In 2022, China’s bilateral trade with the U.S. hit $7,608 billion—while America’s tally peaked at $2,545 billion a year earlier, leaving a $5 trillion

China Data Portal (2026). Retrieved from https://chinadata.live/data/trade-volume-comparison/.

From China China's bilateral trade with the United States surged to an all-time high of $7,608 billion in 2022, while the American side’s lowest recorded figure — $1,166 billion in 2010 — barely registered on the same scale.

The dataset, spanning 2010 to 2023, tracks each side's reported trade volume with the other, revealing a chasm that has only widened.

Top of the chart: China's outsized numbers China’s bilateral trade volume dwarfed the U.S. in every year of the series.

The peak of $7,608 billion in 2022 marked the apex of a decade-long climb, though it slipped to $6,684 billion in 2023.

Even China’s lowest annual reading in this stretch — $3,831 billion in 2010 — was more than three times the U.S. tally that same year. The other end: a much smaller American count The U.S.

figure never exceeded $2,545 billion , a high-water mark reached in 2021. By 2023, that number had retreated to $1,479 billion , below its 2010 starting point. In every year, the U.S.

reported trade volumes that were merely a fraction — sometimes less than a fifth — of China’s corresponding entry. What separates the two The divergence between the two series hardly budges.

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