In May 2025, Chinese exports amounted to around ***** billion U.S. dollars. This indicated an increase in exports compared to the same period of the previous year. Export trade in China China overtook the United States as the world’s largest trading nation in 2013. In the years that followed, the country remained one of the strongest players in global and regional trade. According to the IMF, China’s total gross domestic product (GDP) had ranged at around ***** trillion U.S. dollars in 2024. Thus, exports of goods had accounted for more than a third of China’s total economic output that year. In 2024, China’s trade surplus amounted to *** billion U.S. dollars. Since the implementation of various reform strategies in 1979, China’s economic development has largely profited from its export-led growth strategy. In 2024, the most important export partner for China was ASEAN. Automatic data processing machines, integrated circuits, and clothes were among China’s main export goods. It is noticeable that China’s comparative advantage nowadays lies not only in labor-intensive manufactured goods. Over the past years, China has steadily moved up the global value chain by increasing the export share of high technology products such as computers and power devices. China has been frequently accused of currency manipulation by other countries. The country is criticized for deliberately keeping its currency yuan undervalued, to give Chinese goods export advantages.

Key information about Kazakhstan Total Exports to China

• Kazakhstan Total Exports to China recorded 1.410 USD bn in Dec 2024, compared with 1.223 USD bn in the previous month
• Kazakhstan Total Exports to China data is updated monthly, available from Apr 2004 to Dec 2024, with an averaged value of 658.600 USD mn
• The data reached an all-time high of 2.301 USD bn in Sep 2011 and a record low of -59.666 USD mn in Dec 2012

CEIC de-accumulates monthly Total Exports to China. The Bureau of National Statistics of the Agency for Strategic Planning and Reforms of the Republic of Kazakhstan provides year-to-date Total Exports to China, FOB, in USD.

Key information about Kazakhstan Total Imports from China

• Kazakhstan Total Imports from China recorded 1.494 USD bn in Dec 2024, compared with 1.328 USD bn in the previous month
• Kazakhstan Total Imports from China data is updated monthly, available from Jan 1992 to Dec 2024, with an averaged value of 263.001 USD mn
• The data reached an all-time high of 2.695 USD bn in Dec 2023 and a record low of 0.419 USD mn in Apr 1996

CEIC de-accumulates monthly Total Exports to China. The Bureau of National Statistics of the Agency for Strategic Planning and Reforms of the Republic of Kazakhstan provides year-to-date Total Imports from China, CIF, in USD. Total Imports from China prior to July 2006 is sourced from the International Monetary Fund.