What Bulgaria buys, and from whom.
Bulgaria imported USD 37bn of manufactured and processed goods in 2024, down 2 per cent on 2022. These are its twenty largest source countries. 10 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 Bulgaria 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 Bulgaria is best placed to make itself, see Made here: Bulgaria.
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1
China
Share of Bulgaria's imports15 per centChangeup 68 per cent on 2022USD 5.5bnin 2024 -
2
Germany
Share of Bulgaria's imports13 per centChangedown 9 per cent on 2022USD 4.8bnin 2024 -
3
Turkey
Share of Bulgaria's imports10 per centChangedown 4 per cent on 2022USD 3.5bnin 2024 -
4
Italy
Share of Bulgaria's imports7 per centChangedown 9 per cent on 2022USD 2.4bnin 2024 -
5
Romania
Share of Bulgaria's imports4 per centChangedown 38 per cent on 2022USD 1.4bnin 2024 -
6
Poland
Share of Bulgaria's imports4 per centChangedown 14 per cent on 2022USD 1.4bnin 2024 -
7
France
Share of Bulgaria's imports3 per centChangeup 9 per cent on 2022USD 1.1bnin 2024 -
8
Greece
Share of Bulgaria's imports3 per centChangedown 25 per cent on 2022USD 1.1bnin 2024 -
9
Czech Republic
Share of Bulgaria's imports3 per centChangedown 6 per cent on 2022USD 1.1bnin 2024 -
10
Netherlands
Share of Bulgaria's imports3 per centChangedown 49 per cent on 2022USD 1.1bnin 2024 -
11
Hungary
Share of Bulgaria's imports3 per centChangedown 36 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 966min 2024 -
12
United States
Share of Bulgaria's imports3 per centChangeup 190 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 912min 2024 -
13
Ukraine
Share of Bulgaria's imports2 per centChangeup 23 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 853min 2024 -
14
Austria
Share of Bulgaria's imports2 per centChangedown 36 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 737min 2024 -
15
Spain
Share of Bulgaria's imports2 per centChangedown 35 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 630min 2024 -
16
Switzerland
Share of Bulgaria's imports2 per centChangeup 72 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 597min 2024 -
17
United Kingdom
Share of Bulgaria's imports2 per centChangeup 46 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 573min 2024 -
18
Serbia
Share of Bulgaria's imports2 per centChangeup 1 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 559min 2024 -
19
Belgium
Share of Bulgaria's imports2 per centChangedown 43 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 552min 2024 -
20
Vietnam
Share of Bulgaria's imports1 per centChangeup 254 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 467min 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 Bulgaria 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 Bulgaria 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.