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Nuclear and space: New Zealand and United States

First country

Second country

In 2025, New Zealand sold USD 13.2 million of nuclear materials, reactors and spacecraft to United States.

Constraints

  • BothFlows are one-sided: in 2025, New Zealand sold USD 13.2 million of nuclear materials, reactors and spacecraft, and United States sold almost none.
  • BothTwo-way trade in nuclear materials, reactors and spacecraft is 40 percent below its 2021 peak of USD 22.8 million.

Sources: UN Comtrade (public preview API), annual goods trade, HS classification (retrieved 26 September 2026)

Last updated on 26 September 2026

The numbers

New Zealand's exports to United States: nuclear materials, reactors and spacecraft

USD million · 2019 to 2025, calendar years, as reported by New Zealand

2019: 3.9Low 0.3 / High 22.32025: 13.2

20193.9
20200.3
202122.3
20228.4
20239.5
20248.7
202513.2

Sources: UN Comtrade (public preview API), annual goods trade, HS classification (retrieved 26 September 2026)

Data retrieved 26 September 2026

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