What Paraguay buys, and from whom.
Paraguay imported USD 15bn of manufactured and processed goods in 2024, up 12 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 Paraguay 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 Paraguay is best placed to make itself, see Made here: Paraguay.
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1
China
Share of Paraguay's imports38 per centChangeup 19 per cent on 2022USD 5.6bnin 2024 -
2
Brazil
Share of Paraguay's imports24 per centChangeup 8 per cent on 2022USD 3.5bnin 2024 -
3
Argentina
Share of Paraguay's imports6 per centChangeup 1 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 881min 2024 -
4
United States
Share of Paraguay's imports5 per centChangeup 1 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 666min 2024 -
5
Chile
Share of Paraguay's imports3 per centChangeup 17 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 416min 2024 -
6
Germany
Share of Paraguay's imports2 per centChangeup 40 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 342min 2024 -
7
Japan
Share of Paraguay's imports2 per centChangeup 25 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 304min 2024 -
8
India
Share of Paraguay's imports2 per centChangelevel with 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 259min 2024 -
9
South Korea
Share of Paraguay's imports2 per centChangeup 4 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 218min 2024 -
10
Vietnam
Share of Paraguay's imports1 per centChangeup 50 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 183min 2024 -
11
Spain
Share of Paraguay's imports1 per centChangeup 6 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 165min 2024 -
12
Mexico
Share of Paraguay's imports1 per centChangedown 17 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 150min 2024 -
13
Italy
Share of Paraguay's imports1 per centChangeup 8 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 132min 2024 -
14
France
Share of Paraguay's imports1 per centChangeup 12 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 132min 2024 -
15
Thailand
Share of Paraguay's imports1 per centChangeup 131 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 127min 2024 -
16
Morocco
Share of Paraguay's imports1 per centChangeup 286 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 105min 2024 -
17
Uruguay
Share of Paraguay's imports1 per centChangedown 25 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 87min 2024 -
18
Indonesia
Share of Paraguay's imports1 per centChangeup 105 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 82min 2024 -
19
Canada
Share of Paraguay's imports1 per centChangedown 35 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 81min 2024 -
20
Taiwan
Share of Paraguay's imports1 per centChangeup 62 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 68min 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 Paraguay 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 Paraguay 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.