# Lebanon Import Opportunities

Explore Lebanon's import opportunities by product, supplier concentration, demand growth, and market size.

- Latest import year: 2024
- Latest imports: $17.7B
- Import CAGR: +6.9%
- Trade openness: 52.8%

## Top Import Opportunities

| Rank | Product | Description | Market size | Demand growth | Suppliers | Concentration |
| ---: | --- | --- | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: |
| 1 | HS 710812 | Metals: gold, non-monetary, unwrought (but not powder) | $1.8B | +15.4% | 21 | 3056 |
| 2 | HS 271012 | Not reported | $1.5B | +7.7% | 26 | 3876 |
| 3 | HS 710813 | Metals: gold, semi-manufactured | $524.8M | +40.5% | 10 | 9895 |
| 4 | HS 271019 | Not reported | $2.4B | +6.4% | 63 | 1757 |
| 5 | HS 710231 | Diamonds: non-industrial, unworked or simply sawn, cleaved or bruted, but not mounted or set | $138.9M | +38.9% | 3 | 7575 |
| 6 | HS 851712 | Telephones for cellular networks or for other wireless networks | $230.9M | +5.3% | 24 | 6058 |
| 7 | HS 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 | $101.3M | +28.0% | 22 | 9922 |
| 8 | HS 880240 | Aeroplanes and other aircraft: of an unladen weight exceeding 15,000kg | $81.6M | +48.7% | 1 | 10000 |
| 9 | HS 151211 | Vegetable oils: sunflower seed or safflower oil and their fractions, crude, not chemically modified | $84.8M | +23.1% | 9 | 9311 |
| 10 | HS 711319 | Jewellery: of precious metal (excluding silver) whether or not plated or clad with precious metal, and parts thereof | $222.0M | +3.3% | 29 | 4205 |
| 11 | HS 854140 | Electrical apparatus: photosensitive, including photovoltaic cells, whether or not assembled in modules or made up into panels, light emitting diodes | $65.0M | +24.1% | 30 | 8525 |
| 12 | HS 010290 | Bovine animals: live, other than pure-bred breeding animals | $183.7M | +3.3% | 16 | 3479 |
| 13 | HS 271113 | Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons: liquefied, butanes | $136.3M | +5.6% | 14 | 4163 |
| 14 | HS 100590 | Cereals: maize (corn), other than seed | $131.3M | +5.2% | 21 | 4372 |
| 15 | HS 100199 | Cereals: wheat and meslin, other than durum wheat, other than seed | $99.2M | +2.5% | 8 | 7747 |
| 16 | HS 090111 | Coffee: not roasted or decaffeinated | $97.2M | +3.0% | 39 | 7441 |
| 17 | HS 020130 | Meat: of bovine animals, boneless cuts, fresh or chilled | $79.4M | +7.5% | 19 | 8120 |
| 18 | HS 870340 | Vehicles: with both spark-ignition internal combustion piston engine and electric motor for propulsion, incapable of being charged by plugging to external source of electric power | $95.2M | +29.9% | 24 | 2560 |
| 19 | HS 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 | $69.5M | +4.9% | 11 | 7721 |
| 20 | HS 120190 | Soya beans: other than seed, whether or not broken | $66.7M | +38.9% | 9 | 3759 |
| 21 | HS 100119 | Cereals: wheat and meslin, durum wheat, other than seed | $56.5M | +3.7% | 5 | 9997 |
| 22 | HS 710221 | Diamonds: industrial, unworked or simply sawn, cleaved or bruted, but not mounted or set | $38.5M | +24.1% | 2 | 6834 |
| 23 | HS 300490 | Medicaments: consisting of mixed or unmixed products n.e.s. in heading no. 3004, for therapeutic or prophylactic uses, packaged for retail sale | $399.9M | +3.9% | 71 | 559 |
| 24 | HS 710239 | Diamonds: non-industrial, (other than unworked or simply sawn, cleaved or bruted), but not mounted or set | $83.2M | +5.3% | 18 | 4117 |
| 25 | HS 120740 | Oil seeds: sesamum seeds, whether or not broken | $47.7M | +15.3% | 20 | 5960 |
| 26 | HS 271119 | Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons: liquefied, n.e.c. in heading no. 2711 | $43.6M | +9.5% | 7 | 8946 |
| 27 | HS 010229 | Cattle: live, other than pure-bred breeding animals | $131.7M | +5.4% | 16 | 2610 |
| 28 | HS 721420 | Iron or non-alloy steel: bars and rods, hot-rolled, hot-drawn or hot-extruded, containing indentations, ribs, grooves or other deformations produced during the rolling process or twisted after rolling | $119.3M | +4.3% | 12 | 2305 |
| 29 | HS 850760 | Electric accumulators: lithium-ion, including separators, whether or not rectangular (including square) | $36.5M | +12.0% | 33 | 9098 |
| 30 | HS 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 | $43.9M | +12.2% | 14 | 6262 |
| 31 | HS 870323 | Vehicles: spark-ignition internal combustion reciprocating piston engine, cylinder capacity exceeding 1500cc but not exceeding 3000cc | $146.6M | -1.5% | 45 | 1811 |
| 32 | HS 252310 | Cement clinkers (whether or not coloured) | $45.2M | +4.0% | 5 | 7065 |
| 33 | HS 870380 | Vehicles: with only electric motor for propulsion | $30.6M | +29.0% | 21 | 5250 |
| 34 | HS 840890 | Engines: compression-ignition internal combustion piston engines (diesel or semi-diesel engines), of a kind used for other than marine propulsion or the vehicles of chapter 87 | $77.4M | +8.7% | 24 | 2340 |
| 35 | HS 151219 | Vegetable oils: sunflower seed or safflower oil and their fractions, other than crude, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified | $55.4M | +9.1% | 19 | 4397 |
| 36 | HS 710691 | Metals: silver, unwrought, (but not powder) | $30.8M | +10.2% | 7 | 9068 |
| 37 | HS 910121 | Wrist-watches: (not electrically operated), automatic winding, whether or not incorporating a stop-watch facility, case of precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal | $28.3M | +13.4% | 10 | 8636 |
| 38 | HS 170199 | Sugars: sucrose, chemically pure, in solid form, not containing added flavouring or colouring matter | $150.3M | +6.4% | 30 | 1253 |
| 39 | HS 850440 | Electrical static converters | $37.4M | +6.7% | 60 | 6882 |
| 40 | HS 950300 | Tricycles, scooters, pedal cars and similar wheeled toys: dolls' carriages: dolls: other toys: reduced-size (scale) models and similar recreational models, working or not: puzzles of all kinds | $38.9M | +3.1% | 68 | 7741 |
| 41 | HS 910221 | Wrist-watches: whether or not incorporating a stop-watch facility, with automatic winding | $26.9M | +12.1% | 12 | 8879 |
| 42 | HS 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 | $98.1M | +0.2% | 22 | 2311 |
| 43 | HS 890610 | Vessels: warships | $20.3M | +24.2% | 1 | 10000 |
| 44 | HS 721049 | Iron or non-alloy steel: flat-rolled, width 600mm or more, (not corrugated), plated or coated with zinc (not electrolytically) | $44.4M | +4.5% | 12 | 5219 |
| 45 | HS 841510 | Air conditioning machines: comprising a motor-driven fan and elements for changing the temperature and humidity, window or wall types, self-contained or split-system | $31.0M | +4.0% | 30 | 8256 |
| 46 | HS 020714 | Meat and edible offal: of fowls of the species Gallus domesticus, cuts and offal, frozen | $25.0M | +11.3% | 13 | 8343 |
| 47 | HS 841112 | Turbo-jets: of a thrust exceeding 25kN | $33.0M | +10.1% | 3 | 5269 |
| 48 | HS 540752 | Fabrics, woven: containing 85% or more by weight of textured polyester filaments, dyed | $26.2M | +5.9% | 20 | 9190 |
| 49 | HS 740811 | Copper: wire, of refined copper, of which the maximum cross-sectional dimension exceeds 6mm | $56.2M | +3.0% | 9 | 4095 |
| 50 | HS 330210 | Odoriferous substances and mixtures: of a kind used in the food or drink industries | $37.7M | +8.3% | 28 | 4138 |

## Supply Gaps

Products with higher supplier concentration may deserve closer continuity and sourcing review. This is a screening signal, not a recommendation by itself.

## Method

Reported trade observations and calculated indicators are shown separately. Validate suppliers, tariffs, standards, logistics, pricing, and continuity before acting.

## Data sources

- Primary trade series: OECD (2025), Balanced international merchandise trade statistics (BIMTS) - HS2017-6D, OECD Data Explorer (accessed on 2026-08-30). [OECD Data Explorer](https://data-explorer.oecd.org/) - [OECD Terms & Conditions](https://www.oecd.org/termsandconditions/)
- CEPII BACI bilateral trade flows (202601): [dataset page](https://www.cepii.fr/CEPII/en/bdd_modele/bdd_modele_item.asp?id=37) - [BACI documentation](https://www.cepii.fr/DATA_DOWNLOAD/baci/doc/baci_webpage.html) - [Etalab 2.0 Open Licence](https://www.etalab.gouv.fr/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/open-licence.pdf)

This page presents derived Yugalinks views of reported observations and calculated indicators.