Overall spending on Austrian imports expanded by 24.2% compared to $164.6 billion five years earlier for 2020.
Year over year, the value of Austria’s import purchases dropped by -6.7% starting from $219.1 billion in 2023.
Based on the average exchange rate for 2024, Austria uses the euro which slowed to a 0.02% gain against the US dollar from 2023 to 2024. The modestly stronger European Union currency made Austria’s imports paid for in weaker US dollars relatively less expensive when starting from euros.
Where Austria’s Imports Come From
The latest available country-specific data shows that 74.0% of products imported by Austria were furnished by suppliers in: Germany (32% of the Austrian total), mainland China (8.2%), Italy (6.5%), Czech Republic (4.3%), United States of America (4.1%), Switzerland (4%), Poland (3.2%), Netherlands (2.9%), France (2.7%), Hungary (2.5%), Slovakia (1.9%) and Spain (1.7%).
From a continental perspective, 74.3% of Austria’s total imports by value in 2024 were purchased from fellow European countries. Asian trade partners supplied 18.7% of imports to Austria while another 4.7% worth of goods originated from North America.
Austria joined the European Union on January 1, 1995. Other EU members accounted for 67.1% of Austrian purchases of imported products.
Tinier percentage came from Africa (1.3%), Latin America (0.8%) excluding Mexico and the Caribbean, and Oceania (0.2%) led by Australia and New Zealand.
Given Austria ‘s population of 9.13 million people, its total US$204.4 billion in 2024 imports translates to roughly $22,400 in yearly product demand from every person in the landlocked Central European country. That dollar metric lags the average $24,800 per capita for 2023.
Austria’s Top 10 Imports
The following product groups represent the highest dollar value in Austria’s import purchases during 2024. Also shown is the percentage share each product category represents in terms of overall imports into Austria.
- Machinery including computers: US$25.8 billion (12.6% of total imports)
- Vehicles: $22.4 billion (11%)
- Electrical machinery, equipment: $20.7 billion (10.1%)
- Mineral fuels including oil: $15.3 billion (7.5%)
- Pharmaceuticals: $11.7 billion (5.7%)
- Plastics, plastic articles: $8.2 billion (4%)
- Optical, technical, medical apparatus: $5.9 billion (2.9%)
- Articles of iron or steel: $5.9 billion (2.9%)
- Aluminum: $4.6 billion (2.2%)
- Iron, steel: $4.4 billion (2.1%)
Austria’s top 10 imports exceeds three-fifths (61.1%) of the overall value of its product purchases from other countries.
Pharmaceuticals posted the lone growth in value among the top 10 import categories, up 3.5% from 2023 to 2024.
The severest declines from 2023 were for Austrian imports of mineral fuels including oil (down -22.6%), the metals iron and steel (down -14.7%) then electrical machinery and equipment (down -10.7%).
Please note that the results listed above are at the 2-digit Harmonized Tariff System code level.
Information presented below is at the more granular 4-digit level.
Austria’s Top Machinery Imports
In 2024, Austrian importers spent the most on the following 10 subcategories of machinery including computers.
- Computers, optical readers: US$2.3 billion (up 16.8% from 2023)
- Piston engine parts: $1.9 billion (down -4.1%)
- Machinery parts: $1.34 billion (down -16.5%)
- Taps, valves, similar appliances: $1.22 billion (down -4.9%)
- Miscellaneous machinery: $1.21 billion (up 4.8%)
- Transmission shafts, gears, clutches: $1.18 billion (down -7.2%)
- Air or vacuum pumps: $1.07 billion (down -0.9%)
- Liquid pumps and elevators: $862.8 million (down -6.4%)
- Refrigerators, freezers: $857.7 million (up 2.9%)
- Centrifuges, filters and purifiers: $841.3 million (down -10.9%)
Among these import subcategories, Austrian purchases of computers and optical readers (up 16.8%), miscellaneous machinery (up 4.8%) then refrigerators and freezers (up 2.9%) grew from 2023 to 2024.
These amounts and the percentage gains within parenthesis clearly show where the strongest demand lies for different types of imported machinery among Austrian businesses and consumers.
Austria’s Top Vehicles Imports
In 2024, Austrian importers spent the most on the following 10 subcategories of vehicles-related products.
- Cars: US$11.7 billion (up 0.2% from 2023)
- Automobile parts/accessories: $5.4 billion (down -6.9%)
- Trucks: $1.3 billion (down -12.8%)
- Motorcycles: $996 million (down -3.4%)
- Tractors: $937.1 million (down -28.4%)
- Motorcycle parts/accessories: $632.6 million (down -30.3%)
- Trailers: $495.3 million (down -8.4%)
- Bicycles, other non-motorized cycles: $280.1 million (down -14.8%)
- Public-transport vehicles: $216 million (up 8.1%)
- Special purpose vehicles: $211.3 million (up 20.8%)
Among these import subcategories, Austrian purchases of special purpose vehicles (up 20.8%), public-transport vehicles (up 8.1%) then cars (up 0.2%) grew from 2023 to 2024.
These amounts and the percentage gains within parenthesis clearly show where the strongest demand lies for different types of imported vehicles-related products among Austrian businesses and consumers.
Austria’s Top Electrical Imports
In 2024, Austrian importers spent the most on the following 10 subcategories of electrical goods including consumer electronics.
- Phone devices including smartphones: US$3.2 billion (down -0.3% from 2023)
- Insulated wire/cable: $1.9 billion (down -6.8%)
- Electrical converters/power units: $1.6 billion (down -27%)
- Electric motors, generators: $1.3 billion (down -9.1%)
- Electric storage batteries: $1.24 billion (down -19.1%)
- Lower-voltage switches, fuses: $1.24 billion (down -3.2%)
- Electrical/optical circuit boards, panels: $1 billion (down -8.9%)
- Integrated circuits/microassemblies: $876.1 million (down -28.5%)
- Electric water heaters, hair dryers: $831.9 million (up 5.8%)
- Solar power diodes/semi-conductors: $828.8 million (down -39.2%)
Among these import subcategories, Austrian purchases of electric water heaters and hair dryers (up 5.8%) was the sole gainer from 2023 to 2024.
These amounts and the percentage gains within parenthesis clearly show where the strongest demand lies for different types of imported electronics among Austrian businesses and consumers.
Austria’s Top Fuel Imports
In 2024, Austrian importers spent the most on the following 10 subcategories of mineral fuels-related products.
- Processed petroleum oils: US$4.9 billion (down -14% from 2023)
- Crude oil: $4.8 billion (up 0.6%)
- Petroleum gases: $3.1 billion (down -42.8%)
- Electrical energy: $1.5 billion (down -38.1%)
- Coal, solid fuels made from coal: $428.5 million (down -39.3%)
- Coke, semi-coke: $201 million (down -47.9%)
- Petroleum oil residues: $162.8 million (up 5.1%)
- Coal tar oils (high temperature distillation): $38.6 million (up 154%)
- Asphalt/petroleum bitumen mixes: $32.2 million (up 2.6%)
- Peat: $19 million (up 5.9%)
Among these import subcategories, Austrian purchases of high-temperature distilled coal tar oils (up 154%), peat (up 5.9%) then petroleum oil residues (up 5.1%) grew at the fastest pace from 2023 to 2024.
The above amounts and the sole percentage gain within parenthesis clearly show where the strongest demand lies for different types of imported mineral fuels-related products among Austrian businesses and consumers.
See also Austria’s Top Trading Partners, Austria’s Top 10 Exports, Switzerland’s Top Trading Partners, Poland’s Top Trading Partners and Slovakia’s Top Trading Partners
Research Sources:
Central Intelligence Agency, The World Factbook Country Profiles, Central Intelligence Agency. Accessed on February 5, 2026
International Monetary Fund, World Economic Outlook Database (GDP based on Purchasing Power Parity). Accessed on February 5, 2026
International Trade Centre, Trade Map. Accessed on February 5, 2026
Wikipedia, Austria. Accessed on February 5, 2026
X-rates.com, Exchange Rates: Euro to US Dollar (monthly average 2024). Accessed on February 5, 2026