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Artificial flowers, foliage and fruit: import and export

By SkyMinder Sales Enablement Team May 15th 2024

Artificial flowers, foliage and fruit are usually used as daily decoration in our houses or public spaces: it’s quite common to see a basket of artificial fruit or flowers on a table in a house or during social events. This usage is due to the fact that the natural atmosphere is conducive to promoting a sense of peace, even relieving stress, as well as the mainly aesthetic purpose.

There were traces of artificial plants already during the Roman and Egyptian era, even if they were made by limited resources of materials, like silk, steel or wax. Nowadays, thanks to technological development, these elements are more realistic and more durable.

The exports of these products have seen a growth of 45.8% in 2022 since in 2021 the total trade was of $1.64B whereas the following year it was $2.38B. Furthermore, these elements were the world’s 1331st most traded product.

 

 

 

 

 

 

As regards the top five of the importers the United States takes the first place, with a trade of $1.1B, ahead of Poland ($97M), United Kingdom ($90.8M), Germany ($87.6M) and Japan ($67.9M). Whereas as far as concerns the exporters, the one with the largest trade value is China, with $2.16B. In the second place we find the Netherlands ($40.8M), followed by Germany ($26.6M), the United States (($18.8M) and Hong Kong ($13.8M).

Looking at the graphic we can observe that China remains the major exporters (between 97.5% and 86.8%) but when we move to Europe the percentage of the country gradually decreases, giving way to other exporters.

 

  1. United States: 97.5% China; 0.4% Hong Kong; 0.06% Netherland; 0.04% Germany
  2. Poland: 95.4% China; 2.59% Germany; 0.80% Netherlands
  3. United Kingdom: 88.8% China; 2.68% Germany; 2.67% Hong Kong; 1.84% Netherlands; 0.18% United States
  4. Germany: 86.8% China; 5% Netherlands; 1.1% Hong Kong; 0.12% United States
  5. Japan: 92.4% China; 3.2% Hong Kong; 2,52% United States; 0.01% Netherlands

On the other hand, in a specular way, the previous graphic is confirmed by this one even if there’s more heterogeneity: we can see indeed that a 49.7% of Chinese product is imported by the United States, whereas the European countries tend to interact more among them.

  1. China: 49.7% United States; 7.82% Poland; 3.53% Germany; 2.9% Japan; 1.6% France; 1,54% United Kingdom;1.5% Canada
  2. Netherlands: 33.8% France; 10.7% Germany; 4.09% United Kingdom; 2.59% Poland; 0.3% United States; 0.1% Canada
  3. Germany: 9.6% France; 9.46% Poland; 9.16% United Kingdom; 0.3% United States
  4. United States: 55.3% Canada; 9.1% Japan; 0.86% United Kingdom; 0.55% Germany; 0.12% Poland; 0.1% France
  5. Hong Kong: 30.5% United States; 17,60% United Kingdom; 15.8% Japan; 7.07% Germany; 1.3% France, 1.3% Canada

As regards the growths between 2021 and 2022, among the fastest importers there are the United States ($506M), India ($28.9M), Italy ($21M), Netherlands ($17.9M) and Malaysia ($17.8M).

 

 

  1. United States: from $593M to $1.1B
  2. India: from $27.4M to $56.3M
  3. Italy: from $46.5M to $67.5M
  4. Netherlands: from $38.8M to $56.6M
  5. Malaysia: from $26.3M to $44.1M

Whereas as far as concerns the fastest exporters China takes the first place ($732M), ahead of the United States ($4.82M), Cambodia ($3.81M), Belgium ($1.85M) and Hungary ($1.68M).

 

 

  1. China: from $1.43B to $2.16B
  2. United States: from $14M to $18.8M
  3. Cambodia: from $8.37M to $12.2M
  4. Belgium: from $9.09M to $10.9M
  5. Hungary: from $2.17M to $3.85M

Sources:
https://oec.world/en
https://data.worldbank.org/
https://www.trademap.org/