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Trade by country

Syria (Syrian Arab Republic)

In 2025, US goods exports to Syria (Syrian Arab Republic) were $5.2 million and goods imports from Syria (Syrian Arab Republic) were $7.6 million; imports exceeded exports by $2.3 million.

Goods: the latest figures

2025, full year

Exports
$5.2 million
Imports
$7.6 million
Balance
imports exceeded exports by $2.3 million (a goods trade deficit, in Census's term)
Total goods trade
$12.8 million
Share of US goods trade
less than 0.001%
Rank among partners
No. 205 of 231

Latest 12 months, August 2025 to July 2026

Exports
$9.7 million
Imports
$5.0 million
Balance
exports exceeded imports by $4.7 million (a goods trade surplus, in Census's term)
Total goods trade
$14.6 million
Share of US goods trade
less than 0.001%
Rank among partners
No. 206 of 233

2025 rank among 231 partners with trade that year; 12-month rank among 233.

  • Census basis goods, not seasonally adjusted. Exports are free alongside ship value; imports are general imports (customs value), everything that arrives, including goods entering bonded warehouses and Foreign Trade Zones. Shares and ranks compare total goods trade (exports plus imports) with the same period's world total.
  • US exports include re-exports: foreign goods shipped on in substantially the same condition as when they were imported. Exports are credited to the destination as known to the shipper and imports to the country of origin. The workbook used here does not separate re-exports.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Trade in Goods by Country. Monthly data through July 2026; 2025 is the latest full year. Census revises the prior year's country totals each June. Retrieved Sept. 26, 2026.

Goods since 1992

US goods exports to and imports from Syria (Syrian Arab Republic), 1992 to 2025

Full years only, in current dollars (not adjusted for inflation).

$0$5M$10M$15M$20M$25M202020212022202320242025

$0$10M$20M$30M$40M$50M20162018202020222024

$0$200M$400M$600M200020102020

Data table
YearExportsImportsBalanceTotalShare of US goods tradeRank
2026 (7 months)$6.1M$2.8MExports exceeded imports by $3.3M$8.9Mless than 0.001%207
2025$5.2M$7.6MImports exceeded exports by $2.3M$12.8Mless than 0.001%205
2024$2M$10.7MImports exceeded exports by $8.7M$12.7Mless than 0.001%205
2023$14.1M$11MExports exceeded imports by $3.1M$25Mless than 0.001%199
2022$8.8M$8.8MExports exceeded imports by $71K$17.6Mless than 0.001%206
2021$11.2M$9.4MExports exceeded imports by $1.8M$20.6Mless than 0.001%197
2020$25.9M$10MExports exceeded imports by $16M$35.9M0.001%189
2019$8.6M$6MExports exceeded imports by $2.7M$14.6Mless than 0.001%203
2018$50.5M$5.9MExports exceeded imports by $44.6M$56.4M0.001%182
2017$7M$7MImports exceeded exports by $71K$14Mless than 0.001%198
2016$3.5M$6.7MImports exceeded exports by $3.2M$10.2Mless than 0.001%204
2015$3.1M$6.5MImports exceeded exports by $3.5M$9.6Mless than 0.001%203
2014$6.8M$12.4MImports exceeded exports by $5.5M$19.2Mless than 0.001%197
2013$21.6M$19.2MExports exceeded imports by $2.4M$40.9M0.001%184
2012$19.5M$19.5MExports exceeded imports by $14K$38.9M0.001%185
2011$230.2M$393.2MImports exceeded exports by $163.1M$623.4M0.02%115
2010$503.3M$429.3MExports exceeded imports by $74M$932.7M0.03%97
2009$303.9M$303.1MExports exceeded imports by $791K$607M0.02%103
2008$408.9M$352.1MExports exceeded imports by $56.8M$761M0.02%106
2007$361.4M$110.5MExports exceeded imports by $250.9M$472M0.02%114
2006$224.3M$213.8MExports exceeded imports by $10.5M$438.1M0.02%112
2005$155M$323.6MImports exceeded exports by $168.5M$478.6M0.02%108
2004$213M$267.8MImports exceeded exports by $54.8M$480.8M0.02%101
2003$214M$246.1MImports exceeded exports by $32.1M$460.1M0.02%95
2002$274.2M$160.9MExports exceeded imports by $113.3M$435.1M0.02%93
2001$231.4M$158.6MExports exceeded imports by $72.8M$390M0.02%98
2000$226M$158.7MExports exceeded imports by $67.3M$384.7M0.02%99
1999$172.9M$94.8MExports exceeded imports by $78.1M$267.7M0.02%106
1998$161.5M$46MExports exceeded imports by $115.5M$207.5M0.01%111
1997$180.5M$27.8MExports exceeded imports by $152.7M$208.3M0.01%111
1996$226.5M$15.1MExports exceeded imports by $211.4M$241.6M0.02%105
1995$223.4M$61.1MExports exceeded imports by $162.3M$284.5M0.02%94
1994$198M$64.3MExports exceeded imports by $133.7M$262.3M0.02%94
1993$186.4M$130.3MExports exceeded imports by $56.1M$316.7M0.03%89
1992$165.5M$42MExports exceeded imports by $123.5M$207.5M0.02%99

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Trade in Goods by Country. Census Trade in Goods by Country, country.xlsx (columns IYR, EYR) · retrieved Sept. 26, 2026 · 9,217 rows · as of July 2026 · monthly. Download CSV

2026 so far (7 months): exports $6.1 million, imports $2.8 million; exports exceeded imports by $3.3 million. Not in the chart, because a part year is not comparable with a full one.

Ranks start in 1992; before then the Census workbook covers only 76 partners. Shares start in 1987, the first year with a world total.

Goods by month

US goods exports to and imports from Syria (Syrian Arab Republic), by month

The latest 24 months. Not seasonally adjusted, so compare a month with the same month a year earlier.

$0$500K$1M$1.5M$2MJan. 2025July 2025Jan. 2026July 2026

Data table
MonthExportsImportsBalance
Aug. 2024$10K$1.3MImports exceeded exports by $1.2M
Sept. 2024$40K$376KImports exceeded exports by $336K
Oct. 2024$40K$1.9MImports exceeded exports by $1.9M
Nov. 2024$161K$1.7MImports exceeded exports by $1.5M
Dec. 2024$443K$401KExports exceeded imports by $43K
Jan. 2025$11K$565KImports exceeded exports by $554K
Feb. 2025$31K$913KImports exceeded exports by $882K
March 2025$65K$772KImports exceeded exports by $707K
April 2025$819K$753KExports exceeded imports by $66K
May 2025$38K$331KImports exceeded exports by $293K
June 2025$471K$740KImports exceeded exports by $269K
July 2025$214K$1.3MImports exceeded exports by $1.1M
Aug. 2025$776K$573KExports exceeded imports by $203K
Sept. 2025$201K$274KImports exceeded exports by $73K
Oct. 2025$363K$240KExports exceeded imports by $123K
Nov. 2025$956K$72KExports exceeded imports by $884K
Dec. 2025$1.3M$1MExports exceeded imports by $273K
Jan. 2026$264K$469KImports exceeded exports by $205K
Feb. 2026$170K$144KExports exceeded imports by $26K
March 2026$1.8M$681KExports exceeded imports by $1.2M
April 2026$192K$376KImports exceeded exports by $184K
May 2026$1M$363KExports exceeded imports by $680K
June 2026$1.8M$447KExports exceeded imports by $1.3M
July 2026$833K$310KExports exceeded imports by $523K

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Trade in Goods by Country. Census Trade in Goods by Country, country.xlsx (columns IJAN..IDEC, EJAN..EDEC) · retrieved Sept. 26, 2026 · 5,923 rows · as of July 2026 · monthly. Download CSV

US goods trade with Syria (Syrian Arab Republic), August 2025 to July 2026: each month beside the same month a year earlier
MonthExportsA year earlierChangeImportsA year earlierChange
July 2026$833K$214K+290.0%$310K$1.3M-76.5%
June 2026$1.8M$471K+276.9%$447K$740K-39.6%
May 2026$1M$38K+2628.5%$363K$331K+9.5%
April 2026$192K$819K-76.5%$376K$753K-50.1%
March 2026$1.8M$65K+2748.9%$681K$772K-11.8%
Feb. 2026$170K$31K+455.9%$144K$913K-84.2%
Jan. 2026$264K$11K+2276.3%$469K$565K-17.0%
Dec. 2025$1.3M$443K+187.5%$1M$401K+149.9%
Nov. 2025$956K$161K+493.6%$72K$1.7M-95.7%
Oct. 2025$363K$40K+799.3%$240K$1.9M-87.5%
Sept. 2025$201K$40K+401.7%$274K$376K-27.1%
Aug. 2025$776K$10K+7391.2%$573K$1.3M-54.4%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Trade in Goods by Country. Monthly, August 2024 to July 2026; not seasonally adjusted. Retrieved Sept. 26, 2026.

Services

Services are counted separately from goods, by a different agency, on an annual timetable. They are not added to the goods figures above.

US trade in services with Syria (Syrian Arab Republic), 2018 to 2025
YearExportsImportsBalance (exports minus imports)
2025$148M$66MExports exceeded imports by $82M
2024$198M$96MExports exceeded imports by $101M
2023$217M$118MExports exceeded imports by $99M
2022$211M$102MExports exceeded imports by $109M
2021$216M$82MExports exceeded imports by $135M
2020$224M$30MExports exceeded imports by $194M
2019$455M$45MExports exceeded imports by $410M
2018$410M$50MExports exceeded imports by $359M

The balance column is BEA's published balance, which BEA rounds on its own, so it can differ by a million dollars from the exports and imports shown beside it. The 2025 balance is a services trade surplus, in BEA's term.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, International Services, Table 2.4. Annual, 2018 to 2025, released July 7, 2026; cells exactly as BEA publishes them, marks included. Retrieved Sept. 26, 2026. Download CSV

Direct investment

The value of direct investment at year end, both ways: US companies' stake in businesses in Syria (Syrian Arab Republic), and investors in Syria (Syrian Arab Republic) with a stake in US businesses. Historical cost (book value), not market value.

Direct investment positions, 2020 to 2025
Year endUS direct investment in Syria (Syrian Arab Republic)Direct investment from Syria (Syrian Arab Republic) in the US
2025$0$0
2024$0$0
2023$0$0
2022$0$0
2021$0$0
2020$0$0

BEA assigns each position to the immediate counterpart country, which may not be where the money ends up or where the ultimate owner is. That is why financial centers such as the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Caribbean islands rank high.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, Direct Investment by Country and Industry. Positions at year end, 2020 to 2025; inward by country of foreign parent; cells exactly as BEA publishes them. Retrieved Sept. 26, 2026. Download CSV

Trade agreements

USTR lists no trade agreement with Syria (Syrian Arab Republic).

From USTR's list of free trade agreements in force and its page of agreements on reciprocal trade, in USTR's own wording. USTR's reciprocal trade page does not say whether each agreement is in force, so none is described that way here.

Source: Office of the United States Trade Representative, Free Trade Agreements and Agreements on Reciprocal Trade. Checked Sept. 26, 2026. Retrieved Sept. 26, 2026.

Context

Population, 2025
25.6 million
GDP, current US dollars, 2022
$23.7 billion

The World Bank's name for this economy: Syrian Arab Republic.

Source: The World Bank: World Development Indicators: Population, total (SP.POP.TOTL), UN Population Division and national statistical offices. The World Bank: World Development Indicators: GDP (current US$) (NY.GDP.MKTP.CD), country official statistics, OECD national accounts data files and World Bank staff estimates. License: CC BY 4.0. Most recent value per economy. Retrieved Sept. 26, 2026.

Top products and tariffs

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