What the Bahamas buys, and from whom.
The Bahamas imported USD 2.9bn of manufactured and processed goods in 2024, up 41 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 the Bahamas 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 the Bahamas is best placed to make itself, see Made here: Bahamas.
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United States
Share of the Bahamas's imports70 per centChangeup 41 per cent on 2022USD 2.0bnin 2024 -
2
China
Share of the Bahamas's imports7 per centChangedown 6 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 196min 2024 -
3
Japan
Share of the Bahamas's imports2 per centChangeup 52 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 68min 2024 -
4
Italy
Share of the Bahamas's imports2 per centChangeup 107 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 44min 2024 -
5
Panama
Share of the Bahamas's imports1 per centChangefrom USD 5m in 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 39min 2024 -
6
Germany
Share of the Bahamas's imports1 per centChangeup 53 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 36min 2024 -
7
Canada
Share of the Bahamas's imports1 per centChangeup 17 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 36min 2024 -
8
United Kingdom
Share of the Bahamas's imports1 per centChangeup 48 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 35min 2024 -
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Turkey
Share of the Bahamas's imports1 per centChangeup 14 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 32min 2024 -
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Netherlands
Share of the Bahamas's imports1 per centChangeup 57 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 29min 2024 -
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Mexico
Share of the Bahamas's imports1 per centChangefrom USD 561k in 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 26min 2024 -
12
France
Share of the Bahamas's imports1 per centChangeup 15 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 25min 2024 -
13
Costa Rica
Share of the Bahamas's imports1 per centChangeup 60 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 24min 2024 -
14
Spain
Share of the Bahamas's imports1 per centChangeup 158 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 19min 2024 -
15
Switzerland
Share of the Bahamas's imports1 per centChangeup 29 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 19min 2024 -
16
Dominican Republic
Share of the Bahamas's imports1 per centChangenew since 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 17min 2024 -
17
Finland
Share of the Bahamas's imports1 per centChangeup 465 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 15min 2024 -
18
Austria
Share of the Bahamas's imports1 per centChangeup 10 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 14min 2024 -
19
South Korea
Share of the Bahamas's importsunder 1 per centChangedown 19 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 12min 2024 -
20
Greece
Share of the Bahamas's importsunder 1 per centChangedown 26 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 12min 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 the Bahamas 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 the United States's part of everything the Bahamas 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.