Trade lanes

What Argentina buys, and from whom.

Argentina imported USD 49bn of manufactured and processed goods in 2024, down 5 per cent on 2022. These are its twenty largest source countries. 9 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 Argentina 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 Argentina is best placed to make itself, see Made here: Argentina.

  1. 1

    Brazil

    Share of Argentina's imports25 per cent
    Changedown 6 per cent on 2022
    USD 12bnin 2024
  2. 2

    China

    Share of Argentina's imports22 per cent
    Changedown 13 per cent on 2022
    USD 11bnin 2024
  3. 3

    United States

    Share of Argentina's imports11 per cent
    Changedown 30 per cent on 2022
    USD 5.2bnin 2024
  4. 4

    Germany

    Share of Argentina's imports5 per cent
    Changedown 5 per cent on 2022
    USD 2.4bnin 2024
  5. 5

    Thailand

    Share of Argentina's imports3 per cent
    Changeup 13 per cent on 2022
    USD 1.7bnin 2024
  6. 6

    Mexico

    Share of Argentina's imports3 per cent
    Changeup 236 per cent on 2022
    USD 1.4bnin 2024
  7. 7

    Italy

    Share of Argentina's imports3 per cent
    Changedown 6 per cent on 2022
    USD 1.2bnin 2024
  8. 8

    Japan

    Share of Argentina's imports2 per cent
    Changeup 33 per cent on 2022
    USD 1.2bnin 2024
  9. 9

    India

    Share of Argentina's imports2 per cent
    Changeup 25 per cent on 2022
    USD 1.1bnin 2024
  10. 10

    Spain

    Share of Argentina's imports2 per cent
    Changedown 13 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 933min 2024
  11. 11

    France

    Share of Argentina's imports2 per cent
    Changedown 8 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 857min 2024
  12. 12

    Vietnam

    Share of Argentina's imports2 per cent
    Changedown 8 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 772min 2024
  13. 13

    Switzerland

    Share of Argentina's imports1 per cent
    Changedown 7 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 680min 2024
  14. 14

    Chile

    Share of Argentina's imports1 per cent
    Changedown 16 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 575min 2024
  15. 15

    Morocco

    Share of Argentina's imports1 per cent
    Changeup 14 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 485min 2024
  16. 16

    South Korea

    Share of Argentina's imports1 per cent
    Changeup 8 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 452min 2024
  17. 17

    Uruguay

    Share of Argentina's imports1 per cent
    Changeup 3 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 435min 2024
  18. 18

    United Kingdom

    Share of Argentina's imports1 per cent
    Changeup 6 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 435min 2024
  19. 19

    Netherlands

    Share of Argentina's imports1 per cent
    Changedown 39 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 382min 2024
  20. 20

    Hungary

    Share of Argentina's imports1 per cent
    Changeup 64 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 305min 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 Argentina 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 Brazil's part of everything Argentina 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.