What Moldova buys, and from whom.
Moldova imported USD 6.9bn of manufactured and processed goods in 2024, up 70 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 Moldova 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 Moldova is best placed to make itself, see Made here: Moldova.
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1
China
Share of Moldova's imports18 per centChangefrom USD 200m in 2022USD 1.2bnin 2024 -
2
Ukraine
Share of Moldova's imports10 per centChangenew since 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 701min 2024 -
3
Germany
Share of Moldova's imports9 per centChangeup 14 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 633min 2024 -
4
Turkey
Share of Moldova's imports8 per centChangeup 23 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 552min 2024 -
5
Romania
Share of Moldova's imports8 per centChangedown 48 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 535min 2024 -
6
Italy
Share of Moldova's imports6 per centChangeup 28 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 417min 2024 -
7
Poland
Share of Moldova's imports5 per centChangeup 1 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 322min 2024 -
8
Czech Republic
Share of Moldova's imports3 per centChangeup 45 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 234min 2024 -
9
France
Share of Moldova's imports3 per centChangeup 99 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 185min 2024 -
10
Hungary
Share of Moldova's imports3 per centChangeup 46 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 172min 2024 -
11
Russia
Share of Moldova's imports2 per centChangenew since 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 163min 2024 -
12
United States
Share of Moldova's imports2 per centChangeup 397 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 125min 2024 -
13
Japan
Share of Moldova's imports2 per centChangefrom USD 4m in 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 116min 2024 -
14
Slovakia
Share of Moldova's imports2 per centChangeup 91 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 105min 2024 -
15
Bulgaria
Share of Moldova's imports1 per centChangeup 24 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 95min 2024 -
16
Spain
Share of Moldova's imports1 per centChangeup 118 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 94min 2024 -
17
Austria
Share of Moldova's imports1 per centChangeup 26 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 93min 2024 -
18
United Kingdom
Share of Moldova's imports1 per centChangeup 196 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 90min 2024 -
19
South Korea
Share of Moldova's imports1 per centChangeup 103 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 76min 2024 -
20
Netherlands
Share of Moldova's imports1 per centChangedown 17 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 74min 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 Moldova 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 Moldova 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.