Press release No. 231 of 18 June 2024
- Despite declining numbers of units, the share of German electric car imports from China continued to increase compared with January to April 2023
- Electric car imports from China tripled from 2022 to 2023 and rose as much as tenfold from 2020 to 2023
- Following a sharp decline in 2023, German passenger car exports to China fell slightly year on year in the first four months of 2024 – there was a large increase in exports of petrol-driven cars with a cylinder capacity of 1.5 to 3 litres
- In 2023, Germany exported a total of 241,000 passenger cars to China and imported 173,100 cars from there
WIESBADEN – The European Commission is considering to impose high extra duties on electric car imports from the People's Republic of China. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that Germany imported a total of 129,800 purely electric-powered passenger cars to the value of 3.4 billion euros from China in 2023. Compared with the previous year, imports of Chinese electric cars therefore tripled in terms of numbers and value. In 2022, Germany imported 43,200 purely electric-powered cars to the value of 904.0 million euros from China. When measured in terms of units, imports of Chinese electric cars rose as much as tenfold compared with 2020. In 2020, just 12,800 purely electric-powered cars to the value of 115.2 million euros were imported from China. In the first four months of 2024, the number of electric cars imported from China decreased markedly in this vehicle category due to subdued domestic demand. Nevertheless, Chinas share of the total German imports of electric cars increased considerably once again.
