Trade Profiles
2021 Trade in commercial services
Transport
Travel Other commercial services
Industrial property
Merchandise trade Agricultural products Nonagricultural products
Hong Kong, China
Hong Kong, China
GDP (million current US$, 2020) GDP per capita (US$, 2018-2020) Current account balance (% GDP, 2020) Trade per capita (US$, 2017-2019) Trade (% GDP, 2017-2019)
349 445 47 900 6.5 87 918 184.5
Rank in world trade, 2020 Merchandise excluding intra-EU trade Commercial services excluding intra-EU trade
Exports
6 5 22 11
Imports
8 6 23 13
MERCHANDISE TRADE Value
Million US$ Merchandise exports, f.o.b. Merchandise imports, c.i.f.
Annual percentage change
2020 548 773 569 769 2020 3.11
Share in world total exports (%)
2010-2020 3 3
2019 -6 -8
2020 3 -1 2020 3.20
Share in world total imports (%)
Breakdown in economy's total exports
Breakdown in economy's total imports
By main commodity group, % (2019)
By main commodity group, % (2019)
Agricultural products: 2.1
Fuels and mining products: 1.2
Agricultural products: 4.9
Fuels and mining products: 3.9
Manufactures: 91.8
Other: 4.8
Manufactures: 88.6
Other: 2.6
By main destination, % (2020)
By main origin, % (2020)
China: 55.2 European Union: 6.6 Switzerland: 2.7
United States of America: 7.2 United Kingdom: 3.3 Other: 24.9
China: 43.8
Chinese Taipei: 9.4
Singapore: 7.2
Japan: 5.8
Korea, Republic of: 5.7
Other: 28
Agricultural Products Value
Top exported products (Million US$) HS0809 HS0810 HS2106 HS2402 HS0101
2020 . 993 781 748 574 567
Apricots, cherries, peaches Other fruit, fresh Other food preparations Cigars, cheroots, cigarillos Live horses, asses, mules, hinnies
Value
Top imported products (Million US$) HS0202 HS0206 HS0809 HS0810 HS2106
2020
Meat of bovine animals, frozen Edible offal of bovine animals Apricots, cherries, peaches Other fruit, fresh Other food preparations
1 664 1 578 1 071 1 056 1 014
Share in economy's trade in agricultural products Exports 0%
10%
Imports 20%
0%
HS0809
HS0202
HS0810
HS0206
HS2106
HS0809
HS2402
HS0810
HS0101
HS2106
5%
10%
Million US$ Exports Imports
Value
2020 8 048 22 176
Annual percentage change
2010-2020 2 3
2019 -10 -6
2020 -24 -9
Non-Agricultural Products Value
Top exported products (Million US$) HS8542 HS8525 HS7108 HS8517 HS8473
2020
Electronic integrated circuits Radio-telephony transmission tools Gold Line telephony electrical apparatus Parts and accessories for 8469-8472
154 305 43 120 41 283 28 276 26 145
Value
Top imported products (Million US$) HS8542 HS8525 HS8517 HS8471 HS8473
2020
Electronic integrated circuits Radio-telephony transmission tools Line telephony electrical apparatus Automatic data-processing machines Parts and accessories for 8469-8472
169 184 46 869 24 664 21 825 20 618
Share in economy's trade in non-agricultural products Exports 0%
164
20%
Imports 40%
0%
HS8542
HS8542
HS8525
HS8525
HS7108
HS8517
HS8517
HS8471
HS8473
HS8473
20%
40%
Million US$ Exports Imports
Value
2020 542 689 549 718
Annual percentage change
2010-2020 3 3
2019 -6 -8
2020 3 -1
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Hong Kong, China TRADE IN COMMERCIAL SERVICES Value
Million US$ Commercial services exports Commercial services imports
Annual percentage change
2020
2010-2020
63 731 50 921 2020 1.30
Share in world total exports (%) Breakdown in economy's total exports
-2 -3
2019
2020
-10 -1
-37 -37 2020 1.11
Share in world total imports (%) Breakdown in economy's total imports
By main services item, % (2020)
By main services item, % (2020)
Transport: 32.9 Other commercial services: 62.4
Travel: 4.4 Goods-related services: 0.4
Transport: 27.9 Other commercial services: 44.6
By main destination, % (2019)
Travel: 10.5 Goods-related services: 17
By main origin, % (2019)
China: 35.9 United States of America: 14.2 Singapore: 4
European Union (28): 17.3 Japan: 4.2 Other: 24.3
China: 37.1 United States of America: 10.8 Singapore: 4.3
Value
FATS sales Inward (million US$) Outward (million US$)
European Union (28): 13.7 Japan: 8 Other: 26
Annual percentage change
2019 265 087 na
2010-2019 7 na
2018 1 na
2019 5 na
Transport Hong Kong, China
200
World
100 0
2010
2013
2016
2020
Transport exports (Index 2010=100)
Value
Million US$ Exports Imports
2020 20 936 14 211
Exports By sea (2019) By air (2019) By other (2019)
Value
Share (%)
16 394 11 990 2 455
52.1 38.1 7.8
2010-2020 -3 -1
Annual percentage change 2019 -5 -1
Imports By sea (2019) By air (2019) By other (2019)
2020 -34 -23
Value
Share (%)
7 586 8 024 599
41.4 43.8 3.3
Travel Hong Kong, China
200
World
Value
Million US$ Exports Imports
100 0
2010
2013
2016
2020 2 810 5 351
2010-2020 -19 -11
Annual percentage change 2019 -22 2
2020 -90 -80
2020
Travel exports (Index 2010=100)
Other Commercial Services and Goods-related Services Exports of OCS by main item (2020) Financial services 42.8 54.3
Value
2020
2010-2020
Other commercial services Exports 39 760 Imports 22 703
Insurance & pension
Annual percentage change
4 2
2020
Goods-related services Exports Imports
Other
3.0
Million US$
2010-2020
226 8 656
-4 -8
2019
2020
-4 -1
-3 -6
2019
2020
-4 -5
-36 -24
INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY Patent applications, 2019 Residents
346
Non-residents
16 186
Trademark applications, 2019 Total
16 532
World Trade Organization – Trade Profiles 2021
Residents
13 574
Non-residents
23 406
Industrial design applications, 2019 Total
36 980
Residents
801
Non-residents
1 775
Total
2 576
165