What does Belgium import the most?

Belgium's largest import is passenger vehicles, worth $39.7B in 2025, 7.3% of its total imports of $542B.

Does Belgium run a trade surplus or deficit?

Belgium ran a trade surplus of $20.5B in 2025: it exported $562B of goods and imported $542B.

Buses is Belgium's fastest-growing top import by value, up 115% year over year, reaching $1.2B in 2025.

$542B

2025 · Annual

Belgium yearly trade, 2015-2025

Belgium monthly trade through May 2026

#	Name	Value 2025	Share	YoY
1	Passenger vehicles	$39.7B	7.3%	-3.9%
2	Medicaments for retail sale	$31B	5.7%	+14%
3	Biologics	$25.1B	4.6%	-5.9%
4	Petroleum oils	$23.2B	4.3%	-17%
5	Crude oil	$19.3B	3.6%	-16%
6	Refined industrial goods	$16B	2.8%	+6.2%
7	Processed materials	$13.5B	2.4%	-3.1%
8	Specialty equipment	$11B	2.0%	+12%
9	Consumer products	$8.5B	1.6%	+0.7%
10	Intermediate goods	$6B	1.1%	-5.4%

#	Name	Value 2025	Share	YoY
1	Buses	$1.2B	0.2%	+115%
2	Integrated circuits	$6.4B	1.2%	+75%
3	Zinc ores	$1.5B	0.3%	+54%
4	Cocoa butter	$2.3B	0.4%	+51%
5	Cocoa beans	$2.9B	0.5%	+46%
6	Refined industrial goods	$2.4B	0.4%	+6.2%
7	Processed materials	$2B	0.4%	-3.1%
8	Specialty equipment	$1.6B	0.4%	+12%
9	Consumer products	$1.3B	0.4%	+0.7%
10	Intermediate goods	$892M	0.4%	-5.4%

Source & methodology

We use primary trade sources for every country. See our methodology page for how we source and verify this data.

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