Iran Imports 2023
Complete list of Iran's 86 import sources and 100+ product categories. Sourced from CEPII BACI.
$29.11B
Total imports (2023)
#73
Global import rank
86
Source countries
100+
Product categories tracked
Iran imported $29.11 billion of merchandise goods in 2023, making it the world's #73 largest importer. Goods came from 86 source countries, with the top ten sources providing 88.3% of total import value. The leading import was Telephones for cellular networks or for other wireless networks, valued at $2.74 billion — 9.4% of total imports.
The two tables below list every source country and the most-traded product categories at the HS6 (Harmonized System 6-digit) level. All values come from the CEPII BACI database, which reconciles UN Comtrade declarations to produce cleaner bilateral flows.
All import sources
86 countries and territories. Click for the full bilateral page.
| # | Source | 2023 import value | % of total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | $10.03B | 34.44% |
| 2 | United Arab Emirates | $5.78B | 19.85% |
| 3 | Türkiye | $3.06B | 10.52% |
| 4 | Brazil | $2.30B | 7.89% |
| 5 | Germany | $1.26B | 4.32% |
| 6 | India | $1.19B | 4.08% |
| 7 | Italy | $648.27M | 2.23% |
| 8 | Oman | $553.66M | 1.90% |
| 9 | Netherlands | $496.41M | 1.71% |
| 10 | Malaysia | $410.95M | 1.41% |
| 11 | Canada | $338.32M | 1.16% |
| 12 | France | $290.47M | 1.00% |
| 13 | Belgium | $249.39M | 0.86% |
| 14 | Spain | $233.05M | 0.80% |
| 15 | Romania | $197.90M | 0.68% |
| 16 | Indonesia | $194.45M | 0.67% |
| 17 | Uzbekistan | $182.73M | 0.63% |
| 18 | Switzerland | $181.39M | 0.62% |
| 19 | Austria | $163.93M | 0.56% |
| 20 | Thailand | $135.09M | 0.46% |
| 21 | Bulgaria | $129.38M | 0.44% |
| 22 | Armenia | $94.47M | 0.32% |
| 23 | Kazakhstan | $83.47M | 0.29% |
| 24 | United Kingdom | $76.83M | 0.26% |
| 25 | Other Asia, nes | $61.06M | 0.21% |
| 26 | USA | $59.01M | 0.20% |
| 27 | Ireland | $53.21M | 0.18% |
| 28 | Australia | $52.02M | 0.18% |
| 29 | Kenya | $48.00M | 0.16% |
| 30 | Japan | $47.43M | 0.16% |
| 31 | Sri Lanka | $44.24M | 0.15% |
| 32 | Slovenia | $42.52M | 0.15% |
| 33 | Czechia | $37.68M | 0.13% |
| 34 | Philippines | $37.67M | 0.13% |
| 35 | Hungary | $36.54M | 0.13% |
| 36 | Poland | $36.07M | 0.12% |
| 37 | Denmark | $34.22M | 0.12% |
| 38 | Georgia | $30.10M | 0.10% |
| 39 | Kyrgyzstan | $25.43M | 0.09% |
| 40 | China, Hong Kong SAR | $22.84M | 0.08% |
| 41 | Kuwait | $20.46M | 0.07% |
| 42 | Greece | $19.73M | 0.07% |
| 43 | South Africa | $16.52M | 0.06% |
| 44 | Azerbaijan | $14.31M | 0.05% |
| 45 | Sweden | $13.35M | 0.05% |
| 46 | Cyprus | $11.49M | 0.04% |
| 47 | Lebanon | $10.62M | 0.04% |
| 48 | Singapore | $10.00M | 0.03% |
| 49 | Pakistan | $9.97M | 0.03% |
| 50 | Slovakia | $6.71M | 0.02% |
| 51 | Croatia | $6.21M | 0.02% |
| 52 | Serbia | $5.54M | 0.02% |
| 53 | Jordan | $3.98M | 0.01% |
| 54 | Portugal | $2.97M | 0.01% |
| 55 | Lithuania | $2.51M | 0.01% |
| 56 | Chile | $2.43M | 0.01% |
| 57 | Egypt | $1.81M | 0.01% |
| 58 | New Zealand | $1.74M | 0.01% |
| 59 | Finland | $1.72M | 0.01% |
| 60 | Ukraine | $1.69M | 0.01% |
| 61 | Ethiopia | $1.32M | 0.00% |
| 62 | Norway | $1.24M | 0.00% |
| 63 | Bosnia Herzegovina | $1.18M | 0.00% |
| 64 | Myanmar | $1.01M | 0.00% |
| 65 | Peru | $980,220 | 0.00% |
| 66 | Estonia | $565,700 | 0.00% |
| 67 | North Macedonia | $414,034 | 0.00% |
| 68 | Qatar | $407,104 | 0.00% |
| 69 | Luxembourg | $356,521 | 0.00% |
| 70 | United Rep. of Tanzania | $350,655 | 0.00% |
| 71 | Bahrain | $348,648 | 0.00% |
| 72 | Uganda | $328,787 | 0.00% |
| 73 | Latvia | $227,378 | 0.00% |
| 74 | Cambodia | $196,780 | 0.00% |
| 75 | Mauritius | $195,888 | 0.00% |
| 76 | Montenegro | $95,136 | 0.00% |
| 77 | Tunisia | $82,166 | 0.00% |
| 78 | Costa Rica | $71,486 | 0.00% |
| 79 | Madagascar | $61,178 | 0.00% |
| 80 | Burkina Faso | $22,240 | 0.00% |
| 81 | Zambia | $5,040 | 0.00% |
| 82 | Morocco | $1,398 | 0.00% |
| 83 | Brunei Darussalam | $484 | 0.00% |
| 84 | Andorra | $180 | 0.00% |
| 85 | Ghana | $20 | 0.00% |
| 86 | Eswatini | $20 | 0.00% |
Top import products (HS6)
100 product categories ranked by 2023 import value.
| # | HS6 | Product | Value | % of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 851712 | Telephones for cellular networks or for other wireless networks | $2.74B | 9.41% |
| 2 | 100590 | Cereals: maize (corn), other than seed | $1.26B | 4.31% |
| 3 | 120190 | Soya beans: other than seed, whether or not broken | $1.22B | 4.21% |
| 4 | 870710 | Vehicles: bodies (including cabs) for the motor vehicles of heading no. 8703 | $985.79M | 3.39% |
| 5 | 100630 | Cereals: rice, semi-milled or wholly milled, whether or not polished or glazed | $736.64M | 2.53% |
| 6 | 230400 | Oil-cake and other solid residues: whether or not ground or in the form of pellets, resulting from the extraction of soya-bean oil | $538.98M | 1.85% |
| 7 | 240220 | Cigarettes: containing tobacco | $456.59M | 1.57% |
| 8 | 870899 | Vehicle parts and accessories: n.e.c. in heading no. 8708 | $353.96M | 1.22% |
| 9 | 870840 | Vehicle parts: gear boxes and parts thereof | $306.19M | 1.05% |
| 10 | 851762 | Communication apparatus (excluding telephone sets or base stations): machines for the reception, conversion and transmission or regeneration of voice, images or other data, including switching and routing apparatus | $299.90M | 1.03% |
| 11 | 847130 | Automatic data processing machines: portable, weighing not more than 10kg, consisting of at least a central processing unit, a keyboard and a display | $248.51M | 0.85% |
| 12 | 151190 | Vegetable oils: palm oil and its fractions, other than crude, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified | $213.35M | 0.73% |
| 13 | 300490 | Medicaments: consisting of mixed or unmixed products n.e.c. in heading no. 3004, for therapeutic or prophylactic uses, packaged for retail sale | $210.70M | 0.72% |
| 14 | 851761 | Base stations | $196.81M | 0.68% |
| 15 | 240319 | Tobacco: smoking, other than water pipe tobacco, whether or not containing tobacco substitutes in any proportion | $176.91M | 0.61% |
| 16 | 170114 | Sugars: cane sugar, raw, in solid form, other than as specified in Subheading Note 2 to this chapter, not containing added flavouring or colouring matter | $161.01M | 0.55% |
| 17 | 540752 | Fabrics, woven: containing 85% or more by weight of textured polyester filaments, dyed | $160.83M | 0.55% |
| 18 | 871120 | Motorcycles (including mopeds) and cycles: fitted with an auxiliary motor, reciprocating internal combustion piston engine, of cylinder capacity exceeding 50cc but not exceeding 250cc, with or without side-cars: side-cars | $156.77M | 0.54% |
| 19 | 847170 | Units of automatic data processing machines: storage units | $154.10M | 0.53% |
| 20 | 840734 | Engines: reciprocating piston engines, of a kind used for the propulsion of vehicles of chapter 87, of a cylinder capacity exceeding 1000cc | $152.54M | 0.52% |
| 21 | 870830 | Vehicle parts: brakes, servo-brakes and parts thereof | $137.32M | 0.47% |
| 22 | 841480 | Pumps and compressors: for air, vacuum or gas, n.e.c. in heading no. 8414 | $136.08M | 0.47% |
| 23 | 870880 | Vehicle parts: suspension systems and parts thereof (including shock-absorbers) | $135.08M | 0.46% |
| 24 | 848180 | Taps, cocks, valves and similar appliances: for pipes, boiler shells, tanks, vats or the like, including thermostatically controlled valves | $132.88M | 0.46% |
| 25 | 090240 | Tea, black: (fermented) and partly fermented tea, in immediate packings of a content exceeding 3kg | $126.26M | 0.43% |
| 26 | 210690 | Food preparations: n.e.c. in item no. 2106.10 | $124.43M | 0.43% |
| 27 | 020230 | Meat: of bovine animals, boneless cuts, frozen | $124.20M | 0.43% |
| 28 | 841430 | Compressors: of a kind used in refrigerating equipment | $122.25M | 0.42% |
| 29 | 020712 | Meat and edible offal: of fowls of the species Gallus domesticus, not cut in pieces, frozen | $118.29M | 0.41% |
| 30 | 382200 | Reagents: diagnostic or laboratory reagents on a backing and prepared diagnostic or laboratory reagents whether or not on a backing, other than those of heading no. 3002 or 3006: certified reference material | $117.02M | 0.40% |
| 31 | 300212 | Blood, human or animal, antisera, other blood fractions and immunological products: antisera and other blood fractions | $116.91M | 0.40% |
| 32 | 120600 | Oil seeds: sunflower seeds, whether or not broken | $115.54M | 0.40% |
| 33 | 848340 | Gears and gearing: (not toothed wheels, chain sprockets and other transmission elements presented separately): ball or roller screws: gear boxes and other speed changers, including torque converters | $111.76M | 0.38% |
| 34 | 840991 | Engines: parts, suitable for use solely or principally with spark-ignition internal combustion piston engines (for other than aircraft) | $111.48M | 0.38% |
| 35 | 300431 | Medicaments: containing insulin, for therapeutic or prophylactic uses, packaged for retail sale | $102.15M | 0.35% |
| 36 | 851770 | Telephone sets and other apparatus for the transmission or reception of voice, images or other data, via a wired or wireless network: parts | $101.73M | 0.35% |
| 37 | 300215 | Blood, human or animal, antisera, other blood fractions and immunological products: immunological products, put up in measured doses or in forms or packings for retail sale | $99.46M | 0.34% |
| 38 | 080212 | Nuts, edible: almonds, fresh or dried, shelled | $97.82M | 0.34% |
| 39 | 841370 | Pumps: centrifugal, n.e.c. in heading no. 8413, for liquids | $97.01M | 0.33% |
| 40 | 847330 | Machinery: parts and accessories (other than covers, carrying cases and the like) of the machines of heading no. 8471 | $92.38M | 0.32% |
| 41 | 940120 | Seats: of a kind used for motor vehicles | $87.14M | 0.30% |
| 42 | 847150 | Units of automatic data processing machines: processing units other than those of item no. 8471.41 or 8471.49, whether or not containing in the same housing one or two of the following types of unit: storage units, input units or output units | $84.22M | 0.29% |
| 43 | 401120 | Rubber: new pneumatic tyres, of a kind used on buses or lorries | $83.73M | 0.29% |
| 44 | 901839 | Medical, surgical instruments and appliances: catheters, cannulae and the like | $83.64M | 0.29% |
| 45 | 901890 | Medical, surgical or dental instruments and appliances: n.e.c. in heading no. 9018 | $83.24M | 0.29% |
| 46 | 520523 | Cotton yarn: (not sewing thread), single, of combed fibres, 85% or more by weight of cotton, less than 232.56 but not less than 192.31 decitex (exceeding 43 but not exceeding 52 metric number), not for retail sale | $82.78M | 0.28% |
| 47 | 080390 | Fruit, edible: bananas, other than plantains, fresh or dried | $82.73M | 0.28% |
| 48 | 848210 | Ball bearings | $82.56M | 0.28% |
| 49 | 080231 | Nuts, edible: walnuts, fresh or dried, in shell | $78.74M | 0.27% |
| 50 | 840999 | Engines: parts for internal combustion piston engines (excluding spark-ignition) | $78.01M | 0.27% |
| 51 | 854430 | Insulated electric conductors: ignition wiring sets and other wiring sets of a kind used in vehicles, aircraft or ships | $77.42M | 0.27% |
| 52 | 382499 | Chemical products, mixtures and preparations: n.e.c. heading 3824 | $77.41M | 0.27% |
| 53 | 871410 | Motorcycles (including mopeds): parts and accessories | $77.23M | 0.27% |
| 54 | 902190 | Appliances: worn, carried or implanted in the body, to compensate for a defect or disability | $76.91M | 0.26% |
| 55 | 852872 | Reception apparatus for television, whether or not incorporating radio-broadcast receivers or sound or video recording or reproducing apparatus: incorporating a colour video display or screen | $76.84M | 0.26% |
| 56 | 480255 | Uncoated paper and paperboard (not 4801 or 4803): printing, writing or graphic, 10% or less by weight of mechanical or chemi-mechanical processed fibre, weighing 40g/m2 to 150g/m2, in rolls | $76.66M | 0.26% |
| 57 | 844630 | Weaving machines (looms): for weaving fabrics of a width exceeding 30cm, shuttleless type | $75.21M | 0.26% |
| 58 | 392690 | Plastics: other articles n.e.c. in chapter 39 | $74.68M | 0.26% |
| 59 | 390690 | Acrylic polymers: (other than polymethyl methacrylate), in primary forms | $71.60M | 0.25% |
| 60 | 381512 | Catalysts, supported: reaction initiators, reaction accelerators and catalytic preparations, with precious metal or precious metal compounds as the active substance, n.e.c. or included | $69.93M | 0.24% |
| 61 | 120991 | Seeds: vegetable seeds, of a kind used for sowing | $69.64M | 0.24% |
| 62 | 902139 | Artificial parts of the body: excluding artificial joints | $68.24M | 0.23% |
| 63 | 470321 | Wood pulp: chemical wood pulp, soda or sulphate, (other than dissolving grades), semi-bleached or bleached, of coniferous wood | $68.11M | 0.23% |
| 64 | 271000 | Petroleum oils and oils from bituminous minerals, not crude: preparations n.e.c. containing by weight 70% or more of petroleum oils or oils from bituminous minerals: these being the basic constituents of the preparations: waste oils | $66.57M | 0.23% |
| 65 | 847989 | Machines and mechanical appliances: having individual functions, n.e.c. or included in this chapter | $65.87M | 0.23% |
| 66 | 853710 | Boards, panels, consoles, desks and other bases: for electric control or the distribution of electricity, (other than switching apparatus of heading no. 8517), for a voltage not exceeding 1000 volts | $65.81M | 0.23% |
| 67 | 870829 | Vehicles: parts and accessories, of bodies, other than safety seat belts | $65.81M | 0.23% |
| 68 | 470329 | Wood pulp: chemical wood pulp, soda or sulphate, (other than dissolving grades), semi-bleached or bleached, of non-coniferous wood | $65.67M | 0.23% |
| 69 | 481159 | Paper and paperboard: coated, impregnated or covered with plastics (excluding adhesives), other than bleached and weighing more than 150g/m2, other than goods of heading no. 4803, 4809, or 4810 | $64.98M | 0.22% |
| 70 | 330210 | Odoriferous substances and mixtures: of a kind used in the food or drink industries | $64.50M | 0.22% |
| 71 | 842121 | Machinery: for filtering or purifying water | $64.37M | 0.22% |
| 72 | 080132 | Nuts, edible: cashew nuts, fresh or dried, shelled | $63.53M | 0.22% |
| 73 | 848790 | Machinery parts: not containing electrical connectors, insulators, coils, contacts or other electrical features, n.e.c. in chapter 84, other than ships' or boats' propellers and blades therefor | $63.08M | 0.22% |
| 74 | 871690 | Trailers, semi-trailers and other vehicles not mechanically propelled: parts thereof for heading no. 8716 | $63.08M | 0.22% |
| 75 | 180500 | Cocoa: powder, not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter | $62.70M | 0.22% |
| 76 | 901813 | Medical, surgical instruments and appliances: magnetic resonance imaging apparatus | $62.35M | 0.21% |
| 77 | 560122 | Wadding: other articles thereof, of man-made fibres | $60.42M | 0.21% |
| 78 | 841990 | Machinery, plant and laboratory equipment: parts of equipment for treating materials by a process involving a change of temperature | $59.72M | 0.21% |
| 79 | 271600 | Electrical energy | $59.58M | 0.20% |
| 80 | 850152 | Electric motors: AC motors, multi-phase, of an output exceeding 750W but not exceeding 75kW | $59.31M | 0.20% |
| 81 | 260800 | Zinc ores and concentrates | $58.59M | 0.20% |
| 82 | 300390 | Medicaments: (not containing antibiotics, hormones, alkaloids or their derivatives), for therapeutic or prophylactic uses, (not packaged for retail sale) | $57.96M | 0.20% |
| 83 | 520100 | Cotton: not carded or combed | $57.91M | 0.20% |
| 84 | 902131 | Artificial parts of the body | $56.60M | 0.19% |
| 85 | 080280 | Nuts, edible: areca nuts, fresh or dried, whether or not shelled or peeled | $55.68M | 0.19% |
| 86 | 330290 | Odoriferous substances and mixtures: used as raw materials in industries other than the food or drink industries | $55.67M | 0.19% |
| 87 | 240120 | Tobacco: partly or wholly stemmed or stripped | $55.34M | 0.19% |
| 88 | 841790 | Furnaces and ovens: parts of non-electric furnaces and ovens (including incinerators), of industrial or laboratory use | $54.34M | 0.19% |
| 89 | 841950 | Heat exchange units: not used for domestic purposes | $53.17M | 0.18% |
| 90 | 850440 | Electrical static converters | $52.69M | 0.18% |
| 91 | 961900 | Sanitary towels (pads) and tampons, napkins and napkin liners for babies and similar articles, of any material | $52.39M | 0.18% |
| 92 | 870850 | Vehicle parts: drive-axles with differential, whether or not provided with other transmission components, and non-driving axles: parts thereof | $52.27M | 0.18% |
| 93 | 847710 | Machinery: injection-moulding machines, for working rubber or plastics or for the manufacture of products from these materials | $50.87M | 0.17% |
| 94 | 020410 | Meat: of sheep, lamb carcasses and half-carcasses, fresh or chilled | $50.32M | 0.17% |
| 95 | 854231 | Electronic integrated circuits: processors and controllers, whether or not combined with memories, converters, logic circuits, amplifiers, clock and timing circuits, or other circuits | $50.20M | 0.17% |
| 96 | 854140 | Electrical apparatus: photosensitive, including photovoltaic cells, whether or not assembled in modules or made up into panels, light-emitting diodes (LED) | $50.08M | 0.17% |
| 97 | 902214 | Apparatus based on the use of x-rays: including radiography or radiotherapy apparatus, for medical, surgical or veterinary uses, not dental uses, excluding computed tomography apparatus | $49.50M | 0.17% |
| 98 | 870870 | Vehicle parts: road wheels and parts and accessories thereof | $47.37M | 0.16% |
| 99 | 590320 | Textile fabrics: impregnated, coated, covered or laminated with polyurethane | $47.07M | 0.16% |
| 100 | 151620 | Vegetable fats and oils and their fractions: partly or wholly hydrogenated, inter-esterified, re-esterified or elaidinised, whether or not refined, but not further prepared | $46.92M | 0.16% |