What Ecuador buys, and from whom.
Ecuador imported USD 19bn of manufactured and processed goods in 2024, up 8 per cent on 2022. These are its twenty largest source countries. 3 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 Ecuador 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 Ecuador is best placed to make itself, see Made here: Ecuador.
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1
China
Share of Ecuador's imports34 per centChangeup 7 per cent on 2022USD 6.5bnin 2024 -
2
United States
Share of Ecuador's imports11 per centChangedown 16 per cent on 2022USD 2.1bnin 2024 -
3
Colombia
Share of Ecuador's imports8 per centChangedown 7 per cent on 2022USD 1.5bnin 2024 -
4
Brazil
Share of Ecuador's imports5 per centChangedown 17 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 867min 2024 -
5
Peru
Share of Ecuador's imports4 per centChangedown 13 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 828min 2024 -
6
Germany
Share of Ecuador's imports3 per centChangeup 12 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 608min 2024 -
7
Mexico
Share of Ecuador's imports3 per centChangeup 125 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 592min 2024 -
8
Japan
Share of Ecuador's imports3 per centChangeup 24 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 524min 2024 -
9
Spain
Share of Ecuador's imports3 per centChangeup 8 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 487min 2024 -
10
India
Share of Ecuador's imports2 per centChangeup 5 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 381min 2024 -
11
South Korea
Share of Ecuador's imports2 per centChangedown 2 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 376min 2024 -
12
Italy
Share of Ecuador's imports2 per centChangeup 24 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 359min 2024 -
13
Chile
Share of Ecuador's imports2 per centChangedown 15 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 349min 2024 -
14
Thailand
Share of Ecuador's imports1 per centChangeup 5 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 270min 2024 -
15
Vietnam
Share of Ecuador's imports1 per centChangeup 73 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 218min 2024 -
16
Argentina
Share of Ecuador's imports1 per centChangenew since 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 204min 2024 -
17
France
Share of Ecuador's imports1 per centChangeup 44 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 202min 2024 -
18
Netherlands
Share of Ecuador's imports1 per centChangedown 9 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 172min 2024 -
19
Russia
Share of Ecuador's imports1 per centChangenew since 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 172min 2024 -
20
Taiwan
Share of Ecuador's imports1 per centChangenew since 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 155min 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 Ecuador 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 Ecuador 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.