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Exports of industrial products. By technological content and groups of products

Exports of industrial products. By technological content and groups of products Catalonia. 2018
Value Variation (%)
Exports of industrial products 67,388.0 1.6
High technology level 7,413.2 1.1
Pharmaceutical products 5,135.6 1.7
IT, electronic and optical products 2,251.7 -0.8
Others 25.9 61.9
Medium-high technology level 32,664.4 4.1
Chemical products 12,059.8 3.8
Material and electronic equipment; machinery and vehicles 19,431.0 3.7
Others 1,173.7 17.0
Medium-low technology level 9,786.1 -4.6
Rubber and plastic material, non metal mineral products and metallurgy 5,680.5 4.6
Metal products 1,919.9 0.2
Others 2,185.7 -24.9
Low technology level 17,524.3 0.9
Food products, textiles, leather and shoes, wood and paper 15,977.8 0.5
Others 1,546.5 4.9
Units: Millions of euros.
Source: Idescat, based on data from the State Tax Administration Agency's Department of Customs and Special Taxes.
Exports of industrial products. By technological content and groups of products Spain. 2018
Value Variation (%)
Exports of industrial products 254,674.4 3.1
High technology level 23,329.7 -4.3
Pharmaceutical products 10,742.9 -1.9
IT, electronic and optical products 6,495.5 -2.7
Others 6,091.4 -9.8
Medium-high technology level 111,573.2 3.9
Chemical products 26,911.4 7.9
Material and electronic equipment; machinery and vehicles 80,747.3 2.7
Others 3,914.5 4.3
Medium-low technology level 57,677.4 8.0
Rubber and plastic material, non metal mineral products and metallurgy 32,594.1 4.7
Metal products 8,656.9 2.7
Others 16,426.4 18.6
Low technology level 62,094.1 0.3
Food products, textiles, leather and shoes, wood and paper 57,884.3 0.0
Others 4,209.8 4.0
Units: Millions of euros.
Source: Idescat, based on data from the State Tax Administration Agency's Department of Customs and Special Taxes.

Last update: February 27, 2019. Revised series on February 7, 2023.

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.