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Import market · HS 4203 · LS

Lesotho imports of Articles of apparel and clothing accessories (HS 4203)

Where Lesotho buys articles of apparel and clothing accessories: value, growth, unit value and the top suppliers, from official CEPII BACI statistics. World market for HS 4203 · Lesotho trade profile

Lesotho imports, 2024USD 225,929Sum over 12 supplying economies. Source: CEPII BACI.
Lesotho imports, 2023USD 176,769Same partners, previous year. Source: CEPII BACI.
Growth+27.8%2024 against 2023, USD. Source: CEPII BACI.
Unit valueUSD 6,350 per tonneValue divided by quantity, flows with a reported quantity only (100.0% of the value). Source: CEPII BACI.
Trade companies in the directory7Active companies in wholesale and retail trade (NACE section G) in this economy, counts only. Source: AYBARION company directory, see the Data Passport.

Top suppliers

#SupplierValue 2024ShareGrowthRecord
1South AfricaUSD 180,27379.8%+11.6%BACI:LS:ZA:4203:1:2024
2ChinaUSD 23,94010.6%+511.3%BACI:LS:CN:4203:1:2024
3United StatesUSD 14,5296.4%+13,108.2%BACI:LS:US:4203:1:2024
4MacaoUSD 3,0041.3%not availableBACI:LS:MO:4203:1:2024
5PakistanUSD 2,0550.9%+4,272.3%BACI:LS:PK:4203:1:2024
6Hong KongUSD 1,3110.6%−87.6%BACI:LS:HK:4203:1:2024
7ItalyUSD 4690.2%−12.7%BACI:LS:IT:4203:1:2024
8NauruUSD 1950.1%not availableBACI:LS:NR:4203:1:2024
9BangladeshUSD 490.0%not availableBACI:LS:BD:4203:1:2024
10RomaniaUSD 480.0%not availableBACI:LS:RO:4203:1:2024

Source: CEPII BACI HS22 V202601, year 2024 (growth against 2023), USD. Shares of the Lesotho total over the partners BACI lists. Record IDs per row.

Trade companies: active companies registered in wholesale and retail trade (NACE section G) in Lesotho, counted in the AYBARION company directory. The matching wholesale activity for this product is Wholesale of other household goods (NACE 4649) and Wholesale of clothing and footwear (NACE 4642). Counts only.

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Data Passport

  • CEPII BACI HS22 V202601: trade values by exporter, importer and product, years 2024 and 2023, USD at FOB prices, quantities in metric tons. Publisher: CEPII. Licence: Etalab Open Licence 2.0 (Licence Ouverte), attribution "CEPII BACI". Record IDs: BACI:reporter:product:flow:year. Source
  • AYBARION company directory: counts of active companies registered in wholesale and retail trade (NACE Rev.2 section G), from official registers and open datasets, built 2026-10-22. Counts only: no names, addresses or contacts are shown here. Sources under share-alike licences (CC BY-SA) or with an unverified licence are not counted, and no company data is offered for countries under comprehensive sanctions.
  • Method: Values are CEPII BACI reconciled flows of Lesotho with each partner, aggregated from HS6 to HS4; the total is the sum over partners; shares divide each partner by that total; growth compares 2024 with 2023; unit value is value divided by quantity over flows that report a quantity. Peru and the Philippines are left out of lists and totals by policy.

Trade database built 2026-10-24. Values are official statistics as published; nothing on this page is estimated or invented. More in our methodology.

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