# Backed copper foil

Derived from foil: refined copper foil backed with paper, plastics or similar materials (incl. copper-clad laminates).

- Metal: Copper
- Family: Derived products (Foil) · Copper · derived product – https://ai-waw.com/en/products/copper#rodzina-derived
- Derived product: Derived product (winding wire, stranded wire, backed foil) – not a semi-finished product; outside the semis total of the R02 forecast.
- CN: 7410 21 00
- PRODCOM: 24.44.25.00
- Form in the R02 forecast: –
- Data as of: 2026-10-25, version 2.40
- Page: https://ai-waw.com/en/products/cu-foil-backed
- JSON: https://ai-waw.com/en/products/cu-foil-backed.json

## Producers – key figures

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

Figures cover entries “produced”; planned and ended – separately. Figures are a lower bound: a plant without a document naming the class is not entered.

## Producers

No plants with a primary document in the register for this class.

## Key figures of the class, 2025

- **Extra-EU imports, 2025**: 4,579 t (EUR 77.9 million)
- **Extra-EU exports, 2025**: 928 t (EUR 34.3 million)
- **Intra-EU arrivals, 2025**: 2,239 t (EUR 74.8 million) – arrivals reported by EU countries; intra-EU dispatches: 2,497 t
- **EU-27 production (PRODCOM), 2025**: 36.8 thousand t (EUR 550 million) – Eurostat estimate (E); PRODCOM code shared by 4 classes – production of the whole group
- **Plants and countries**: 0 plants (countries: 0) – producing plants according to primary documents (a lower bound)
- **Rank among copper classes, 2025**: #28 of 28 (by extra-EU export mass) – imports: #20 of 28; exports: #28 of 28; production (PRODCOM code group): #9 of 9; code shared by 4 classes

In 2025 EU-27 imports from outside the EU amounted to 4,579 t (EUR 77.9 million) and exports to 928 t (EUR 34.3 million); the mass balance was −3,651 t (import surplus). Intra-EU arrivals (reported by EU countries) – 2,239 t. Main non-EU suppliers: China (68.7%), Taiwan (17.3%) and United States (3.3%). Main non-EU customers: Switzerland (13.2%), India (11.3%) and Morocco (10.7%). Between 2015 and 2025 import mass changed by −48.0% and export mass by −53.8%. EU-27 sold production according to PRODCOM (code 24.44.25.00, shared with classes: “Electrodeposited copper foil”, “Rolled copper foil”, “Copper-alloy foil”) was 36.8 thousand t in 2025 (EUR 550 million; a Eurostat estimate). EU-27 apparent consumption within the scope of the PRODCOM code (sold production + non-EU imports − non-EU exports; excluding production for own use): 34.7 thousand t.

## What you should know about this data

- The class covers CN code 7410 21 00 (CN 2026); PRODCOM code 24.44.25.00 also covers classes: “Electrodeposited copper foil”, “Rolled copper foil”, “Copper-alloy foil” – production refers to the whole group.
- Class codes unchanged in 2005–2025 (Eurostat CN8 predecessor–successor table) – comparable series.
- PRODCOM (sold production, 24.44.25.00): EU-27 quantity in 2021, 2025 is a Eurostat estimate (E); EU-27 quantity in 2010–2019, 2022–2024 rounded by Eurostat (R; value ± rounding base); EU-27 quantity in 2008 without a figure – the Eurostat aggregate (800 thousand t) deviates from the series (jump or unit value) with no explanation in country data (X); country data with a quantity in tonnes labelled KG (K; identified by unit value, taken as tonnes): FI 2024 – the EU-27 aggregate for those years may understate it (cannot be resolved from public data); country data with an unreliable unit value (X; quantity or value without a figure): DK 2006, 2016; years without EU-27 quantity: 2005, 2008 (confidentiality, no code or an unreliable value – a gap, not zero; the series does not link PRODCOM list changes before 2024 – years before the code was introduced have no figure); quantity confidential (C) in 2025 in 9 countries (AT, BE, BG, CZ, FR, GR, HU, IE, NL) – confidential values are not filled in; apparent consumption is based on sold production – excluding output used within the producing plant (e.g. wire rod drawn into wire), which understates the result for semi-finished products.
- Unit value (EUR/t) is the ratio of trade value to mass – it depends on the product mix, metal content and partner structure; it is not a market price.
- Year 2026 – monthly data: extra-EU January–August, intra-EU January–July (incomplete, provisional year).

## 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).

| Year | Imports (t) – extra-EU | Exports (t) – extra-EU | Imports (EUR) | Exports (EUR) | Imports (t) – intra-EU | Exports (t) – intra-EU | Import unit value (EUR/t) | Export unit value (EUR/t) |
|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| 2005 | 11,708 | 6,053 | 72,906,052 | 67,653,998 | 16,106 | 17,412 | 6,227 | 11,177 |
| 2006 | 16,692 | 5,643 | 106,476,142 | 76,024,692 | 16,087 | 15,784 | 6,379 | 13,473 |
| 2007 | 13,482 | 4,899 | 89,089,059 | 68,750,494 | 10,496 | 11,809 | 6,608 | 14,032 |
| 2008 | 11,672 | 3,899 | 71,964,388 | 58,819,655 | 8,457 | 9,414 | 6,165 | 15,085 |
| 2009 | 8,013 | 2,661 | 46,428,315 | 47,269,667 | 4,325 | 5,003 | 5,794 | 17,765 |
| 2010 | 12,580 | 3,034 | 84,419,041 | 57,567,202 | 4,953 | 6,868 | 6,710 | 18,975 |
| 2011 | 11,347 | 2,736 | 86,484,422 | 59,783,770 | 4,045 | 5,436 | 7,622 | 21,854 |
| 2012 | 8,868 | 2,176 | 82,178,872 | 52,096,916 | 3,952 | 4,766 | 9,267 | 23,945 |
| 2013 | 9,021 | 2,188 | 76,635,888 | 51,056,327 | 4,289 | 4,669 | 8,496 | 23,330 |
| 2014 | 9,265 | 2,356 | 76,577,356 | 58,353,647 | 4,434 | 4,724 | 8,265 | 24,771 |
| 2015 | 8,808 | 2,006 | 82,020,337 | 62,026,364 | 3,920 | 4,337 | 9,312 | 30,914 |
| 2016 | 8,616 | 1,576 | 85,490,721 | 44,369,049 | 4,469 | 4,695 | 9,923 | 28,151 |
| 2017 | 8,272 | 2,155 | 90,986,619 | 63,647,725 | 4,997 | 4,662 | 10,999 | 29,542 |
| 2018 | 7,387 | 1,809 | 86,001,495 | 60,816,933 | 4,241 | 3,901 | 11,642 | 33,619 |
| 2019 | 7,191 | 1,410 | 82,022,428 | 58,696,677 | 3,765 | 3,136 | 11,406 | 41,629 |
| 2020 | 6,134 | 1,508 | 77,090,219 | 54,952,373 | 3,461 | 3,348 | 12,567 | 36,448 |
| 2021 | 7,662 | 1,388 | 102,763,562 | 62,644,958 | 3,910 | 3,918 | 13,413 | 45,120 |
| 2022 | 5,563 | 1,370 | 99,621,741 | 60,077,854 | 3,357 | 3,302 | 17,907 | 43,840 |
| 2023 | 4,134 | 1,010 | 67,755,437 | 49,001,595 | 2,252 | 2,187 | 16,392 | 48,540 |
| 2024 | 4,197 | 894 | 73,774,922 | 37,892,770 | 1,743 | 1,867 | 17,579 | 42,390 |
| 2025 | 4,579 | 928 | 77,860,579 | 34,262,861 | 2,239 | 2,497 | 17,004 | 36,937 |
| 2026 (2026-01/2026-08) | 3,873 | 462 | 72,731,309 | 19,744,925 | 1,602 | 1,832 | 18,777 | 42,710 |

Empty places in the series are gaps (no figure – e.g. a CN code shared with other classes or confidential data), not zeros; figures break the line there.
- Data files: [CSV](https://ai-waw.com/en/products/cu-foil-backed/data/trade.csv) · [JSON](https://ai-waw.com/en/products/cu-foil-backed/data/trade.json) · [Metadata](https://ai-waw.com/en/products/cu-foil-backed/data/trade.metadata.json)

## Class balance in the EU-27, 2025

EU-27 balance in 2025: sold production 36.8 thousand t, extra-EU imports 21.7 thousand t, extra-EU exports 23.7 thousand t, apparent consumption 34.7 thousand t; intra-EU trade of the class 2,239 t (loop).

- EU-27 sold production: 36.8 thousand t (Eurostat estimate (E))
- Extra-EU imports: 21.7 thousand t
- Extra-EU exports: 23.7 thousand t
- Apparent consumption: 34.7 thousand t
- Intra-EU trade (class): 2,239 t

Production, imports, exports and apparent consumption – within PRODCOM code 24.44.25.00 (all classes of the code and the CN codes of its scope); intra-EU trade – the class CN codes.
- Data files: [CSV](https://ai-waw.com/en/products/cu-foil-backed/data/balance.csv) · [JSON](https://ai-waw.com/en/products/cu-foil-backed/data/balance.json) · [Metadata](https://ai-waw.com/en/products/cu-foil-backed/data/balance.metadata.json)

## PRODCOM production and apparent consumption

EU-27 sold production according to PRODCOM (codes 24.44.25.00) 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).

| Year | Sold production (t) | Quantity flag | Value (EUR) | Apparent consumption (t) |
|---:|---:|---|---:|---:|
| 2005 | gap |  | – | – |
| 2006 | 126,531 |  | 777,564,634 | 70,564 |
| 2007 | 97,227 |  | 673,226,503 | 40,342 |
| 2008 | gap | RX | 570,965,887 | – |
| 2009 | 55,758 |  | 311,639,656 | 16,017 |
| 2010 | 62,664 | R | 481,408,913 | 19,919 |
| 2011 | 61,525 | R | 524,446,111 | 16,387 |
| 2012 | 57,769 | R | 477,745,670 | 13,995 |
| 2013 | 54,488 | R | 423,266,185 | 18,551 |
| 2014 | 40,000 | R | 355,756,971 | 4,965 |
| 2015 | 30,000 | R | 286,704,911 | -2,855 |
| 2016 | 36,746 | R | 252,631,308 | 7,937 |
| 2017 | 20,000 | R | 315,583,387 | -8,552 |
| 2018 | 60,000 | R | 388,011,029 | 29,856 |
| 2019 | 36,000 | R | 327,877,264 | 17,781 |
| 2020 | 34,906 |  | 315,500,743 | 23,838 |
| 2021 | 36,736 | E | 459,681,798 | 35,227 |
| 2022 | 32,000 | R | 450,000,000 | 32,978 |
| 2023 | 42,000 | R | 560,000,000 | 51,314 |
| 2024 | 45,000 | R | 632,820,950 | 44,110 |
| 2025 | 36,767 | E | 550,000,000 | 34,716 |

Scope of PRODCOM code 24.44.25.00 (classes: Electrodeposited copper foil, Rolled copper foil, Backed copper foil, Copper-alloy foil). 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.
- Data files: [CSV](https://ai-waw.com/en/products/cu-foil-backed/data/production.csv) · [JSON](https://ai-waw.com/en/products/cu-foil-backed/data/production.json) · [Metadata](https://ai-waw.com/en/products/cu-foil-backed/data/production.metadata.json)

## EU-27 countries, 2025

Mass balance of EU-27 countries in 2025: largest export surplus – Austria (+280 t), largest import surplus – Germany (−1,326 t).

| Country | Imports (t) | Exports (t) | Balance (t) | Share of EU-27 imports (%) | Share of EU-27 exports (%) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| Austria (AT) | 505 | 785 | 280 | 7.4 | 22.9 |
| Sweden (SE) | 22 | 108 | 87 | 0.3 | 3.2 |
| Latvia (LV) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Cyprus (CY) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Croatia (HR) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Ireland (IE) | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.1 |
| Malta (MT) | 1 | 0 | -1 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Luxembourg (LU) | 48 | 47 | -1 | 0.7 | 1.4 |
| Estonia (EE) | 6 | 0 | -6 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
| Greece (GR) | 14 | 0 | -14 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
| Lithuania (LT) | 15 | 0 | -15 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
| Slovakia (SK) | 18 | 0 | -18 | 0.3 | 0.0 |
| Romania (RO) | 21 | 0 | -21 | 0.3 | 0.0 |
| Bulgaria (BG) | 28 | 6 | -22 | 0.4 | 0.2 |
| Belgium (BE) | 282 | 259 | -23 | 4.1 | 7.6 |
| Netherlands (NL) | 386 | 360 | -26 | 5.7 | 10.5 |
| Denmark (DK) | 29 | 1 | -28 | 0.4 | 0.0 |
| Portugal (PT) | 47 | 0 | -47 | 0.7 | 0.0 |
| Hungary (HU) | 78 | 0 | -78 | 1.1 | 0.0 |
| Czechia (CZ) | 171 | 14 | -157 | 2.5 | 0.4 |
| Finland (FI) | 158 | 2 | -157 | 2.3 | 0.1 |
| France (FR) | 391 | 187 | -204 | 5.7 | 5.5 |
| Poland (PL) | 281 | 41 | -240 | 4.1 | 1.2 |
| Slovenia (SI) | 448 | 87 | -361 | 6.6 | 2.6 |
| Spain (ES) | 701 | 225 | -476 | 10.3 | 6.6 |
| Italy (IT) | 788 | 248 | -540 | 11.6 | 7.2 |
| Germany (DE) | 2,378 | 1,051 | -1,326 | 34.9 | 30.7 |

## EU-27 countries, 2015

Mass balance of EU-27 countries in 2015: largest export surplus – Belgium (+651 t), largest import surplus – Italy (−2,309 t).

| Country | Imports (t) | Exports (t) | Balance (t) | Share of EU-27 imports (%) | Share of EU-27 exports (%) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| Belgium (BE) | 154 | 805 | 651 | 1.2 | 12.7 |
| Austria (AT) | 854 | 1,086 | 232 | 6.7 | 17.1 |
| Sweden (SE) | 20 | 33 | 13 | 0.2 | 0.5 |
| Cyprus (CY) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Malta (MT) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Lithuania (LT) | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Portugal (PT) | 1 | 0 | -1 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Estonia (EE) | 2 | 0 | -2 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Latvia (LV) | 7 | 0 | -7 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
| Luxembourg (LU) | 59 | 45 | -14 | 0.5 | 0.7 |
| Ireland (IE) | 72 | 58 | -14 | 0.6 | 0.9 |
| Greece (GR) | 16 | 0 | -16 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
| Romania (RO) | 25 | 0 | -25 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
| Netherlands (NL) | 236 | 183 | -53 | 1.9 | 2.9 |
| Finland (FI) | 71 | 9 | -62 | 0.6 | 0.1 |
| Hungary (HU) | 91 | 22 | -69 | 0.7 | 0.4 |
| Slovakia (SK) | 69 | 0 | -69 | 0.6 | 0.0 |
| Denmark (DK) | 92 | 5 | -87 | 0.7 | 0.1 |
| Croatia (HR) | 87 | 0 | -87 | 0.7 | 0.0 |
| Bulgaria (BG) | 123 | 3 | -120 | 1.0 | 0.1 |
| France (FR) | 802 | 677 | -125 | 6.3 | 10.7 |
| Czechia (CZ) | 253 | 2 | -251 | 2.0 | 0.0 |
| Slovenia (SI) | 682 | 247 | -435 | 5.4 | 3.9 |
| Poland (PL) | 578 | 5 | -573 | 4.5 | 0.1 |
| Spain (ES) | 1,535 | 131 | -1,403 | 12.1 | 2.1 |
| Germany (DE) | 4,274 | 2,714 | -1,560 | 33.6 | 42.8 |
| Italy (IT) | 2,626 | 317 | -2,309 | 20.6 | 5.0 |
- Data files: [CSV](https://ai-waw.com/en/products/cu-foil-backed/data/countries.csv) · [JSON](https://ai-waw.com/en/products/cu-foil-backed/data/countries.json) · [Metadata](https://ai-waw.com/en/products/cu-foil-backed/data/countries.metadata.json)

## Intra-EU flows, 2025

38 of 208 flows shown (95.4% of mass)

| From country | To country | Mass (t) | Value (EUR) |
|---|---|---:|---:|
| Austria | Germany | 405 | 9,595,978 |
| Netherlands | Germany | 269 | 2,484,304 |
| Germany | Austria | 174 | 5,764,889 |
| Germany | Czechia | 112 | 2,242,164 |
| Germany | Poland | 89 | 922,624 |
| Germany | Spain | 88 | 1,680,017 |
| Belgium | Germany | 76 | 5,555,806 |
| Sweden | Belgium | 71 | 1,042,680 |
| France | Belgium | 62 | 1,524,784 |
| Germany | Hungary | 57 | 1,053,492 |
| Germany | Italy | 54 | 1,910,590 |
| Austria | France | 52 | 1,493,590 |
| Germany | France | 50 | 1,583,503 |
| Luxembourg | Austria | 49 | 1,339,219 |
| Netherlands | Belgium | 48 | 465,687 |
| Denmark | Slovenia | 47 | 559,362 |
| Germany | Finland | 45 | 1,592,023 |
| Sweden | Finland | 39 | 1,255,167 |
| Italy | Germany | 37 | 727,734 |
| Italy | Finland | 27 | 367,697 |
Other flows (18) – in the figure CSV file.

## Intra-EU flows, 2015

36 of 194 flows shown (95.1% of mass)

| From country | To country | Mass (t) | Value (EUR) |
|---|---|---:|---:|
| Austria | Germany | 857 | 9,796,599 |
| Germany | Italy | 518 | 5,340,381 |
| Belgium | Germany | 249 | 9,550,978 |
| Germany | Slovenia | 233 | 1,029,407 |
| Germany | Czechia | 226 | 3,402,603 |
| Germany | Austria | 150 | 3,247,989 |
| Germany | Spain | 146 | 1,182,858 |
| Italy | Germany | 131 | 1,040,317 |
| Germany | Poland | 128 | 858,602 |
| Germany | France | 116 | 2,531,025 |
| Slovenia | Italy | 109 | 581,040 |
| Croatia | Slovenia | 89 | 395,732 |
| Austria | Italy | 74 | 1,053,601 |
| Germany | Denmark | 61 | 814,524 |
| Austria | France | 59 | 1,214,980 |
| Germany | Hungary | 52 | 588,840 |
| France | Italy | 48 | 373,836 |
| Ireland | Italy | 40 | 362,974 |
| Luxembourg | Germany | 39 | 3,434,642 |
| Germany | Slovakia | 39 | 294,614 |
Other flows (16) – in the figure CSV file.
- Data files: [CSV](https://ai-waw.com/en/products/cu-foil-backed/data/intra-eu-flows.csv) · [JSON](https://ai-waw.com/en/products/cu-foil-backed/data/intra-eu-flows.json) · [Metadata](https://ai-waw.com/en/products/cu-foil-backed/data/intra-eu-flows.metadata.json)

## Non-EU partners, 2025

### Non-EU suppliers

HHI (mass with an identified country) 5052 · top three 89.3% · partners: 21 · mass with an identified country 100.0%

| # | Country | Mass (t) | Value (EUR) | Share (%) |
|---:|---|---:|---:|---:|
| 1 | China | 3,147 | 26,369,733 | 68.7 |
| 2 | Taiwan | 790 | 8,570,731 | 17.3 |
| 3 | United States | 153 | 20,210,994 | 3.3 |
| 4 | Japan | 132 | 11,491,431 | 2.9 |
| 5 | United Kingdom | 102 | 3,864,670 | 2.2 |
| 6 | South Korea | 73 | 4,321,906 | 1.6 |
| 7 | Türkiye | 68 | 807,155 | 1.5 |
| 8 | Hong Kong | 55 | 1,427,243 | 1.2 |
| 9 | Singapore | 23 | 198,696 | 0.5 |
| 10 | Thailand | 20 | 87,440 | 0.4 |

- Fastest growing, 2020 → 2025: –
- Fastest declining, 2020 → 2025: Macao SAR China 111 → 0 t (−100.0%); Thailand 148 → 20 t (−86.6%); United Kingdom 281 → 102 t (−63.6%); Hong Kong 149 → 55 t (−63.3%); Japan 315 → 132 t (−58.0%)
- New partners: –

### Non-EU customers

HHI (mass with an identified country) 811 · top three 35.1% · partners: 47 · mass with an identified country 99.9%

| # | Country | Mass (t) | Value (EUR) | Share (%) |
|---:|---|---:|---:|---:|
| 1 | Switzerland | 122 | 6,992,124 | 13.2 |
| 2 | India | 105 | 173,921 | 11.3 |
| 3 | Morocco | 99 | 377,440 | 10.7 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 93 | 4,560,896 | 10.0 |
| 5 | China | 70 | 6,098,550 | 7.5 |
| 6 | Norway | 64 | 1,152,303 | 6.9 |
| 7 | United States | 62 | 2,020,121 | 6.6 |
| 8 | Tunisia | 61 | 825,120 | 6.5 |
| 9 | Canada | 54 | 870,356 | 5.8 |
| 10 | North Macedonia | 53 | 1,265,362 | 5.7 |

- Fastest growing, 2020 → 2025: –
- Fastest declining, 2020 → 2025: Russia 111 → 0 t (−100.0%); Tunisia 127 → 61 t (−52.1%); China 139 → 70 t (−49.7%); Norway 108 → 64 t (−40.7%); Switzerland 173 → 122 t (−29.5%)
- New partners: –

- Data files: [CSV](https://ai-waw.com/en/products/cu-foil-backed/data/partners.csv) · [JSON](https://ai-waw.com/en/products/cu-foil-backed/data/partners.json) · [Metadata](https://ai-waw.com/en/products/cu-foil-backed/data/partners.metadata.json)

## Product chain

Chain of the class “Backed copper foil”: preceding classes – Copper strip in coils, Copper sheet and plate, Electrodeposited copper foil, Rolled copper foil; following classes – –.

- **Feedstock**: Unwrought copper (feedstock) (CN 7403)
- **Preceding classes**: [Copper strip in coils](https://ai-waw.com/en/products/cu-strip-coil) (CN 7409 11 00); [Copper sheet and plate](https://ai-waw.com/en/products/cu-sheet-plate) (CN 7409 19 00); [Electrodeposited copper foil](https://ai-waw.com/en/products/cu-foil-ed) (CN 7410 11 00); [Rolled copper foil](https://ai-waw.com/en/products/cu-foil-rolled) (CN 7410 11 00)
- **Class**: [Backed copper foil](https://ai-waw.com/en/products/cu-foil-backed) (CN 7410 21 00)
- **Scrap**: copper scrap (CN 7404)

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.

## Data freshness

- 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)
- Eurostat, PRODCOM DS-059358, DS-059367 – latest data: 2025; retrieved: 2026-10-26; next update: 2027-07 (period 2026)

## How to cite

> ai-waw.com (2026). Backed copper foil – product profile: EU-27 trade, PRODCOM production and producers. Products dataset 2.1 (2026-10-26), class revision 1, SHA-256 f9d848393508…; https://ai-waw.com/en/products/cu-foil-backed

- Dataset edition: 2.1 (2026-10-26)
- Dataset SHA-256: `f9d848393508c9dbe833341fc6b3767c4bfe1b6b47bfc70335adfab2703d4c13`
- Class revision: 1 (2026-10-26), SHA-256 `525752cdb5e655e72d29b7c1e942f830918ac84771e8ac0ffe65718c764c0edc`
- BibTeX: https://ai-waw.com/en/products/cu-foil-backed.bib · RIS: https://ai-waw.com/en/products/cu-foil-backed.ris

## Alloys and standards

- The glossary has no materials of this class with a documented basis yet.
- Synonyms PL: laminaty miedziowane
- Synonyms EN: backed copper foil
- Synonyms DE: Folien und dünne Bänder, aus raffiniertem Kupfer, auf Unterlage, mit einer Dicke "ohne Unterlage" von <= 0,15 mm (ausg. Prägefolien der Pos. 3212, Metallgarne und metallisierte Garne sowie als Christbaumschmuck aufgemachte Folien)
- Full alloy and standard glossary: https://ai-waw.com/en/products/glossary.md

## Related

- Flow analysis: [EU Copper Flow Analysis](https://ai-waw.com/en/metal-flows/eu-copper-flow-analysis.md)
- Ownership control of the producers: https://ai-waw.com/en/companies/ownership.md?produkt=cu-foil-backed
- Companies list and map filtered to this class: https://ai-waw.com/en/companies?produkt=cu-foil-backed

## 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).