What North Macedonia buys, and from whom.
North Macedonia imported USD 8.9bn of manufactured and processed goods in 2024, up 10 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 North Macedonia 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 North Macedonia is best placed to make itself, see Made here: North Macedonia.
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1
Germany
Share of North Macedonia's imports14 per centChangeup 19 per cent on 2022USD 1.2bnin 2024 -
2
China
Share of North Macedonia's imports13 per centChangeup 17 per cent on 2022USD 1.1bnin 2024 -
3
Turkey
Share of North Macedonia's imports9 per centChangelevel with 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 787min 2024 -
4
Serbia
Share of North Macedonia's imports8 per centChangeup 11 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 715min 2024 -
5
Italy
Share of North Macedonia's imports5 per centChangeup 4 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 441min 2024 -
6
Poland
Share of North Macedonia's imports5 per centChangeup 29 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 424min 2024 -
7
Bulgaria
Share of North Macedonia's imports4 per centChangeup 15 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 307min 2024 -
8
Hungary
Share of North Macedonia's imports3 per centChangeup 21 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 297min 2024 -
9
Greece
Share of North Macedonia's imports3 per centChangedown 5 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 271min 2024 -
10
France
Share of North Macedonia's imports2 per centChangeup 36 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 204min 2024 -
11
Romania
Share of North Macedonia's imports2 per centChangedown 23 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 194min 2024 -
12
Slovenia
Share of North Macedonia's imports2 per centChangeup 7 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 192min 2024 -
13
Austria
Share of North Macedonia's imports2 per centChangeup 19 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 174min 2024 -
14
Czech Republic
Share of North Macedonia's imports2 per centChangeup 20 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 172min 2024 -
15
United States
Share of North Macedonia's imports2 per centChangeup 17 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 172min 2024 -
16
Netherlands
Share of North Macedonia's imports2 per centChangedown 4 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 168min 2024 -
17
Croatia
Share of North Macedonia's imports2 per centChangeup 24 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 146min 2024 -
18
Japan
Share of North Macedonia's imports2 per centChangeup 2 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 138min 2024 -
19
Spain
Share of North Macedonia's imports2 per centChangeup 13 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 133min 2024 -
20
Slovakia
Share of North Macedonia's imports1 per centChangeup 11 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 120min 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 North Macedonia 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 Germany's part of everything North Macedonia 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.