What does France import the most?

France's largest import is passenger vehicles, worth $42.4B in 2025, 5.1% of its total imports of $827B.

Does France run a trade surplus or deficit?

France ran a trade deficit of $125B in 2025: it imported $827B of goods and exported $703B.

Cocoa beans is France's fastest-growing top import by value, up 73% year over year, reaching $1.4B in 2025.

$827B

2025 · Annual

France yearly trade, 2015-2025

France monthly trade through May 2026

#	Name	Value 2025	Share	YoY
1	Passenger vehicles	$42.4B	5.1%	-3.6%
2	Crude oil	$26.4B	3.2%	-9.8%
3	Petroleum gases	$24.9B	3.0%	-8%
4	Medicaments for retail sale	$23.5B	2.8%	+30%
5	Petroleum oils	$21.9B	2.6%	-16%
6	Refined industrial goods	$18.1B	2.1%	+6.2%
7	Processed materials	$15.3B	1.8%	-3.1%
8	Specialty equipment	$12.5B	1.5%	+12%
9	Consumer products	$9.6B	1.2%	+0.7%
10	Intermediate goods	$6.8B	0.8%	-5.4%

#	Name	Value 2025	Share	YoY
1	Cocoa beans	$1.4B	0.2%	+73%
2	Gold	$7.6B	0.9%	+67%
3	Cocoa butter	$1.8B	0.2%	+46%
4	Computer parts	$2.2B	0.3%	+45%
5	Passenger and cargo vessels	$4.3B	0.5%	+44%
6	Refined industrial goods	$3.6B	0.4%	+6.2%
7	Processed materials	$3B	0.4%	-3.1%
8	Specialty equipment	$2.5B	0.4%	+12%
9	Consumer products	$1.9B	0.4%	+0.7%
10	Intermediate goods	$1.3B	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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