Morocco wiring harness exports rank second in world

Morocco held the world’s second spot in exports of wiring harnesses used in vehicles, aircraft and ships in 2024, with shipments worth $4.50 billion. World Bank trade data places the Kingdom behind only Mexico, ahead of the United States, China and Germany.

Mexico led the ranking with exports of about $10.85 billion, roughly 2.4 times Morocco’s total. Vietnam placed third with around $4.08 billion, about $417 million behind Morocco.

The 2024 top ten

The ranking draws on the World Bank’s WITS database. Figures for Vietnam come from the Global Trade Atlas database published by the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency, since Vietnam does not appear among exporters in the World Bank data. The products fall under customs code 854430, covering ignition wiring sets and other wiring sets used in transport.

Behind the three leaders came the United States ($2.86 billion), China ($2.71 billion), the Philippines ($2.46 billion), Romania ($2.19 billion), Serbia ($1.78 billion), Germany ($1.66 billion) and the Czech Republic ($1.56 billion).

The ranking excludes regional groupings and could shift if data outside these databases becomes available.

Spain leads Morocco’s buyers

Morocco’s exports in this category depend heavily on Europe. Five countries took about 86% of the 2024 total. Spain bought $1.69 billion worth, France $752.83 million, the United Kingdom $752.79 million, Germany $461.17 million and Türkiye $217.29 million.

Moroccan exports in the category climbed to about $6.22 billion in 2025, according to the latest World Bank figures. Spain remained the top market at $2.47 billion, followed by France at around $914 million, Germany at about $775 million, the United Kingdom at about $717 million and Austria at about $296 million.

Office des Changes series

Morocco’s Office des Changes records growth over a longer period, using a sectoral classification based on lists of companies in the automotive industrial ecosystem rather than the international customs code. Its revised series, published in the annual foreign trade report for 2025, shows wiring exports from the automotive sector rising from about 30.97 billion dirhams in 2020 to 55.45 billion dirhams in 2024.

The series shows 30.45 billion dirhams in 2021, 38.57 billion in 2022 and 51.68 billion in 2023. The total reached 60.46 billion dirhams in 2025, an increase of about 79.1% between 2020 and 2024, followed by further growth of 9% in 2025.

In May 2026, the Office des Changes revised its sector data for the automotive and aeronautics industries after updating the lists of industrial operators used to classify these exports.

Tunisia second among Arab exporters

Tunisia, outside the top ten, recorded exports of $983.03 million in 2024, according to World Bank data, making it the second-largest Arab exporter of these products after Morocco.

Germany alone took more than half of Tunisia’s shipments, at $513.48 million. France followed with $123.27 million, then Austria with $99.94 million, Italy with $93.42 million and Spain with $36.86 million. Together, those five markets accounted for about 88% of the total.