Bare copper stranded wire, cables and braids

Map of plants

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).

EU-27 trade with non-EU countries

Imports into the EU-27 from non-EU countries and exports from the EU-27 to them (without trade between EU countries), tonnes and euro, 2015–2025.

Annual series (table)

Year	Imports (t)	Exports (t)	Balance (t)	Imports (EUR m)	Exports (EUR m)
2015	25,266	28,473	3,207	170.7	195.7
2016	29,899	27,579	-2,319	171.5	174.2
2017	37,919	25,404	-12,515	249.2	185.7
2018	40,680	22,195	-18,485	271.5	169.3
2019	35,826	20,648	-15,178	234.7	154.2
2020	34,831	19,149	-15,682	229.0	142.9
2021	43,756	19,395	-24,361	378.8	182.3
2022	45,074	20,832	-24,242	443.7	227.9
2023	43,852	22,982	-20,870	432.9	242.4
2024	45,334	19,912	-25,422	464.9	233.9
2025	51,248	21,618	-29,630	523.8	250.9
2026 partial data 2026-01/2026-08	33,188	13,614	-19,574	417.1	198.3

In 2025: imports 51,248 t, exports 21,618 t, balance -29,630 t (EUR -272.9 m).

Source: Eurostat Comext – EU trade by CN8 (DS-045409); data retrieved: 2026-10-19. CN codes of the class as in the header; balance = exports – imports. Comext

Counterpart in the other metal

Substitute product in aluminium: Al Bare aluminium stranded wire and conductors. Common application: bare stranded electrical conductors.

Bare copper stranded wire, cables and braids – Bare aluminium stranded wire and conductors

	Cu Bare copper stranded wire, cables and braids	Al Bare aluminium stranded wire and conductors
producing plants (incl. outside the EU)	6	5
countries	6	4
Extra-EU imports 2025 (t)	51,248	70,540
Extra-EU exports 2025 (t)	21,618	16,967

Figures of both classes come from the same sources (entries from documents, Comext); copper and aluminium figures are never added up, and a pair does not mean interchangeability in every application.

Related

• Flow analysis: EU Copper Flow Analysis
• Ownership control of the producers: Ownership control (product filter)
• Companies list and map filtered to this class: Companies

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

Eurostat Comext: EU-27 with non-EU countries, CN codes of the class (sum of the codes), tonnes and euro. 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 (copper, aluminium). Each metal has its own page; both metals share a layout of six families (wire rod and wire; bars and sections; plate, sheet and strip; foil; tubes; derived products), split by material within a family. Header figures and trade totals are given separately for each metal – tonnes of copper and aluminium are never added up. Derived products (e.g. winding wire, structures, cans, stranded wire) are marked and are not semi-finished products.

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 (the R01 and R02 forecasts cover copper only). An analysis link given with the class takes precedence.

Pilot coverage

The pilot covers copper and aluminium semi-finished products and their alloys 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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