What Ivory Coast buys, and from whom.
Ivory Coast imported USD 10bn of manufactured and processed goods in 2024, up 10 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 Ivory Coast 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 Ivory Coast is best placed to make itself, see Made here: Ivory Coast.
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China
Share of Ivory Coast's imports30 per centChangedown 10 per cent on 2022USD 3.0bnin 2024 -
2
France
Share of Ivory Coast's imports9 per centChangedown 16 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 917min 2024 -
3
India
Share of Ivory Coast's imports5 per centChangeup 20 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 483min 2024 -
4
United States
Share of Ivory Coast's imports4 per centChangeup 65 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 408min 2024 -
5
Morocco
Share of Ivory Coast's imports4 per centChangeup 63 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 395min 2024 -
6
United Kingdom
Share of Ivory Coast's imports4 per centChangeup 205 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 379min 2024 -
7
Germany
Share of Ivory Coast's imports3 per centChangeup 6 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 340min 2024 -
8
Italy
Share of Ivory Coast's imports3 per centChangeup 15 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 323min 2024 -
9
Spain
Share of Ivory Coast's imports3 per centChangedown 6 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 278min 2024 -
10
Egypt
Share of Ivory Coast's imports3 per centChangeup 82 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 266min 2024 -
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Turkey
Share of Ivory Coast's imports2 per centChangedown 33 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 245min 2024 -
12
Japan
Share of Ivory Coast's imports2 per centChangeup 301 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 235min 2024 -
13
Brazil
Share of Ivory Coast's imports2 per centChangeup 52 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 208min 2024 -
14
Netherlands
Share of Ivory Coast's imports2 per centChangeup 1 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 201min 2024 -
15
Belgium
Share of Ivory Coast's imports2 per centChangedown 20 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 184min 2024 -
16
Ghana
Share of Ivory Coast's imports2 per centChangenew since 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 177min 2024 -
17
South Korea
Share of Ivory Coast's imports2 per centChangeup 11 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 174min 2024 -
18
Saudi Arabia
Share of Ivory Coast's imports1 per centChangeup 17 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 144min 2024 -
19
South Africa
Share of Ivory Coast's imports1 per centChangeup 17 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 139min 2024 -
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United Arab Emirates
Share of Ivory Coast's imports1 per centChangedown 61 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 125min 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 Ivory Coast 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 Ivory Coast 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.