StatRanker — Top Countries by Automotive Imports (Value), 2025 — tables & charts
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Scope:
- Automotive trade is defined as HS Chapter 87 (vehicles and parts/accessories).
- Values are from an embedded HS 87 country snapshot (thousand USD), converted to USD billions.

Important limitation:
- The embedded snapshot available here does not include each country's total imports of all goods,
  so "automotive imports as % of total imports" cannot be computed from the same embedded dataset.
  Table 2 therefore provides each country's share of WORLD HS 87 imports (%) as a comparability proxy.

Files:
- table1_top_importers_value_usd_bn_hs87_snapshot.csv
- table2_share_of_world_imports_percent_hs87_snapshot.csv
- table3_imports_vs_exports_balance_usd_bn_hs87_snapshot.csv
- chart_bar_top20_importers.png
- chart_pareto_top20_cumulative_share.png
- chart_scatter_imports_vs_exports.png

Primary sources (for verification / refresh):
- ITC Trade Map: https://www.trademap.org/
- UN Comtrade Plus: https://comtradeplus.un.org/
- WCO HS overview: https://www.wcoomd.org/en/topics/nomenclature/overview.aspx
