Trade lanes

What Mozambique buys, and from whom.

Mozambique imported USD 7.0bn of manufactured and processed goods in 2024, down 7 per cent on 2022. These are its twenty largest source countries. 2 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 Mozambique 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 Mozambique is best placed to make itself, see Made here: Mozambique.

  1. 1

    China

    Share of Mozambique's imports33 per cent
    Changedown 21 per cent on 2022
    USD 2.3bnin 2024
  2. 2

    South Africa

    Share of Mozambique's imports25 per cent
    Changedown 6 per cent on 2022
    USD 1.8bnin 2024
  3. 3

    India

    Share of Mozambique's imports7 per cent
    Changedown 4 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 507min 2024
  4. 4

    Portugal

    Share of Mozambique's imports4 per cent
    Changeup 22 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 262min 2024
  5. 5

    Japan

    Share of Mozambique's imports2 per cent
    Changeup 44 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 167min 2024
  6. 6

    United Arab Emirates

    Share of Mozambique's imports2 per cent
    Changedown 16 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 138min 2024
  7. 7

    United States

    Share of Mozambique's imports2 per cent
    Changeup 4 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 133min 2024
  8. 8

    Italy

    Share of Mozambique's imports1 per cent
    Changeup 137 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 99min 2024
  9. 9

    Turkey

    Share of Mozambique's imports1 per cent
    Changeup 16 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 92min 2024
  10. 10

    Saudi Arabia

    Share of Mozambique's imports1 per cent
    Changedown 46 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 81min 2024
  11. 11

    Germany

    Share of Mozambique's imports1 per cent
    Changeup 51 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 71min 2024
  12. 12

    France

    Share of Mozambique's imports1 per cent
    Changeup 62 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 69min 2024
  13. 13

    South Korea

    Share of Mozambique's imports1 per cent
    Changedown 39 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 64min 2024
  14. 14

    Spain

    Share of Mozambique's imports1 per cent
    Changeup 108 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 54min 2024
  15. 15

    Eswatini

    Share of Mozambique's imports1 per cent
    Changedown 29 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 54min 2024
  16. 16

    Zimbabwe

    Share of Mozambique's imports1 per cent
    Changenew since 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 51min 2024
  17. 17

    Malaysia

    Share of Mozambique's imports1 per cent
    Changeup 48 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 50min 2024
  18. 18

    Australia

    Share of Mozambique's imports1 per cent
    Changefrom USD 8m in 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 50min 2024
  19. 19

    Thailand

    Share of Mozambique's imports1 per cent
    Changedown 22 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 50min 2024
  20. 20

    Mauritius

    Share of Mozambique's imports1 per cent
    Changefrom USD 5m in 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 44min 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 Mozambique 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 Mozambique 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.