What Bolivia buys, and from whom.
Bolivia imported USD 7.0bn of manufactured and processed goods in 2024, down 20 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 Bolivia 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 Bolivia is best placed to make itself, see Made here: Bolivia.
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1
China
Share of Bolivia's imports31 per centChangedown 11 per cent on 2022USD 2.2bnin 2024 -
2
Brazil
Share of Bolivia's imports18 per centChangedown 28 per cent on 2022USD 1.2bnin 2024 -
3
Chile
Share of Bolivia's imports8 per centChangedown 18 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 579min 2024 -
4
Peru
Share of Bolivia's imports7 per centChangedown 23 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 470min 2024 -
5
United States
Share of Bolivia's imports6 per centChangedown 23 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 385min 2024 -
6
Argentina
Share of Bolivia's imports5 per centChangedown 25 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 314min 2024 -
7
Japan
Share of Bolivia's imports3 per centChangedown 10 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 194min 2024 -
8
Mexico
Share of Bolivia's imports3 per centChangedown 15 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 177min 2024 -
9
India
Share of Bolivia's imports2 per centChangedown 12 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 168min 2024 -
10
Germany
Share of Bolivia's imports2 per centChangedown 42 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 111min 2024 -
11
Colombia
Share of Bolivia's imports2 per centChangedown 19 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 109min 2024 -
12
Spain
Share of Bolivia's imports2 per centChangedown 26 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 102min 2024 -
13
Sweden
Share of Bolivia's imports1 per centChangeup 5 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 91min 2024 -
14
Italy
Share of Bolivia's imports1 per centChangedown 16 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 88min 2024 -
15
Paraguay
Share of Bolivia's imports1 per centChangedown 7 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 70min 2024 -
16
Thailand
Share of Bolivia's imports1 per centChangedown 36 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 60min 2024 -
17
South Korea
Share of Bolivia's imports1 per centChangedown 30 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 53min 2024 -
18
Indonesia
Share of Bolivia's imports1 per centChangedown 19 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 46min 2024 -
19
France
Share of Bolivia's imports1 per centChangedown 35 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 42min 2024 -
20
Vietnam
Share of Bolivia's imports1 per centChangedown 12 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 37min 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 Bolivia 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 Bolivia 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.