Trade lanes

What Slovakia buys, and from whom.

Slovakia imported USD 96bn of manufactured and processed goods in 2024, up 6 per cent on 2022. These are its twenty largest source countries. 15 of them ship enough, across enough product lines, to have a lane page of their own.

Trade year 2024, compared with 2022.

By source

The twenty countries Slovakia 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 Slovakia is best placed to make itself, see Made here: Slovakia.

  1. 1

    Germany

    Share of Slovakia's imports18 per cent
    Changeup 2 per cent on 2022
    USD 18bnin 2024
  2. 2

    Czech Republic

    Share of Slovakia's imports16 per cent
    Changeup 5 per cent on 2022
    USD 15bnin 2024
  3. 3

    Poland

    Share of Slovakia's imports9 per cent
    Changeup 6 per cent on 2022
    USD 8.2bnin 2024
  4. 4

    China

    Share of Slovakia's imports8 per cent
    Changedown 5 per cent on 2022
    USD 7.2bnin 2024
  5. 5

    Hungary

    Share of Slovakia's imports7 per cent
    Changeup 10 per cent on 2022
    USD 6.7bnin 2024
  6. 6

    Vietnam

    Share of Slovakia's imports5 per cent
    Changeup 64 per cent on 2022
    USD 4.7bnin 2024
  7. 7

    South Korea

    Share of Slovakia's imports4 per cent
    Changedown 2 per cent on 2022
    USD 3.8bnin 2024
  8. 8

    Italy

    Share of Slovakia's imports4 per cent
    Changedown 7 per cent on 2022
    USD 3.6bnin 2024
  9. 9

    Austria

    Share of Slovakia's imports4 per cent
    Changeup 2 per cent on 2022
    USD 3.4bnin 2024
  10. 10

    France

    Share of Slovakia's imports3 per cent
    Changedown 14 per cent on 2022
    USD 3.0bnin 2024
  11. 11

    Romania

    Share of Slovakia's imports2 per cent
    Changeup 20 per cent on 2022
    USD 2.2bnin 2024
  12. 12

    Spain

    Share of Slovakia's imports2 per cent
    Changeup 18 per cent on 2022
    USD 1.8bnin 2024
  13. 13

    United Kingdom

    Share of Slovakia's imports2 per cent
    Changeup 25 per cent on 2022
    USD 1.8bnin 2024
  14. 14

    Netherlands

    Share of Slovakia's imports2 per cent
    Changeup 5 per cent on 2022
    USD 1.7bnin 2024
  15. 15

    Belgium

    Share of Slovakia's imports1 per cent
    Changedown 12 per cent on 2022
    USD 1.1bnin 2024
  16. 16

    Switzerland

    Share of Slovakia's imports1 per cent
    Changeup 27 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 983min 2024
  17. 17

    India

    Share of Slovakia's imports1 per cent
    Changeup 196 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 977min 2024
  18. 18

    Turkey

    Share of Slovakia's imports1 per cent
    Changeup 17 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 902min 2024
  19. 19

    Serbia

    Share of Slovakia's imports1 per cent
    Changeup 27 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 791min 2024
  20. 20

    Slovenia

    Share of Slovakia's imports1 per cent
    Changeup 7 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 751min 2024
What this record says

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 Slovakia 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 Germany's part of everything Slovakia 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.

What it does not say

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.