China became the top electric car supplier in 21 countries

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UN Statistics Division, UN Comtrade, HS 870380 (motor cars with only an electric motor for propulsion; same six-digit code in HS 2017 and HS 2022), annual imports by partner, current US$, as reported by each importing country; read from the UN Comtrade API via the progrss vault (datasets retrieved 10 Nov 2026; vault rule GUIDELINES §4.11). Set: the 65 economies (China excluded as a reporter) that reported at least US$1 million of these imports in both 2019 and 2025; the vault holds each reporter's world total and its ten largest partners. Top supplier = largest partner by value, excluding 'areas nes'. Partner is the country of origin as recorded by the importer; EU members often record arrivals from other EU states by the state of consignment, so Chinese-made cars landed in Belgium or Germany can appear as Belgian or German: the count of countries where China is top is therefore a floor for Europe. Hong Kong and Macao report as separate customs territories. Hub economies (Hong Kong, Singapore, Belgium, the Netherlands) record imports that may be re-exported. Made in China includes cars built there for foreign brands. Map colour: yellow = the 21 countries whose top supplier was another country in 2019 and China in 2025; hover shows China's share of each country's 2025 imports (0 = China not among its ten largest suppliers). Counts and shares are progrss calculations. Live re-read of the Comtrade API was refused in this run (live re-read failed); independent checker recomputed all counts and shares from the vault. Comtrade images may be used with credit.