What the Philippines buys, and from whom.
The Philippines imported USD 100bn of manufactured and processed goods in 2024, down 20 per cent on 2022. These are its twenty largest source countries. 11 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 the Philippines 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 the Philippines is best placed to make itself, see Made here: Philippines.
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1
China
Share of the Philippines's imports34 per centChangedown 42 per cent on 2022USD 34bnin 2024 -
2
Japan
Share of the Philippines's imports10 per centChangeup 1 per cent on 2022USD 9.7bnin 2024 -
3
Thailand
Share of the Philippines's imports7 per centChangeup 10 per cent on 2022USD 7.4bnin 2024 -
4
Indonesia
Share of the Philippines's imports7 per centChangeup 8 per cent on 2022USD 7.0bnin 2024 -
5
South Korea
Share of the Philippines's imports6 per centChangedown 16 per cent on 2022USD 6.3bnin 2024 -
6
United States
Share of the Philippines's imports5 per centChangelevel with 2022USD 5.4bnin 2024 -
7
Malaysia
Share of the Philippines's imports4 per centChangedown 8 per cent on 2022USD 3.8bnin 2024 -
8
Taiwan
Share of the Philippines's imports4 per centChangenew since 2022USD 3.7bnin 2024 -
9
Vietnam
Share of the Philippines's imports3 per centChangeup 2 per cent on 2022USD 3.3bnin 2024 -
10
Germany
Share of the Philippines's imports2 per centChangeup 7 per cent on 2022USD 1.8bnin 2024 -
11
India
Share of the Philippines's imports2 per centChangeup 1 per cent on 2022USD 1.6bnin 2024 -
12
Italy
Share of the Philippines's imports1 per centChangeup 8 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 876min 2024 -
13
United Kingdom
Share of the Philippines's imports1 per centChangeup 1 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 656min 2024 -
14
France
Share of the Philippines's imports1 per centChangeup 32 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 651min 2024 -
15
Australia
Share of the Philippines's imports1 per centChangeup 31 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 498min 2024 -
16
Spain
Share of the Philippines's imports1 per centChangedown 6 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 476min 2024 -
17
Netherlands
Share of the Philippines's importsunder 1 per centChangeup 1 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 422min 2024 -
18
Canada
Share of the Philippines's importsunder 1 per centChangeup 4 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 356min 2024 -
19
Switzerland
Share of the Philippines's importsunder 1 per centChangedown 5 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 328min 2024 -
20
Belgium
Share of the Philippines's importsunder 1 per centChangedown 20 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 315min 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 the Philippines 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 the Philippines 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.