In 2025, China's export volume of wet wipes increased compared with 2024. Although import volume rose slightly, the total amount remained small, with export volume far exceeding import volume.

Exports

In 2025, the total export volume of wet wipes reached 1.009 million tonnes, up 20.91% from 2024.

Cleaning wet wipes dominated exports, accounting for 83.73% of total export volume.

Note: Under current customs commodity codes, cleaning wet wipes are classified under HS Code 34011990, and disinfectant wet wipes under HS Code 38089400. However, these two codes also cover other cleaning and disinfection products besides wet wipes.

Imports

In 2025, China's wet wipes import volume was only 27,100 tonnes, with a total import value of 169 million US dollars.

The overall import volume was very small and had little impact on the domestic wet wipes consumer market.

Disinfectant wet wipes were the main imported product type, accounting for 88.09% of total import volume.