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Coal gas, water gas, producer gas and similar gases: world market for HS 2705

Coal gas, water gas, producer gas and similar gases, other than petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons. Who imports and who exports this product, from official CEPII BACI and Eurostat statistics.

World imports, 2024USD 5.6 millionSum over 79 importing economies. Source: CEPII BACI.
World imports, 2023USD 7.1 millionSame economies, previous year. Source: CEPII BACI.
Growth−20.9%2024 against 2023, world imports in USD. Source: CEPII BACI.
Unit valueUSD 27 per tonneValue divided by quantity, flows with a reported quantity only (97.6% of the value). Source: CEPII BACI.
EU-27 imports from outside the EU, 2026-07EUR 4,265Latest month in the database. Source: Eurostat Comext DS-045409, record DS-045409:EU27:EXTRA:2705:1:2026-07.

Top importing economies

#EconomyValue 2024ShareGrowthTrade companiesRecord
1ItalyUSD 2.4 million43.5%+652.0%175,629BACI:IT:2705:1:2024
2United StatesUSD 643,42711.4%−3.2%939,727BACI:US:2705:1:2024
3FranceUSD 511,6559.1%+4,781.7%1,125,915BACI:FR:2705:1:2024
4NetherlandsUSD 352,4766.3%−84.7%66,458BACI:NL:2705:1:2024
5BelgiumUSD 195,4123.5%+3,733.9%52,839BACI:BE:2705:1:2024
6QatarUSD 150,6712.7%+34.3%975BACI:QA:2705:1:2024
7Saudi ArabiaUSD 140,6522.5%+152.2%4,150BACI:SA:2705:1:2024
8ColombiaUSD 129,8172.3%+241.4%10,671BACI:CO:2705:1:2024
9MexicoUSD 118,9412.1%+928.5%49,032BACI:MX:2705:1:2024
10CanadaUSD 115,1032.0%+1.3%152,251BACI:CA:2705:1:2024

Source: CEPII BACI HS22 V202601, year 2024 (previous year 2023), USD. World totals are sums over the importing economies BACI lists. Record IDs per row.

Trade companies: active companies registered in wholesale and retail trade (NACE section G) in each importing economy, counted in the AYBARION company directory. The matching wholesale activity for this product is Wholesale of solid, liquid and gaseous fuels (NACE 4671). Counts only. "Not offered" marks economies without company data (comprehensive sanctions) or without a counted source.

Top exporting economies

#EconomyValue 2024ShareGrowthRecord
1GermanyUSD 1.5 million26.8%−41.1%BACI:DE:2705:2:2024
2NetherlandsUSD 1.4 million24.3%+3,465.9%BACI:NL:2705:2:2024
3South KoreaUSD 643,75111.4%−16.9%BACI:KR:2705:2:2024
4MaltaUSD 528,5419.4%+17,617,933.3%BACI:MT:2705:2:2024
5United StatesUSD 495,8708.8%−0.1%BACI:US:2705:2:2024
6ChinaUSD 210,7153.7%−91.4%BACI:CN:2705:2:2024
7United KingdomUSD 167,0233.0%+78.8%BACI:GB:2705:2:2024
8United Arab EmiratesUSD 89,0791.6%+119.1%BACI:AE:2705:2:2024
9TaiwanUSD 83,0061.5%not availableBACI:TW:2705:2:2024
10ItalyUSD 81,5661.5%+328.7%BACI:IT:2705:2:2024

Source: CEPII BACI HS22 V202601, year 2024 (previous year 2023), USD. World totals are sums over the exporting economies BACI lists. Record IDs per row. World exports 2024: USD 5.6 million.

Import requirements at a glance

  • United Kingdom: 2 import measures recorded for HS 2705 (controls, licences, certificates, quotas and duties at commodity code level). Source: UK Integrated Online Tariff: measures on declarable commodities.
  • European Union: 5 import measures recorded for HS 2705 (controls, licences, certificates, quotas and duties at commodity code level). Source: EU TARIC measures (UK Trade Tariff, Northern Ireland view).
  • United States: general (MFN) duty rate 0.0% ad valorem across 1 HTS rate line. Additional Chapter 99 duties are not included. Source: Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States.

Counts of official tariff measures, not advice. Members see every measure, document code and duty for their own origin and destination.

Data Passport

  • CEPII BACI HS22 V202601: trade values by exporter, importer and product, years 2024 and 2023, USD at FOB prices, quantities in metric tons. Publisher: CEPII. Licence: Etalab Open Licence 2.0 (Licence Ouverte), attribution "CEPII BACI". Record IDs: BACI:reporter:product:flow:year. Source
  • Eurostat Comext DS-045409: EU-27 monthly imports, EUR and net mass, last month 2026-07. Licence: Eurostat reuse policy, free reuse with attribution "Source: Eurostat" (© European Union). Record ID: DS-045409:EU27:EXTRA:2705:1:2026-07. Source
  • UK Integrated Online Tariff: measures on declarable commodities (GB measures): Department for Business and Trade / HMRC. Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0. Snapshot 2026-10-22. Source
  • EU TARIC measures (UK Trade Tariff, Northern Ireland view) (EU measures): HMRC / Department for Business and Trade (EU TARIC data). Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0. Snapshot 2026-10-22. Source
  • Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (USITC HTS): U.S. International Trade Commission. Licence: Public domain (U.S. Government work). Snapshot 2026-10-22. Source
  • AYBARION company directory: counts of active companies registered in wholesale and retail trade (NACE Rev.2 section G), from official registers and open datasets, built 2026-10-25. Counts only: no names, addresses or contacts are shown here. Sources under share-alike licences (CC BY-SA) or with an unverified licence are not counted, and no company data is offered for countries under comprehensive sanctions.
  • Method: Importer and exporter values are CEPII BACI reconciled flows aggregated from HS6 to HS4; shares are each economy's value divided by the world total of the same flow; growth compares 2024 with 2023; unit value is value divided by quantity over flows that report a quantity. Peru and the Philippines are left out of lists and totals by policy.

Trade database built 2026-10-24. Values are official statistics as published; nothing on this page is estimated or invented. More in our methodology.

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