What Mongolia buys, and from whom.
Mongolia imported USD 7.5bn of manufactured and processed goods in 2024, up 16 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 Mongolia 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 Mongolia is best placed to make itself, see Made here: Mongolia.
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1
China
Share of Mongolia's imports53 per centChangeup 42 per cent on 2022USD 4.0bnin 2024 -
2
Japan
Share of Mongolia's imports14 per centChangeup 67 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 1.1bnin 2024 -
3
South Korea
Share of Mongolia's imports7 per centChangeup 30 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 528min 2024 -
4
United States
Share of Mongolia's imports5 per centChangeup 72 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 377min 2024 -
5
Germany
Share of Mongolia's imports3 per centChangeup 19 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 205min 2024 -
6
Kazakhstan
Share of Mongolia's imports2 per centChangeup 294 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 114min 2024 -
7
Turkey
Share of Mongolia's imports2 per centChangeup 17 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 112min 2024 -
8
Italy
Share of Mongolia's imports1 per centChangeup 14 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 76min 2024 -
9
Poland
Share of Mongolia's imports1 per centChangedown 14 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 70min 2024 -
10
France
Share of Mongolia's imports1 per centChangeup 14 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 68min 2024 -
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Netherlands
Share of Mongolia's imports1 per centChangeup 133 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 66min 2024 -
12
Finland
Share of Mongolia's imports1 per centChangeup 18 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 39min 2024 -
13
Australia
Share of Mongolia's imports1 per centChangedown 27 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 38min 2024 -
14
Hungary
Share of Mongolia's imports1 per centChangeup 58 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 35min 2024 -
15
Sweden
Share of Mongolia's importsunder 1 per centChangedown 12 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 32min 2024 -
16
Switzerland
Share of Mongolia's importsunder 1 per centChangedown 3 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 30min 2024 -
17
Austria
Share of Mongolia's importsunder 1 per centChangedown 25 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 30min 2024 -
18
India
Share of Mongolia's importsunder 1 per centChangedown 68 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 28min 2024 -
19
Slovenia
Share of Mongolia's importsunder 1 per centChangeup 17 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 28min 2024 -
20
Thailand
Share of Mongolia's importsunder 1 per centChangedown 44 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 27min 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 Mongolia 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 Mongolia 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.