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Pencils: world market for HS 9609

Pencils (not of heading no. 9608), crayons, pencil leads, pastels, drawing charcoals, writing or drawing chalks and tailors' chalks. Who imports and who exports this product, from official CEPII BACI and Eurostat statistics.

World imports, 2024USD 1.7 billionSum over 216 importing economies. Source: CEPII BACI.
World imports, 2023USD 1.8 billionSame economies, previous year. Source: CEPII BACI.
Growth−2.2%2024 against 2023, world imports in USD. Source: CEPII BACI.
Unit valueUSD 5,809 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 14.5 millionLatest month in the database. Source: Eurostat Comext DS-045409, record DS-045409:EU27:EXTRA:9609:1:2026-07.

Top importing economies

#EconomyValue 2024ShareGrowthTrade companiesRecord
1United StatesUSD 313.8 million18.0%+7.7%946,964BACI:US:9609:1:2024
2GermanyUSD 114.4 million6.6%+2.1%273,791BACI:DE:9609:1:2024
3FranceUSD 66.5 million3.8%−7.6%1,126,218BACI:FR:9609:1:2024
4MexicoUSD 66.4 million3.8%−22.7%48,952BACI:MX:9609:1:2024
5United KingdomUSD 50.8 million2.9%+3.4%897,276BACI:GB:9609:1:2024
6BrazilUSD 44.9 million2.6%+23.8%2,393,372BACI:BR:9609:1:2024
7ItalyUSD 41.3 million2.4%−17.2%176,970BACI:IT:9609:1:2024
8PolandUSD 40.8 million2.3%+7.8%142,898BACI:PL:9609:1:2024
9NetherlandsUSD 40.1 million2.3%+1.2%66,675BACI:NL:9609:1:2024
10RussiaUSD 36.8 million2.1%+16.0%not offeredBACI:RU:9609:1:2024

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 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 883.9 million50.0%−2.5%BACI:CN:9609:2:2024
2GermanyUSD 140.6 million7.9%−9.3%BACI:DE:9609:2:2024
3VietnamUSD 73.4 million4.1%−0.3%BACI:VN:9609:2:2024
4BrazilUSD 68.2 million3.9%+6.8%BACI:BR:9609:2:2024
5IndiaUSD 58.1 million3.3%+2.4%BACI:IN:9609:2:2024
6FranceUSD 54.5 million3.1%+0.7%BACI:FR:9609:2:2024
7MexicoUSD 51.9 million2.9%−6.7%BACI:MX:9609:2:2024
8IndonesiaUSD 51.7 million2.9%−3.1%BACI:ID:9609:2:2024
9CzechiaUSD 49.0 million2.8%−2.9%BACI:CZ:9609:2:2024
10United StatesUSD 42.5 million2.4%−19.9%BACI:US:9609:2:2024

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 1.8 billion.

Import requirements at a glance

  • United Kingdom: 5 import measures recorded for HS 9609 (controls, licences, certificates, quotas and duties at commodity code level). Source: UK Integrated Online Tariff: measures on declarable commodities.
  • European Union: 10 import measures recorded for HS 9609 (controls, licences, certificates, quotas and duties at commodity code level). Source: EU TARIC measures (UK Trade Tariff, Northern Ireland view).
  • Canada: 5 import measures recorded for HS 9609 (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 5 HTS rate lines, plus 1 line with specific or compound rates. 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:9609:1:2026-07. 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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