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Seats: world market for HS 9401

Seats (not those of heading no. 9402), whether or not convertible into beds and parts thereof. Who imports and who exports this product, from official CEPII BACI and Eurostat statistics.

World imports, 2024USD 91.8 billionSum over 224 importing economies. Source: CEPII BACI.
World imports, 2023USD 89.0 billionSame economies, previous year. Source: CEPII BACI.
Growth+3.2%2024 against 2023, world imports in USD. Source: CEPII BACI.
Unit valueUSD 7,371 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 947.5 millionLatest month in the database. Source: Eurostat Comext DS-045409, record DS-045409:EU27:EXTRA:9401:1:2026-07.

Top importing economies

#EconomyValue 2024ShareGrowthTrade companiesRecord
1United StatesUSD 27.1 billion29.5%+6.6%946,964BACI:US:9401:1:2024
2GermanyUSD 9.0 billion9.8%+0.7%273,791BACI:DE:9401:1:2024
3FranceUSD 4.2 billion4.5%−2.8%1,126,218BACI:FR:9401:1:2024
4United KingdomUSD 4.1 billion4.4%−0.3%897,276BACI:GB:9401:1:2024
5CanadaUSD 3.4 billion3.7%−5.7%155,289BACI:CA:9401:1:2024
6CzechiaUSD 2.8 billion3.1%+5.1%138,021BACI:CZ:9401:1:2024
7JapanUSD 2.8 billion3.0%−0.0%30,863BACI:JP:9401:1:2024
8MexicoUSD 2.4 billion2.6%+3.5%48,952BACI:MX:9401:1:2024
9PolandUSD 2.2 billion2.4%+8.4%142,898BACI:PL:9401:1:2024
10SpainUSD 2.2 billion2.3%+3.1%86,918BACI:ES:9401:1:2024

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 furniture, carpets and lighting equipment (NACE 4647). Counts only. "Not offered" marks economies without company data (comprehensive sanctions) or without a counted source.

Top exporting economies

#EconomyValue 2024ShareGrowthRecord
1ChinaUSD 29.9 billion32.4%+9.5%BACI:CN:9401:2:2024
2MexicoUSD 8.9 billion9.7%−2.3%BACI:MX:9401:2:2024
3VietnamUSD 7.4 billion8.0%+35.7%BACI:VN:9401:2:2024
4PolandUSD 6.9 billion7.5%−4.4%BACI:PL:9401:2:2024
5GermanyUSD 4.2 billion4.5%−10.1%BACI:DE:9401:2:2024
6ItalyUSD 3.9 billion4.3%−7.6%BACI:IT:9401:2:2024
7United StatesUSD 3.7 billion4.0%−2.4%BACI:US:9401:2:2024
8CzechiaUSD 3.2 billion3.5%−0.0%BACI:CZ:9401:2:2024
9TürkiyeUSD 1.8 billion1.9%+0.6%BACI:TR:9401:2:2024
10RomaniaUSD 1.7 billion1.9%−5.1%BACI:RO:9401:2:2024

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 92.1 billion.

Import requirements at a glance

  • United Kingdom: 186 import measures recorded for HS 9401 (controls, licences, certificates, quotas and duties at commodity code level). Source: UK Integrated Online Tariff: measures on declarable commodities.
  • European Union: 231 import measures recorded for HS 9401 (controls, licences, certificates, quotas and duties at commodity code level). Source: EU TARIC measures (UK Trade Tariff, Northern Ireland view).
  • Canada: 52 import measures recorded for HS 9401 (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 29 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:9401:1:2026-07. 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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