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

Imports of industrial products. By technological content and groups of products Catalonia. 2016
Value Variation (%)
Imports of industrial products 71,002.4 3.7
High technology level 8,726.4 3.4
Pharmaceutical products 4,198.4 2.1
IT, electronic and optical products 4,479.1 4.0
Others 48.9 134.5
Medim-high technology level 34,314.8 6.5
Chemical products 10,999.8 -1.7
Material and electronic equipment; machinery and vehicles 21,665.0 11.2
Others 1,649.9 7.5
Medium-low technology level 9,520.2 -4.3
Rubber and plastic material, non metal mineral products and metallurgy 5,439.2 -2.7
Metal products 1,703.3 3.4
Others 2,377.7 -12.1
Low technology level 18,441.0 3.3
Food products, textiles, leather and shoes, wood and paper 16,253.0 2.9
Others 2,188.0 6.6
Units: Millions of euros.
Source: Idescat, based on data from the State Tax Administration Agency's Department of Customs and Special Taxes.
Imports of industrial products. By technological content and groups of products Spain. 2016
Value Variation (%)
Imports of industrial products 232,561.7 4.1
High technology level 37,367.1 1.1
Pharmaceutical products 13,749.4 -4.8
IT, electronic and optical products 18,499.9 -0.1
Others 5,117.8 27.7
Medim-high technology level 100,506.2 3.4
Chemical products 24,703.2 -1.9
Material and electronic equipment; machinery and vehicles 70,625.2 4.8
Others 5,177.7 11.5
Medium-low technology level 36,594.7 6.9
Rubber and plastic material, non metal mineral products and metallurgy 21,234.9 0.5
Metal products 6,092.3 6.9
Others 9,267.5 25.2
Low technology level 58,093.7 5.5
Food products, textiles, leather and shoes, wood and paper 52,033.6 5.2
Others 6,060.0 7.9
Units: Millions of euros.
Source: Idescat, based on data from the State Tax Administration Agency's Department of Customs and Special Taxes.

Last update: March 6, 2017. 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.