What Lebanon buys, and from whom.
Lebanon imported USD 7.6bn of manufactured and processed goods in 2024, down 17 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 Lebanon 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 Lebanon is best placed to make itself, see Made here: Lebanon.
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1
China
Share of Lebanon's imports27 per centChangedown 17 per cent on 2022USD 2.0bnin 2024 -
2
Turkey
Share of Lebanon's imports7 per centChangedown 38 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 565min 2024 -
3
Italy
Share of Lebanon's imports6 per centChangeup 9 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 477min 2024 -
4
Germany
Share of Lebanon's imports6 per centChangedown 7 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 449min 2024 -
5
Egypt
Share of Lebanon's imports6 per centChangeup 44 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 426min 2024 -
6
France
Share of Lebanon's imports5 per centChangeup 17 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 385min 2024 -
7
United States
Share of Lebanon's imports5 per centChangedown 35 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 354min 2024 -
8
Japan
Share of Lebanon's imports4 per centChangeup 87 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 309min 2024 -
9
United Kingdom
Share of Lebanon's imports3 per centChangedown 11 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 222min 2024 -
10
Netherlands
Share of Lebanon's imports3 per centChangeup 18 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 216min 2024 -
11
India
Share of Lebanon's imports3 per centChangedown 36 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 207min 2024 -
12
Spain
Share of Lebanon's imports3 per centChangedown 2 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 200min 2024 -
13
Switzerland
Share of Lebanon's imports3 per centChangeup 14 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 187min 2024 -
14
Saudi Arabia
Share of Lebanon's imports2 per centChangeup 62 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 167min 2024 -
15
Thailand
Share of Lebanon's imports2 per centChangeup 5 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 149min 2024 -
16
Belgium
Share of Lebanon's imports2 per centChangeup 9 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 149min 2024 -
17
Morocco
Share of Lebanon's imports2 per centChangeup 148 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 118min 2024 -
18
Poland
Share of Lebanon's imports1 per centChangeup 15 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 88min 2024 -
19
South Korea
Share of Lebanon's imports1 per centChangedown 9 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 84min 2024 -
20
Indonesia
Share of Lebanon's imports1 per centChangeup 52 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 70min 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 Lebanon 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 Lebanon 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.