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Ignition or starting equipment: world market for HS 8511

Ignition or starting equipment; used for spark-ignition or compression-ignition internal combustion engines; generators and cut outs used in conjunction with such engines. Who imports and who exports this product, from official CEPII BACI and Eurostat statistics.

World imports, 2024USD 22.4 billionSum over 222 importing economies. Source: CEPII BACI.
World imports, 2023USD 21.9 billionSame economies, previous year. Source: CEPII BACI.
Growth+2.4%2024 against 2023, world imports in USD. Source: CEPII BACI.
Unit valueUSD 17,785 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 210.5 millionLatest month in the database. Source: Eurostat Comext DS-045409, record DS-045409:EU27:EXTRA:8511:1:2026-07.

Top importing economies

#EconomyValue 2024ShareGrowthTrade companiesRecord
1United StatesUSD 4.7 billion21.0%+7.1%946,964BACI:US:8511:1:2024
2GermanyUSD 2.0 billion8.8%−7.1%273,791BACI:DE:8511:1:2024
3MexicoUSD 1.7 billion7.8%+6.7%48,952BACI:MX:8511:1:2024
4ChinaUSD 943.1 million4.2%+11.8%5,259BACI:CN:8511:1:2024
5United KingdomUSD 766.4 million3.4%+5.0%897,276BACI:GB:8511:1:2024
6FranceUSD 745.1 million3.3%−11.1%1,126,218BACI:FR:8511:1:2024
7PolandUSD 693.0 million3.1%+2.5%142,898BACI:PL:8511:1:2024
8CanadaUSD 590.8 million2.6%−7.3%155,289BACI:CA:8511:1:2024
9ItalyUSD 536.7 million2.4%−4.5%176,970BACI:IT:8511:1:2024
10SpainUSD 528.5 million2.4%−0.6%86,918BACI:ES:8511:1:2024

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 electronic and telecommunications equipment and parts (NACE 4652) and Wholesale of other machinery and equipment (NACE 4669). Counts only. "Not offered" marks economies without company data (comprehensive sanctions) or without a counted source.

Top exporting economies

#EconomyValue 2024ShareGrowthRecord
1ChinaUSD 3.8 billion17.0%+15.4%BACI:CN:8511:2:2024
2JapanUSD 3.6 billion15.9%−3.1%BACI:JP:8511:2:2024
3United StatesUSD 2.3 billion10.2%+5.3%BACI:US:8511:2:2024
4GermanyUSD 2.1 billion9.4%+10.3%BACI:DE:8511:2:2024
5MexicoUSD 1.9 billion8.3%+2.6%BACI:MX:8511:2:2024
6FranceUSD 1.2 billion5.2%−15.1%BACI:FR:8511:2:2024
7ThailandUSD 718.4 million3.2%+8.6%BACI:TH:8511:2:2024
8HungaryUSD 680.0 million3.0%+23.4%BACI:HU:8511:2:2024
9PolandUSD 639.3 million2.8%+5.6%BACI:PL:8511:2:2024
10South KoreaUSD 639.2 million2.8%−4.9%BACI:KR:8511:2:2024

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 22.5 billion.

Import requirements at a glance

  • United Kingdom: 114 import measures recorded for HS 8511 (controls, licences, certificates, quotas and duties at commodity code level). Source: UK Integrated Online Tariff: measures on declarable commodities.
  • European Union: 114 import measures recorded for HS 8511 (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% to 3.1% ad valorem across 11 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:8511:1:2026-07. 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 2026-10-22. 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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