What Afghanistan buys, and from whom.
Afghanistan imported USD 3.5bn of manufactured and processed goods in 2024, down 8 per cent on 2022. These are its twenty largest source countries. 1 of them ship enough, across enough product lines, to have a lane page of their own.
Trade year 2024, compared with 2022.
The twenty countries Afghanistan imports most from.
A lane page is written where the source ships USD 1bn or more a year across at least 50 product lines worth USD 1m each. For what Afghanistan is best placed to make itself, see Made here: Afghanistan.
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1
China
Share of Afghanistan's imports43 per centChangeup 190 per cent on 2022USD 1.5bnin 2024 -
2
Pakistan
Share of Afghanistan's imports26 per centChangeup 71 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 894min 2024 -
3
India
Share of Afghanistan's imports8 per centChangedown 29 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 275min 2024 -
4
Turkey
Share of Afghanistan's imports5 per centChangelevel with 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 179min 2024 -
5
Uzbekistan
Share of Afghanistan's imports5 per centChangenew since 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 165min 2024 -
6
Kazakhstan
Share of Afghanistan's imports3 per centChangeup 371 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 91min 2024 -
7
Germany
Share of Afghanistan's imports2 per centChangeup 123 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 71min 2024 -
8
Belgium
Share of Afghanistan's imports2 per centChangedown 61 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 51min 2024 -
9
South Korea
Share of Afghanistan's imports1 per centChangeup 78 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 34min 2024 -
10
France
Share of Afghanistan's imports1 per centChangedown 5 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 27min 2024 -
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Netherlands
Share of Afghanistan's imports1 per centChangeup 22 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 20min 2024 -
12
Italy
Share of Afghanistan's imports1 per centChangeup 102 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 18min 2024 -
13
Austria
Share of Afghanistan's imports1 per centChangeup 88 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 17min 2024 -
14
Thailand
Share of Afghanistan's importsunder 1 per centChangeup 33 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 13min 2024 -
15
Denmark
Share of Afghanistan's importsunder 1 per centChangeup 52 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 11min 2024 -
16
United States
Share of Afghanistan's importsunder 1 per centChangedown 15 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 10min 2024 -
17
Poland
Share of Afghanistan's importsunder 1 per centChangedown 3 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 9min 2024 -
18
Spain
Share of Afghanistan's importsunder 1 per centChangeup 82 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 7min 2024 -
19
United Kingdom
Share of Afghanistan's importsunder 1 per centChangeup 84 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 7min 2024 -
20
Japan
Share of Afghanistan's importsunder 1 per centChangedown 20 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 7min 2024
What crossed the border, what it was worth, and what it weighed.
Every figure on this page is from CEPII's BACI file, which reconciles what each pair of countries reports to the UN about the same shipment. Trade year 2024, compared with 2022. A line is one six-digit customs heading (HS 2022). Values are in US dollars at the border; growth is in current dollars, so part of any change is price, not volume.
Unit value. Unit values are customs values per tonne, declared at the border, not product prices. It is the value of a line divided by its declared weight, so it mixes grades, models and qualities under one heading. It is shown only where the weight is recorded, at least three source countries of USD 100k or more ship the line to Afghanistan with a weight, and the figure sits within a factor of five of the middle of those sources. Outside that band it is treated as a recording problem and left out.
Share is China's part of everything Afghanistan imported in that line, from every source. Sources counts the countries that shipped any of it.
Scope. Manufactured and processed goods, customs chapters 16 to 96, without ores, fuels, precious metals, scrap, raw farm output and one-off capital and defence purchases: the same rule as the Made here pages.
A record of trade, not a shopping list.
What this record does not say: what sells at retail, what margin a trade leaves, how crowded the marketplaces are, or how much of a flow is re-exported through entrepots such as Hong Kong and Singapore.
A large line is not proof of an opening, and a lower unit value from another country is not proof the goods are the same. Tariffs, standards, freight, payment terms, lead times and the plain fact that a supplier is good at it are all invisible here. Nothing on this page is a forecast, a recommendation or a promise. No supplier company is named, because the record holds none.
Source: CEPII BACI, HS22, version 202601. Edition of 2026-11-03.