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Architecture in IranIranian imports amounted to US$20.4 billion in 2025.
That projected dollar amount results from a -58.4% decline compared to $49 billion in 2021.
Year over year, international spending on Iranian imported goods decelerated by -31% from $29.5 billion for 2024.
Officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Middle Eastern country is historically referred to as Persia.
At the detailed 4-digit Harmonized Tariff System code level, the top 5 Iranian imports are corn, soya beans, rice, solid residues including soya-bean oil cake and automobile parts or accessories. Three of Iran’s 5 most valuable imported goods are foods. Collectively, Iran’s 5 most valuable exports generated approaching one-quarter (23.5%) of the country’s globally exported products in 2025.
Domestically, Iran’s consumer inflation rate averaged 43.327% for 2025 up from 32.6% during 2024.
Major International Buyers of Iranian Exports
The latest available country-specific data from 2023 shows that 60.8% of products imported by Iran was furnished by exporters in: mainland China (27.1% of the Iranian total), Iraq (11.5%), Türkiye (6.8%), United Arab Emirates (5.8%), India (2.3%), Pakistan (1.9%), Afghanistan (1.7%), Oman (1.2%), Russia (0.9%), Indonesia (0.7%), Azerbaijan (0.53%) and Armenia (0.47%).
From a continental perspective, 96.1% of Iran’s total imports by value in 2025 was purchased from Asian countries. Trade partners located in Europe supplied another 2.4% of Iranian import purchases.
Smaller percentages came from sellers in Africa (1%), Latin America (0.4%) excluding Mexico but including the Caribbean, North America (0.03%), then Oceania’s (0.04%) Australia and New Zealand mostly.
Given Iran’s population of 87.5 million people, its total US$20.4 billion in 2025 imports translates to roughly $250 in yearly product demand from every person in the Middle Eastern country. That per-capita amount exceeds the average $270 per person for 2024.
The following product groups represent the highest dollar value in Iran’s import purchases during 2025. Also shown is the percentage share each product category represents in terms of overall imports into Iran.
- Cereals: US$3.1 billion (15.2% of total imports)
- Machinery including computers: $2.5 billion (12.4%)
- Electrical machinery, equipment: $1.4 billion (7.1%)
- Vehicles: $1.3 billion (6.3%)
- Oil seeds: $1.1 billion (5.3%)
- Pharmaceuticals: $979.8 million (4.8%)
- Optical, technical, medical apparatus: $869.6 million (4.3%)
- Animal/vegetable fats, oils, waxes: $628.6 million (3.1%)
- Food industry waste, animal fodder: $628.2 million (3.1%)
- Plastics, plastic articles: $541 million (2.7%)
By value, Iran’s top 10 import product categories recorded almost two-thirds (64.3%) of the overall value of its product purchases from other countries.
The most modest declines among Iran’s top product categories was for aluminum via a -29.6% reduction from 2024.
The severest Iran’s decliners were mineral fuels including oil (down -98.3% from 2024), organic chemicals (down -91.2%), then imports of the metals iron and steel (down -89.4%).
Iran’s Imports of Cereals
In 2025, Iranian importers spent the most on the following subcategories of cereals.
- Corn: US$2 billion (up 87% from 2024)
- Rice: $749.8 million (up 5.2%)
- Barley: $321.2 million (up 181.2%)
- Wheat: $16.2 million (up 8.5%)
- Buckwheat, millet, canary seed: $24,000 (down -97.9%)
Among these import subcategories, Iran’s purchases of barley (up 181.2% from 2024), corn (up 87%) and wheat (up 8.5%) registered the greatest year-over-year advances.
These amounts and the percentage changes within parenthesis clearly show where the strongest demand lies for different types of cereals-related imports among Iranian businesses and consumers.
Iran’s Imports of Machinery Products Including Computers
In 2025, Iranian importers spent the most on the following 10 subcategories of machinery including computers.
- Air or vacuum pumps: US$245.7 million (down -30.2% from 2024)
- Liquid pumps and elevators: $176.9 million (down -6.4%)
- Taps, valves, similar appliances: $148.6 million (down -14.9%)
- Piston engines: $104.7 million (down -51.4%)
- Temperature-change machines: $104.3 million (down -25.1%)
- Transmission shafts, gears, clutches: $97.5 million (down -21.8%)
- Miscellaneous machinery: $88.1 million (down -36.3%)
- Centrifuges, filters and purifiers: $87.2 million (down -34.7%)
- Piston engine parts: $82.5 million (down -36.9%)
- Rubber/plastic article making machines: $81.1 million (down -45.6%)
Among these import subcategories, Iranian purchases of liquid pumps and elevators (down -6.4%), taps, valves and similar appliances (down -14.9%) then transmission shafts, gears and clutches (down -21.8%) posted the most modest declines from 2024 to 2025.
These amounts and the percentages within parenthesis clearly show where the strongest demand lies for different types of imported machinery including computers among Iranian businesses and consumers.
Iran’s Imports of Electrical Items
In 2025, Iranian importers spent the most on the following 10 subcategories of electronics-related goods.
- Phone devices including smartphones: US$247.1 million (up 54.1% from 2024)
- Electric motors, generators: $147.2 million (down -23.6%)
- Lower-voltage switches, fuses: $101 million (down -16.2%)
- Solar power diodes/semi-conductors: $87.3 million (up 6.1%)
- Electric generating sets, converters: $82.8 million (up 142%)
- Electrical converters/power units: $81.3 million (down -30.3%)
- Insulated wire/cable: $77.3 million (down -38.4%)
- Electric water heaters, hair dryers: $63.9 million (down -12.9%)
- Electrical lighting/signaling equipment, defrosters: $51.6 million (up 1.2%)
- Carbon electrodes, brushes: $49.5 million (up 18.4%)
Among these import subcategories, Iranian purchases of electric generating sets and converters (up 142%), phone devices including smartphones (up 54.1%) then carbon electrodes and brushes (up 18.4%) grew from 2024 to 2025.
These amounts and the percentage gains within parenthesis clearly show where the strongest demand lies for different types of electronics-related imports among Iranian businesses and consumers.
Iran’s Imports of Vehicles
In 2025, Iranian importers spent the most on the following subcategories of automobiles and related products.
- Automobile parts/accessories: US$584.4 million (down -23.4% from 2024)
- Automobile bodies: $229.8 million (down -62.8%)
- Motorcycles: $167.9 million (down -15%)
- Cars: $126.5 million (down -29.3%)
- Motorcycle parts/accessories: $81.9 million (down -16.8%)
- Trailers: $28.3 million (down -44%)
- Bicycles, other non-motorized cycles: $24.6 million (down -37%)
- Special purpose vehicles: $16.5 million (up 40.2%)
- Trucks: $13.6 million (up 34%)
- Chasses fitted with engine: $5.4 million (up 68.4%)
Among these import subcategories, Iranian purchases of chasses fitted with engine (up 68.4%), special purpose vehicles (up 40.2%) then trucks (up 34%) grew from 2024 to 2025.
These amounts and the percentage gains within parenthesis clearly show where the strongest demand lies for different types of imported organic chemicals among businesses and consumers in Iran.
See also Iran’s Top 10 Exports, China’s Top Trading Partners, Turkey’s Top Trading Partners, Iraq’s Top Trading Partners and Iraq’s Top 10 Exports
Research Sources:
Central Intelligence Agency, Country Profiles. Accessed on August 24, 2026
International Monetary Fund, World Economic Outlook Database (GDP based on Purchasing Power Parity). Accessed on August 24, 2026
International Trade Centre, Trade Map. Accessed on August 24, 2026
Wikipedia, Iran. Accessed on August 24, 2026
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