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.
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.
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1
China
Share of Mozambique's imports33 per centChangedown 21 per cent on 2022USD 2.3bnin 2024 -
2
South Africa
Share of Mozambique's imports25 per centChangedown 6 per cent on 2022USD 1.8bnin 2024 -
3
India
Share of Mozambique's imports7 per centChangedown 4 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 507min 2024 -
4
Portugal
Share of Mozambique's imports4 per centChangeup 22 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 262min 2024 -
5
Japan
Share of Mozambique's imports2 per centChangeup 44 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 167min 2024 -
6
United Arab Emirates
Share of Mozambique's imports2 per centChangedown 16 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 138min 2024 -
7
United States
Share of Mozambique's imports2 per centChangeup 4 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 133min 2024 -
8
Italy
Share of Mozambique's imports1 per centChangeup 137 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 99min 2024 -
9
Turkey
Share of Mozambique's imports1 per centChangeup 16 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 92min 2024 -
10
Saudi Arabia
Share of Mozambique's imports1 per centChangedown 46 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 81min 2024 -
11
Germany
Share of Mozambique's imports1 per centChangeup 51 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 71min 2024 -
12
France
Share of Mozambique's imports1 per centChangeup 62 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 69min 2024 -
13
South Korea
Share of Mozambique's imports1 per centChangedown 39 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 64min 2024 -
14
Spain
Share of Mozambique's imports1 per centChangeup 108 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 54min 2024 -
15
Eswatini
Share of Mozambique's imports1 per centChangedown 29 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 54min 2024 -
16
Zimbabwe
Share of Mozambique's imports1 per centChangenew since 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 51min 2024 -
17
Malaysia
Share of Mozambique's imports1 per centChangeup 48 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 50min 2024 -
18
Australia
Share of Mozambique's imports1 per centChangefrom USD 8m in 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 50min 2024 -
19
Thailand
Share of Mozambique's imports1 per centChangedown 22 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 50min 2024 -
20
Mauritius
Share of Mozambique's imports1 per centChangefrom USD 5m in 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 44min 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 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.
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.