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.
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.
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1
China
Share of Liberia's imports62 per centChangeup 36 per cent on 2022USD 1.7bnin 2024 -
2
Turkey
Share of Liberia's imports7 per centChangeup 21 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 179min 2024 -
3
India
Share of Liberia's imports6 per centChangeup 44 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 151min 2024 -
4
United States
Share of Liberia's imports4 per centChangeup 34 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 112min 2024 -
5
South Africa
Share of Liberia's imports3 per centChangeup 394 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 75min 2024 -
6
Japan
Share of Liberia's imports3 per centChangeup 52 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 67min 2024 -
7
Greece
Share of Liberia's imports2 per centChangedown 18 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 41min 2024 -
8
Brazil
Share of Liberia's imports1 per centChangeup 17 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 35min 2024 -
9
Belgium
Share of Liberia's imports1 per centChangedown 2 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 32min 2024 -
10
Morocco
Share of Liberia's imports1 per centChangeup 281 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 32min 2024 -
11
Ivory Coast
Share of Liberia's imports1 per centChangenew since 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 27min 2024 -
12
United Kingdom
Share of Liberia's imports1 per centChangeup 9 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 24min 2024 -
13
Saudi Arabia
Share of Liberia's imports1 per centChangeup 37 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 24min 2024 -
14
Egypt
Share of Liberia's imports1 per centChangedown 34 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 22min 2024 -
15
Germany
Share of Liberia's imports1 per centChangedown 25 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 17min 2024 -
16
Netherlands
Share of Liberia's imports1 per centChangeup 8 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 17min 2024 -
17
Malaysia
Share of Liberia's imports1 per centChangedown 8 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 14min 2024 -
18
Spain
Share of Liberia's imports1 per centChangedown 7 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 13min 2024 -
19
Canada
Share of Liberia's imports1 per centChangeup 49 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 12min 2024 -
20
Italy
Share of Liberia's importsunder 1 per centChangeup 27 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 11min 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 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.
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.