EU gallium: China falls to 37.7% of value in 2026

From January to July 2026 the European Union imported €7.46 million of unwrought gallium from outside the EU, 62% more than in the same months of 2025. China's share of that value fell from 79.5% to 37.7%. By tonnes the change is smaller: China still supplied 64% of the 12.7 tonnes imported.

• 37.7%

  China's share by value, Jan–Jul 2026

• 79.5%

  the same share in Jan–Jul 2025

• 64.0%

  China's share by tonnes, Jan–Jul 2026

• +62%

  value imported by the EU, with +3% in tonnes

Gallium is one of the 17 strategic raw materials of Regulation (EU) 2024/1252, which sets a 2030 benchmark: no single third country should supply more than 65% of each of them.

Above 65% since 2019, until now

• 201983.0%
• 202086.2%
• 202184.5%
• 202296.8%
• 202385.0%
• 202467.9%
• 202576.7%
• 2026 (Jan–Jul)37.7%

Since 2019 China has always been above the 65% benchmark, peaking at 96.8% in 2022. The decline began in 2024 (67.9%), recovered in 2025 (76.7%) and deepened in the first seven months of 2026.

Who came in

China sold less to the EU (8.1 tonnes, against 9.8 a year earlier), but the bigger change was the arrival of other suppliers, with gallium of a much higher unit value.

The average value per kilo of imported gallium rose from €372 to €588. China's fell to €346/kg, while the other suppliers together reached about €1,000/kg. This is a derived indicator (value divided by weight), not a market price: it mostly reflects the mix of purities each country sells.

Read with care

These are small values, where a single shipment weighs a lot. 82% of the value from Taiwan arrived in a single month, July 2026, the latest month included, which Eurostat may still revise. The full year will tell whether the shift holds.

Only unwrought gallium and powders count (CN 8112 92 89), not compounds or products that contain it. Every supplier, value and tonne, year by year since 2016, is in the EU dependency tool, with the other 16 strategic raw materials.