What Papua New Guinea buys, and from whom.
Papua New Guinea imported USD 3.9bn of manufactured and processed goods in 2024, up 3 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 Papua New Guinea 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 Papua New Guinea is best placed to make itself, see Made here: Papua New Guinea.
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1
China
Share of Papua New Guinea's imports32 per centChangedown 4 per cent on 2022USD 1.3bnin 2024 -
2
Australia
Share of Papua New Guinea's imports31 per centChangeup 27 per cent on 2022USD 1.2bnin 2024 -
3
Malaysia
Share of Papua New Guinea's imports6 per centChangedown 24 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 239min 2024 -
4
Japan
Share of Papua New Guinea's imports5 per centChangeup 9 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 205min 2024 -
5
Indonesia
Share of Papua New Guinea's imports5 per centChangelevel with 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 187min 2024 -
6
Thailand
Share of Papua New Guinea's imports3 per centChangedown 14 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 117min 2024 -
7
New Zealand
Share of Papua New Guinea's imports2 per centChangeup 17 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 95min 2024 -
8
India
Share of Papua New Guinea's imports2 per centChangeup 3 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 67min 2024 -
9
South Korea
Share of Papua New Guinea's imports1 per centChangedown 18 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 49min 2024 -
10
United States
Share of Papua New Guinea's imports1 per centChangedown 16 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 46min 2024 -
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Netherlands
Share of Papua New Guinea's imports1 per centChangeup 38 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 22min 2024 -
12
Italy
Share of Papua New Guinea's imports1 per centChangeup 108 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 21min 2024 -
13
Germany
Share of Papua New Guinea's imports1 per centChangeup 139 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 19min 2024 -
14
Philippines
Share of Papua New Guinea's importsunder 1 per centChangenew since 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 15min 2024 -
15
Belgium
Share of Papua New Guinea's importsunder 1 per centChangeup 17 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 11min 2024 -
16
Taiwan
Share of Papua New Guinea's importsunder 1 per centChangenew since 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 11min 2024 -
17
Canada
Share of Papua New Guinea's importsunder 1 per centChangeup 72 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 10min 2024 -
18
United Kingdom
Share of Papua New Guinea's importsunder 1 per centChangedown 13 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 10min 2024 -
19
Denmark
Share of Papua New Guinea's importsunder 1 per centChangeup 3 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 10min 2024 -
20
Fiji
Share of Papua New Guinea's importsunder 1 per centChangedown 41 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 9min 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 Papua New Guinea 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 Papua New Guinea 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.