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By technological content and groups of products

Foreign Trade according to Technological Content. By technological content and groups of products Catalonia. 2025 (p)
Exports Exports variation rate (%) Imports Imports variation rate (%) Balance Coverage rate (%)
Total 95,578.9 0.7 103,757.8 4.6 -8,178.8 92.1
High technology level 12,571.4 6.6 14,001.1 2.4 -1,429.7 89.8
Pharmaceutical products 8,828.3 1.2 7,110.4 -5.9 1,717.8 124.2
IT, electronic and optical products 3,534.7 21.4 6,648.5 16.3 -3,113.8 53.2
Others 208.4 36.4 242.1 -39.8 -33.7 86.1
Medium-high technology level 45,488.2 -1.6 48,720.5 4.2 -3,232.3 93.4
Chemical products 19,147.1 -4.6 14,895.2 -3.9 4,251.9 128.5
Material and electronic equipment; machinery and vehicles 24,458.3 0.0 30,710.6 8.4 -6,252.3 79.6
Others 1,882.8 10.6 3,114.7 6.3 -1,231.9 60.4
Medium-low technology level 11,829.1 -2.9 15,735.5 5.1 -3,906.4 75.2
Rubber and plastic material, non metal mineral products and metallurgy 6,943.1 0.3 9,068.5 6.7 -2,125.4 76.6
Metal products 2,486.5 3.7 2,600.0 6.0 -113.5 95.6
Others 2,399.6 -16.3 4,067.0 1.3 -1,667.5 59.0
Low technology level 25,690.2 3.9 25,300.7 6.3 389.6 101.5
Food products, textiles, leather and shoes, wood and paper 23,257.0 3.5 22,636.1 6.9 620.9 102.7
Others 2,433.3 7.8 2,664.6 1.7 -231.3 91.3
Units: Million euros.
Source: Idescat, based on the State Tax Administration Agency's Department of Customs and Special Taxes.
Note: Year-over-year variations of provisional data are calculated with respect to the provisional data of the same period of the previous year.
(p) Provisional data.
Foreign Trade according to Technological Content. By technological content and groups of products Spain. 2025 (p)
Exports Exports variation rate (%) Imports Imports variation rate (%) Balance Coverage rate (%)
Total 346,441.3 1.0 370,916.4 6.6 -24,475.1 93.4
High technology level 40,453.0 8.0 67,430.5 11.6 -26,977.5 60.0
Pharmaceutical products 21,939.7 14.1 28,045.2 12.3 -6,105.5 78.2
IT, electronic and optical products 10,182.4 11.3 31,445.2 9.0 -21,262.8 32.4
Others 8,330.8 -8.3 7,940.0 20.2 390.8 104.9
Medium-high technology level 142,376.3 -1.1 153,733.2 6.0 -11,356.8 92.6
Chemical products 40,985.7 2.6 38,817.1 4.6 2,168.6 105.6
Material and electronic equipment; machinery and vehicles 94,312.6 -3.4 104,818.0 6.3 -10,505.4 90.0
Others 7,078.0 10.4 10,098.1 7.8 -3,020.1 70.1
Medium-low technology level 71,803.3 -0.2 59,126.9 3.3 12,676.4 121.4
Rubber and plastic material, non metal mineral products and metallurgy 43,825.3 3.7 36,986.7 3.5 6,838.6 118.5
Metal products 11,180.6 -0.7 10,933.0 12.5 247.6 102.3
Others 16,797.4 -8.9 11,207.2 -4.9 5,590.2 149.9
Low technology level 91,808.7 2.5 90,625.9 6.4 1,182.8 101.3
Food products, textiles, leather and shoes, wood and paper 85,377.9 1.8 81,743.3 6.0 3,634.6 104.4
Others 6,430.8 12.2 8,882.7 10.2 -2,451.9 72.4
Units: Million euros.
Source: Idescat, based on the State Tax Administration Agency's Department of Customs and Special Taxes.
Note: Year-over-year variations of provisional data are calculated with respect to the provisional data of the same period of the previous year.
(p) Provisional data.

Last update: March 16, 2026.

Methodological note

The statistics for technological content (R&D) of industrial products in foreign trade is based on the most recent classification drawn up by the Eurostat of industrial sectors by research and development (R&D) effort. These statistics classify flows of exported and imported goods by the importance of their technological content.

The technological content of an industrial sector is identified by calculating R&D spending as a percentage of the sector's production volume. The concept also takes into not only the sector's own technological effort (direct R&D intensity) but also the technology built into its purchases of intermediate goods and equipment (indirect intensity). This new classification makes it possible to compare the statistical information that it is generated nationally with the one generated in Europe.

The result had been an aggregation of the industrial sectors of the Classificació catalana d'activitats econòmiques 2009 (NACE-Rev 2) in four groups according to its technological intensity: high technological level, high medium, medium low and low. These groups are divided by exports or imports to the European Union of the 27 or to the rest of the world. The values corresponding to Catalonia and Spain are generated.

Idescat has revised the series of exports and imports of industrial products since the first quarter of 1994, following the Classification of products by technological content Eurostat.