TOP-10 of importing countries supplying car batteries to Russia

As part of the preparation of the report "Market of automotive batteries in Russia. Results of 2022, trends and prospects", experts of analytical agency "AUTOSTAT", based on the processing of customs data, found out that in 2022 the total volume of import deliveries of batteries to Russia intended for the secondary car market amounted to 3.3 million units. South Korea remains the leader in the supply of automotive batteries to Russia, as in 2021. It accounted for a third (33.4%) of all imports of such batteries - 1 million 111 thousand units. In second place there is Turkey, which imported 739.3 thousand car batteries into our country (the share is 22.2%).

Almost one fifth (19.8; or 656.8 thousand units) in the volume of imports was occupied by Slovenia. The TOP-5 of supplier countries also included Serbia (158 thousand units) and Czech Republic (110.3 thousand units). It should be noted that these five importers accounted for about 84% of all automotive batteries imported into Russia. Spain is the sixth one in the ranking with 107.2 thousand units; Japan is the seventh (101 thousand units). This is followed by Poland (78 thousand units), China (61.8 thousand units) and Germany (44.4 thousand units). Note that the share of countries in Russian imports has changed significantly. Thus, the share of South Korea, Turkey, Slovenia, Serbia and China increased. Moreover, the same countries, with the exception of South Korea, also increased their import volumes.