What Croatia buys, and from whom.
Croatia imported USD 33bn of manufactured and processed goods in 2024, up 16 per cent on 2022. These are its twenty largest source countries. 9 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 Croatia 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 Croatia is best placed to make itself, see Made here: Croatia.
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1
Germany
Share of Croatia's imports18 per centChangeup 17 per cent on 2022USD 5.8bnin 2024 -
2
Italy
Share of Croatia's imports12 per centChangeup 5 per cent on 2022USD 4.1bnin 2024 -
3
Slovenia
Share of Croatia's imports11 per centChangeup 21 per cent on 2022USD 3.5bnin 2024 -
4
Austria
Share of Croatia's imports7 per centChangeup 15 per cent on 2022USD 2.2bnin 2024 -
5
Hungary
Share of Croatia's imports6 per centChangeup 34 per cent on 2022USD 2.1bnin 2024 -
6
China
Share of Croatia's imports5 per centChangeup 17 per cent on 2022USD 1.8bnin 2024 -
7
Poland
Share of Croatia's imports5 per centChangeup 17 per cent on 2022USD 1.6bnin 2024 -
8
Netherlands
Share of Croatia's imports4 per centChangeup 19 per cent on 2022USD 1.3bnin 2024 -
9
France
Share of Croatia's imports4 per centChangeup 53 per cent on 2022USD 1.2bnin 2024 -
10
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Share of Croatia's imports3 per centChangelevel with 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 985min 2024 -
11
Czech Republic
Share of Croatia's imports3 per centChangeup 21 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 962min 2024 -
12
Slovakia
Share of Croatia's imports3 per centChangeup 19 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 931min 2024 -
13
Serbia
Share of Croatia's imports3 per centChangeup 2 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 829min 2024 -
14
Spain
Share of Croatia's imports2 per centChangeup 37 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 758min 2024 -
15
Belgium
Share of Croatia's imports2 per centChangedown 3 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 660min 2024 -
16
Turkey
Share of Croatia's imports2 per centChangeup 2 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 647min 2024 -
17
Romania
Share of Croatia's imports2 per centChangeup 29 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 525min 2024 -
18
Sweden
Share of Croatia's imports1 per centChangeup 22 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 303min 2024 -
19
Switzerland
Share of Croatia's imports1 per centChangeup 27 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 286min 2024 -
20
India
Share of Croatia's imports1 per centChangeup 56 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 237min 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 Croatia 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 Croatia 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.