What does Bulgaria import the most?

Bulgaria's largest import is passenger vehicles, worth $2.8B in 2025, 4.4% of its total imports of $64.5B.

Does Bulgaria run a trade surplus or deficit?

Bulgaria ran a trade deficit of $11.6B in 2025: it imported $64.5B of goods and exported $52.9B.

Aircraft and Spacecraft is Bulgaria's fastest-growing top import by value, up 6.0x year over year, reaching $1.3B in 2025.

$64.5B

2025 · Annual

Bulgaria yearly trade, 2015-2025

Bulgaria monthly trade through May 2026

#	Name	Value 2025	Share	YoY
1	Passenger vehicles	$2.8B	4.4%	+16%
2	Crude oil	$2.5B	3.8%	-39%
3	Copper ores	$2.3B	3.6%	-11%
4	Petroleum gases	$2.2B	3.4%	+133%
5	Medicaments for retail sale	$2B	3.0%	+14%
6	Refined industrial goods	$1.6B	2.4%	+6.2%
7	Processed materials	$1.4B	2.1%	-3.1%
8	Specialty equipment	$1.1B	1.7%	+12%
9	Consumer products	$858M	1.3%	+0.7%
10	Intermediate goods	$605M	1.0%	-5.4%

#	Name	Value 2025	Share	YoY
1	Aircraft and Spacecraft	$1.3B	2.0%	+6.0x
2	Rapeseed	$363M	0.6%	+3.6x
3	Electric accumulators	$1.1B	1.6%	+3.4x
4	Petroleum gases	$2.2B	3.4%	+133%
5	Coins	$120M	0.2%	+100%
6	Refined industrial goods	$99.5M	0.4%	+6.2%
7	Processed materials	$83.9M	0.4%	-3.1%
8	Specialty equipment	$68.3M	0.4%	+12%
9	Consumer products	$52.7M	0.4%	+0.7%
10	Intermediate goods	$37.2M	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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