Trade lanes

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.

By source

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.

  1. 1

    China

    Share of Ivory Coast's imports30 per cent
    Changedown 10 per cent on 2022
    USD 3.0bnin 2024
  2. 2

    France

    Share of Ivory Coast's imports9 per cent
    Changedown 16 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 917min 2024
  3. 3

    India

    Share of Ivory Coast's imports5 per cent
    Changeup 20 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 483min 2024
  4. 4

    United States

    Share of Ivory Coast's imports4 per cent
    Changeup 65 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 408min 2024
  5. 5

    Morocco

    Share of Ivory Coast's imports4 per cent
    Changeup 63 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 395min 2024
  6. 6

    United Kingdom

    Share of Ivory Coast's imports4 per cent
    Changeup 205 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 379min 2024
  7. 7

    Germany

    Share of Ivory Coast's imports3 per cent
    Changeup 6 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 340min 2024
  8. 8

    Italy

    Share of Ivory Coast's imports3 per cent
    Changeup 15 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 323min 2024
  9. 9

    Spain

    Share of Ivory Coast's imports3 per cent
    Changedown 6 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 278min 2024
  10. 10

    Egypt

    Share of Ivory Coast's imports3 per cent
    Changeup 82 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 266min 2024
  11. 11

    Turkey

    Share of Ivory Coast's imports2 per cent
    Changedown 33 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 245min 2024
  12. 12

    Japan

    Share of Ivory Coast's imports2 per cent
    Changeup 301 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 235min 2024
  13. 13

    Brazil

    Share of Ivory Coast's imports2 per cent
    Changeup 52 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 208min 2024
  14. 14

    Netherlands

    Share of Ivory Coast's imports2 per cent
    Changeup 1 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 201min 2024
  15. 15

    Belgium

    Share of Ivory Coast's imports2 per cent
    Changedown 20 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 184min 2024
  16. 16

    Ghana

    Share of Ivory Coast's imports2 per cent
    Changenew since 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 177min 2024
  17. 17

    South Korea

    Share of Ivory Coast's imports2 per cent
    Changeup 11 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 174min 2024
  18. 18

    Saudi Arabia

    Share of Ivory Coast's imports1 per cent
    Changeup 17 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 144min 2024
  19. 19

    South Africa

    Share of Ivory Coast's imports1 per cent
    Changeup 17 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 139min 2024
  20. 20

    United Arab Emirates

    Share of Ivory Coast's imports1 per cent
    Changedown 61 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 125min 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 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.

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.