This is a list of the largest trading partners of the People's Republic of China.

Background

China has become the world's second largest economy by GDP (Nominal) and largest by GDP (PPP).

'China developed a network of economic relations with both industrial economies and those constituting the semi-periphery and periphery of the world system.'^[1] Due to the rapid growth of China's economy, the nation has developed many trading partners throughout the world. All trading partners are considered important to the development of the Chinese economy, however the title of China's largest partners are ever-changing due to national and international policy changes.

The expansion of the Chinese economy grew 6.8% the last quarter of 2017, equaling the growth of the prior 3 months exceeding expectations of 6.7%. The overall economy expanded 6.9% last year, just beating the 6.7% of 2016 which ended a drought of a declining trend that started in 2011.^[2]

List of largest trading partners of China

The major Chinese trading partners for 2022 were as follows:

2022 Imports and Exports of goods by top 23 trading partners (billions of USD)^[3]

Rank	Country / Territory	Total trade	China exports	China imports	Trade balance
-	ASEAN	975.3	567.3	408.1	159.2
-	European Union	847.3	561.9	285.3	276.6
1	United States	759.4	581.7	177.6	404.4
2	South Korea	362.2	162.6	199.6	-37.0
3	Japan	357.4	172.9	184.4	-11.5
4	Taiwan	319.7	81.5	238.1	-156.6
5	Hong Kong	305.4	297.5	7.8	289.7
6	Vietnam	234.9	146.9	88.0	58.9
7	Germany	227.6	116.2	111.3	4.9
8	Australia	220.9	78.8	142.1	-63.3
9	Malaysia	203.6	93.7	109.9	-16.2
10	Russia	190.3	76.1	114.2	-38.1
11	Brazil	171.5	61.2	109.5	-48.3
12	Indonesia	149.1	71.3	77.8	-6.5
13	India	135.9	118.5	17.4	101.1
14	Thailand	135.0	78.5	56.5	22.0
15	Netherlands	130.2	117.7	12.5	105.2
16	Singapore	115.1	81.2	33.9	47.3
17	United Kingdom	103.4	81.5	21.8	59.7
18	Canada	96.1	53.7	42.4	11.3
19	Philippines	87.7	64.6	23.1	41.5
20	France	81.2	45.6	35.5	10.1
21	Italy	77.8	50.9	26.9	24.0
22	Saudi Arabia	67.2	28.1	39.1	-11.0
23	Mexico	61.0	44.8	16.2	28.6
—	Total	6,309.6	3,593.6	2,715.9	877.7

China is the largest trading partner of many countries. The following tables are based on 2016 data as shown on the CIA World Factbook.

Exports[4] Nation Percentage  North Korea 85.6%  Mongolia 84.1%  Turkmenistan 70.0%  Solomon Islands 62.4%  Eritrea 57.7%  Angola 53.7%  Oman 47.8%  Myanmar 40.6%  Congo 39.8%  Mauritania 36.9%  DR Congo 35.3%  Australia 30.5%  New Caledonia 30.4%  Iran 30.1%  Chile 28.6%  South Korea 25.1%  Guinea 24.6%  Peru 23.5%  Iraq 21.9%  New Zealand 19.4%  Brazil 19.0%  Saudi Arabia 13.6%  Singapore 12.8%  Indonesia 11.6%  South Africa 9.2%

Imports[5] Nation Percentage  North Korea 90.3%  Kyrgyzstan 37.8%  Macau 36.7%  Cambodia 35.3%  Myanmar 33.9%  Mongolia 33.2%  Cuba 29.2%  Pakistan 29.1%  Ethiopia 28.8%  Togo 28.7%  Paraguay 27.3%  Iraq 26.9%  Japan 25.8%  Solomon Islands 25.3%  Vietnam 25.1%  Bangladesh 24.3%  Chile 24.3%  Kenya 24.1%  Australia 23.4%  Indonesia 22.9%  Peru 22.8%  Uzbekistan 22.2%  Russia 21.6%  Thailand 21.6%  South Korea 21.4%  Madagascar 21.2%  Rwanda 21.2%  United States 21.1%  Tanzania 20.7%  Nigeria 20.3%  DR Congo 20.2%  Bolivia 19.9%  New Zealand 19.9%  Malaysia 19.4%  Uruguay 18.8%  Eritrea 18.1%  South Africa 18.1%  Uganda 17.9%  Algeria 17.8%  Cameroon 17.8%  Mauritius 17.7%  Ghana 17.3%  Philippines 17.3%  India 17.0%  Saudi Arabia 16.2%  Libya 14.4%  Singapore 14.3%  Kuwait 14.1%  Jordan 14.0%  Burundi 13.3%  Egypt 12.9%  Turkey 12.8%  Sierra Leone 12.5%  Burkina Faso 12.2%  Mali 12.2%  Lebanon 11.2%  Bahrain 9.7%  United Arab Emirates 7.4%