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Imports. By activity branches

Imports. By activity branches Catalonia. 2023 (p)
Value Variation (%)
Total imports 110,556.6 -1.7
Crop and animal production, hunting, fishing and aquaculture 6,160.8 7.2
Mining, extraction and refined petroleum products 9,324.8 -4.0
Food products and beverages 8,444.2 1.3
Textiles, manufacture of wearing apparel, leather and footwear 9,337.8 -7.8
Chemical Industries 23,619.4 -11.5
Basic metals and metals products 6,146.9 -12.0
Machinery and equipments n.e.c 6,571.4 2.8
Office, precise and optical equipment 2,546.4 -3.4
Electrical and electronic equipment 8,739.4 -6.1
Motor vehicles and other transport equipment 17,587.4 34.3
Rest of the branches of activity 11,980.6 -9.7
Unclassified 97.5 -17.7
Units: Millions of euros.
Source: Idescat, based on data from the State Tax Administration Agency's Department of Customs and Special Taxes.
(p) Provisional data.
Imports. By activity branches Spain. 2023 (p)
Value Variation (%)
Total imports 424,248.7 -7.2
Crop and animal production, hunting, fishing and aquaculture 19,213.4 3.0
Mining, extraction and refined petroleum products 61,126.1 -29.4
Food products and beverages 33,695.4 2.7
Textiles, manufacture of wearing apparel, leather and footwear 30,859.9 -8.2
Chemical Industries 60,985.1 -13.6
Basic metals and metals products 28,459.3 -12.5
Machinery and equipments n.e.c 25,385.8 6.0
Office, precise and optical equipment 12,414.1 2.4
Electrical and electronic equipment 38,011.4 2.5
Motor vehicles and other transport equipment 61,955.2 16.7
Rest of the branches of activity 51,639.8 -7.4
Unclassified 503.3 -19.6
Units: Millions of euros.
Source: Idescat, based on data from the State Tax Administration Agency's Department of Customs and Special Taxes.
(p) Provisional data.

Last update: February 28, 2024.

Monthly data

COMEST

These statistics have a specific section with all the information available: Foreign Trade (COMEST).

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.

It has been revised the exports and imports series of the activity branches since 1994 following the Classficiació Catalana d'activitats econòmiques of 2009 (NACE-Rev 2).

The branches of activity are obtained from the following divisions of the NACE-Rev 2:

  • 01+02+03 Crop and animal production, hunting, fishing and aquaculture
  • 05+06+09+19 Mining, extraction and refined petroleum products
  • 10+11 Food products and beverages
  • 13+14+15 Textiles, manufacture of wearing apparel, leather and footwear
  • 20+21+268 Chemical Industries
  • 24+25 Basic metals and metals products
  • 28+33 Machinery and equipments n.e.cs
  • 262+265+266+267 Office, precise and optical equipment
  • 261+263+264+27 Electrical and electronically equipment
  • 29+30 Motor vehicles and other transport
  • 07+08+12+16+17+18+22+23+31+32+35+37+38+58+59+71+74+90+91+96 Rest of the branches of activity
  • Not classified