Trade lanes

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.

By source

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.

  1. 1

    Germany

    Share of Croatia's imports18 per cent
    Changeup 17 per cent on 2022
    USD 5.8bnin 2024
  2. 2

    Italy

    Share of Croatia's imports12 per cent
    Changeup 5 per cent on 2022
    USD 4.1bnin 2024
  3. 3

    Slovenia

    Share of Croatia's imports11 per cent
    Changeup 21 per cent on 2022
    USD 3.5bnin 2024
  4. 4

    Austria

    Share of Croatia's imports7 per cent
    Changeup 15 per cent on 2022
    USD 2.2bnin 2024
  5. 5

    Hungary

    Share of Croatia's imports6 per cent
    Changeup 34 per cent on 2022
    USD 2.1bnin 2024
  6. 6

    China

    Share of Croatia's imports5 per cent
    Changeup 17 per cent on 2022
    USD 1.8bnin 2024
  7. 7

    Poland

    Share of Croatia's imports5 per cent
    Changeup 17 per cent on 2022
    USD 1.6bnin 2024
  8. 8

    Netherlands

    Share of Croatia's imports4 per cent
    Changeup 19 per cent on 2022
    USD 1.3bnin 2024
  9. 9

    France

    Share of Croatia's imports4 per cent
    Changeup 53 per cent on 2022
    USD 1.2bnin 2024
  10. 10

    Bosnia and Herzegovina

    Share of Croatia's imports3 per cent
    Changelevel with 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 985min 2024
  11. 11

    Czech Republic

    Share of Croatia's imports3 per cent
    Changeup 21 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 962min 2024
  12. 12

    Slovakia

    Share of Croatia's imports3 per cent
    Changeup 19 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 931min 2024
  13. 13

    Serbia

    Share of Croatia's imports3 per cent
    Changeup 2 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 829min 2024
  14. 14

    Spain

    Share of Croatia's imports2 per cent
    Changeup 37 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 758min 2024
  15. 15

    Belgium

    Share of Croatia's imports2 per cent
    Changedown 3 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 660min 2024
  16. 16

    Turkey

    Share of Croatia's imports2 per cent
    Changeup 2 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 647min 2024
  17. 17

    Romania

    Share of Croatia's imports2 per cent
    Changeup 29 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 525min 2024
  18. 18

    Sweden

    Share of Croatia's imports1 per cent
    Changeup 22 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 303min 2024
  19. 19

    Switzerland

    Share of Croatia's imports1 per cent
    Changeup 27 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 286min 2024
  20. 20

    India

    Share of Croatia's imports1 per cent
    Changeup 56 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 237min 2024
What this record says

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.

What it does not say

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.