What products does Korea import from China?

South Korea's top three commodities imported from China are mechanical and electrical products, base metals and products, and chemical products. In 20 18, the import volume was 504 1 billion dollars,1.21.70 million dollars and1.40 million dollars respectively. Mechanical and electrical products increased by 10.3%, base metals and products decreased by 6. 1%, and chemical products increased by 26.4%. They account for 47.4%, 1 1.4% and 10.8% of the total Korean imports from China respectively.

From the comparison between "South Korea imports from the global market" and "South Korea imports from China", there is a certain gap between South Korea's products imported from the global market and those imported from China, mainly in mineral products. Specifically, the trade volume of mineral products imported by South Korea from China is only 1 1.8 1 billion US dollars, accounting for only 1. 1% of the trade volume of products imported by South Korea from China, which is far lower than the proportion of mineral products imported by South Korea from the world, mainly because China is also a big consumer of mineral resources, and many mineral resources are in short supply.

Generally speaking, among the labor-intensive products such as textile raw materials, furniture and ceramics in the Korean market, China products continue to maintain their advantages, and the market share of these products in the Korean import market exceeds 35%. Besides, among these products, China's main competitors are Vietnamese, Indonesian and other Southeast Asian countries.

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80% of kimchi imported from Korea comes from small towns in Shandong.

65438+February 29th According to media reports, 90% of kimchi imported from South Korea comes from China. Among these 90%, the export volume of Shandong kimchi ranks first in China, and most of Shandong kimchi comes from Ren Zhao Town, pingdu city, which is the strongest hometown of kimchi.

Vegetable farmers in Ren Zhao Town pay more attention to the weather in Korea than the local weather, and often decide the planting area of cabbage according to the weather in Korea. On June+10, 5438, South Korea suffered from "kimchi crisis", the price of cabbage remained high, and the orders of vegetable farmers were soft. "As soon as I heard that kimchi was affected, I looked at the cabbage fields five times a day and couldn't wait to pull them out."