Trade lanes

What Slovenia buys, and from whom.

Slovenia imported USD 60bn of manufactured and processed goods in 2024, up 25 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.

By source

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

  1. 1

    Switzerland

    Share of Slovenia's imports30 per cent
    Changeup 97 per cent on 2022
    USD 18bnin 2024
  2. 2

    China

    Share of Slovenia's imports12 per cent
    Changeup 51 per cent on 2022
    USD 7.3bnin 2024
  3. 3

    Germany

    Share of Slovenia's imports11 per cent
    Changeup 6 per cent on 2022
    USD 6.6bnin 2024
  4. 4

    Italy

    Share of Slovenia's imports7 per cent
    Changedown 7 per cent on 2022
    USD 4.2bnin 2024
  5. 5

    Austria

    Share of Slovenia's imports5 per cent
    Changeup 5 per cent on 2022
    USD 2.7bnin 2024
  6. 6

    Turkey

    Share of Slovenia's imports4 per cent
    Changeup 48 per cent on 2022
    USD 2.4bnin 2024
  7. 7

    Croatia

    Share of Slovenia's imports3 per cent
    Changeup 11 per cent on 2022
    USD 1.8bnin 2024
  8. 8

    United States

    Share of Slovenia's imports2 per cent
    Changeup 70 per cent on 2022
    USD 1.4bnin 2024
  9. 9

    France

    Share of Slovenia's imports2 per cent
    Changedown 13 per cent on 2022
    USD 1.3bnin 2024
  10. 10

    Poland

    Share of Slovenia's imports2 per cent
    Changedown 18 per cent on 2022
    USD 1.3bnin 2024
  11. 11

    Hungary

    Share of Slovenia's imports2 per cent
    Changeup 15 per cent on 2022
    USD 1.1bnin 2024
  12. 12

    Czech Republic

    Share of Slovenia's imports2 per cent
    Changeup 4 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 982min 2024
  13. 13

    Netherlands

    Share of Slovenia's imports2 per cent
    Changeup 24 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 881min 2024
  14. 14

    South Korea

    Share of Slovenia's imports1 per cent
    Changedown 38 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 857min 2024
  15. 15

    Spain

    Share of Slovenia's imports1 per cent
    Changeup 16 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 814min 2024
  16. 16

    Serbia

    Share of Slovenia's imports1 per cent
    Changedown 1 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 717min 2024
  17. 17

    Belgium

    Share of Slovenia's imports1 per cent
    Changedown 1 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 640min 2024
  18. 18

    Bosnia and Herzegovina

    Share of Slovenia's imports1 per cent
    Changedown 3 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 630min 2024
  19. 19

    Slovakia

    Share of Slovenia's imports1 per cent
    Changedown 8 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 574min 2024
  20. 20

    India

    Share of Slovenia's imports1 per cent
    Changedown 13 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 494min 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 Slovenia 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 Switzerland's part of everything Slovenia 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.