Trade lanes

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.

By source

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.

  1. 1

    Turkey

    Share of Syria's imports55 per cent
    Changeup 9 per cent on 2022
    USD 1.3bnin 2024
  2. 2

    China

    Share of Syria's imports16 per cent
    Changedown 9 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 379min 2024
  3. 3

    Egypt

    Share of Syria's imports7 per cent
    Changedown 6 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 151min 2024
  4. 4

    Saudi Arabia

    Share of Syria's imports5 per cent
    Changelevel with 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 122min 2024
  5. 5

    Italy

    Share of Syria's imports2 per cent
    Changedown 29 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 48min 2024
  6. 6

    Germany

    Share of Syria's imports2 per cent
    Changedown 4 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 40min 2024
  7. 7

    Spain

    Share of Syria's imports2 per cent
    Changeup 10 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 37min 2024
  8. 8

    India

    Share of Syria's imports1 per cent
    Changedown 67 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 30min 2024
  9. 9

    Morocco

    Share of Syria's imports1 per cent
    Changedown 30 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 27min 2024
  10. 10

    France

    Share of Syria's imports1 per cent
    Changeup 19 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 26min 2024
  11. 11

    Netherlands

    Share of Syria's imports1 per cent
    Changeup 41 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 23min 2024
  12. 12

    Armenia

    Share of Syria's imports1 per cent
    Changeup 270 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 21min 2024
  13. 13

    Thailand

    Share of Syria's imports1 per cent
    Changeup 83 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 18min 2024
  14. 14

    South Korea

    Share of Syria's imports1 per cent
    Changedown 31 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 15min 2024
  15. 15

    Switzerland

    Share of Syria's imports1 per cent
    Changedown 20 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 12min 2024
  16. 16

    Indonesia

    Share of Syria's imports1 per cent
    Changeup 383 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 11min 2024
  17. 17

    Belgium

    Share of Syria's importsunder 1 per cent
    Changedown 9 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 10min 2024
  18. 18

    Malaysia

    Share of Syria's importsunder 1 per cent
    Changeup 6 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 7min 2024
  19. 19

    Portugal

    Share of Syria's importsunder 1 per cent
    Changeup 42 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 6min 2024
  20. 20

    Ireland

    Share of Syria's importsunder 1 per cent
    Changeup 20 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 5min 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 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.

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.