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Exports. By activity branches

Exports. By activity branches Catalonia. 2020
Value Variation (%)
Total exports 66,525.9 -10.0
Crop and animal production, hunting, fishing and aquaculture 1,727.4 7.8
Mining, extraction and refined petroleum products 1,633.7 -47.1
Food products and beverages 9,769.0 6.7
Textiles, manufacture of wearing apparel, leather and footwear 5,207.3 -17.6
Chemical Industries 17,642.9 -3.5
Basic metals and metals products 3,642.2 -13.8
Machinery and equipments n.e.c 4,118.8 -8.8
Office, precise and optical equipment 863.9 -10.5
Electrical and electronic equipment 4,553.4 -4.0
Motor vehicles and other transport equipment 8,929.3 -23.2
Rest of the branches of activity 7,645.2 -8.4
Unclassified 792.8 -25.4
Units: Millions of euros.
Source: Idescat, based on data from the State Tax Administration Agency's Department of Customs and Special Taxes.
Note: Between 14 March and 21 June 2020, it is in force the Royal Decree 463/2020, of 14 March, which declares the state of alarm for the management of the health crisis situation caused by Covid-19.
Exports. By activity branches Spain. 2020
Value Variation (%)
Total exports 263,628.3 -9.4
Crop and animal production, hunting, fishing and aquaculture 18,456.0 5.3
Mining, extraction and refined petroleum products 9,847.2 -39.2
Food products and beverages 34,713.6 4.4
Textiles, manufacture of wearing apparel, leather and footwear 17,479.9 -18.3
Chemical Industries 36,741.3 -5.7
Basic metals and metals products 21,986.2 -13.3
Machinery and equipments n.e.c 15,665.2 -8.0
Office, precise and optical equipment 3,436.3 -5.1
Electrical and electronic equipment 14,765.3 -4.5
Motor vehicles and other transport equipment 53,164.9 -14.0
Rest of the branches of activity 32,635.1 -5.0
Unclassified 4,737.4 -20.6
Units: Millions of euros.
Source: Idescat, based on data from the State Tax Administration Agency's Department of Customs and Special Taxes.
Note: Between 14 March and 21 June 2020, it is in force the Royal Decree 463/2020, of 14 March, which declares the state of alarm for the management of the health crisis situation caused by Covid-19.

Last update: February 23, 2021. Revised series on February 20, 2024.

Methodological note

Idescat draws up these statistics using the most relevant information derived from data for exports to third countries, based on the Single Administrative Document (SAD), and dispatches to Community countries based on the Intrastat declaration.

The coming into force in 1993 of the Single European Market led to the elimination of border controls on trading between Community member states and, as a result, major changes in the documents, formalities and controls for exports and imports. Intrastat is a permanent and direct system for gathering data from companies in order to draw up, through consignors and consignees, statistics about the trading of goods between member states by means of a statistical declaration. Intrastat replaces the Single Administrative Document (SAD) for this trading.

It has been revised the exportations and importations series of the activity branches since 1994 following the Classficiació Catalana d'activitats econòmiques of 2009 (NACE-Rev 2)

The branches of activity are obtained from the following divisions of the NACE-Rev 2:

  • 01+02+03 Crop and animal production, hunting, fishing and aquaculture
  • 05+06+09+19 Mining, extraction and refined petroleum products
  • 10+11 Food products and beverages
  • 13+14+15 Textiles, manufacture of wearing apparel, leather and footwear
  • 20+21+268 Chemical Industries
  • 24+25 Basic metals and metals products
  • 28+33 Machinery and equipments n.e.cs
  • 262+265+266+267 Office, precise and optical equipment
  • 261+263+264+27 Electrical and electronically equipment
  • 29+30 Motor vehicles and other transport
  • 07+08+12+16+17+18+22+23+31+32+35+37+38+58+59+71+74+90+91+96 Rest of the branches of activity
  • Not classified