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Thailand import export data

Shipment-level customs records for Thailand — verified importers and exporters, HS codes, quantities, declared values and ports. Search by product or company and act on what Thailand is actually trading.

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98HS chapters
8-digitTariff
Sample shipment records — ThailandSample of live customs data
ImporterHS codeOriginQuantityValueYoY
Nordic Coffee AB0901.11Brazil18,000 kg$52,400+14%
Bella Roasters SpA0901.11Colombia24,500 kg$71,900+8%
Meridian Foods Ltd0901.21Vietnam9,200 kg$26,100+22%
Kaffe Handel GmbH0901.11Ethiopia31,750 kg$94,300+11%

Thailand trade at a glance

Official figures reported by Thailand to UN Comtrade. These are country-level totals; shipment-level records with named counterparties are available on request.

$305.3BImports 2024
$300.7BExports 2024
−$4.6BTrade balance
+5.8%Imports vs 2023
Top suppliers — 2024UN Comtrade
#SupplierValueShare
01China$80.6B26.4%
02Japan$28.7B9.4%
03Other Asia, nes$20.7B6.8%
04USA$19.4B6.4%
05United Arab Emirates$16.6B5.4%
06Malaysia$13.6B4.4%
07Rep. of Korea$9.3B3.1%
08Viet Nam$9.1B3.0%
09Indonesia$8.5B2.8%
10Singapore$7.4B2.4%
Top destinations — 2024UN Comtrade
#DestinationValueShare
01USA$55.1B18.3%
02China$35.3B11.7%
03Japan$23.3B7.7%
04Australia$12.3B4.1%
05Malaysia$12.3B4.1%
06Viet Nam$11.8B3.9%
07India$11.8B3.9%
08China, Hong Kong SAR$10.8B3.6%
09Singapore$10.4B3.4%
10Indonesia$9.5B3.2%
Trade over timeAnnual, USD
YearImportsExports
2022$301.0B$287.4B
2023$288.5B$285.1B
2024$305.3B$300.7B

Source: UN Comtrade, official statistics reported by national authorities. Figures are country-level aggregates, not shipment records.

What you get in Thailand trade data

FieldDetail
Shipment dateWhen the consignment cleared customs
Importer / exporterNamed counterparties on the Thailand declaration
HS codeTariff classification to the national line where published
Product descriptionThe description as filed, not a category guess
Quantity and unitDeclared volume in the filed unit of measure
Declared valueUnit and total value for price benchmarking
Trading partner countryOrigin for imports, destination for exports
Ports and transport modeLoading and discharge points, sea or air

How to read it

Reading the Thailand trade record

What the customs data supports, and what it does not, before you build a plan on it.

Demand, measured

Import volume for your HS code over multiple years — the direction matters more than any single month.

The incumbents

Which origins and which named exporters already supply Thailand, and how concentrated that supply is.

The price band

Declared unit values by origin, so you know what you must compete against before quoting.

The seasonality

When the buying actually happens, so outreach lands in the quarter budgets are set.

Data note

Fields with no value on a given Thailand record are not filled in or guessed — a blank means the underlying declaration did not publish that detail.

Product focus

Leading traded categories in Thailand

Vehicles

Track vehicles shipments in and out of Thailand — active traders, volumes, partner markets and declared prices.

Machinery

Track machinery shipments in and out of Thailand — active traders, volumes, partner markets and declared prices.

Rubber

Track rubber shipments in and out of Thailand — active traders, volumes, partner markets and declared prices.

Rice

Track rice shipments in and out of Thailand — active traders, volumes, partner markets and declared prices.

Electronics

Track electronics shipments in and out of Thailand — active traders, volumes, partner markets and declared prices.

How traders use Thailand data

Build a buyer list

Every Thailand importer of your HS code, ranked by volume.

Qualify a supplier

Confirm a Thailand exporter really ships what it claims.

Benchmark price

Compare declared unit values into and out of Thailand.

Track a competitor

Follow a named company's Thailand shipments over time.

Size the market

Measure real import demand in Thailand before entering it.

Plan logistics

See the ports and lanes that carry Thailand's volume.

Reading Thailand in context

Asia carries the largest share of world merchandise trade, and the intra-Asian lanes are among the densest anywhere. That density has two consequences worth holding onto: freight is comparatively cheap and frequent, so lane cost rarely decides a sourcing question on its own; and competition is intense, so the price band inside any given tariff line tends to be tight.

Within that, Thailand’s trade concentrates in vehicles, machinery, rubber, rice, electronics. A concentration like that is useful information in itself: it tells you where the country’s industrial capability sits, which chapters its exporters will be credible in, and which chapters it is structurally a net buyer in. An exporter selling into Thailand should expect the strongest competition precisely in the categories the country already makes well, and the clearest opening in the ones it does not.

What a Thailand trade question actually looks like

Most people arrive at trade data with a question phrased too broadly to answer — ‘is there a market here’. The record answers narrower questions extremely well, so the first job is to narrow the question until it becomes one of these:

The questionHow the record answers it
Does Thailand import my product at all?Import value and volume for your tariff line, over several years
Is that demand growing or shrinking?The multi-year trend, with the incomplete recent periods excluded
Who already supplies it?The origin mix, and how concentrated it is between a few countries or many
At what price?Declared unit values from those origins, read as a band rather than an average
Who exactly is buying?Named importers in the shipment records, with their volumes and frequency
Through which gateway?The ports carrying the volume, which fixes transit time and most of the freight

Entering Thailand as a supplier

Assume for a moment that the demand checks out. The next question is whether you can serve it, and that is a sequence of gates rather than a single judgement. Product regulation comes first: if you cannot certify for Thailand, the demand is not addressable and everything downstream is wasted work. Logistics comes second — freight as a share of product value decides whether you are competitive before any commercial conversation happens. Payment and currency come third.

Only then does the buyer list matter. Filter to importers whose declared unit values sit in a band you can supply profitably, whose consignment sizes match what you can produce, and who have been buying consistently rather than occasionally. A shortlist of fifteen Thailand importers built that way is worth more than a thousand-name export of everyone who has ever cleared your tariff line.

Sourcing from Thailand

The same record read from the export side is a supplier map. Because Thailand’s strength is in vehicles, that is where you will find the deepest supply base and the most competitive pricing. Look for exporters with unbroken activity across several years and several destination markets — destination spread is a compliance signal as much as a capability one, since shipping regularly into a strictly regulated market implies the paperwork and the product both hold up.

Separate manufacturers from merchant exporters before you negotiate. A manufacturer typically imports inputs under related chapters and exports finished goods with steady volumes; a merchant exports across unrelated chapters with no matching input trail. Both can be good counterparties, but their cost structures and their ability to commit capacity are not the same thing.

Mirror figures will not match

Thailand's reported exports to a partner will not equal that partner's reported imports from Thailand. Export values are normally declared free on board and import values include freight and insurance, so the gap is largely definitional. Adjust before you compare, or you will find a discrepancy that is an artefact rather than a finding.

Limits of the Thailand record

Customs data records goods that crossed a border. It does not record domestic production or domestic consumption, so in categories where Thailand supplies itself, the import record measures the gap local industry does not fill rather than the size of the market. It records no services at all. And it records what was declared, which is a legal statement about classification and value, not a commercial statement about margin or terms.

It also lags. Every authority compiles and publishes on its own cycle, revises published periods as late declarations arrive, and leaves the most recent period incomplete. Treating that incompleteness as a decline is the most common error made with trade data, and it is entirely avoidable by dropping the tail before you read a trend.

Browse Thailand trade by HS chapter

Thailand trade data FAQs

What is Thailand import export data?

It is the shipment-level customs record of goods moving in and out of Thailand — the importer and exporter names, HS code, product description, quantity, declared value and the ports used on each consignment.

How do I find importers in Thailand?

Search the HS code or product keyword you sell and filter the market to Thailand. You get every company importing it, ranked by shipment count and declared value, so you can prioritise the buyers worth approaching first.

How do I find suppliers or exporters in Thailand?

Filter Thailand export records by your HS code. Each exporter shows a verifiable shipment history — volumes, destinations and consistency — so you can shortlist on evidence rather than a directory listing.

What are Thailand's main traded products?

Thailand's trade is concentrated in vehicles, machinery, rubber, rice, electronics. The full HS breakdown is available across all 98 chapters.

How current is Thailand trade data?

Most markets are refreshed monthly, following the customs authority's own release cycle. A small number of jurisdictions publish on a 45 to 60 day lag.

Why do Thailand's reported exports not match its partners' reported imports?

Export values are normally declared free on board and import values include freight and insurance, so the same trade is reported at two different values. The gap is largely definitional rather than a reporting failure, and mirror comparisons need adjusting before they mean anything.

Does the record cover Thailand's domestic market?

No. Customs data exists because goods crossed a border, so in categories where Thailand supplies itself the import record measures the gap local industry does not fill rather than the size of the market. Establish whether imports are the whole market or a slice of it before sizing anything.

How far back does Thailand trade history go?

Multi-year history is available for the detailed markets, which is what makes trend and seasonality analysis possible. A single period tells you what happened; several periods tell you whether it is growing.

How do I benchmark prices for Thailand?

Divide declared value by declared quantity, then control the comparison: same tariff line, same period, same origin, same unit of measure, outliers removed. Read the spread rather than the average, because the spread is what tells you whether there is anything to negotiate.

A workflow that works for Thailand

1

Fix the HS code

Settle the classification before searching Thailand — the code drives every filter and every duty figure downstream.

2

Read three years

One year is a snapshot. Three shows trend, seasonality and whether an incumbent is losing ground.

3

Shortlist on behaviour

Rank counterparties by shipment frequency and consistency, not by size alone.

4

Open with specifics

Reference the actual product, volume band and origin a Thailand counterparty already trades. Generic outreach is ignored.

See live Thailand shipment records

Send us your HS code and we will return a free sample of Thailand customs data — real counterparties, volumes and declared values.