French imports totaled US$776.8 billion in 2025. That dollar amount results from a 9.7% gain compared to $707.8 billion five years earlier during 2021.

Year over year, France’s total spending on imported products rose by 4.9% from $740.8 billion in 2025.

Based on the average exchange rate for 2025, France uses the euro which appreciated by 4.4% against the US dollar from 2024 to 2025. The stronger European Union currency made France’s imports paid for in weaker US dollars slightly less expensive when converted starting from the stronger euro.

Domestically, France’s inflation rate for average consumer prices increased by 2.313% in 2025 versus an average 5.662% for 2024.

France’s 5 most valuable imported products in 2025 include cars, crude oil, medication mixes in dosage, turbo-jets then refined petroleum oils. Collectively, that leading subgroup represents approaching one-fifth (18%) of spending on all goods imported into France during 2025.

Taking a global perspective, French imports represent 3.2% of overall global imports which totaled an estimated $24.259 trillion in spending one year earlier during 2024. That percentages exceeds France’s 3.2% score for the prior year.

Best Suppliers for France’s Imported Products

The latest available country-specific data shows that 70.8% of products imported into France was supplied by exporters in: Germany (35.6% of France’s global total), mainland China (7.5%), United States of America (5.2%), Italy (5.1%), Spain (4%), Belgium (2.8%), Netherlands (2.7%), United Kingdom (2.16%), Switzerland (also 2.16%), Poland (1.8%), Türkiye (1.7%) and the Czech Republic (1.3%).

Applying a continental lens, just over three-fifths (60.3%) of France’s total imports by value in 2025 was purchased from fellow European countries. Trade partners in Asia satisfied 23.3% of import purchases by France while 9.5% worth originated from North America.

Note that 52.2% of France’s spending on imported products was collected by fellow members of the European Union, down from 53.3% for the prior year.

Another 5.2% was exported by African nations.

Tinier percentages came from Latin America (1.4%) excluding Mexico but including the Caribbean, and Oceania (0.3%) led by Australia and New Zealand.

Given France’s population of 68.6 million people, its total US$776.8 billion in 2025 imports translates to roughly $11,300 in yearly product demand from every person in the European Union nation. That per-capita average outpaces the $11,200 one year earlier in 2024.

France’s Top 10 Imports

The following product groups represent the highest dollar value in France’s import purchases during 2025. Also shown is the percentage share each product category represents in terms of overall imports into France.

1. Machinery including computers: US$101.3 billion (13% of total imports)
2. Vehicles: $79.1 billion (10.2%)
3. Mineral fuels including oil: $75.8 billion (9.8%)
4. Electrical machinery, equipment: $69.3 billion (8.9%)
5. Pharmaceuticals: $40.2 billion (5.2%)
6. Plastics, plastic articles: $27.2 billion (3.5%)
7. Optical, technical, medical apparatus: $24.9 billion (3.2%)
8. Aircraft, spacecraft: $17.3 billion (2.2%)
9. Articles of iron or steel: $14 billion (1.8%)
10. Organic chemicals: $13.7 billion (1.8%)

France’s top 10 import product categories generated almost three-fifths (59.6%) of the overall value of its product purchases from other countries.

Double-digit gainers among the listed top product categories was aircraft and spacecraft (up 26.2% from 2024), pharmaceuticals (up 21.5%) and machinery including computers (up 12.4%).

Leading the decliners were France’s import spending on mineral fuels including oil (down -13.6% from 2024).

France’s Best Machinery Imports

In 2025, French importers spent the most on the following 10 subcategories of machinery-related products including computers.

1. Turbo-jets: US$23.3 billion (up 32.5% from 2024)
2. Computers, optical readers: $12.4 billion (up 16.1%)
3. Centrifuges, filters and purifiers: $4 billion (up 22.3%)
4. Taps, valves, similar appliances: $3.9 billion (up 0.5%)
5. Machinery parts: $3.1 billion (up 6.1%)
6. Miscellaneous machinery: $3 billion (up 7.5%)
7. Printing machinery: $2.86 billion (down -2.7%)
8. Air or vacuum pumps: $2.85 billion (up 11.3%)
9. Piston engine parts: $2.8 billion (up 17.9%)
10. Refrigerators, freezers: $2.79 billion (up 8.1%)

Among these import subcategories, French purchases of turbo-jets (up 32.5%), centrifuges, filters and purifiers (up 22.3%) then piston engine parts (up 17.9%) grew at the fastest pace from 2024 to 2025.

These amounts and the percentages within parenthesis clearly show where the strongest demand lies for different types of imported machinery among French businesses and consumers.

France’s Best Vehicles Imports

In 2025, French importers spent the most on the following 10 subcategories of vehicles.

1. Cars: US$42.3 billion (down -4.5% from 2024)
2. Automobile parts/accessories: $18.5 billion (up 6.8%)
3. Trucks: $6.4 billion (down -4.7%)
4. Tractors: $3.8 billion (down -7.9%)
5. Motorcycles: $2 billion (down -3.7%)
6. Public-transport vehicles: $1.6 billion (up 17.2%)
7. Trailers: $1.3 billion (up 1.7%)
8. Motorcycle parts/accessories: $1.1 billion (up 9.4%)
9. Special purpose vehicles: $588.3 million (down -8.3%)
10. Automobile bodies: $554.4 million (down -4.6%)

Among these import subcategories, French purchases of public-transport vehicles (up 17.2%), motorcycle parts or accessories (up 9.4%) then automobile parts or accessories (up 6.8%) grew at the fastest pace from 2024 to 2025.

These amounts and percentages within parenthesis clearly show where the strongest demand lies for different types of imported vehicles among French businesses and consumers.

France’s Best Mineral Fuels Imports

In 2025, French importers spent the most on the following 10 subcategories of mineral fuels-related products.

1. Crude oil: US$27.8 billion (down -6.5% from 2024)
2. Processed petroleum oils: $22.4 billion (down -17.7%)
3. Petroleum gases: $21.9 billion (down -18.7%)
4. Electrical energy: $1 billion (up 13.8%)
5. Coal, solid fuels made from coal: $968.7 million (down -19.2%)
6. Petroleum oil residues: $667.2 million (up 1.9%)
7. Coal tar oils (high temperature distillation): $403.1 million (up 29.8%)
8. Coke, semi-coke: $262.3 million (down -35.7%)
9. Petroleum jelly, mineral waxes: $150.4 million (up 23.8%)
10. Peat: $109.7 million (up 15.2%)

Among these import subcategories, French purchases of high-temperature distilled coal tar oils (up 29.8%), petroleum jelly and mineral waxes (up 23.8%) then peat (up 15.2%) grew at the fastest pace from 2024 to 2025.

These amounts clearly show where the strongest demand lies for different types of imported fossil fuels-related products among French businesses and consumers.

France’s Best Electronics Imports

In 2025, French importers spent the most on the following subcategories of electrical products including consumer electronics.

1. Phone devices including smartphones: US$13.3 billion (up 5.1% from 2024)
2. Insulated wire/cable: $5.9 billion (up 10.1%)
3. Electric storage batteries: $4.6 billion (down -4.6%)
4. Electrical converters/power units: $4.6 billion (up 11.4%)
5. Lower-voltage switches, fuses: $4 billion (up 6.6%)
6. Integrated circuits/microassemblies: $3.5 billion (down -5.9%)
7. Electric water heaters, hair dryers: $3.5 billion (up 9.6%)
8. Electrical/optical circuit boards, panels: $2.9 billion (up 14.3%)
9. TV receivers/monitors/projectors: $2.9 billion (up 1.9%)
10. Electric motors, generators: $2 billion (down -4.3%)

Among these import subcategories, French purchases of electrical or optical circuit boards and panels (up 14.3%), electrical converters and power units (up 11.4%) then insulated wire or cable (up 10.1%) grew at the fastest pace from 2024 to 2025.

These amounts and the percentages within parenthesis clearly show where the strongest demand lies for different types of imported electronics among French businesses and consumers.
 

 

See also France’s Top Trading Partners, France’s Top 10 Exports and France’s Top 10 Major Export Companies

Research Sources:
Central Intelligence Agency, The World Factbook Country Profiles. Accessed on March 8, 2026

International Trade Centre, Trade Map. Accessed on March 8, 2026

Richest Country Reports, Key Statistics Powering Global Wealth. Accessed on March 8, 2026

X-rates.com, Exchange Rates: Euro to US Dollar (monthly average 2025). Accessed on March 8, 2026