What Bosnia and Herzegovina buys, and from whom.
Bosnia and Herzegovina imported USD 13bn of manufactured and processed goods in 2024, up 14 per cent on 2022. These are its twenty largest source countries. 4 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 Bosnia and Herzegovina 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 Bosnia and Herzegovina is best placed to make itself, see Made here: Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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1
Germany
Share of Bosnia and Herzegovina's imports13 per centChangeup 15 per cent on 2022USD 1.6bnin 2024 -
2
China
Share of Bosnia and Herzegovina's imports12 per centChangeup 21 per cent on 2022USD 1.5bnin 2024 -
3
Serbia
Share of Bosnia and Herzegovina's imports11 per centChangeup 9 per cent on 2022USD 1.4bnin 2024 -
4
Italy
Share of Bosnia and Herzegovina's imports9 per centChangeup 5 per cent on 2022USD 1.2bnin 2024 -
5
Croatia
Share of Bosnia and Herzegovina's imports7 per centChangeup 21 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 903min 2024 -
6
Turkey
Share of Bosnia and Herzegovina's imports7 per centChangeup 9 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 852min 2024 -
7
Slovenia
Share of Bosnia and Herzegovina's imports5 per centChangeup 1 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 658min 2024 -
8
Austria
Share of Bosnia and Herzegovina's imports4 per centChangeup 4 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 557min 2024 -
9
Poland
Share of Bosnia and Herzegovina's imports4 per centChangeup 21 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 449min 2024 -
10
Hungary
Share of Bosnia and Herzegovina's imports3 per centChangeup 4 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 316min 2024 -
11
France
Share of Bosnia and Herzegovina's imports2 per centChangeup 15 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 286min 2024 -
12
Czech Republic
Share of Bosnia and Herzegovina's imports2 per centChangeup 28 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 280min 2024 -
13
Spain
Share of Bosnia and Herzegovina's imports1 per centChangeup 27 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 177min 2024 -
14
Netherlands
Share of Bosnia and Herzegovina's imports1 per centChangeup 23 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 160min 2024 -
15
Slovakia
Share of Bosnia and Herzegovina's imports1 per centChangeup 27 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 159min 2024 -
16
United States
Share of Bosnia and Herzegovina's imports1 per centChangeup 24 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 150min 2024 -
17
North Macedonia
Share of Bosnia and Herzegovina's imports1 per centChangeup 42 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 146min 2024 -
18
Romania
Share of Bosnia and Herzegovina's imports1 per centChangeup 2 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 137min 2024 -
19
Switzerland
Share of Bosnia and Herzegovina's imports1 per centChangeup 28 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 126min 2024 -
20
India
Share of Bosnia and Herzegovina's imports1 per centChangeup 40 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 121min 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 Bosnia and Herzegovina 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 Germany's part of everything Bosnia and Herzegovina 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.