What Syria buys, and from whom.
Syria imported USD 2.3bn of manufactured and processed goods in 2024, down 23 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 Syria 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.
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1
Turkey
Share of Syria's imports55 per centChangeup 9 per cent on 2022USD 1.3bnin 2024 -
2
China
Share of Syria's imports16 per centChangedown 9 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 379min 2024 -
3
Egypt
Share of Syria's imports7 per centChangedown 6 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 151min 2024 -
4
Saudi Arabia
Share of Syria's imports5 per centChangelevel with 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 122min 2024 -
5
Italy
Share of Syria's imports2 per centChangedown 29 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 48min 2024 -
6
Germany
Share of Syria's imports2 per centChangedown 4 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 40min 2024 -
7
Spain
Share of Syria's imports2 per centChangeup 10 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 37min 2024 -
8
India
Share of Syria's imports1 per centChangedown 67 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 30min 2024 -
9
Morocco
Share of Syria's imports1 per centChangedown 30 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 27min 2024 -
10
France
Share of Syria's imports1 per centChangeup 19 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 26min 2024 -
11
Netherlands
Share of Syria's imports1 per centChangeup 41 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 23min 2024 -
12
Armenia
Share of Syria's imports1 per centChangeup 270 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 21min 2024 -
13
Thailand
Share of Syria's imports1 per centChangeup 83 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 18min 2024 -
14
South Korea
Share of Syria's imports1 per centChangedown 31 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 15min 2024 -
15
Switzerland
Share of Syria's imports1 per centChangedown 20 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 12min 2024 -
16
Indonesia
Share of Syria's imports1 per centChangeup 383 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 11min 2024 -
17
Belgium
Share of Syria's importsunder 1 per centChangedown 9 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 10min 2024 -
18
Malaysia
Share of Syria's importsunder 1 per centChangeup 6 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 7min 2024 -
19
Portugal
Share of Syria's importsunder 1 per centChangeup 42 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 6min 2024 -
20
Ireland
Share of Syria's importsunder 1 per centChangeup 20 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 5min 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 Syria 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 Turkey's part of everything Syria 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.