What Libya buys, and from whom.
Libya imported USD 14bn of manufactured and processed goods in 2024, up 28 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 Libya 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 Libya is best placed to make itself, see Made here: Libya.
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1
China
Share of Libya's imports26 per centChangeup 52 per cent on 2022USD 3.5bnin 2024 -
2
Turkey
Share of Libya's imports14 per centChangedown 4 per cent on 2022USD 1.9bnin 2024 -
3
Egypt
Share of Libya's imports12 per centChangeup 80 per cent on 2022USD 1.6bnin 2024 -
4
Italy
Share of Libya's imports8 per centChangeup 36 per cent on 2022USD 1.0bnin 2024 -
5
Tunisia
Share of Libya's imports5 per centChangenew since 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 689min 2024 -
6
Germany
Share of Libya's imports4 per centChangeup 15 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 552min 2024 -
7
India
Share of Libya's imports4 per centChangeup 166 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 536min 2024 -
8
United States
Share of Libya's imports4 per centChangeup 100 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 489min 2024 -
9
South Korea
Share of Libya's imports3 per centChangeup 20 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 434min 2024 -
10
Spain
Share of Libya's imports2 per centChangeup 59 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 281min 2024 -
11
Thailand
Share of Libya's imports2 per centChangeup 2 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 245min 2024 -
12
Netherlands
Share of Libya's imports2 per centChangeup 27 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 240min 2024 -
13
France
Share of Libya's imports2 per centChangeup 33 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 211min 2024 -
14
Saudi Arabia
Share of Libya's imports1 per centChangeup 24 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 162min 2024 -
15
Switzerland
Share of Libya's imports1 per centChangeup 3 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 158min 2024 -
16
United Kingdom
Share of Libya's imports1 per centChangeup 19 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 151min 2024 -
17
Belgium
Share of Libya's imports1 per centChangeup 6 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 148min 2024 -
18
Morocco
Share of Libya's imports1 per centChangeup 97 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 145min 2024 -
19
Cyprus
Share of Libya's imports1 per centChangeup 17 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 136min 2024 -
20
Poland
Share of Libya's imports1 per centChangeup 83 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 106min 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 Libya 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 Libya 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.