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Motor cars and other motor vehicles: world market for HS 8703

Motor cars and other motor vehicles; principally designed for the transport of persons (other than those of heading no. 8702), including station wagons and racing cars. Who imports and who exports this product, from official CEPII BACI and Eurostat statistics.

World imports, 2024USD 966.6 billionSum over 223 importing economies. Source: CEPII BACI.
World imports, 2023USD 994.9 billionSame economies, previous year. Source: CEPII BACI.
Growth−2.8%2024 against 2023, world imports in USD. Source: CEPII BACI.
Unit valueUSD 16,465 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 8.0 billionLatest month in the database. Source: Eurostat Comext DS-045409, record DS-045409:EU27:EXTRA:8703:1:2026-07.

Top importing economies

#EconomyValue 2024ShareGrowthTrade companiesRecord
1United StatesUSD 215.7 billion22.3%+3.1%939,727BACI:US:8703:1:2024
2GermanyUSD 70.4 billion7.3%−12.3%271,673BACI:DE:8703:1:2024
3United KingdomUSD 54.8 billion5.7%−1.4%896,916BACI:GB:8703:1:2024
4FranceUSD 44.2 billion4.6%−9.3%1,125,915BACI:FR:8703:1:2024
5CanadaUSD 38.7 billion4.0%+1.1%152,251BACI:CA:8703:1:2024
6ChinaUSD 34.8 billion3.6%−21.5%5,393BACI:CN:8703:1:2024
7ItalyUSD 34.1 billion3.5%−3.6%175,629BACI:IT:8703:1:2024
8BelgiumUSD 33.0 billion3.4%−9.0%52,839BACI:BE:8703:1:2024
9SpainUSD 23.7 billion2.5%−1.5%92,615BACI:ES:8703:1:2024
10AustraliaUSD 23.7 billion2.5%−5.0%83,791BACI:AU:8703:1:2024

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 Sale of cars and light motor vehicles (NACE 4511). Counts only. "Not offered" marks economies without company data (comprehensive sanctions) or without a counted source.

Top exporting economies

#EconomyValue 2024ShareGrowthRecord
1GermanyUSD 168.4 billion17.3%−5.8%BACI:DE:8703:2:2024
2JapanUSD 115.3 billion11.8%−3.1%BACI:JP:8703:2:2024
3ChinaUSD 91.3 billion9.4%+13.3%BACI:CN:8703:2:2024
4South KoreaUSD 70.7 billion7.3%+2.8%BACI:KR:8703:2:2024
5MexicoUSD 67.3 billion6.9%+6.4%BACI:MX:8703:2:2024
6United StatesUSD 62.0 billion6.4%−5.7%BACI:US:8703:2:2024
7SpainUSD 42.7 billion4.4%−2.1%BACI:ES:8703:2:2024
8SlovakiaUSD 37.2 billion3.8%−3.9%BACI:SK:8703:2:2024
9United KingdomUSD 36.2 billion3.7%−2.6%BACI:GB:8703:2:2024
10CzechiaUSD 35.2 billion3.6%+3.9%BACI:CZ:8703:2:2024

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 973.1 billion.

Import requirements at a glance

  • United Kingdom: 472 import measures recorded for HS 8703 (controls, licences, certificates, quotas and duties at commodity code level). Source: UK Integrated Online Tariff: measures on declarable commodities.
  • European Union: 535 import measures recorded for HS 8703 (controls, licences, certificates, quotas and duties at commodity code level). Source: EU TARIC measures (UK Trade Tariff, Northern Ireland view).
  • Canada: 384 import measures recorded for HS 8703 (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 2.5% ad valorem across 15 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:8703:1:2026-07. 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 2026-10-25. 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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Members see the importers, distributors and wholesalers of motor cars and other motor vehicles in United States and every other market, with their evidence and Data Passport.

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