World Trade in Lighting Fixtures: 2017 Exports and Imports

November 28, 2018

The world trade of lighting fixtures can be estimated in around US$45 billion of exports and US$41 billion of imports for the year 2017. Compared to the previous year, the world trade registered modest results: a slight contraction of -0.4% for lighting fixtures exports and an increase of 2.7% for imports. 

These statistics appear in the 23rd edition of CSIL research World trade of lighting fixtures, the result of official trade data, analysis of CSIL databases for lighting fixtures in Europe and worldwide, official documents concerning macroeconomic trends, and sector performances for the last two years.

The report provides an overview of the world trade of lighting fixtures, with statistical data (production, consumption, imports, exports) at a worldwide level and data on the lighting fixtures markets of 70 countries selected according to their contribution to the international trade of lighting fixtures.

The report also identifies the opportunities in the global lighting fixtures market and is a helpful tool for lighting fixtures exporters as it contains a rich collection of key country data, allowing comparisons among specific interest areas.

In 2017, the largest importing countries for lighting fixtures are, in descending order, the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Canada, and the Netherlands. The major exporters are China, Germany, Italy, the United States, Mexico, and the Netherlands. As for lighting fixtures and lamps, China is the main exporter and the United States is the main importer. Germany and Poland are the second and third largest world exporters of lamps; Germany and China the second and third importers. China, Germany, Hungary, Belgium, and Poland all reported trade surplus in 2017.

International trade statistics (imports and exports) 2012-2017 and projection for 2018 are given at country-level both for lighting fixtures and lamps, highlighting the major exporting and importing countries and providing main destination countries of exports and main origin countries of imports. The report also analyses trade balance data, covering the years 2012-2017.

Find out more: www.lighting.csilmilano.com/report/world-trade-lighting-fixtures-0058536.html.

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