrates; non-agglomerated | $7.12b | 39.7b | Weight in kilograms |
| Platinum; unwrought or in semi-manufactured forms, or in powder form | $5.72b | 98.96k | Weight in kilograms |
| Gold (including gold plated with platinum) unwrought or in semi-manufactured forms, or in powder form | $5.05b | 90.52k | Weight in kilograms |
| Metals; gold, non-monetary, unwrought (but not powder) | $4.69b | 83.49k | Weight in kilograms |
| Diamonds, whether or not worked, but not mounted or set | $4.46b | 5.9m | Weight in carats |
| Diamonds; non-industrial, (other than unworked or simply sawn, cleaved or bruted), but not mounted or set | $4.24b | 4.8m | Weight in carats |
| Manganese ores and concentrates, including ferruginous manganese ores and concentrates with a manganese content of 20% or more, calculated on the dry weight | $2.10b | 14.0b | Weight in kilograms |
1 Not all goods in this category have a common measurement and therefore no measurement is reported.
