What Albania buys, and from whom.
Albania imported USD 7.5bn of manufactured and processed goods in 2024, up 41 per cent on 2022. These are its twenty largest source countries. 2 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 Albania 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 Albania is best placed to make itself, see Made here: Albania.
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1
Italy
Share of Albania's imports23 per centChangeup 19 per cent on 2022USD 1.8bnin 2024 -
2
China
Share of Albania's imports16 per centChangeup 73 per cent on 2022USD 1.2bnin 2024 -
3
Turkey
Share of Albania's imports11 per centChangeup 5 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 838min 2024 -
4
Germany
Share of Albania's imports7 per centChangeup 80 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 561min 2024 -
5
Greece
Share of Albania's imports7 per centChangeup 26 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 535min 2024 -
6
Serbia
Share of Albania's imports4 per centChangeup 69 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 262min 2024 -
7
South Korea
Share of Albania's imports3 per centChangeup 438 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 201min 2024 -
8
Poland
Share of Albania's imports3 per centChangeup 62 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 190min 2024 -
9
United States
Share of Albania's imports2 per centChangeup 184 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 147min 2024 -
10
Bulgaria
Share of Albania's imports2 per centChangeup 14 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 132min 2024 -
11
France
Share of Albania's imports2 per centChangeup 41 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 111min 2024 -
12
Netherlands
Share of Albania's imports1 per centChangeup 46 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 104min 2024 -
13
Hungary
Share of Albania's imports1 per centChangeup 28 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 102min 2024 -
14
Spain
Share of Albania's imports1 per centChangeup 13 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 96min 2024 -
15
Czech Republic
Share of Albania's imports1 per centChangeup 29 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 96min 2024 -
16
North Macedonia
Share of Albania's imports1 per centChangeup 14 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 91min 2024 -
17
Austria
Share of Albania's imports1 per centChangeup 42 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 88min 2024 -
18
Slovenia
Share of Albania's imports1 per centChangeup 4 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 83min 2024 -
19
United Kingdom
Share of Albania's imports1 per centChangeup 96 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 79min 2024 -
20
Switzerland
Share of Albania's imports1 per centChangeup 16 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 77min 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 Albania 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 Italy's part of everything Albania 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.