Trade lanes

What Liberia buys, and from whom.

Liberia imported USD 2.7bn of manufactured and processed goods in 2024, up 31 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 Liberia 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 Liberia is best placed to make itself, see Made here: Liberia.

  1. 1

    China

    Share of Liberia's imports62 per cent
    Changeup 36 per cent on 2022
    USD 1.7bnin 2024
  2. 2

    Turkey

    Share of Liberia's imports7 per cent
    Changeup 21 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 179min 2024
  3. 3

    India

    Share of Liberia's imports6 per cent
    Changeup 44 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 151min 2024
  4. 4

    United States

    Share of Liberia's imports4 per cent
    Changeup 34 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 112min 2024
  5. 5

    South Africa

    Share of Liberia's imports3 per cent
    Changeup 394 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 75min 2024
  6. 6

    Japan

    Share of Liberia's imports3 per cent
    Changeup 52 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 67min 2024
  7. 7

    Greece

    Share of Liberia's imports2 per cent
    Changedown 18 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 41min 2024
  8. 8

    Brazil

    Share of Liberia's imports1 per cent
    Changeup 17 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 35min 2024
  9. 9

    Belgium

    Share of Liberia's imports1 per cent
    Changedown 2 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 32min 2024
  10. 10

    Morocco

    Share of Liberia's imports1 per cent
    Changeup 281 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 32min 2024
  11. 11

    Ivory Coast

    Share of Liberia's imports1 per cent
    Changenew since 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 27min 2024
  12. 12

    United Kingdom

    Share of Liberia's imports1 per cent
    Changeup 9 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 24min 2024
  13. 13

    Saudi Arabia

    Share of Liberia's imports1 per cent
    Changeup 37 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 24min 2024
  14. 14

    Egypt

    Share of Liberia's imports1 per cent
    Changedown 34 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 22min 2024
  15. 15

    Germany

    Share of Liberia's imports1 per cent
    Changedown 25 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 17min 2024
  16. 16

    Netherlands

    Share of Liberia's imports1 per cent
    Changeup 8 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 17min 2024
  17. 17

    Malaysia

    Share of Liberia's imports1 per cent
    Changedown 8 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 14min 2024
  18. 18

    Spain

    Share of Liberia's imports1 per cent
    Changedown 7 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 13min 2024
  19. 19

    Canada

    Share of Liberia's imports1 per cent
    Changeup 49 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 12min 2024
  20. 20

    Italy

    Share of Liberia's importsunder 1 per cent
    Changeup 27 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 11min 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 Liberia 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 Liberia 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.