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BILATERAL TRADE CORRIDOR
Origin
Belgium
Country code: BE
Destination
China
Country code: CN
$33.0B · 2024

All 4 records on file for this corridor

Every real (period, source, value) row on file for Belgium and China, in either direction — deduplicated the same way as everywhere else on this site: one canonical figure per period and source, not a raw ingestion dump. Spans 2 distinct periods and 2 distinct sources.

Complete corridor export, static snapshot.
DirectionValuePeriodSource
China → Belgium$33.0B2024UN Comtrade (CN)
Belgium → China$6.2B2024UN Comtrade (CN)
China → Belgium$14.4B2025UN Comtrade (BE)
Belgium → China$7.0B2025UN Comtrade (BE)
Historical Exporter Dynamics
Historical dataset — World Bank Exporter Dynamics Database, 1997–2014, frozen. The World Bank has not published a newer edition; this never updates. Directional and asymmetric by design — each block below is one country's own self-reported data on its firms exporting to the other side, not a shared corridor figure.

Belgium's own reported data on Belgium firms exporting to China (1997–2013).

MetricLatest valueYearTrend
Exporting firms2,382201317 yearly data points (1997–2013)
Firm entry rate32.1%201316 yearly data points (1998–2013)
Firm exit rate33.6%201215 yearly data points (1998–2012)
Exporter concentration (EDD HHI, 0–1 scale)0.044201317 yearly data points (1997–2013)
Export value held by top 1% of exporters62.1%201317 yearly data points (1997–2013)
Export value held by top 5% of exporters87.2%201317 yearly data points (1997–2013)
Export value held by top 25% of exporters98.7%201317 yearly data points (1997–2013)
Avg. HS6 products per exporting firm4.4201317 yearly data points (1997–2013)
Avg. exporting firms per HS6 product4.5201317 yearly data points (1997–2013)
Avg. export value per exporting firm$3.6M201317 yearly data points (1997–2013)
Median export value per exporting firm$54.4K201317 yearly data points (1997–2013)
Share of entrants in TEV2.5%201316 yearly data points (1998–2013)

The 2013 mean is 66x the median — a small number of large exporting firms account for most of the export value; the typical firm exports far less than the average figure suggests.

"TEV" is the World Bank's own term from its Exporter Dynamics Database — not expanded anywhere in its published metadata. Trade-economics convention suggests "Total Export Value", but that is this site's own inference, not a sourced definition.

2012 entrant cohort: 43.8% of new Belgium exporters to China were still exporting after 1 year.

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