What the Republic of the Congo buys, and from whom.
The Republic of the Congo imported USD 3.2bn of manufactured and processed goods in 2024, up 22 per cent on 2022. These are its twenty largest source countries. 1 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 Republic of the Congo 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 Republic of the Congo is best placed to make itself, see Made here: Republic of the Congo.
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China
Share of the Republic of the Congo's imports45 per centChangeup 48 per cent on 2022USD 1.4bnin 2024 -
2
France
Share of the Republic of the Congo's imports11 per centChangeup 21 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 334min 2024 -
3
United States
Share of the Republic of the Congo's imports5 per centChangeup 105 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 170min 2024 -
4
India
Share of the Republic of the Congo's imports4 per centChangeup 15 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 130min 2024 -
5
Italy
Share of the Republic of the Congo's imports3 per centChangeup 45 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 108min 2024 -
6
Turkey
Share of the Republic of the Congo's imports3 per centChangeup 16 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 86min 2024 -
7
Belgium
Share of the Republic of the Congo's imports3 per centChangedown 55 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 85min 2024 -
8
South Africa
Share of the Republic of the Congo's imports2 per centChangedown 1 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 71min 2024 -
9
Angola
Share of the Republic of the Congo's imports2 per centChangenew since 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 59min 2024 -
10
United Kingdom
Share of the Republic of the Congo's imports2 per centChangeup 87 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 58min 2024 -
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Morocco
Share of the Republic of the Congo's imports2 per centChangeup 40 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 56min 2024 -
12
Germany
Share of the Republic of the Congo's imports2 per centChangeup 11 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 53min 2024 -
13
Netherlands
Share of the Republic of the Congo's imports1 per centChangedown 1 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 46min 2024 -
14
Brazil
Share of the Republic of the Congo's imports1 per centChangeup 111 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 44min 2024 -
15
Malaysia
Share of the Republic of the Congo's imports1 per centChangeup 28 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 34min 2024 -
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Indonesia
Share of the Republic of the Congo's imports1 per centChangeup 25 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 32min 2024 -
17
Norway
Share of the Republic of the Congo's imports1 per centChangefrom USD 4m in 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 29min 2024 -
18
Spain
Share of the Republic of the Congo's imports1 per centChangedown 2 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 26min 2024 -
19
Sweden
Share of the Republic of the Congo's imports1 per centChangeup 62 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 22min 2024 -
20
South Korea
Share of the Republic of the Congo's imports1 per centChangedown 26 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 19min 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 Republic of the Congo 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 Republic of the Congo 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.