What the United States buys, and from whom.
The United States imported USD 2.6tn of manufactured and processed goods in 2024, up 1 per cent on 2022. These are its twenty largest source countries. 61 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 United States 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 United States is best placed to make itself, see Made here: United States.
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1
China
Share of the United States's imports17 per centChangedown 20 per cent on 2022USD 446bnin 2024 -
2
Mexico
Share of the United States's imports17 per centChangeup 17 per cent on 2022USD 444bnin 2024 -
3
Canada
Share of the United States's imports8 per centChangedown 1 per cent on 2022USD 216bnin 2024 -
4
Germany
Share of the United States's imports6 per centChangeup 3 per cent on 2022USD 150bnin 2024 -
5
Japan
Share of the United States's imports5 per centChangelevel with 2022USD 138bnin 2024 -
6
Vietnam
Share of the United States's imports5 per centChangeup 13 per cent on 2022USD 137bnin 2024 -
7
South Korea
Share of the United States's imports5 per centChangeup 16 per cent on 2022USD 123bnin 2024 -
8
Taiwan
Share of the United States's imports4 per centChangeup 2 per cent on 2022USD 94bnin 2024 -
9
Ireland
Share of the United States's imports3 per centChangeup 13 per cent on 2022USD 76bnin 2024 -
10
India
Share of the United States's imports3 per centChangeup 9 per cent on 2022USD 65bnin 2024 -
11
Italy
Share of the United States's imports2 per centChangeup 3 per cent on 2022USD 59bnin 2024 -
12
Thailand
Share of the United States's imports2 per centChangeup 6 per cent on 2022USD 59bnin 2024 -
13
United Kingdom
Share of the United States's imports2 per centChangeup 13 per cent on 2022USD 57bnin 2024 -
14
Malaysia
Share of the United States's imports2 per centChangeup 3 per cent on 2022USD 49bnin 2024 -
15
France
Share of the United States's imports2 per centChangeup 6 per cent on 2022USD 42bnin 2024 -
16
Switzerland
Share of the United States's imports2 per centChangeup 10 per cent on 2022USD 41bnin 2024 -
17
Indonesia
Share of the United States's imports1 per centChangedown 11 per cent on 2022USD 24bnin 2024 -
18
Netherlands
Share of the United States's imports1 per centChangeup 6 per cent on 2022USD 23bnin 2024 -
19
Brazil
Share of the United States's imports1 per centChangeup 5 per cent on 2022USD 22bnin 2024 -
20
Belgium
Share of the United States's imports1 per centChangedown 10 per cent on 2022USD 20bnin 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 United States 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 United States 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.