Brass profiles

EU-27 trade, 2005–2025

EU-27 imports and exports – with non-EU countries or within the EU (arrivals reported by EU countries and their dispatches to other EU countries) – in tonnes, euro or as unit value; the current year – monthly data (incomplete year).

extra-EU imports extra-EU exports 2026* – data for 2026-01/2026-08 (incomplete year, hollow marker, no line)

Source: Eurostat, Comext DS-045409 (class CN8 codes, EU-27); compiled by ai-waw.com – products dataset 2.1.
Eurostat, Comext DS-045409 (annual data) – latest data: 2025; retrieved: 2026-10-26; next update: 2027-02 (period 2026)
Eurostat, Comext DS-045409 (monthly data) – latest data: 2026-08 (intra-EU: 2026-07); retrieved: 2026-10-26; next update: 2026-11-13 (period 2026-09)

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Figure data (table)

EU-27 trade – Brass profiles – extra-EU, tonnes of product mass

Year	extra-EU imports	extra-EU exports	Balance
2005	1,696	6,077	4,381
2006	2,235	6,546	4,312
2007	4,073	7,798	3,726
2008	2,443	9,175	6,731
2009	2,430	6,931	4,500
2010	5,228	8,991	3,762
2011	3,062	7,997	4,935
2012	1,794	8,644	6,850
2013	1,750	8,392	6,642
2014	1,791	8,660	6,869
2015	1,261	8,594	7,333
2016	1,481	8,904	7,423
2017	1,772	8,433	6,662
2018	2,386	8,684	6,298
2019	1,913	7,413	5,500
2020	1,733	5,844	4,110
2021	3,408	7,398	3,990
2022	3,594	7,950	4,356
2023	2,593	7,038	4,446
2024	2,259	6,667	4,408
2025	2,232	7,810	5,578
2026 2026-01/2026-08	1,628	4,476	2,848

tonnes of product mass. Balance = exports − imports.

PRODCOM code group balance in the EU-27, 2025

EU-27 sold production (PRODCOM) and extra-EU imports make up supply; supply is apparent consumption plus extra-EU exports. Band widths are proportional to tonnes (one scale); intra-EU trade is a loop – it moves products between EU countries and does not change the EU-27 balance.

Source: Eurostat, PRODCOM DS-059358 and DS-059367, Comext DS-045409; compiled by ai-waw.com – products dataset 2.1. Production, imports, exports and apparent consumption – within PRODCOM code 24.44.22.00 (all classes of the code and the CN codes of its scope); intra-EU trade – the class CN codes. Production flag E – Eurostat estimate (E).
Eurostat, Comext DS-045409 (annual data) – latest data: 2025; retrieved: 2026-10-26; next update: 2027-02 (period 2026)
Eurostat, PRODCOM DS-059358, DS-059367 – latest data: 2025; retrieved: 2026-10-26; next update: 2027-07 (period 2026)

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Figure data (table)

EU-27 balance – PRODCOM group 24.44.22.00 (4 classes, including Brass profiles), 2025

Balance item	Mass (t)
EU-27 sold production (code group)	902,654 (E)
Extra-EU imports (code group)	34,567
EU-27 supply (code group)	937,221
Extra-EU exports (code group)	144,867
Apparent consumption (code group)	792,353
Intra-EU trade (class)	9,651

PRODCOM production and apparent consumption

EU-27 sold production according to PRODCOM (codes 24.44.22.00) and apparent consumption = production + extra-EU imports − extra-EU exports. Eurostat flags above the bars: E – estimate, R – rounded value; C – confidential value (no bar, not filled in). The PRODCOM code also covers classes: Copper bars, rods, busbars and profiles, Brass bars and rods, Bronze and other copper-alloy bars and profiles .

EU-27 sold production (t) Eurostat estimate (E) apparent consumption (t) E – Eurostat estimate, R – rounded, C – confidential (no bar), “–” – gap

Source: Eurostat, PRODCOM DS-059358 and DS-059367 (sold production), Comext DS-045409 (trade for apparent consumption); compiled by ai-waw.com – products dataset 2.1. Scope of PRODCOM code 24.44.22.00 (classes: Copper bars, rods, busbars and profiles, Brass bars and rods, Brass profiles, Bronze and other copper-alloy bars and profiles). Sold production (excluding production for own use). Years without figures – no EU-27 production (confidentiality, no code, unreliable value – X) or an ambiguous CN code.
Eurostat, PRODCOM DS-059358, DS-059367 – latest data: 2025; retrieved: 2026-10-26; next update: 2027-07 (period 2026)

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Figure data (table)

EU-27 sold production and apparent consumption – PRODCOM group 24.44.22.00 (4 classes, including Brass profiles), 2005–2025

Year	Sold production (t)	Quantity flag	Value (EUR)	Apparent consumption (t)
2005	gap		–	–
2006	1,407,359		4,024,448,028	1,339,207
2007	1,339,091		4,732,166,623	1,273,104
2008	1,170,904		3,724,730,314	1,097,550
2009	952,724		2,326,996,500	900,422
2010	958,802		3,069,705,926	884,234
2011	979,769		3,537,276,463	889,215
2012	970,079		3,401,834,547	870,431
2013	965,052		3,246,817,681	857,418
2014	1,081,003		3,276,359,049	971,727
2015	1,048,597		3,312,826,026	935,699
2016	1,091,660		3,007,937,617	976,926
2017	1,082,157		3,406,188,430	962,654
2018	1,105,996		3,724,142,090	991,354
2019	974,329		3,093,273,425	852,660
2020	916,578	E	2,897,401,392	806,278
2021	1,060,357	E	4,300,304,237	936,624
2022	1,390,556	E	5,105,903,196	1,279,687
2023	915,862	E	4,244,827,571	805,621
2024	902,534	E	4,250,871,517	779,489
2025	902,654	E	4,800,000,000	792,353

EU-27 countries, 2025

Mass balance of a country (exports − imports, all partners, including other EU countries) or the country share of exports or imports of the 27 EU countries. Plants of the class on a map – figure 8.

export surplus ≥ 3,306 texport surplus 826 t–3,306 texport surplus < 826 tbalance ≈ 0import surplus < 826 timport surplus 826 t–3,306 timport surplus ≥ 3,306 tnon-EU countries

Source: Eurostat, Comext DS-045409 (class CN8 codes, EU-27); compiled by ai-waw.com – products dataset 2.1. Trade of EU-27 countries with all partners (WORLD); share – of the 27-country total. Balance thresholds – 10% and 40% of the largest absolute balance. The country map uses the declarations of the country itself (its exports and imports), the flow map – import declarations of the partners (country of consignment); differences are asymmetries of intra-EU trade statistics (transit, triangular trade, confidentiality). Base map: Natural Earth (public domain), Lambert conformal conic projection.
Eurostat, Comext DS-045409 (annual data) – latest data: 2025; retrieved: 2026-10-26; next update: 2027-02 (period 2026)

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Figure data (table)

EU-27 countries in the trade of the class – Brass profiles, 2025

Country	Imports (t)	Exports (t)	Balance (t)	Share of EU-27 imports (%)	Share of EU-27 exports (%)	Intra-EU dispatches according to partner declarations (t)
Germany	1,695	9,959	+8,264 t	14.3	49.2	4,404
France	857	2,949	+2,092 t	7.2	14.6	789
Italy	2,427	4,498	+2,071 t	20.4	22.2	2,503
Greece	20	1,038	+1,018 t	0.2	5.1	7
Spain	644	994	+350 t	5.4	4.9	831
Netherlands	54	72	+17.5 t	0.5	0.4	8
Malta	0	0	−0.2 t	0.0	0.0	0
Cyprus	1	0	−0.8 t	0.0	0.0	0
Latvia	7	5	−2.1 t	0.1	0.0	5
Luxembourg	5	0	−4.7 t	0.0	0.0	0
Estonia	18	8	−10 t	0.2	0.0	13
Lithuania	21	0	−20.8 t	0.2	0.0	0
Ireland	40	4	−35.6 t	0.3	0.0	0
Belgium	67	20	−47.9 t	0.6	0.1	87
Denmark	281	216	−65.5 t	2.4	1.1	8
Croatia	102	4	−97.9 t	0.9	0.0	1
Bulgaria	110	0	−110 t	0.9	0.0	9
Portugal	162	1	−161 t	1.4	0.0	0
Slovenia	197	20	−177 t	1.7	0.1	1
Romania	197	14	−183 t	1.7	0.1	66
Slovakia	231	2	−229 t	1.9	0.0	11
Sweden	327	65	−262 t	2.8	0.3	290
Hungary	405	11	−394 t	3.4	0.1	92
Finland	418	10	−408 t	3.5	0.1	8
Czechia	1,150	149	−1,001 t	9.7	0.7	91
Austria	1,089	23	−1,066 t	9.2	0.1	159
Poland	1,359	175	−1,185 t	11.4	0.9	267

Intra-EU flows, 2025

Arcs run from the country of consignment to the country of destination (arrivals reported by an EU country by country of consignment); width proportional to the square root of mass.

Arc: consignment → destination1,000 t200 t20 t

Source: Eurostat, Comext DS-045409 (class CN8 codes, EU-27); compiled by ai-waw.com – products dataset 2.1. Arrivals of EU countries by country of consignment (EU-27 partners); pairs sorted by mass, descending. Arc width – proportional to the square root of mass (reference widths in the legend). The country map uses the declarations of the country itself (its exports and imports), the flow map – import declarations of the partners (country of consignment); differences are asymmetries of intra-EU trade statistics (transit, triangular trade, confidentiality). Base map: Natural Earth (public domain), Lambert conformal conic projection.
Eurostat, Comext DS-045409 (annual data) – latest data: 2025; retrieved: 2026-10-26; next update: 2027-02 (period 2026)

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Figure data (table)

Intra-EU flows – Brass profiles, 2025

Flow (consignment → destination)	Mass (t)	Value (EUR)
Germany → Italy	1,066	7,340,303
Germany → Austria	950	3,447,735
Italy → Poland	671	3,898,596
Italy → Germany	667	5,021,391
Germany → Poland	589	6,621,644
Germany → Czechia	569	3,463,699
Italy → France	540	3,903,243
Germany → Spain	494	3,457,790
France → Italy	333	2,682,021
France → Hungary	296	2,468,612
Germany → Sweden	284	2,196,095
Spain → Czechia	277	1,830,821
Spain → Finland	239	1,679,913
Italy → Czechia	217	1,554,250
Germany → France	203	1,539,564
Poland → Germany	200	1,725,042
Sweden → Denmark	186	1,264,470
Italy → Slovenia	146	1,022,426
Spain → Germany	134	1,154,012
Austria → Finland	109	2,483,344
Germany → Croatia	99	1,499,392
Sweden → Slovakia	89	906,170
Belgium → Hungary	65	646,119
Romania → Italy	63	378,793
France → Portugal	52	420,352
Hungary → Romania	46	385,997
Spain → Austria	44	396,626
France → Belgium	43	93,674
Hungary → Slovakia	42	38,816
Czechia → Slovakia	42	245,905
Italy → Austria	40	268,191
Spain → Portugal	40	304,671
Italy → Romania	38	343,116
Spain → Italy	34	325,893
Italy → Sweden	32	252,588
Austria → Germany	32	610,873
Italy → Slovakia	31	188,264
Italy → Portugal	29	538,450
Czechia → Germany	28	240,050
France → Germany	27	249,346
Germany → Slovakia	26	455,486
Italy → Denmark	24	229,470
Germany → Netherlands	24	402,254
Germany → Hungary	22	184,836

Non-EU partners, 2025

The ten largest non-EU suppliers and customers; arrows from the partner to the EU (imports) or from the EU to the partner (exports), width proportional to the square root of mass.

1. Türkiye · 1,575 t
2. Switzerland · 205 t
3. Japan* · 113 t
4. China* · 85.6 t
5. India* · 68.5 t
6. Serbia · 52 t
7. Vietnam* · 47.6 t
8. United Kingdom · 37.1 t
9. Ukraine · 27 t
10. South Korea* · 5.9 t

Arrow from/to the EU-27 point (notional centre of the EU area); number – rank and mass1,000 t200 t50 t * country outside the frame – notional point on the map edge in the direction from the EU; arrow direction notional

Source: Eurostat, Comext DS-045409 (class CN8 codes, EU-27); compiled by ai-waw.com – products dataset 2.1. Shares and concentration – of extra-EU trade mass (including unspecified partners). Base map: Natural Earth (public domain), Lambert conformal conic projection.
Eurostat, Comext DS-045409 (annual data) – latest data: 2025; retrieved: 2026-10-26; next update: 2027-02 (period 2026)

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Figure data (table)

EU-27 imports by country of origin – Brass profiles, 2025

#	Country	Mass (t)	Value (EUR)	Share (%)
1	Türkiye	1,575	11,637,528	70.6
2	Switzerland	205	4,535,312	9.2
3	Japan	113	1,324,898	5.0
4	China	86	1,813,143	3.8
5	India	69	1,046,146	3.1
6	Serbia	52	436,773	2.3
7	Vietnam	48	420,925	2.1
8	United Kingdom	37	980,586	1.7
9	Ukraine	27	165,918	1.2
10	South Korea	6	112,083	0.3

Product chain

Place of the class in the processing chain: unwrought metal, preceding classes, the class, following classes and scrap. Nodes are classes of the dictionary (links); the current class – in the accent colour.

The scheme orders the classes of the dictionary by processing stage (family rules in the portal code: same material, a derived product after the non-derived one; links named explicitly – e.g. cans from can stock, die castings from casting alloys, coated steel from galvanizing alloys); an arrow does not mean deliveries between specific plants. Feed and scrap – CN headings of the metal, not dictionary classes.

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Figure data (table)

Product chain – Brass profiles

Name	Stage	CN
Unwrought copper (feedstock)	Feedstock	7403
Brass profiles	Class	7407 21 90
copper scrap	Scrap	7404

Figure 8. Map of plants

Source: ai-waw.com Companies register (entries from primary documents), as of 2026-10-25, version 2.40. plants without coordinates are not on the map. Base map: Natural Earth (public domain). Location of some plants: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).

CSV (all years) JSON Metadata

Producers

Each entry from a primary document (class A/B/C and document page), with the verification date and the entity controlling the plant (GLEIF Level 2 or company documents).

8

producing plants (incl. outside the EU) of which in the EU-27: 5

8

companies

7

countries

0.0%

non-EU control – plants in the EU-27

Corporate groups (a company without a group counted separately): 8
Non-EU control – plants in the EU-27: 0 of 2 plants with an established controller (5 of 8 producing plants are in the EU-27; plants outside the EU are out of scope of the indicator; ownership control logic and area).
No document states a capacity for this class – no sum is computed.

Compare the first 5 producers

Plant country all GermanyGreeceItalySerbiaSwedenSwitzerlandTürkiye

Entry status all producedplanned productionproduction ended

Ownership control all controller in the EU-27controller outside the EUcontroller not established

Capacity from a document all statednot stated

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Alloys and standards

Materials, product standards and synonyms of this class from the alloy and standard glossary.

Materials

Product standards

• EN 12167 Copper and copper alloys - Profiles and bars for general purposes
• ASTM B16 B16/B16M Standard Specification for Free-Cutting Brass Rod, Bar and Shapes for Use in Screw Machines

Synonyms

PL

mosiądze

EN

brass · profiles and bars for general purposes

DE

Profile aus Kupfer-Zink-Legierungen "Messing", a.n.g. (CN label (DE)) · Messing · Profile und Rechteckstangen

Full alloy and standard glossary →

Related

• Form in the R02 forecast: Alloy rods, bars and sections median 2031: 828.1 kt (EU-27)
• Flow analysis: EU Copper Flow Analysis
• Ownership control of the producers: Ownership control (product filter)
• Companies list and map filtered to this class: Companies
• Production technologies: charge and melt analysis · melting and casting · hot rolling · cold rolling · wire, bar and tube drawing · extrusion · heat treatment (annealing, solution treatment, ageing, brazing) · slitting and cutting to length · surface treatment and cleaning · quality control and materials testing · protective atmospheres, gases and utilities · smelting and refining · scrap recycling and sorting A picture of the supply market – not a commercial recommendation.

Data freshness

Eurostat, Comext DS-045409 (annual data)

latest data: 2025 · retrieved: 2026-10-26 · next update: 2027-02 (period 2026) full year 2026 – after the December data release (February 2027); annual data may be revised in later releases

Eurostat, Comext DS-045409 (monthly data)

latest data: 2026-08 (intra-EU: 2026-07) · retrieved: 2026-10-26 · next update: 2026-11-13 (period 2026-09)

Eurostat, PRODCOM DS-059358, DS-059367

latest data: 2025 · retrieved: 2026-10-26 · next update: 2027-07 (period 2026) first release of annual data in mid-July of the following year; revisions – mid-month (ESMS metadata prom_esms, item 8.1)

How to cite

Method note

Entry only from a primary document

A class is assigned to a plant only when a primary document names it – a product data sheet, an annual report, a register or a company page describing the product – with the document page and a reliability class (A, B or C). Press and company directories without a company document are not a basis for an entry.

Assignment from a location document

When a company document describes the product and only a location page points to the plant, the assignment of the product to the plant is an inference – the source then has class C and the entry awaits confirmation by a plant document.

“Full range” is not an entry

A general claim (“full range of copper products”) without the class, dimensions or alloys does not create an entry. A plant without an entry may make the class – the register does not know.

Capacity only from a document

Class capacity (kt) – only when a document states it; no estimates and no split of a whole plant’s capacity into classes. The sum covers only plants with a stated capacity and is a lower bound – always given with the number of plants it covers.

Entry status

Produced, planned production (investment announced in a document), production ended. A closed plant – production ended. Key figures – “produced” only.

Ownership control

The entity controlling the plant and its country – as in Ownership control (GLEIF Level 2, GLEIF exceptions, groups from company documents). The non-EU share is computed only among producers located in the EU-27 with an established controller (as the default area of Ownership control); a plant outside the EU – e.g. in Türkiye, the United Kingdom, Switzerland or Serbia – is out of scope of the indicator, although it counts among plants and countries.

Trade and production

Eurostat Comext: EU-27 extra-EU and intra-EU trade (arrivals reported by EU countries), CN codes of the class (sum of the codes), tonnes and euro, 2005–2025 plus the current incomplete year (hollow marker, no line); sold production – PRODCOM (a code may cover several classes); apparent consumption = production + extra-EU imports − extra-EU exports within the PRODCOM code scope. A CN code may cover products of other classes (e.g. rods and sections in one code) – trade describes CN codes, not the plants of the register.

Metals kept apart

Each class belongs to one metal (aluminium, copper, zinc). Each metal has its own page; the metals share a family layout – five semi-finished product families (wire rod and wire; bars and sections; plate, sheet and strip; foil; tubes), families outside semi-finished products (unwrought alloys – feedstock, powders and dust, chemical compounds, anodes and other articles – currently zinc only) and derived products; split by material within a family. A family without classes of a metal shows “–” with a description in the comparison table. Header figures and trade totals are given separately for each metal – tonnes of different metals are never added up. Derived products (e.g. winding wire, structures, cans, stranded wire, zinc-coated steel, die castings) are marked and are not semi-finished products; tonnes of coated steel are the mass of the product, not of zinc. A class outside the metal trade total (coated steel, zinc oxide, die castings without a CN code) carries a note with the reason.

Counterpart in the other metal

A copper ↔ aluminium substitution pair (e.g. wire, coiled tubes, strip, stranded wire) comes from the dictionary field or from the portal map of pairs. The comparison shows the figures of both classes side by side, without a total, and the application sentence has no figures; a pair does not mean interchangeability in every application.

Links by metal

Copper classes have a form in the R02 forecast and the EU copper flow analysis; aluminium classes – the EU aluminium flow analysis and the country analyses; zinc classes – the EU zinc flow analysis and the country analysis for Poland (the R01 and R02 forecasts cover copper only). An analysis link given with the class takes precedence.

Dataset scope

The dataset covers copper and aluminium semi-finished products and their alloys, and zinc products (titanium-zinc sheet, unwrought alloys, powders and dust, anodes, derived products) at plants of the Companies register. Counts of plants, countries and groups and the capacity sum are a lower bound of the market – they grow with further documents.

Pages and Markdown are open to text and data mining with attribution; JSON data – like the other JSON data of the register – are reserved as a database compilation. Trade data: Eurostat (reuse with attribution).

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