Trade lanes

What Venezuela buys, and from whom.

Venezuela imported USD 9.3bn of manufactured and processed goods in 2024, up 31 per cent on 2022. These are its twenty largest source countries. 2 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 Venezuela 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 Venezuela is best placed to make itself, see Made here: Venezuela.

  1. 1

    China

    Share of Venezuela's imports51 per cent
    Changeup 65 per cent on 2022
    USD 4.8bnin 2024
  2. 2

    United States

    Share of Venezuela's imports14 per cent
    Changedown 6 per cent on 2022
    USD 1.3bnin 2024
  3. 3

    Colombia

    Share of Venezuela's imports9 per cent
    Changeup 60 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 854min 2024
  4. 4

    Brazil

    Share of Venezuela's imports7 per cent
    Changedown 11 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 621min 2024
  5. 5

    Turkey

    Share of Venezuela's imports2 per cent
    Changedown 16 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 213min 2024
  6. 6

    India

    Share of Venezuela's imports2 per cent
    Changeup 17 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 209min 2024
  7. 7

    Italy

    Share of Venezuela's imports2 per cent
    Changeup 24 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 149min 2024
  8. 8

    Spain

    Share of Venezuela's imports2 per cent
    Changeup 22 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 141min 2024
  9. 9

    Peru

    Share of Venezuela's imports1 per cent
    Changeup 11 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 134min 2024
  10. 10

    Germany

    Share of Venezuela's imports1 per cent
    Changeup 42 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 119min 2024
  11. 11

    Japan

    Share of Venezuela's imports1 per cent
    Changeup 101 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 67min 2024
  12. 12

    Mexico

    Share of Venezuela's imports1 per cent
    Changeup 59 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 56min 2024
  13. 13

    Chile

    Share of Venezuela's imports1 per cent
    Changedown 6 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 55min 2024
  14. 14

    Ecuador

    Share of Venezuela's imports1 per cent
    Changenew since 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 55min 2024
  15. 15

    Indonesia

    Share of Venezuela's imports1 per cent
    Changeup 184 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 48min 2024
  16. 16

    Switzerland

    Share of Venezuela's importsunder 1 per cent
    Changeup 19 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 40min 2024
  17. 17

    South Korea

    Share of Venezuela's importsunder 1 per cent
    Changedown 1 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 39min 2024
  18. 18

    Thailand

    Share of Venezuela's importsunder 1 per cent
    Changeup 67 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 35min 2024
  19. 19

    Netherlands

    Share of Venezuela's importsunder 1 per cent
    Changeup 10 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 33min 2024
  20. 20

    France

    Share of Venezuela's importsunder 1 per cent
    Changeup 6 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 31min 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 Venezuela 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 Venezuela 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.