What Nepal buys, and from whom.
Nepal imported USD 6.3bn of manufactured and processed goods in 2024, down 16 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 Nepal 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 Nepal is best placed to make itself, see Made here: Nepal.
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1
India
Share of Nepal's imports56 per centChangedown 15 per cent on 2022USD 3.6bnin 2024 -
2
China
Share of Nepal's imports32 per centChangeup 12 per cent on 2022USD 2.0bnin 2024 -
3
France
Share of Nepal's imports1 per centChangeup 21 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 40min 2024 -
4
Thailand
Share of Nepal's imports1 per centChangedown 55 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 40min 2024 -
5
United States
Share of Nepal's imports1 per centChangedown 69 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 37min 2024 -
6
Germany
Share of Nepal's imports1 per centChangedown 21 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 36min 2024 -
7
South Korea
Share of Nepal's importsunder 1 per centChangedown 56 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 28min 2024 -
8
Malaysia
Share of Nepal's importsunder 1 per centChangedown 61 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 27min 2024 -
9
Netherlands
Share of Nepal's importsunder 1 per centChangedown 25 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 25min 2024 -
10
Belgium
Share of Nepal's importsunder 1 per centChangedown 72 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 25min 2024 -
11
Italy
Share of Nepal's importsunder 1 per centChangeup 9 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 22min 2024 -
12
Brunei
Share of Nepal's importsunder 1 per centChangefrom USD 12k in 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 20min 2024 -
13
United Kingdom
Share of Nepal's importsunder 1 per centChangedown 49 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 17min 2024 -
14
Japan
Share of Nepal's importsunder 1 per centChangedown 66 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 17min 2024 -
15
Austria
Share of Nepal's importsunder 1 per centChangedown 14 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 14min 2024 -
16
Taiwan
Share of Nepal's importsunder 1 per centChangedown 56 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 13min 2024 -
17
Indonesia
Share of Nepal's importsunder 1 per centChangedown 87 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 13min 2024 -
18
Bahrain
Share of Nepal's importsunder 1 per centChangefrom USD 48k in 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 12min 2024 -
19
Spain
Share of Nepal's importsunder 1 per centChangeup 16 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 12min 2024 -
20
Switzerland
Share of Nepal's importsunder 1 per centChangedown 8 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 11min 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 Nepal 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 India's part of everything Nepal 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.