Zinc oxide

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 – Zinc oxide – extra-EU, tonnes of product mass

Year	extra-EU imports	extra-EU exports	Balance
2005	53,875	8,761	−45,113
2006	64,688	10,036	−54,652
2007	67,049	24,028	−43,021
2008	58,401	32,089	−26,312
2009	35,630	33,265	−2,365
2010	57,332	41,279	−16,053
2011	61,104	41,350	−19,755
2012	54,771	42,093	−12,678
2013	56,066	45,062	−11,003
2014	65,115	44,520	−20,595
2015	67,428	50,052	−17,376
2016	64,565	52,431	−12,133
2017	63,651	46,321	−17,330
2018	63,640	40,751	−22,889
2019	57,428	42,094	−15,333
2020	59,636	41,187	−18,449
2021	71,810	39,496	−32,314
2022	63,670	35,501	−28,170
2023	47,546	28,157	−19,390
2024	53,090	52,173	−917
2025	53,820	58,179	4,359
2026 2026-01/2026-08	40,285	29,033	−11,252

tonnes of product mass. Balance = exports − imports.

Class 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 20.12.11.30 (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 – Zinc oxide, 2025

Balance item	Mass (t)
EU-27 sold production	389,627 (E)
Extra-EU imports	53,820
EU-27 supply	443,447
Extra-EU exports	58,179
Apparent consumption	385,267
Intra-EU trade (class)	192,206

PRODCOM production and apparent consumption

EU-27 sold production according to PRODCOM (codes 20.12.11.30) 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).

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 20.12.11.30 (classes: Zinc oxide). 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 – Zinc oxide, 2005–2025

Year	Sold production (t)	Quantity flag	Value (EUR)	Apparent consumption (t)
2005	gap		–	–
2006	286,254		511,430,856	340,906
2007	274,598		572,231,246	317,619
2008	335,531	R	398,831,496	361,843
2009	242,214	R	255,746,214	244,579
2010	287,430		395,403,687	303,483
2011	255,043		417,956,125	274,798
2012	250,917		354,907,287	263,595
2013	321,197	E	379,148,662	332,200
2014	359,022		400,451,712	379,617
2015	353,882		421,638,841	371,257
2016	344,150	R	428,718,178	356,283
2017	356,576		583,576,843	373,906
2018	353,048		561,568,446	375,937
2019	353,347		512,079,751	368,681
2020	321,976		418,422,707	340,425
2021	450,000	R	593,563,479	482,314
2022	397,272	E	702,945,020	425,442
2023	377,385	E	521,800,874	396,774
2024	398,332	E	582,521,333	399,249
2025	389,627	E	580,327,009	385,267

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 ≥ 16.6 thousand texport surplus 4,159 t–16.6 thousand texport surplus < 4,159 tbalance ≈ 0import surplus < 4,159 timport surplus 4,159 t–16.6 thousand timport surplus ≥ 16.6 thousand tno figure (confidential exports)non-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 – Zinc oxide, 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)
Netherlands	21,949	63,535	+41.6 thousand t	8.9	25.7	34,398
Belgium	42,216	73,264	+31.0 thousand t	17.2	29.7	42,629
Italy	12,551	25,427	+12.9 thousand t	5.1	10.3	29,612
Greece	288	10,182	+9,894 t	0.1	4.1	2,299
Slovakia	548	6,559	+6,012 t	0.2	2.7	7,109
Poland	27,292	30,764	+3,472 t	11.1	12.5	12,104
Malta	0	0	0 t	0.0	0.0	25
Estonia	21	6	−15.2 t	0.0	0.0	25
Cyprus	70	0	−69.7 t	0.0	0.0	0
Romania	5,665	5,563	−102 t	2.3	2.3	1,659
Latvia	191	0	−191 t	0.1	0.0	0
Lithuania	313	68	−245 t	0.1	0.0	62
Croatia	298	39	−259 t	0.1	0.0	77
Ireland	705	163	−542 t	0.3	0.1	31
Bulgaria	984	11	−973 t	0.4	0.0	612
Sweden	1,860	386	−1,475 t	0.8	0.2	288
Finland	1,861	2	−1,860 t	0.8	0.0	54
Luxembourg	1,974	33	−1,941 t	0.8	0.0	57
Slovenia	2,491	481	−2,010 t	1.0	0.2	408
Portugal	3,574	11	−3,564 t	1.5	0.0	477
Denmark	5,133	501	−4,633 t	2.1	0.2	303
Hungary	6,377	23	−6,354 t	2.6	0.0	17
Czechia	10,448	807	−9,640 t	4.3	0.3	322
Spain	28,282	9,888	−18.4 thousand t	11.5	4.0	8,214
Germany ‡	36,181	11,630	−24.6 thousand t	14.7	4.7	27,650
France	33,846	7,631	−26.2 thousand t	13.8	3.1	2,748
Austria	910	confidential (C)	–	0.4	–	21,027

‡ dispatches in the import declarations of partners more than twice the own exports of the country (difference > 2 thousand t) – an asymmetry of intra-EU trade statistics

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 → destination20.0 thousand t2,000 t500 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 – Zinc oxide, 2025

Flow (consignment → destination)	Mass (t)	Value (EUR)
Germany → Belgium	20,172	17,178,168
Belgium → Poland	17,912	16,460,485
Italy → France	13,851	10,206,374
Netherlands → Belgium	11,372	20,997,189
Belgium → Netherlands	10,539	17,243,059
Netherlands → Germany	9,346	23,441,486
Austria → Germany	8,537	22,872,742
Netherlands → France	5,457	10,868,555
Poland → Germany	5,362	14,786,954
Belgium → France	4,952	12,682,214
Italy → Spain	4,724	11,239,912
Austria → Czechia	3,949	10,967,271
Italy → Romania	3,852	11,051,899
Netherlands → Spain	3,276	8,549,896
Spain → Portugal	3,158	8,728,610
Belgium → Germany	3,150	9,792,608
Italy → Poland	2,880	6,369,653
Slovakia → Czechia	2,746	7,591,238
Germany → Denmark	2,460	7,855,770
Austria → France	2,277	6,367,246
France → Belgium	2,161	2,983,558
Austria → Belgium	2,104	573,768
Netherlands → Italy	2,064	6,405,409
Poland → Luxembourg	1,804	4,638,816
Slovakia → Germany	1,745	4,949,136
Germany → France	1,721	2,065,085
Austria → Hungary	1,553	4,031,863
Spain → Italy	1,333	3,629,539
Poland → Czechia	1,277	2,932,895
Slovakia → Hungary	1,165	3,047,409
Italy → Germany	1,129	4,803,040
Netherlands → Poland	1,114	3,387,240
Belgium → Finland	1,100	3,313,598
Belgium → Italy	1,016	3,394,812
Belgium → Spain	984	2,931,535
Poland → France	974	1,638,352
Austria → Romania	924	2,315,562
Belgium → Denmark	894	2,536,907
Spain → Germany	887	2,634,807
Poland → Slovenia	874	2,181,893
Romania → Poland	869	1,273,352
Italy → Slovenia	835	2,376,008
Greece → Italy	831	1,690,919
Netherlands → Czechia	816	2,551,904
Spain → Poland	761	1,098,171
Italy → Bulgaria	759	3,127,569
Germany → Italy	759	2,631,781
Austria → Italy	739	2,260,831
Spain → Belgium	735	902,629
Spain → France	682	2,360,992
Italy → Belgium	648	496,503
Slovakia → Italy	645	1,762,932
Belgium → Sweden	643	2,075,748
Belgium → Czechia	605	1,884,563
Bulgaria → Italy	598	1,461,485
Italy → Czechia	595	1,469,944
Poland → Hungary	587	1,074,121
Romania → Hungary	530	1,415,298
Slovakia → Poland	516	426,011
Germany → Spain	508	2,109,990
Spain → Hungary	478	1,382,474
Austria → Poland	459	935,910
Portugal → Spain	401	605,926
Poland → Italy	397	871,680
Belgium → Hungary	384	1,130,278
Greece → Spain	384	702,072

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. Mexico* · 24.1 thousand t
2. Türkiye · 9,033 t
3. Peru* · 7,926 t
4. Vietnam* · 5,800 t
5. United Kingdom · 2,160 t
6. India* · 1,438 t
7. Taiwan* · 813 t
8. United States* · 726 t
9. Norway · 547 t
10. Canada* · 223 t

Arrow from/to the EU-27 point (notional centre of the EU area); number – rank and mass20.0 thousand t2,000 t500 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 – Zinc oxide, 2025

#	Country	Mass (t)	Value (EUR)	Share (%)
1	Mexico	24,052	43,501,869	44.7
2	Türkiye	9,033	20,198,648	16.8
3	Peru	7,926	21,452,897	14.7
4	Vietnam	5,800	11,978,043	10.8
5	United Kingdom	2,160	5,690,809	4.0
6	India	1,438	3,455,908	2.7
7	Taiwan	813	2,469,831	1.5
8	United States	726	3,070,733	1.3
9	Norway	547	1,520,804	1.0
10	Canada	223	790,257	0.4

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 – Zinc oxide

Name	Stage	CN
Unwrought zinc (feedstock)	Feedstock	7901
Zinc oxide	Class	2817 00 00
zinc scrap	Scrap	7902

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).

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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: 8

8

companies

6

countries

0.0%

non-EU control – plants in the EU-27

Corporate groups (a company without a group counted separately): 7
Non-EU control – plants in the EU-27: 0 of 4 plants with an established controller (8 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 BelgiumGermanyItalyNetherlandsPolandSpain

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.

The glossary has no materials of this class with a documented basis yet.

Synonyms

PL

tlenek cynku · biel cynkowa

EN

zinc oxide

DE

Zinkoxid; Zinkperoxid (CN label (DE)) · Zinkoxid · Zinkoxyd

Full alloy and standard glossary →

Related

• Flow analysis: EU-27 Zinc Flows
• Country zinc flow analyses: Zinc Flows in Poland
• 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 · heat treatment (annealing, solution treatment, ageing, brazing) · blanking, stamping and press forming · surface treatment and cleaning · quality control and materials testing · 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)

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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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