Brass tubes

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 tubes – extra-EU, tonnes of product mass

Year	extra-EU imports	extra-EU exports	Balance
2005	9,464	16,836	7,373
2006	14,019	19,756	5,737
2007	12,445	12,466	21
2008	9,739	12,639	2,900
2009	5,219	9,270	4,051
2010	5,026	9,991	4,965
2011	4,978	9,694	4,716
2012	4,143	9,530	5,388
2013	3,866	7,869	4,003
2014	3,727	8,743	5,016
2015	3,362	8,981	5,619
2016	4,558	6,730	2,173
2017	5,713	6,504	791
2018	5,629	7,048	1,419
2019	5,170	6,505	1,335
2020	5,236	4,786	−450
2021	5,235	5,225	−10
2022	4,281	6,054	1,773
2023	4,579	5,673	1,094
2024	4,523	4,660	137
2025	4,830	4,922	92
2026 2026-01/2026-08	2,706	3,142	436

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 24.44.26.30 (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 – PRODCOM group 24.44.26.30 (5 classes, including Brass tubes), 2025

Balance item	Mass (t)
EU-27 sold production (code group)	266,981 (E)
Extra-EU imports (code group)	63,777
EU-27 supply (code group)	330,758
Extra-EU exports (code group)	73,604
Apparent consumption (code group)	257,154
Intra-EU trade (class)	34,225

PRODCOM production and apparent consumption

EU-27 sold production according to PRODCOM (codes 24.44.26.30) 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). The PRODCOM code also covers classes: Straight copper tubes, Copper tubes in coils, Cupro-nickel and nickel silver tubes, Bronze and other copper-alloy tubes .

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 24.44.26.30 (classes: Straight copper tubes, Copper tubes in coils, Brass tubes, Cupro-nickel and nickel silver tubes, Bronze and other copper-alloy tubes). 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 24.44.26.30 (5 classes, including Brass tubes), 2005–2025

Year	Sold production (t)	Quantity flag	Value (EUR)	Apparent consumption (t)
2005	gap		–	–
2006	725,652		3,865,849,178	687,383
2007	642,657		3,743,367,296	603,483
2008	579,201		3,332,165,715	535,239
2009	500,126		2,373,876,561	465,291
2010	503,598	E	3,022,757,600	463,706
2011	448,860	R	3,201,842,537	411,983
2012	426,170	R	2,749,490,125	385,940
2013	418,715	R	2,791,009,540	375,251
2014	417,788	R	2,521,636,993	367,485
2015	438,747	R	2,581,514,639	378,065
2016	413,793	R	2,204,502,241	357,623
2017	447,332	R	2,701,519,280	396,205
2018	397,573	R	2,593,711,914	356,302
2019	365,008	R	1,894,954,565	335,055
2020	339,327		2,160,000,000	307,708
2021	430,479	E	3,500,000,000	408,796
2022	387,885	E	3,647,254,218	370,001
2023	328,897	E	3,116,051,177	320,265
2024	314,183	E	3,140,750,080	301,223
2025	266,981	E	2,619,492,737	257,154

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 ≥ 4,928 texport surplus 1,232 t–4,928 texport surplus < 1,232 tbalance ≈ 0import surplus < 1,232 timport surplus 1,232 t–4,928 timport surplus ≥ 4,928 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 tubes, 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	4,686	8,370	+3,685 t	12.0	37.7	10,527
Greece	205	1,631	+1,426 t	0.5	7.3	796
Romania	143	330	+187 t	0.4	1.5	12
France	1,577	1,602	+25.1 t	4.0	7.2	671
Malta	3	2	−0.4 t	0.0	0.0	0
Latvia	7	1	−6.5 t	0.0	0.0	1,465
Luxembourg	12	5	−6.9 t	0.0	0.0	2
Estonia	18	0	−18.2 t	0.1	0.0	4
Slovenia	51	16	−34.8 t	0.1	0.1	9
Lithuania	39	3	−36.4 t	0.1	0.0	1
Croatia	44	1	−43.2 t	0.1	0.0	11
Cyprus	44	0	−43.6 t	0.1	0.0	0
Ireland	88	3	−84.7 t	0.2	0.0	3
Belgium	104	12	−91.6 t	0.3	0.1	138
Slovakia	335	201	−133 t	0.9	0.9	252
Poland	2,870	2,654	−215 t	7.4	12.0	1,577
Bulgaria	366	0	−365 t	0.9	0.0	7
Portugal	458	38	−420 t	1.2	0.2	648
Spain	495	60	−434 t	1.3	0.3	355
Denmark	859	250	−609 t	2.2	1.1	29
Austria	1,016	312	−704 t	2.6	1.4	312
Finland	936	5	−932 t	2.4	0.0	51
Czechia	1,159	176	−983 t	3.0	0.8	42
Italy	7,350	6,221	−1,129 t	18.8	28.0	7,494
Hungary	1,743	4	−1,739 t	4.5	0.0	1
Sweden ‡	1,836	8	−1,827 t	4.7	0.0	9,601
Netherlands	12,615	296	−12.3 thousand t	32.3	1.3	217

‡ 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 → destination5,000 t1,000 t200 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 tubes, 2025

Flow (consignment → destination)	Mass (t)	Value (EUR)
Sweden → Netherlands	8,559	3,098,309
Germany → Italy	4,035	24,825,199
Italy → Germany	2,292	14,827,679
Italy → Netherlands	2,120	2,269,425
Germany → Hungary	1,610	11,664,446
Latvia → Poland	1,464	12,938,287
Germany → Sweden	1,338	11,872,843
Poland → Germany	1,007	7,001,532
Germany → Poland	992	9,755,944
Sweden → Finland	815	1,610,256
Italy → France	722	4,379,793
Greece → Italy	619	5,146,168
Germany → Austria	592	3,661,983
Portugal → Netherlands	586	243,869
Germany → France	533	5,786,545
Germany → Denmark	528	3,626,002
France → Italy	465	3,574,104
Germany → Czechia	442	5,122,439
Italy → Portugal	351	3,182,315
Italy → Austria	349	1,152,597
Italy → Sweden	335	3,101,588
Poland → Italy	285	2,485,140
Italy → Czechia	249	2,042,553
Slovakia → Czechia	224	1,671,415
Sweden → Denmark	222	1,431,561
Italy → Spain	220	2,000,487
Italy → Slovakia	211	1,282,109
Italy → Poland	195	1,625,399
Spain → France	193	1,888,737
Netherlands → Germany	143	1,672,777
Italy → Greece	140	1,308,132
Austria → Italy	127	1,852,774
Germany → Netherlands	120	2,332,482
Belgium → Netherlands	111	180,974
Austria → Spain	109	1,597,528
Spain → Sweden	107	594,058
Italy → Romania	99	617,891
France → Germany	83	1,404,388

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. China* · 3,227 t
2. Türkiye · 582 t
3. India* · 475 t
4. Serbia · 201 t
5. United Kingdom · 181 t
6. United States* · 51.2 t
7. Switzerland · 33.8 t
8. Hong Kong* · 27.4 t
9. Taiwan* · 23.2 t
10. South Korea* · 7.6 t

Arrow from/to the EU-27 point (notional centre of the EU area); number – rank and mass2,000 t500 t100 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 tubes, 2025

#	Country	Mass (t)	Value (EUR)	Share (%)
1	China	3,227	32,961,066	66.8
2	Türkiye	582	4,238,722	12.1
3	India	475	4,586,806	9.8
4	Serbia	201	1,955,927	4.2
5	United Kingdom	181	3,211,093	3.7
6	United States	51	1,704,325	1.1
7	Switzerland	34	886,303	0.7
8	Hong Kong	27	277,833	0.6
9	Taiwan	23	979,836	0.5
10	South Korea	8	1,061,885	0.2

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 tubes

Name	Stage	CN
Unwrought copper (feedstock)	Feedstock	7403
Brass tubes	Class	7411 21 10 7411 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).

5

producing plants (incl. outside the EU) of which in the EU-27: 4

5

companies

4

countries

0.0%

non-EU control – plants in the EU-27

Corporate groups (a company without a group counted separately): 5
Non-EU control – plants in the EU-27: 0 of 3 plants with an established controller (4 of 5 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 GermanyGreecePolandSerbia

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 12449 Copper and copper alloys - Seamless, round tubes for general purposes
• EN 12451 Copper and copper alloys - Seamless, round tubes for heat exchangers
• EN 12452 Copper and copper alloys - Rolled, finned, seamless tubes for heat exchangers

Synonyms

PL

rury mosiężne

EN

brass tubes

DE

Rohre aus Kupfer-Zink-Legierungen "Messing", gerade (CN label (DE)) · Rohre aus Kupfer-Zink-Legierungen "Messing", in Rollen oder sonst gebogen (CN label (DE)) · Nahtlose Rundrohre für Wärmeaustauscher · Messing

Full alloy and standard glossary →

Related

• Form in the R02 forecast: Alloy tubes median 2031: 61.6 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: 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 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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