What Qatar buys, and from whom.
Qatar imported USD 28bn of manufactured and processed goods in 2024, down 6 per cent on 2022. These are its twenty largest source countries. 8 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 Qatar 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 Qatar is best placed to make itself, see Made here: Qatar.
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1
China
Share of Qatar's imports18 per centChangeup 10 per cent on 2022USD 5.2bnin 2024 -
2
United States
Share of Qatar's imports14 per centChangeup 21 per cent on 2022USD 4.0bnin 2024 -
3
Japan
Share of Qatar's imports7 per centChangeup 102 per cent on 2022USD 1.8bnin 2024 -
4
Italy
Share of Qatar's imports6 per centChangedown 7 per cent on 2022USD 1.8bnin 2024 -
5
United Kingdom
Share of Qatar's imports6 per centChangedown 29 per cent on 2022USD 1.6bnin 2024 -
6
Germany
Share of Qatar's imports5 per centChangedown 12 per cent on 2022USD 1.3bnin 2024 -
7
India
Share of Qatar's imports4 per centChangedown 13 per cent on 2022USD 1.2bnin 2024 -
8
United Arab Emirates
Share of Qatar's imports4 per centChangedown 73 per cent on 2022USD 1.1bnin 2024 -
9
France
Share of Qatar's imports3 per centChangeup 6 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 782min 2024 -
10
South Korea
Share of Qatar's imports2 per centChangeup 33 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 666min 2024 -
11
Saudi Arabia
Share of Qatar's imports2 per centChangeup 237 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 647min 2024 -
12
Switzerland
Share of Qatar's imports2 per centChangedown 3 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 646min 2024 -
13
Indonesia
Share of Qatar's imports2 per centChangeup 190 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 637min 2024 -
14
Turkey
Share of Qatar's imports2 per centChangedown 47 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 590min 2024 -
15
Netherlands
Share of Qatar's imports2 per centChangeup 2 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 470min 2024 -
16
Thailand
Share of Qatar's imports2 per centChangeup 18 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 425min 2024 -
17
Vietnam
Share of Qatar's imports2 per centChangeup 104 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 415min 2024 -
18
Spain
Share of Qatar's imports1 per centChangedown 26 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 356min 2024 -
19
Mexico
Share of Qatar's imports1 per centChangeup 19 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 252min 2024 -
20
Oman
Share of Qatar's imports1 per centChangedown 49 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 240min 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 Qatar 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 Qatar 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.