What Myanmar buys, and from whom.
Myanmar imported USD 14bn of manufactured and processed goods in 2024, down 27 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 Myanmar 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 Myanmar is best placed to make itself, see Made here: Myanmar.
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1
China
Share of Myanmar's imports53 per centChangedown 30 per cent on 2022USD 7.3bnin 2024 -
2
Thailand
Share of Myanmar's imports23 per centChangedown 10 per cent on 2022USD 3.1bnin 2024 -
3
India
Share of Myanmar's imports3 per centChangedown 22 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 437min 2024 -
4
Spain
Share of Myanmar's imports3 per centChangefrom USD 18m in 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 341min 2024 -
5
South Korea
Share of Myanmar's imports2 per centChangedown 21 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 331min 2024 -
6
Japan
Share of Myanmar's imports2 per centChangedown 33 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 319min 2024 -
7
Oman
Share of Myanmar's imports2 per centChangeup 156 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 227min 2024 -
8
Malaysia
Share of Myanmar's imports2 per centChangedown 64 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 212min 2024 -
9
Vietnam
Share of Myanmar's imports2 per centChangedown 61 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 206min 2024 -
10
Indonesia
Share of Myanmar's imports1 per centChangedown 69 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 117min 2024 -
11
Taiwan
Share of Myanmar's imports1 per centChangeup 7 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 107min 2024 -
12
Germany
Share of Myanmar's imports1 per centChangeup 3 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 94min 2024 -
13
United States
Share of Myanmar's importsunder 1 per centChangedown 15 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 60min 2024 -
14
Philippines
Share of Myanmar's importsunder 1 per centChangeup 26 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 46min 2024 -
15
France
Share of Myanmar's importsunder 1 per centChangedown 32 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 40min 2024 -
16
Belgium
Share of Myanmar's importsunder 1 per centChangedown 22 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 34min 2024 -
17
Italy
Share of Myanmar's importsunder 1 per centChangedown 49 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 33min 2024 -
18
Bangladesh
Share of Myanmar's importsunder 1 per centChangedown 39 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 23min 2024 -
19
United Arab Emirates
Share of Myanmar's importsunder 1 per centChangedown 85 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 22min 2024 -
20
United Kingdom
Share of Myanmar's importsunder 1 per centChangedown 34 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 19min 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 Myanmar 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 Myanmar 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.