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Imports. By economic destination of the goods

Imports. By economic destination of the goods Catalonia. 2021
Value Variation (%)
Total imports 91,131.6 20.0
Consumer goods 26,539.7 10.5
Food, beverages and tobacco 5,213.0 13.1
Other consumer goods 21,326.7 9.9
Capital goods 6,902.0 20.6
Machinery and other capital goods 4,728.5 20.8
Transport material and other capital goods 2,173.5 19.9
Intermediate goods 57,690.0 24.9
Agricultural products, forestry and fishery 2,843.7 24.6
Energy and industrial products 54,846.3 25.0
Unclassified 0.0 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Units: Millions of euros.
Source: Idescat, based on data from the State Tax Administration Agency's Department of Customs and Special Taxes.
(..) Confidential data, low reliability or not available.
Imports. By economic destination of the goods Spain. 2021
Value Variation (%)
Total imports 346,283.4 25.0
Consumer goods 92,909.6 20.5
Food, beverages and tobacco 23,331.8 11.2
Other consumer goods 69,577.8 24.0
Capital goods 30,579.5 18.4
Machinery and other capital goods 21,434.9 18.1
Transport material and other capital goods 9,144.6 18.9
Intermediate goods 222,794.3 28.0
Agricultural products, forestry and fishery 7,913.8 24.6
Energy and industrial products 214,880.5 28.2
Unclassified 0.0 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Units: Millions of euros.
Source: Idescat, based on data from the State Tax Administration Agency's Department of Customs and Special Taxes.
(..) Confidential data, low reliability or not available.

Last update: February 18, 2022. Revised series on February 20, 2024.

Methodological note

Idescat draws up these statistics using the most relevant information derived from data for imports to third countries, based on the Single Administrative Document (SAD), and dispatches to Community countries based on the Intrastat declaration.

The coming into force in 1993 of the Single European Market led to the elimination of border controls on trading between Community member states and, as a result, major changes in the documents, formalities and controls for exports and imports. Intrastat is a permanent and direct system for gathering data from companies in order to draw up, through consignors and consignees, statistics about the trading of goods between member states by means of a statistical declaration. Intrastat replaces the Single Administrative Document (SAD) for this trading.

The classification of products by economic destination is the result of the drawing up of a classification of foreign trade based on the purpose the goods are used for grouped by their customs tariffs (TARIC). Thus the products are shown divided into three groups: consumer goods, capital goods and intermediate goods.