What Cameroon buys, and from whom.
Cameroon imported USD 6.3bn of manufactured and processed goods in 2024, up 11 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 Cameroon 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 Cameroon is best placed to make itself, see Made here: Cameroon.
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1
China
Share of Cameroon's imports56 per centChangeup 60 per cent on 2022USD 3.5bnin 2024 -
2
France
Share of Cameroon's imports7 per centChangelevel with 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 461min 2024 -
3
India
Share of Cameroon's imports6 per centChangeup 18 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 350min 2024 -
4
Brazil
Share of Cameroon's imports3 per centChangeup 90 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 216min 2024 -
5
Turkey
Share of Cameroon's imports3 per centChangedown 17 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 169min 2024 -
6
Germany
Share of Cameroon's imports3 per centChangedown 14 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 155min 2024 -
7
Belgium
Share of Cameroon's imports2 per centChangedown 3 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 147min 2024 -
8
United States
Share of Cameroon's imports2 per centChangedown 7 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 146min 2024 -
9
Italy
Share of Cameroon's imports2 per centChangedown 32 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 112min 2024 -
10
Netherlands
Share of Cameroon's imports2 per centChangeup 22 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 99min 2024 -
11
Morocco
Share of Cameroon's imports1 per centChangedown 25 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 91min 2024 -
12
Spain
Share of Cameroon's imports1 per centChangedown 37 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 77min 2024 -
13
Indonesia
Share of Cameroon's imports1 per centChangeup 81 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 55min 2024 -
14
Egypt
Share of Cameroon's imports1 per centChangedown 33 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 54min 2024 -
15
Nigeria
Share of Cameroon's imports1 per centChangedown 30 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 42min 2024 -
16
South Africa
Share of Cameroon's imports1 per centChangedown 17 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 40min 2024 -
17
Malaysia
Share of Cameroon's imports1 per centChangeup 65 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 39min 2024 -
18
United Kingdom
Share of Cameroon's imports1 per centChangedown 38 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 34min 2024 -
19
South Korea
Share of Cameroon's imports1 per centChangedown 58 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 31min 2024 -
20
Japan
Share of Cameroon's imports1 per centChangedown 74 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 30min 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 Cameroon 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 Cameroon 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.