The overall value of tea imported by all buyer countries slowed by an average -2.6% since 2021 when global tea purchases cost $7.14 billion.
Year over year, the total dollar cost of imported tea fell by -4.7% compared to $7.3 billion during 2024.
In 2025, the 5 most valuable import markets for tea are Pakistan, United States of America, United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia and Germany. Combined, those major importers generated almost a third (32.5%) of the worldwide sales of imported tea.
More than two-fifths (82.9%) of globally imported tea was for purchases of black teas, with the remaining 17.1% for imported green teas (down from 25.3% in the prior year).
From a continental perspective, customers in Asian countries bought the most imported tea during 2025 with purchases totaling $2.72 billion or 39.3% of the worldwide total. In second place were European countries at 28.9% while another 16.7% of all tea imports was delivered to buyers in Africa.
Smaller percentages went to North America (11.6%), Latin America (1.8%) excluding Mexico but including the Caribbean, then Oceania (1.7%) mostly Australia and New Zealand.
For research purposes, the 4-digit Harmonized Tariff System code prefix for tea is 0902.
Tea Imports by Country
Below are the 15 countries that imported the highest dollar value worth of tea during 2025.
- Pakistan: US$629.9 million (9.1% of total imported tea)
- United States: $620.4 million (8.9%)
- United Kingdom: $393.4 million (5.7%)
- Saudi Arabia: $310.4 million (4.5%)
- Germany: $308.4 million (4.4%)
- Morocco: $289.3 million (4.2%)
- Egypt: $257.9 million (3.7%)
- United Arab Emirates: $233.3 million (3.4%)
- mainland China: $184.5 million (2.7%)
- Japan: $176 million (2.5%)
- France: $174.8 million (2.5%)
- Canada: $165.1 million (2.4%)
- Poland: $162.1 million (2.3%)
- Netherlands: $161.2 million (2.3%)
- Russia: $154.8 million (2.2%)
By value, the listed 15 countries purchased 60.7% of all tea imported in 2025.
Among the above countries, the fastest-growing markets for tea since 2024 were: Germany (up 25%), Morocco (up 18.2%), mainland China (up 17.1%) and Canada (up 12.6%).
Those countries that posted year-over-year declines in their imported tea purchases were: Russia (down -63.1%), United Arab Emirates (down -10%), Egypt (down -5.5%) and Pakistan (down -0.7%).
Searchable List of Tea Importing Countries in 2025
Ranked in the database below, the 100 key import markets for tea accounted for 98.5% of the value of globally imported tea during 2025.
| Rank | Importer | Tea Imports | 2024-5 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pakistan | $629,934,000 | -0.7% |
| 2 | United States | $620,364,000 | +7.2% |
| 3 | United Kingdom | $393,417,000 | +4.4% |
| 4 | Saudi Arabia | $310,414,000 | +2.6% |
| 5 | Germany | $308,359,000 | +25% |
| 6 | Morocco | $289,328,000 | +18.2% |
| 7 | Egypt | $257,921,000 | -5.5% |
| 8 | United Arab Emirates | $233,301,000 | -10% |
| 9 | mainland China | $184,494,000 | +17.1% |
| 10 | Japan | $176,048,000 | +9.2% |
| 11 | France | $174,769,000 | +12.2% |
| 12 | Canada | $165,074,000 | +12.6% |
| 13 | Poland | $162,102,000 | +10.3% |
| 14 | Netherlands | $161,162,000 | +4.9% |
| 15 | Russia | $154,761,000 | -63.1% |
| 16 | Iraq | $126,026,000 | -58.4% |
| 17 | Australia | $120,211,000 | -1.5% |
| 18 | Senegal | $102,853,000 | +1457% |
| 19 | Malaysia | $99,335,000 | -1.1% |
| 20 | Kazakhstan | $94,042,000 | +17.3% |
| 21 | Italy | $89,541,000 | +2.7% |
| 22 | Ghana | $87,771,000 | +2109% |
| 23 | Azerbaijan | $82,952,000 | +8.5% |
| 24 | Chile | $80,727,000 | +40.2% |
| 25 | Belgium | $77,442,000 | +8.4% |
| 26 | Hong Kong | $77,150,000 | -25.9% |
| 27 | Taiwan | $77,017,000 | -1.5% |
| 28 | India | $76,901,000 | -4.8% |
| 29 | Uzbekistan | $66,382,000 | +31.1% |
| 30 | Spain | $59,204,000 | +17.5% |
| 31 | Algeria | $55,399,000 | +84.5% |
| 32 | Türkiye | $52,770,000 | +48.8% |
| 33 | Iran | $52,746,000 | -69.6% |
| 34 | Sweden | $52,651,000 | +7.8% |
| 35 | Singapore | $51,890,000 | +6.6% |
| 36 | Ireland | $50,488,000 | -5.9% |
| 37 | Vietnam | $48,594,000 | +78.5% |
| 38 | Switzerland | $47,544,000 | +15.3% |
| 39 | Mali | $46,519,000 | +11.6% |
| 40 | Indonesia | $40,521,000 | +30% |
| 41 | Thailand | $40,110,000 | +41.9% |
| 42 | Czech Republic | $39,963,000 | +26.4% |
| 43 | South Africa | $35,931,000 | -5.2% |
| 44 | Libya | $34,830,000 | -49.8% |
| 45 | Austria | $32,861,000 | +9.4% |
| 46 | Gambia | $31,738,000 | +1715% |
| 47 | Niger | $31,548,000 | +155.9% |
| 48 | Denmark | $29,598,000 | +15.6% |
| 49 | Philippines | $27,228,000 | +29.2% |
| 50 | Guinea | $22,905,000 | -0.4% |
| 51 | Mauritania | $22,734,000 | +6.1% |
| 52 | Norway | $19,900,000 | +1.9% |
| 53 | South Korea | $19,694,000 | -19.8% |
| 54 | New Zealand | $18,858,000 | +15.6% |
| 55 | Finland | $17,180,000 | +10.7% |
| 56 | Ukraine | $16,049,000 | -66.2% |
| 57 | Togo | $15,681,000 | +1473% |
| 58 | Sri Lanka | $15,607,000 | -33.9% |
| 59 | Mexico | $15,435,000 | +13.1% |
| 60 | Chad | $15,284,000 | +38.2% |
| 61 | Kuwait | $14,164,000 | -80.6% |
| 62 | Ivory Coast | $13,705,000 | +13.8% |
| 63 | Greece | $12,846,000 | +2.9% |
| 64 | Portugal | $12,163,000 | +20.7% |
| 65 | Kyrgyzstan | $12,036,000 | +22% |
| 66 | Qatar | $11,843,000 | -64.9% |
| 67 | Israel | $11,481,000 | +8.5% |
| 68 | Hungary | $11,194,000 | +4.3% |
| 69 | Lithuania | $11,102,000 | +4.7% |
| 70 | Mozambique | $10,444,000 | +204.4% |
| 71 | Latvia | $10,296,000 | +11.8% |
| 72 | Tunisia | $10,196,000 | -52.3% |
| 73 | Macao | $9,575,000 | -9.3% |
| 74 | Georgia | $9,274,000 | +8.6% |
| 75 | Jordan | $9,019,000 | -88.1% |
| 76 | Moldova | $8,502,000 | +14.4% |
| 77 | Kenya | $8,325,000 | +73.4% |
| 78 | Botswana | $8,304,000 | -9.2% |
| 79 | Tajikistan | $7,831,000 | +5.3% |
| 80 | Cameroon | $7,824,000 | +2392% |
| 81 | Romania | $6,722,000 | +11.7% |
| 82 | Oman | $6,285,000 | -85.5% |
| 83 | Slovakia | $5,762,000 | -1.9% |
| 84 | Estonia | $5,758,000 | -13.2% |
| 85 | Sudan | $5,509,000 | -69.2% |
| 86 | Nigeria | $5,419,000 | -64.2% |
| 87 | Bahrain | $5,325,000 | -74.1% |
| 88 | Afghanistan | $5,290,000 | -68.1% |
| 89 | Namibia | $5,230,000 | +14.4% |
| 90 | Fiji | $5,218,000 | +25.9% |
| 91 | Cyprus | $5,070,000 | +25.7% |
| 92 | Mongolia | $5,055,000 | -22.5% |
| 93 | Burkina Faso | $4,635,000 | +14.8% |
| 94 | Bulgaria | $4,396,000 | -9.7% |
| 95 | Trinidad/Tobago | $4,188,000 | +24.1% |
| 96 | Croatia | $3,922,000 | +40.3% |
| 97 | Turkmenistan | $3,806,000 | -50.6% |
| 98 | Luxembourg | $3,741,000 | +6.2% |
| 99 | Eswatini | $3,695,000 | +22.8% |
| 100 | Lebanon | $3,579,000 | -82% |
Expanding the scope to the 100 leading buyer countries, the fastest-growing import markets for tea from 2024 to 2025 were Cameroon (up 2,392%), Ghana (up 2,109%), Gambia (up 1,715%), Togo (up 1,473%) and Senegal (up 1,457%).
You can change the presentation order by clicking the triangle icon at the top of any of the columns above. An entry of 0% in the right-most column means that no 2024 data was available.
Tea Imports into Pakistan
Below are the top 15 suppliers from which Pakistan imported the highest dollar value worth of tea during 2025. Within parenthesis is the percentage change in value for each supplying country from 2024 to 2025.
- Kenya: US$550.8 million (down -1.20% from 2024)
- Rwanda: $38.5 million (up 15.6%)
- Vietnam: $16.2 million (up 21.5%)
- Malawi: $5.6 million (down -32.2%)
- Uganda: $5.2 million (down -36.6%)
- Tanzania: $5.1 million (down -6.9%)
- mainland China: $2.4 million (down -1.5%)
- Indonesia: $2.3 million (up 39.6%)
- United Arab Emirates: $1.22 million (up 3102.6%)
- Burundi: $1.18 million (down -51.5%)
- Bangladesh: $990,000 (down -25.7%)
- India: $81,000 (2024 data unavailable)
- Argentina: $54,000 (2024 data unavailable)
- Sri Lanka: $49,000 (up 58.1%)
- Kiribati: $44,000 (up 33.3%)
By value, the listed 15 countries shipped 99.98% of tea imported by Pakistan in 2025.
Among the above countries, the fastest-growing suppliers of tea to Pakistan since 2024 were: United Arab Emirates (up 3,103%), Sri Lanka (up 58.1%), Indonesia (up 39.6%) and Kiribati (up 33.3%).
Countries that experienced year-over-year declines in the value of their tea supplied to Pakistani importers included: Burundi (down -51.5%), Uganda (down -36.6%), Malawi (down -32.2%) and Bangladesh (down -25.7%).
Overall, the value of Pakistan’s imported tea slowed by an average -0.7% from all supplying countries since 2024 when tea purchased cost $634.4 million.
Tea Imports into the United States
Below are the top 15 suppliers from which the United States imported the highest dollar value worth of tea during 2025. Within parenthesis is the percentage change in value for each supplying country from 2024 to 2025.
- Japan: US$190.3 million (up 72.34% from 2024)
- India: $63 million (down -8.1%)
- mainland China: $55.9 million (down -6.2%)
- Argentina: $54.5 million (down -13%)
- Sri Lanka: $48.5 million (down -1.6%)
- Canada: $29.6 million (up 3.8%)
- United Kingdom: $23.6 million (down -23.6%)
- United Arab Emirates: $19 million (down -12.6%)
- Taiwan: $18.9 million (down -16.1%)
- Germany: $18.5 million (down -0.2%)
- Poland: $18.5 million (down -3.9%)
- Vietnam: $10.8 million (down -1.7%)
- Pakistan: $10.1 million (down -3.9%)
- South Korea: $8.1 million (up 65.5%)
- Malawi: $7.3 million (down -29.8%)
By value, the listed 15 countries shipped 92.9% of tea imported by the United States of America in 2025.
Among the above countries, the growth suppliers of tea to the US since 2024 were: Japan (up 72.3%), South Korea (up 65.5%) and Canada (up 3.8%).
Countries that experienced year-over-year declines in the value of their tea supplied to American importers included: Malawi (down -29.8%), United Kingdom (down -23.6%), Taiwan (down -16.1%) and Argentina (down -13%).
Overall, the value of United States’s imported tea rose by an average 7.2% from all supplying countries since 2024 when tea purchased cost $578.6 million.
Tea Imports into the United Kingdom
Below are the top 15 suppliers from which Britain imported the highest dollar value worth of tea during 2025. Within parenthesis is the percentage change in value for each supplying country from 2024 to 2025.
- Kenya: US$136.3 million (down -7.5% from 2024)
- India: $63.4 million (up 4.8%)
- Japan: $34.7 million (up 330.4%)
- Rwanda: $19.9 million (down -4.8%)
- Malawi: $19.9 million (up 21.2%)
- Switzerland: $19.6 million (down -6%)
- Sri Lanka: $17.6 million (up 3.1%)
- mainland China: $15.7 million (up 30.5%)
- Poland: $12.4 million (down -17.1%)
- Germany: $9.5 million (down -22%)
- Türkiye: $8.16 million (up 9.4%)
- Tanzania: $5.59 million (down -25.8%)
- Ireland: $3.1 million (down -11.8%)
- United Arab Emirates: $2.8 million (up 35.6%)
- South Africa: $2.4 million (down -19.8%)
By value, the listed 15 countries shipped 94.3% of tea imported by the UK in 2025.
Among the above countries, the fastest-growing suppliers of tea to the United Kingdom since 2024 were: Japan (up 330.4%), United Arab Emirates (up 35.6%), mainland China (up 30.5%) and Malawi (up 21.2%).
Countries that experienced year-over-year declines in the value of their tea supplied to the UK’s importers included: Tanzania (down -25.8%), Germany (down -22%), South Africa (down -19.8%) and Poland (down -17.1%).
Overall, the value of United Kingdom’s imported tea went up by an average 4.4% from all supplying countries since 2024 when tea purchased cost $377 million.
Tea Imports into Saudia Arabia
Below are the top 15 suppliers from which Saudia Arabia imported the highest dollar value worth of tea during 2025. Within parenthesis is the percentage change in value for each supplying country from 2024 to 2025.
- Sri Lanka: US$72.1 million (up 4.21% from 2024)
- United Arab Emirates: $70.7 million (up 35.7%)
- Jordan: $37.5 million (down -11.1%)
- Kenya: $33.9 million (down -35.8%)
- India: $30.2 million (down -9.9%)
- Yemen: $16.8 million (up 37.8%)
- Egypt: $9.1 million (down -21.1%)
- Poland: $7.9 million (up 39.9%)
- mainland China: $7.6 million (up 95.6%)
- Japan: $6.8 million (up 206.5%)
- Vietnam: $6.1 million (up 9.9%)
- Oman: $1.6 million (down -5.4%)
- Pakistan: $1.2 million (down -14.5%)
- Malawi: $1.1 million (down -16.3%)
- United Kingdom: $1.09 million (up 12.5%)
By value, the listed 15 countries shipped 97.9% of tea imported by Saudia Arabia in 2025.
Among the above countries, the fastest-growing suppliers of tea to Saudi Arabia since 2024 were: Japan (up 206.5%), mainland China (up 95.6%), Poland (up 39.9%) and Yemen (up 37.8%).
Countries that experienced year-over-year declines in the value of their tea supplied to Saudi importers included: Kenya (down -35.8%), Egypt (down -21.1%), Malawi (down -16.3%) and Pakistan (down -14.5%).
Overall, the value of Saudi Arabia’s imported tea grew by an average 2.6% from all supplying countries since 2024 when tea purchased cost $302.6 million.
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Research Sources:
Central Intelligence Agency, The World Factbook Field Listing: Imports – Commodities. Accessed on June 22, 2026
International Trade Centre, Trade Map. Accessed on June 22, 2026
Investopedia, Net Exports Definition. Accessed on June 22, 2026