What Pakistan buys, and from whom.
Pakistan imported USD 33bn of manufactured and processed goods in 2024, down 13 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 Pakistan 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 Pakistan is best placed to make itself, see Made here: Pakistan.
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1
China
Share of Pakistan's imports54 per centChangeup 2 per cent on 2022USD 18bnin 2024 -
2
Japan
Share of Pakistan's imports4 per centChangedown 24 per cent on 2022USD 1.3bnin 2024 -
3
Saudi Arabia
Share of Pakistan's imports4 per centChangedown 26 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 1.2bnin 2024 -
4
Morocco
Share of Pakistan's imports4 per centChangeup 35 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 1.2bnin 2024 -
5
Thailand
Share of Pakistan's imports3 per centChangedown 44 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 846min 2024 -
6
South Korea
Share of Pakistan's imports3 per centChangedown 27 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 822min 2024 -
7
Germany
Share of Pakistan's imports2 per centChangedown 32 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 758min 2024 -
8
United States
Share of Pakistan's imports2 per centChangedown 42 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 739min 2024 -
9
Indonesia
Share of Pakistan's imports2 per centChangedown 28 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 577min 2024 -
10
United Arab Emirates
Share of Pakistan's imports2 per centChangedown 55 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 570min 2024 -
11
Kuwait
Share of Pakistan's imports2 per centChangedown 29 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 554min 2024 -
12
India
Share of Pakistan's imports2 per centChangeup 1 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 505min 2024 -
13
Turkey
Share of Pakistan's imports1 per centChangedown 19 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 463min 2024 -
14
Italy
Share of Pakistan's imports1 per centChangedown 31 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 419min 2024 -
15
Malaysia
Share of Pakistan's imports1 per centChangedown 19 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 419min 2024 -
16
Belgium
Share of Pakistan's imports1 per centChangedown 20 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 383min 2024 -
17
France
Share of Pakistan's imports1 per centChangedown 12 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 358min 2024 -
18
Taiwan
Share of Pakistan's imports1 per centChangedown 38 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 291min 2024 -
19
Vietnam
Share of Pakistan's imports1 per centChangedown 36 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 271min 2024 -
20
United Kingdom
Share of Pakistan's imports1 per centChangedown 21 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 271min 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 Pakistan 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 Pakistan 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.