AYBARION TRADE

Product market hub · HS 8530

Signalling, safety or traffic control equipment: world market for HS 8530

Signalling, safety or traffic control equipment; for railways, tramways, roads, inland waterways, parking facilities, port installations, airfields, excluding those of heading no. 8608. Who imports and who exports this product, from official CEPII BACI and Eurostat statistics.

World imports, 2024USD 3.0 billionSum over 213 importing economies. Source: CEPII BACI.
World imports, 2023USD 2.8 billionSame economies, previous year. Source: CEPII BACI.
Growth+5.3%2024 against 2023, world imports in USD. Source: CEPII BACI.
Unit valueUSD 58,310 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 14.1 millionLatest month in the database. Source: Eurostat Comext DS-045409, record DS-045409:EU27:EXTRA:8530:1:2026-07.

Top importing economies

#EconomyValue 2024ShareGrowthTrade companiesRecord
1United StatesUSD 447.8 million15.0%+3.5%946,964BACI:US:8530:1:2024
2GermanyUSD 148.6 million5.0%+10.0%273,791BACI:DE:8530:1:2024
3HungaryUSD 131.6 million4.4%+1,989.7%24,403BACI:HU:8530:1:2024
4MexicoUSD 121.5 million4.1%−1.9%48,952BACI:MX:8530:1:2024
5CanadaUSD 108.9 million3.7%−4.5%155,289BACI:CA:8530:1:2024
6United KingdomUSD 105.7 million3.5%+9.1%897,276BACI:GB:8530:1:2024
7IndiaUSD 104.5 million3.5%+55.3%108,144BACI:IN:8530:1:2024
8SpainUSD 95.8 million3.2%+1.6%86,918BACI:ES:8530:1:2024
9FranceUSD 90.0 million3.0%+4.7%1,126,218BACI:FR:8530:1:2024
10ChinaUSD 73.9 million2.5%+9.1%5,259BACI:CN:8530:1:2024

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 400.0 million13.3%+31.4%BACI:CN:8530:2:2024
2GermanyUSD 387.9 million12.9%−5.3%BACI:DE:8530:2:2024
3AustriaUSD 222.7 million7.4%+13.3%BACI:AT:8530:2:2024
4United StatesUSD 219.0 million7.3%−3.2%BACI:US:8530:2:2024
5ItalyUSD 196.2 million6.5%+5.5%BACI:IT:8530:2:2024
6MexicoUSD 193.7 million6.5%−4.2%BACI:MX:8530:2:2024
7SpainUSD 171.9 million5.7%+23.7%BACI:ES:8530:2:2024
8United KingdomUSD 167.2 million5.6%+2.5%BACI:GB:8530:2:2024
9BelgiumUSD 114.0 million3.8%+29.3%BACI:BE:8530:2:2024
10CanadaUSD 93.2 million3.1%+8.6%BACI:CA:8530:2:2024

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 3.0 billion.

Import requirements at a glance

  • United Kingdom: 12 import measures recorded for HS 8530 (controls, licences, certificates, quotas and duties at commodity code level). Source: UK Integrated Online Tariff: measures on declarable commodities.
  • European Union: 9 import measures recorded for HS 8530 (controls, licences, certificates, quotas and duties at commodity code level). Source: EU TARIC measures (UK Trade Tariff, Northern Ireland view).
  • Canada: 8 import measures recorded for HS 8530 (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 3 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:8530:1:2026-07. 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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