{
 "slug": "lighting-exports",
 "nav_label": "China Lighting Exports — HS 9405",
 "h1": "China Lighting Exports (HS 9405)",
 "title": "China Lighting Exports 2026: Monthly Data (HS 9405)",
 "desc": "China's lighting export data for 2026 by month under HS 9405 — cumulative value, year-on-year change, benchmarks against appliances and furniture, and the methodology behind the numbers.",
 "period_label": "January–August 2026",
 "updated": "2026-09-29",
 "lede": "China's exports of lamps, lighting fittings and parts (HS 9405) reached RMB 168.51 billion in the first eight months of 2026, down 8.4% year on year — in a period when China's total goods exports rose 14.6%. This page collects the monthly series, the comparable categories and the methodology, with every figure tied to a named public source.",
 "headline_insight": "National exports grew 14.6% in the first eight months of 2026. Lighting fell 8.4%. The gap is the story: demand is not weak across the board, it is reallocating between destinations and product tiers.",
 "key_figures": [
  {
   "label": "Lamps, lighting fittings & parts — cumulative, Jan–Aug 2026",
   "value": "RMB 168.51 bn",
   "change": "-8.4%",
   "dir": "down",
   "note": "General Administration of Customs, HS 9405, RMB basis"
  },
  {
   "label": "Lamps, lighting fittings & parts — August 2026 alone",
   "value": "RMB 22.84 bn",
   "change": "recovery",
   "dir": "up",
   "note": "General Administration of Customs, HS 9405, RMB basis"
  },
  {
   "label": "China total goods exports — cumulative, Jan–Aug 2026",
   "value": "RMB 20.17 trn",
   "change": "+14.6%",
   "dir": "up",
   "note": "General Administration of Customs, released 2026-09-08"
  },
  {
   "label": "All lighting products (industry definition) — cumulative, Jan–Jul 2026",
   "value": "USD 28.73 bn",
   "change": "-5.4%",
   "dir": "down",
   "note": "China Association of Lighting Industry bulletin; decline narrowed 1.4pp from the previous month"
  },
  {
   "label": "All lighting products — full year 2025 reference",
   "value": "USD 49.9 bn",
   "change": "-11.0%",
   "dir": "down",
   "note": "China Association of Lighting Industry; lighting fittings approx. USD 37.2 bn of the total"
  }
 ],
 "monthly": [
  {
   "month": "2026-01+02",
   "month_value": null,
   "cumulative": 457.7,
   "cumulative_yoy": null,
   "basis": "Calculated",
   "note": "Derived from the Jan–Apr cumulative less March and April. Customs habitually merges January and February because the Spring Festival shifts between them."
  },
  {
   "month": "2026-03",
   "month_value": 122.9,
   "cumulative": 580.6,
   "cumulative_yoy": null,
   "basis": "Press reprint",
   "note": "Single month reprinted by trade media from customs data; cumulative is calculated. Pending verification against the official value table."
  },
  {
   "month": "2026-04",
   "month_value": 187.2,
   "cumulative": 767.8,
   "cumulative_yoy": null,
   "basis": "Press reprint",
   "note": "+52.3% month on month, consistent with the March figure. Cumulative is calculated."
  },
  {
   "month": "2026-05",
   "month_value": 210.0,
   "cumulative": 977.8,
   "cumulative_yoy": -12.6,
   "basis": "Customs value table",
   "note": "Prior-year cumulative for the same period: RMB 111.93 bn."
  },
  {
   "month": "2026-06",
   "month_value": 244.7,
   "cumulative": 1222.2,
   "cumulative_yoy": -11.9,
   "basis": "Customs value table",
   "note": "Prior-year cumulative for the same period: RMB 138.79 bn."
  },
  {
   "month": "2026-07",
   "month_value": 241.6,
   "cumulative": 1463.8,
   "cumulative_yoy": null,
   "basis": "Calculated",
   "note": "Cumulative is the June cumulative plus the July single month. Year-on-year pending verification."
  },
  {
   "month": "2026-08",
   "month_value": 228.4,
   "cumulative": 1685.1,
   "cumulative_yoy": -8.4,
   "basis": "Customs value table",
   "note": "Published by the General Administration of Customs on 2026-09-08."
  }
 ],
 "benchmarks": [
  {
   "category": "Lamps, lighting fittings & parts",
   "hs": "9405",
   "value": "168.51",
   "yoy": "-8.4%"
  },
  {
   "category": "Household electrical appliances",
   "hs": "—",
   "value": "484.18",
   "yoy": "+2.6%"
  },
  {
   "category": "Furniture and parts",
   "hs": "—",
   "value": "306.96",
   "yoy": "+0.6%"
  },
  {
   "category": "Ceramic products",
   "hs": "—",
   "value": "72.41",
   "yoy": "-30.5%"
  }
 ],
 "partners": [
  {
   "partner": "ASEAN",
   "value": "RMB 5.95 trn",
   "yoy": "+20.6%"
  },
  {
   "partner": "European Union",
   "value": "RMB 4.20 trn",
   "yoy": "+8.1%"
  },
  {
   "partner": "United States",
   "value": "RMB 2.76 trn",
   "yoy": "+1.3%"
  },
  {
   "partner": "Belt and Road partner countries",
   "value": "RMB 17.74 trn",
   "yoy": "+15.9%"
  }
 ],
 "reference_rows": [
  {
   "item": "China total exports, Jan–Feb 2026",
   "value": "RMB 4.62 trn",
   "yoy": "+19.2%",
   "basis": "National goods trade"
  },
  {
   "item": "Lighting exports, August 2025",
   "value": "USD 4.0 bn",
   "yoy": "-14.8%",
   "basis": "Association, all-lighting definition, USD"
  },
  {
   "item": "Lighting exports, Jan–Aug 2025",
   "value": "USD 34.4 bn",
   "yoy": "-7.1%",
   "basis": "Association, all-lighting definition, USD"
  },
  {
   "item": "Lighting exports, Jan–Jun 2026",
   "value": "USD 24.1 bn",
   "yoy": "-7.0%",
   "basis": "Association, all-lighting definition, USD"
  },
  {
   "item": "Lighting exports, Jan–Jul 2026",
   "value": "USD 28.73 bn",
   "yoy": "-5.4%",
   "basis": "Association, all-lighting definition, USD"
  },
  {
   "item": "Lighting fittings exports, Fujian province, Jan–Jun 2026",
   "value": "RMB 8.859 bn",
   "yoy": "+28.48%",
   "basis": "Xiamen Customs; 4th largest province nationally"
  }
 ],
 "methodology": [
  {
   "q": "HS 9405 — lamps, lighting fittings and parts",
   "a": "Everything under customs commodity code 9405. RMB, from the customs value tables. This is the most authoritative basis and can be traced month by month. It is the primary basis used on this page."
  },
  {
   "q": "All lighting products (industry definition)",
   "a": "The whole lighting electrical industry: light sources, fittings, LED modules, Christmas lights and more. USD, compiled by the China Association of Lighting Industry from customs data. Broader than HS 9405 and better for reading the industry as a whole."
  },
  {
   "q": "National goods trade",
   "a": "All merchandise imports and exports. RMB / USD, from General Administration of Customs press conferences. Used here as the benchmark against which the lighting sector's relative performance is read."
  },
  {
   "q": "Why different sources quote +12% and -11.9% for the same period",
   "a": "Because coverage (HS 9405 versus the all-lighting definition), currency (RMB versus USD) and cut-off (cumulative versus single month) all differ. Before citing any lighting export figure, check those three things first."
  }
 ],
 "caveats": [
  "January and February 2026 are calculated, not published: customs habitually merges the two months because the Spring Festival falls in a different month each year.",
  "March and April 2026 single-month figures come from trade-media reprints of customs data and are pending verification against the official value table. May to August are published value-table figures.",
  "One circulating source puts Q1 2026 at RMB 46.52 bn, -9.5%. Cross-checking against the value-table chain and exchange rates does not reconcile, which suggests a general-trade basis. It is not used here.",
  "Figures are reproduced in their original basis and are never mixed across bases. Where a conversion is needed it is stated separately with the exchange-rate assumption."
 ],
 "sources": [
  {
   "item": "Lighting and national data, Jan–Aug 2026",
   "publisher": "General Administration of Customs (via OFweek / Home Furnishing New Paradigm)",
   "date": "2026-09-08",
   "url": "https://smarthome.ofweek.com/2026-09/ART-91009-8420-30702391.html"
  },
  {
   "item": "National export value table for key commodities, June 2026",
   "publisher": "General Administration of Customs (via cceeccic)",
   "date": "2026-07",
   "url": "https://cceeccic.org/2121962605.html"
  },
  {
   "item": "National export value table for key commodities, May 2026 (RMB)",
   "publisher": "General Administration of Customs",
   "date": "2026-06-09",
   "url": "http://www.customs.gov.cn/customs/2026-06/09/article_2026060910024037128.html"
  },
  {
   "item": "March–April 2026 single-month data (trade reprints)",
   "publisher": "Changzhou Home Textiles / China Lighting World, citing customs data",
   "date": "2026-04 / 2026-05",
   "url": ""
  },
  {
   "item": "Lighting export bulletin, Jan–Jul 2026 (USD basis)",
   "publisher": "China Association of Lighting Industry",
   "date": "2026-08",
   "url": "https://m.sohu.com/a/923475812_121123926/"
  },
  {
   "item": "Lighting industry export data, full year 2025 (reference)",
   "publisher": "China Association of Lighting Industry",
   "date": "2026-01",
   "url": "https://cali-light.com"
  },
  {
   "item": "Lighting export brief, August 2025 (reference)",
   "publisher": "China Association of Lighting Industry",
   "date": "2025-09",
   "url": "https://cali-light.com/news/26650"
  },
  {
   "item": "Lighting fittings exports, Fujian province, Jan–Jun 2026",
   "publisher": "Xiamen Customs",
   "date": "2026-07",
   "url": "http://gdfs.customs.gov.cn/xiamen_customs/491073/491074/6014205/index.html"
  },
  {
   "item": "Customs statistics query platform (self-verification)",
   "publisher": "General Administration of Customs",
   "date": "continuously updated",
   "url": "http://stats.customs.gov.cn"
  }
 ],
 "update_cadence": "The General Administration of Customs publishes the previous month's data around the 8th of each month. The industry association bulletin and trade commentary follow within a week. This page is revised when a new month is published.",
 "compliance_note": "This dataset contains only aggregate statistics at national and industry level. It contains no company directories, no contact details and no customs declaration line items — trading in declaration data that carries personal or company contact information is an offence under Article 253-1 of the Chinese Criminal Law.",
 "scope_note": "Aggregate macro and industry statistics only. No company-level or shipment-level records."
}