Import-value growth across 13 reported commodities; %, 2025 prelim.
Vegetable-oil imports recorded 16.6% value growth in China in 2025, the fastest rate among the 13 reported categories. Integrated circuits followed at 10.7%, while unwrought copper grew 0.7%. Ten categories declined, with motor-vehicle import value falling 39.2%, the steepest contraction. The spread between the fastest and slowest reported categories was 55.8 percentage points, and the annual figures are preliminary.
| Rank | Entry | Value | Period |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vegetable oils | +16.6% | 2025 prelim. |
| 2 | Integrated circuits | +10.7% | 2025 prelim. |
| 3 | Unwrought copper | +0.7% | 2025 prelim. |
| 4 | Pulp | -1.7% | 2025 prelim. |
| 5 | Soybeans | -3.9% | 2025 prelim. |
| 6 | Iron ore | -6.6% | 2025 prelim. |
| 7 | Crude oil | -8.3% | 2025 prelim. |
| 8 | Primary plastics | -8.8% | 2025 prelim. |
| 9 | Rolled steel | -10.2% | 2025 prelim. |
| 10 | Natural gas | -12.5% | 2025 prelim. |
| 11 | Refined petroleum | -17.7% | 2025 prelim. |
| 12 | Coal & lignite | -30.2% | 2025 prelim. |
| 13 | Motor vehicles | -39.2% | 2025 prelim. |
Publisher: National Bureau of Statistics of China
Dataset/table: Main imports commodities and value growth rates, 2025
Units: year-on-year percent change in trade value
Date checked: 2026-07-18
Evidence: Supports the official 2025 value-growth rates for the major imports commodities listed in the NBS table.
The categories are a major-commodity selection rather than China’s complete import universe. Negative values indicate lower import value than in 2024, not negative imports.
The 13 NBS commodity categories are ordered by year-on-year change in import value. Physical-volume changes are excluded so every row uses one metric and one unit.
All 13 rows use the same NBS release, 2025 period and year-on-year import-value growth basis.
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