The value of beauty cosmetics and skincare products imports rose 21.1% for all importing countries since 2019 when international purchases of beauty cosmetics and skincare products cost a total $62.6 billion.
Year over year, worldwide spending for globally imported beauty cosmetics and skincare goods grew 2.4% from $74.1 billion worth of imports during 2022.
The 5 biggest buyers of imported beauty cosmetics and skincare in 2023 were mainland China, United States of America, Hong Kong, Singapore and Germany. Collectively, those purchasing nations bought over four-fifths (43.5%) of global imports for these specialized personal care products.
From a continental perspective, Asian countries bought the highest dollar worth of imported beauty cosmetics and skincare products during 2023 with purchases amounting to $36.3 billion or 47.9% of the global total. In second place were importers in Europe at 33.5% while another 12.8% of beauty cosmetics and skincare products imported worldwide was delivered to buyers in North America.
Smaller percentages went to customers in Latin America (2.6%) excluding Mexico but including the Caribbean, Oceania (1.9%) led by Australia and New Zealand, then Africa (1.3%).
For research purposes, the 4-digit Harmonized Tariff System code prefix is 3304 for beauty or make-up preparations and skincare products including sunscreen.
Beauty Cosmetics and Skincare Imports by Country
Below are the 15 countries that imported the highest dollar value worth of beauty cosmetics and skincare products during 2023.
- mainland China: US$14.4 billion (19% of total imported beauty and skincare)
- United States: $6.8 billion (9%)
- Hong Kong: $5.8 billion (7.7%)
- Singapore: $3 billion (3.9%)
- Germany: $2.9 billion (3.9%)
- United Kingdom: $2.8 billion (3.6%)
- France: $2.6 billion (3.5%)
- Netherlands: $2.04 billion (2.7%)
- Canada: $1.97 billion (2.6%)
- Macao: $1.63 billion (2.2%)
- United Arab Emirates: $1.60 billion (2.1%)
- Japan: $1.59 billion (2.1%)
- Spain: $1.59 billion (2.1%)
- Italy: $1.56 billion (2.1%)
- Poland: $1.47 billion (1.9%)
By value, the listed 15 countries purchased 68.3% of all beauty and skincare imported in 2023.
Among the above countries, the fastest-growing markets for beauty and skincare since 2022 were: France (up 28.6%), Italy (up 26.4%), United Arab Emirates (up 22.6%) and Poland (up 20.2%).
Those listed countries that posted declines in their imported beauty and skincare purchases were: Macao (down -32% from 2022), mainland China (down -19.9%), Hong Kong (down -6.5%) and Singapore (down -2.8%).
Beauty Cosmetics/Skincare Products Imported into China
China’s global purchases of imported beauty cosmetics and skincare products totaled US$14.4 billion in 2023. Below are the top 15 suppliers from which China imported the highest dollar value worth of beauty cosmetics and skincare products during 2022. Within parenthesis is the percentage change in value for each supplying country from 2022 to 2023.
- France: US$4 billion (down -12.7% from 2022)
- Japan: $3.5 billion (down -22.2%)
- South Korea: $2.1 billion (down -20.2%)
- United States of America: $1.5 billion (down -24.1%)
- United Kingdom: $1 billion (down -37.1%)
- Italy: $458.7 million (up 3.2%)
- Switzerland: $255.1 million (down -9%)
- Germany: $230.3 million (up 8.6%)
- Canada: $226 million (down -11%)
- Belgium: $222.2 million (down -54.3%)
- Thailand: $155 million (down -2.3%)
- Spain: $153.8 million (up 1.1%)
- Poland: $145.1 million (down -44.8%)
- Australia: $97.5 million (down -22.6%)
- Netherlands: $76.3 million (up 46%)
By value, the listed 15 countries shipped 97.8% of beauty and skincare goods imported by mainland China in 2023.
Among the above countries, the four growth suppliers of beauty and skincare goods to China since 2022 were: Netherlands (up 46%), Germany (up 8.6%), Italy (up 3.2%) and Spain (up 1.1%).
Countries that experienced declines in the value of their beauty and skincare products supplied to Chinese importers included: Belgium (down -54.3% from 2022), Poland (down -44.8%), United Kingdom (down -37.1%) and the United States of America (down -24.1%).
Overall, the value of China’s imported beauty and skincare goods declined by an average -19.9% from all supplying countries since 2022 when beauty and skincare goods purchased cost $18 billion.
Beauty Cosmetics/Skincare Products Imported into the United States
America’s global purchases of imported beauty cosmetics and skincare products totaled US$6.84 billion in 2023. Below are the top 15 suppliers from which the US imported the highest dollar value worth of beauty cosmetics and skincare products during 2023. Within parenthesis is the percentage change in value for each supplying country from 2022 to 2023.
- France: US$1.2 billion (up 9.5% from 2022)
- South Korea: $1.1 billion (up 30.9%)
- Canada: $1 billion (up 13.7%)
- Italy: $846.1 million (up 15.3%)
- mainland China: $677.7 million (up 6.9%)
- Mexico: $276.9 million (up 23.2%)
- United Kingdom: $259.3 million (up 1.9%)
- Japan: $182.4 million (down -23.6%)
- Germany: $181.6 million (down -14.2%)
- Sweden: $152.6 million (down -35.3%)
- Taiwan: $113.6 million (down -6.4%)
- Switzerland: $104.8 million (down -0.6%)
- Spain: $87.7 million (up 0.3%)
- Belgium: $77.5 million (up 13.7%)
- India: $60.9 million (up 7%)
By value, the listed 15 countries shipped 93.3% of beauty and skincare goods imported by United States in 2023.
Among the above countries, the fastest-growing suppliers of beauty and skincare goods to United States since 2022 were: South Korea (up 30.9%), Mexico (up 23.2%), Italy (up 15.3%) and Belgium (up 13.7%).
Countries that experienced declines in the value of their beauty and skincare products supplied to American importers included: Sweden (down -35.3% from 2022), Japan (down -23.6%), Germany (down -14.2%) and Taiwan (down -6.4%).
Overall, the value of United States’s imported beauty and skincare goods went up by an average 7.7% from all supplying countries since 2022 when beauty and skincare goods purchased cost $6.4 billion.
Beauty Cosmetics/Skincare Products Imported into Hong Kong
Hong Kong’s global purchases of imported beauty cosmetics and skincare products totaled US$5.81 billion in 2023. Below are the top 15 suppliers from which Hong Kong imported the highest dollar value worth of beauty cosmetics and skincare products during 2023. Within parenthesis is the percentage change in value for each supplying country from 2022 to 2023.
- South Korea: US$2.2 billion (down -28.7% from 2022)
- Singapore: $658.3 million (up 7.3%)
- Switzerland: $600.5 million (up 41.8%)
- mainland China: $572.3 million (up 63.9%)
- Japan: $472.4 million (down -13.9%)
- France: $305.2 million (up 57.3%)
- United States of America: $203.6 million (down -5.8%)
- Germany: $128.3 million (up 63.4%)
- Italy: $111.5 million (up 4.8%)
- Taiwan: $58.1 million (up 24.3%)
- Spain: $51.4 million (up 32.4%)
- Poland: $42.4 million (up 325.9%)
- Thailand: $40.2 million (down -40%)
- Macao: $40 million (up 24.6%)
- Netherlands: $37.8 million (down -40.8%)
By value, the listed 15 countries shipped 95.8% of beauty and skincare goods imported by Hong Kong in 2023.
Among the above countries, the fastest-growing suppliers of beauty and skincare goods to Hong Kong since 2022 were: Poland (up 325.9%), mainland China (up 63.9%), Germany (up 63.4%) and France (up 57.3%).
Countries that experienced declines in the value of their beauty and skincare products supplied to Hong Kong importers included: Netherlands (down -40.8% from 2022), Thailand (down -40%), South Korea (down -28.7%) and Japan (down -13.9%).
Overall, the value of Hong Kong’s imported beauty and skincare goods were down by an average 6.5% from all supplying countries since 2022 when beauty and skincare goods purchased cost $6.2 billion.
Beauty Cosmetics/Skincare Products Imported into Singapore
Singapore’s global purchases of imported beauty cosmetics and skincare products totaled US$2.99 billion in 2023. Below are the top 15 suppliers from which Singapore imported the highest dollar value worth of beauty cosmetics and skincare products during 2023. Within parenthesis is the percentage change in value for each supplying country from 2022 to 2023.
- France: US$1.3 billion (up 2.8% from 2022)
- Japan: $545.6 million (down -27.3%)
- United States of America: $303.4 million (up 3.4%)
- South Korea: $216.1 million (up 11.7%)
- Italy: $121.6 million (up 32.8%)
- United Kingdom: $65.6 million (up 25.7%)
- Canada: $49.2 million (up 13%)
- Malaysia: $48.2 million (up 31.7%)
- Switzerland: $46.2 million (up 7.8%)
- mainland China: $44.5 million (down -13.2%)
- Belgium: $40.1 million (up 52.6%)
- Germany: $23.8 million (up 16.9%)
- Thailand: $17.6 million (down -61.7%)
- India: $15.3 million (up 13.4%)
- Spain: $13.4 million (down -13.3%)
By value, the listed 15 countries shipped 96.7% of beauty and skincare goods imported by Singapore in 2023.
Among the above countries, the fastest-growing suppliers of beauty and skincare goods to Singapore since 2022 were: Belgium (up 52.6%), Italy (up 32.8%), Malaysia (up 31.7%) and the United Kingdom (up 25.7%).
Countries that experienced declines in the value of their beauty and skincare products supplied to Singaporean importers included: Thailand (down -61.7%), Japan (down -27.3%), Spain (down -13.3%) and mainland China (down -13.2%).
Overall, the value of Singapore’s imported beauty and skincare goods reduced by an average -2.8% from all supplying countries since 2022 when beauty and skincare goods purchased cost $3.1 billion.
Searchable List of Importers for Beauty Cosmetics/Skincare Goods
The strongest 100 importers of beauty cosmetics and skincare products showcased in the database below accounted for 99.1% of related imports in 2023.
| Rank | Importer | Beauty/Skincare Imports | 2022-3 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | mainland China | $14,430,329,000 | -19.9% |
| 2. | United States | $6,837,507,000 | +7.7% |
| 3. | Hong Kong | $5,812,174,000 | -6.5% |
| 4. | Singapore | $2,992,760,000 | -2.8% |
| 5. | Germany | $2,931,494,000 | +11.3% |
| 6. | United Kingdom | $2,752,768,000 | +15.7% |
| 7. | France | $2,617,504,000 | +28.6% |
| 8. | Netherlands | $2,044,508,000 | +13.6% |
| 9. | Canada | $1,965,345,000 | +8.6% |
| 10. | Macao | $1,630,886,000 | -32% |
| 11. | United Arab Emirates | $1,602,118,000 | +22.6% |
| 12. | Japan | $1,593,775,000 | +6.4% |
| 13. | Spain | $1,585,439,000 | +16.7% |
| 14. | Italy | $1,559,389,000 | +26.4% |
| 15. | Poland | $1,466,912,000 | +20.2% |
| 16. | Belgium | $1,421,217,000 | +6.8% |
| 17. | India | $1,175,079,000 | +153.6% |
| 18. | Australia | $1,143,721,000 | +17.3% |
| 19. | Russia | $1,105,044,000 | +35.4% |
| 20. | Czech Republic | $973,116,000 | +3.1% |
| 21. | Taiwan | $948,315,000 | +10.7% |
| 22. | South Korea | $934,386,000 | +1.3% |
| 23. | Mexico | $879,378,000 | +23.5% |
| 24. | Vietnam | $784,554,000 | +189.2% |
| 25. | Thailand | $724,069,000 | +21.3% |
| 26. | Switzerland | $651,539,000 | +4.9% |
| 27. | Sweden | $589,899,000 | +13% |
| 28. | Türkiye | $576,628,000 | +45.6% |
| 29. | Austria | $574,758,000 | +17.1% |
| 30. | Malaysia | $549,493,000 | +4.9% |
| 31. | Ireland | $527,501,000 | +4.6% |
| 32. | Saudi Arabia | $502,879,000 | -38.3% |
| 33. | Denmark | $470,963,000 | +19.3% |
| 34. | Indonesia | $442,815,000 | +34.4% |
| 35. | Norway | $413,764,000 | +11.9% |
| 36. | Portugal | $378,432,000 | +22.1% |
| 37. | Romania | $330,967,000 | +14.6% |
| 38. | Hungary | $307,291,000 | +9.6% |
| 39. | Slovakia | $291,771,000 | +26.5% |
| 40. | Ukraine | $284,823,000 | +85.3% |
| 41. | Chile | $284,038,000 | -1.3% |
| 42. | Greece | $281,541,000 | +15.8% |
| 43. | Lithuania | $277,923,000 | +31.6% |
| 44. | New Zealand | $248,490,000 | +1.2% |
| 45. | Croatia | $244,373,000 | +24.9% |
| 46. | Colombia | $243,715,000 | +17.9% |
| 47. | Brazil | $238,315,000 | +21% |
| 48. | Kazakhstan | $233,453,000 | +21.1% |
| 49. | South Africa | $222,516,000 | +1.6% |
| 50. | Finland | $219,442,000 | +23.8% |
| 51. | Philippines | $212,625,000 | +13.5% |
| 52. | Peru | $193,404,000 | +21.6% |
| 53. | Israel | $163,403,000 | -6.8% |
| 54. | Panama | $157,697,000 | +12.2% |
| 55. | Ecuador | $154,082,000 | +25% |
| 56. | Bulgaria | $153,707,000 | +36.5% |
| 57. | Argentina | $147,767,000 | +21.7% |
| 58. | Morocco | $140,302,000 | +17.8% |
| 59. | Kuwait | $124,592,000 | -61.3% |
| 60. | Iraq | $120,144,000 | -35.5% |
| 61. | Slovenia | $114,607,000 | +9.7% |
| 62. | Serbia | $101,550,000 | +30.2% |
| 63. | Guatemala | $93,438,000 | +22.4% |
| 64. | Luxembourg | $91,743,000 | +13% |
| 65. | Estonia | $87,047,000 | +11.5% |
| 66. | Cyprus | $85,395,000 | +30.9% |
| 67. | Dominican Republic | $77,632,000 | +4.1% |
| 68. | Latvia | $75,140,000 | -3.9% |
| 69. | Qatar | $71,027,000 | -56.9% |
| 70. | Costa Rica | $70,940,000 | +5.8% |
| 71. | Georgia | $68,925,000 | +37.1% |
| 72. | Bosnia/Herzegovina | $67,145,000 | +26.1% |
| 73. | Libya | $63,072,000 | +52.1% |
| 74. | Azerbaijan | $59,607,000 | +47.4% |
| 75. | Oman | $58,351,000 | -37.4% |
| 76. | Egypt | $57,769,000 | +7.3% |
| 77. | Belarus | $56,669,000 | +56.9% |
| 78. | El Salvador | $56,122,000 | +14.6% |
| 79. | Jordan | $52,020,000 | -35.6% |
| 80. | Laos | $46,318,000 | +45% |
| 81. | Lebanon | $43,919,000 | +37.4% |
| 82. | Bolivia | $43,266,000 | +18% |
| 83. | Paraguay | $42,072,000 | +37.9% |
| 84. | Moldova | $41,703,000 | +15.5% |
| 85. | Kyrgyzstan | $40,890,000 | +25.6% |
| 86. | Bangladesh | $40,128,000 | -7.4% |
| 87. | Uzbekistan | $39,931,000 | +101.5% |
| 88. | Algeria | $38,428,000 | +61.9% |
| 89. | Senegal | $38,250,000 | +362.7% |
| 90. | Nepal | $37,415,000 | -9.7% |
| 91. | Tunisia | $37,390,000 | +27.7% |
| 92. | Iceland | $37,357,000 | +22% |
| 93. | Andorra | $36,587,000 | -14.2% |
| 94. | Namibia | $35,583,000 | +1.6% |
| 95. | Iran | $35,394,000 | -32.1% |
| 96. | Honduras | $34,652,000 | +15.9% |
| 97. | Albania | $33,904,000 | +267.3% |
| 98. | Malta | $33,150,000 | +21.7% |
| 99. | Botswana | $31,970,000 | +3.4% |
| 100. | Nigeria | $30,925,000 | +41.7% |
Expanding our focus to the top 100 buyers of imported beauty cosmetics and skincare products, the strongest growers were Senegal (up 362.7% from 2022), Albania (up 267.3%), Vietnam (up 189.2%), India (up 153.6%) and Uzbekistan (up 101.5%).
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A value of 0% in that column means no 2022 data was available.
See also Beauty Cosmetics and Skincare Exports by Country, Perfumes Exporters by Country, Top Human Hair Exporters by Country, China’s Top Trading Partners and Hong Kong’s Top Trading Partners
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International Trade Centre, Trade Map. Accessed on July 24, 2024
Investopedia, Net Exports Definition. Accessed on July 24, 2024
Wikipedia, Cosmetics. Accessed on July 24, 2024