Industries with Biggest Decline in Exports in China in 2025

• 1. Communication Equipment Manufacturing in China

  Decline in Exports for 2025: -4.4%

  Over the past decade, the Mobile Telecommunications industry has been taking an increasing market share from the Wired Telecommunications industry due to mobile services' convenience and falling prices. This increasing substitution has reduced demand for wired terminal equipment, a major product segment in the Communication Equipment Manufacturing industry. Industry revenue is expected to decrease an annualized 4.7% over the five years through 2024. In 2024, industry revenue is expected to de...

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• 2. Motorcycle Manufacturing in China

  Decline in Exports for 2025: -3.5%

  The development of the Motorcycle Manufacturing industry in China has been affected by more restrictive policy and the popularity of automobiles in recent years. Revenue for the Motorcycle Manufacturing in China is expected to increase at an annualized 0.7% to $24.2 billion over the five years through 2024, including a drop of 5.9% in 2024 alone, when profit is anticipated to be 4.9%.
  The Government in China has continuously issued industry policies to encourage the use of green vehicles...

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• 3. Tobacco Growing in China

  Decline in Exports for 2025: -3.3%

  Tobacco is grown on less than 1% of the world's agricultural land and in a wide variety of soils and climates. Since the 1960s, the bulk of production has moved from the Americas to Africa and Asia. Land devoted to tobacco growing has been halved in the United States, Canada and Mexico, but has almost doubled in China, Malawi and Tanzania.
  Due to the issuance of China's Tobacco Control Program in late 2012 in response to the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Contr...

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• 4. Sawmills in China

  Decline in Exports for 2025: -3.0%

  China's increasing urbanization rate bolstered demand for construction wood, wood for decoration and wood furniture over the past five years. The rapid development of transportation infrastructure has also raised demand for special timbers and sleepers. These factors have benefited the Sawmill industry, causing industry revenue to increase an annualized 4.7% over the five years through 2025, to total $30.2 billion. This includes a 4.5% increase in 2025. High purchasing and labor costs lead to...

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• 5. Integrated Circuit Manufacturing in China

  Decline in Exports for 2025: -2.8%

  China is the world's largest and fastest-growing integrated circuit market, and is also an important producer and provider of integrated circuits. The Integrated Circuit Manufacturing industry in China is expected to grow at an annualized 11.8% over the five years through 2023 to $283.3 billion, maintaining a sustained and stable growth trend over the period. This includes growth by 9.3% in the current year. The huge demand from terminal application markets like industrial equipment, communic...

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• 6. Aluminum Ore Mining in China

  Decline in Exports for 2025: -2.0%

  China's Aluminum Ore Mining industry's revenue is expected to increase an annualized 0.4% to $7.0 billion over the five years through to 2023, including 1.7% in 2023 alone when profit margins will increase to 8.4%. Slowdowns across downstream industries in China have limited industry revenue growth over the past five years. However, China remains the largest producer and consumer of aluminum globally, supporting local demand for aluminum ore. China's economy grew steadily in 2021, benefiting ...

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• 7. Camera Equipment Manufacturing in China

  Decline in Exports for 2025: -1.9%

  With the rapid growth of the Chinese economy and technological progress, the industry has begun to transform and upgrade, gradually developing from OEM to independent R&D of products. China has a group of industry enterprises with strong technology and large production scale, covering multiple fields from traditional cameras to digital cameras, drones, etc.
  Revenue for the Camera Equipment Manufacturing industry in China is expected to increase an annualized 3.0% over the five years ...

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• 8. Egg, Meat & Fish Wholesaling in China

  Decline in Exports for 2025: 0.0%

  Revenue for the Egg, Meat and Fish Wholesaling industry in China is expected to reach $63.7 billion in 2024, up by 6.1% from 2023. This is mainly driven by steady development of downstream industries in 2024. Industry revenue is expected to grow an annualized 4.2% over the five years through 2024. Rising consumption power in China has driven steady growth in recent years.
  In 2020 the downstream catering and hotel sectors were seriously affected by diminished demand after the COVID-19 out...

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• 9. Beverage and Tea Wholesalers in China

  Decline in Exports for 2025: 0.0%

  Revenue for the Beverage and Tea Wholesalers industry in China is expected to increase at an annualized 4.4% over the five years through 2023, to total $208.7 billion. This trend includes an anticipated increase of 2.6% in the current year. Over the past five years, the main factors driving industry performance have been higher consumption power in China, rising living standards, and the development of downstream catering and retailing industries.

  COVID-19 pandemic resulted in weaker de...

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• 10. Sporting Goods Wholesaling in China

  Decline in Exports for 2025: 0.0%

  Revenue for the Sporting Goods Wholesaling industry in China is expected to increase at an annualized 5.9% over the five years through 2025 to reach an estimated $62.3 billion. This trend includes an expected increase of 4.7% in 2025. The main factors driving revenue growth have been rising domestic demand, large sporting events hosted by China, increasing health consciousness and China's active involvement in international trade in the World Trade Organization (WTO) framework. Profitability ...

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