What Latvia buys, and from whom.
Latvia imported USD 17bn of manufactured and processed goods in 2024, down 6 per cent on 2022. These are its twenty largest source countries. 4 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 Latvia 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 Latvia is best placed to make itself, see Made here: Latvia.
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1
Lithuania
Share of Latvia's imports14 per centChangedown 5 per cent on 2022USD 2.4bnin 2024 -
2
Germany
Share of Latvia's imports14 per centChangedown 6 per cent on 2022USD 2.2bnin 2024 -
3
Poland
Share of Latvia's imports12 per centChangedown 3 per cent on 2022USD 2.0bnin 2024 -
4
Estonia
Share of Latvia's imports7 per centChangedown 6 per cent on 2022USD 1.2bnin 2024 -
5
China
Share of Latvia's imports5 per centChangedown 21 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 834min 2024 -
6
Netherlands
Share of Latvia's imports5 per centChangedown 2 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 800min 2024 -
7
Italy
Share of Latvia's imports4 per centChangeup 1 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 713min 2024 -
8
Finland
Share of Latvia's imports4 per centChangedown 1 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 601min 2024 -
9
Sweden
Share of Latvia's imports3 per centChangedown 2 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 559min 2024 -
10
Czech Republic
Share of Latvia's imports3 per centChangeup 35 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 445min 2024 -
11
Belgium
Share of Latvia's imports2 per centChangedown 10 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 400min 2024 -
12
France
Share of Latvia's imports2 per centChangedown 3 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 344min 2024 -
13
Denmark
Share of Latvia's imports2 per centChangedown 23 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 324min 2024 -
14
Slovakia
Share of Latvia's imports2 per centChangeup 24 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 284min 2024 -
15
Ukraine
Share of Latvia's imports2 per centChangeup 14 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 255min 2024 -
16
Spain
Share of Latvia's imports2 per centChangelevel with 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 242min 2024 -
17
Vietnam
Share of Latvia's imports1 per centChangedown 13 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 226min 2024 -
18
Austria
Share of Latvia's imports1 per centChangedown 2 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 222min 2024 -
19
United States
Share of Latvia's imports1 per centChangedown 11 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 204min 2024 -
20
Hungary
Share of Latvia's imports1 per centChangedown 18 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 189min 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 Latvia 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 Lithuania's part of everything Latvia 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.