Trade lanes

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.

By source

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.

  1. 1

    Italy

    Share of Albania's imports23 per cent
    Changeup 19 per cent on 2022
    USD 1.8bnin 2024
  2. 2

    China

    Share of Albania's imports16 per cent
    Changeup 73 per cent on 2022
    USD 1.2bnin 2024
  3. 3

    Turkey

    Share of Albania's imports11 per cent
    Changeup 5 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 838min 2024
  4. 4

    Germany

    Share of Albania's imports7 per cent
    Changeup 80 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 561min 2024
  5. 5

    Greece

    Share of Albania's imports7 per cent
    Changeup 26 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 535min 2024
  6. 6

    Serbia

    Share of Albania's imports4 per cent
    Changeup 69 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 262min 2024
  7. 7

    South Korea

    Share of Albania's imports3 per cent
    Changeup 438 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 201min 2024
  8. 8

    Poland

    Share of Albania's imports3 per cent
    Changeup 62 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 190min 2024
  9. 9

    United States

    Share of Albania's imports2 per cent
    Changeup 184 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 147min 2024
  10. 10

    Bulgaria

    Share of Albania's imports2 per cent
    Changeup 14 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 132min 2024
  11. 11

    France

    Share of Albania's imports2 per cent
    Changeup 41 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 111min 2024
  12. 12

    Netherlands

    Share of Albania's imports1 per cent
    Changeup 46 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 104min 2024
  13. 13

    Hungary

    Share of Albania's imports1 per cent
    Changeup 28 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 102min 2024
  14. 14

    Spain

    Share of Albania's imports1 per cent
    Changeup 13 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 96min 2024
  15. 15

    Czech Republic

    Share of Albania's imports1 per cent
    Changeup 29 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 96min 2024
  16. 16

    North Macedonia

    Share of Albania's imports1 per cent
    Changeup 14 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 91min 2024
  17. 17

    Austria

    Share of Albania's imports1 per cent
    Changeup 42 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 88min 2024
  18. 18

    Slovenia

    Share of Albania's imports1 per cent
    Changeup 4 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 83min 2024
  19. 19

    United Kingdom

    Share of Albania's imports1 per cent
    Changeup 96 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 79min 2024
  20. 20

    Switzerland

    Share of Albania's imports1 per cent
    Changeup 16 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 77min 2024
What this record says

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.

What it does not say

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.