AYBARION TRADE

Product market hub · HS 4819

Cartons, boxes, cases, bags and the like, of paper: world market for HS 4819

Cartons, boxes, cases, bags and the like, of paper, paperboard, cellulose wadding or fibres; box files, letter trays and the like, of paper or paperboard, of a kind used in offices, shops or the like. Who imports and who exports this product, from official CEPII BACI and Eurostat statistics.

World imports, 2024USD 29.8 billionSum over 223 importing economies. Source: CEPII BACI.
World imports, 2023USD 29.9 billionSame economies, previous year. Source: CEPII BACI.
Growth−0.4%2024 against 2023, world imports in USD. Source: CEPII BACI.
Unit valueUSD 2,402 per tonneValue divided by quantity, flows with a reported quantity only (100.0% of the value). Source: CEPII BACI.
EU-27 imports from outside the EU, 2026-07EUR 219.5 millionLatest month in the database. Source: Eurostat Comext DS-045409, record DS-045409:EU27:EXTRA:4819:1:2026-07.

Top importing economies

#EconomyValue 2024ShareGrowthTrade companiesRecord
1United StatesUSD 3.6 billion12.1%+3.6%946,964BACI:US:4819:1:2024
2FranceUSD 2.3 billion7.6%−7.5%1,126,218BACI:FR:4819:1:2024
3GermanyUSD 2.1 billion6.9%−3.2%273,791BACI:DE:4819:1:2024
4NetherlandsUSD 1.5 billion5.0%−1.7%66,675BACI:NL:4819:1:2024
5MexicoUSD 1.3 billion4.4%−2.9%48,952BACI:MX:4819:1:2024
6CanadaUSD 1.2 billion4.0%+1.0%155,289BACI:CA:4819:1:2024
7United KingdomUSD 1.2 billion4.0%+0.1%897,276BACI:GB:4819:1:2024
8BelgiumUSD 873.8 million2.9%−9.3%53,407BACI:BE:4819:1:2024
9SwitzerlandUSD 772.6 million2.6%−5.1%35,411BACI:CH:4819:1:2024
10ItalyUSD 755.0 million2.5%−9.8%176,970BACI:IT:4819:1:2024

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 other intermediate products (NACE 4676) and Wholesale of other household goods (NACE 4649). Counts only. "Not offered" marks economies without company data (comprehensive sanctions) or without a counted source.

Top exporting economies

#EconomyValue 2024ShareGrowthRecord
1ChinaUSD 6.2 billion20.8%+8.1%BACI:CN:4819:2:2024
2GermanyUSD 3.5 billion11.8%−5.9%BACI:DE:4819:2:2024
3United StatesUSD 2.2 billion7.5%−2.4%BACI:US:4819:2:2024
4PolandUSD 1.7 billion5.7%+2.7%BACI:PL:4819:2:2024
5ItalyUSD 1.4 billion4.8%−8.3%BACI:IT:4819:2:2024
6NetherlandsUSD 1.0 billion3.4%−10.0%BACI:NL:4819:2:2024
7CanadaUSD 993.8 million3.3%−3.1%BACI:CA:4819:2:2024
8AustriaUSD 887.3 million3.0%−1.9%BACI:AT:4819:2:2024
9TürkiyeUSD 824.1 million2.7%+0.5%BACI:TR:4819:2:2024
10SpainUSD 773.1 million2.6%−9.3%BACI:ES:4819:2:2024

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 30.0 billion.

Import requirements at a glance

  • United Kingdom: 24 import measures recorded for HS 4819 (controls, licences, certificates, quotas and duties at commodity code level). Source: UK Integrated Online Tariff: measures on declarable commodities.
  • European Union: 24 import measures recorded for HS 4819 (controls, licences, certificates, quotas and duties at commodity code level). Source: EU TARIC measures (UK Trade Tariff, Northern Ireland view).
  • Canada: 1 import measure recorded for HS 4819 (controls, licences, certificates, quotas and duties at commodity code level). Source: CBSA Single Window: participating government agency programmes and their tariff codes.
  • United States: general (MFN) duty rate 0.0% ad valorem across 8 HTS rate lines. 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:4819:1:2026-07. 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
  • CBSA Single Window: participating government agency programmes and their tariff codes (CA measures): Canada Border Services Agency. Licence: Open Government Licence, Canada. 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 2026-10-22. 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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