European Union's trade flows of non-food and non-energy raw material commodities : basic facts and figures

The first objective of this report is to get a detailed picture of the most important EU-28's aggregate trade flows of non-energy and non-food raw materials commodities (NFNERM) over the period 2011-2016, by identifying its most traded products and main supplying and destination countries. In addition to presenting EU-28 aggregated data, we also zoomed in on the EU-28 trade bloc and analyzed the trade flows in raw materials of the leading five importing/exporting EU-28 countries. Finally, for illustrating the diversity of products containing raw materials across a specific raw material value chain, in the last section of this study we selected one raw material critical to the EU - i.e., borates - and analyzed the EU-28's trade flows of the commodities incorporating it, as identified in trade statistics.