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Trade between Lithuania and the United States

In 2024, Lithuania exported $2.1 billion to the United States and imported $1.8 billion. Lithuania ran a surplus of $311 million with the United States, compared with a surplus of $377 million in 2019. The United States was Lithuania’s 5th largest trading partner (5% of its trade), and Lithuania was the United States’ 72nd (0.1%).

Summary

Lithuania → United States
$2.1billion
United States → Lithuania
$1.8billion
Lithuania’s balance
$311million

Balance

Lithuania’s trade balance with the United States

Trade between Lithuania and the United States grew 32.7-fold since 1995

USD billions (current). Lithuania’s exports and imports; bars: its balance (green surplus, red deficit).

  • Exports 2.1
  • Imports 1.8
  • Balance +0.3

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearExportsImportsTrade balance
1995$40 million$78 million-$39 million
1996$47 million$101 million-$54 million
1997$115 million$123 million-$7 million
1998$128 million$137 million-$9 million
1999$155 million$135 million$20 million
2000$224 million$122 million$102 million
2001$221 million$206 million$16 million
2002$372 million$212 million$160 million
2003$408 million$294 million$114 million
2004$571 million$213 million$358 million
2005$680 million$376 million$305 million
2006$644 million$512 million$132 million
2007$497 million$671 million-$174 million
2008$798 million$696 million$102 million
2009$605 million$374 million$232 million
2010$664 million$610 million$54 million
2011$1.1 billion$465 million$592 million
2012$1.1 billion$629 million$508 million
2013$1.6 billion$705 million$904 million
2014$1.2 billion$621 million$538 million
2015$1.1 billion$511 million$608 million
2016$1.2 billion$464 million$773 million
2017$1.5 billion$454 million$1.1 billion
2018$1.3 billion$642 million$703 million
2019$1.1 billion$767 million$377 million
2020$1.4 billion$817 million$570 million
2021$2.2 billion$1.1 billion$1.1 billion
2022$2.8 billion$2.1 billion$611 million
2023$2.2 billion$3.2 billion-$945 million
2024$2.1 billion$1.8 billion$311 million

What they sell each other

What Lithuania sells to the United States

The top 10 headings in 2024, with their share of the total.

  1. Refined petroleum$514 million · 24.6%
    755 thousand tonnes · Lithuania’s destinations
  2. Other plastic articles$315 million · 15.1%
    450 tonnes
  3. Furniture$195 million · 9.4%
    52 thousand tonnes · Lithuania’s destinations
  4. Mixed fertilizers$91 million · 4.4%
    125 thousand tonnes
  5. Iron or steel nails and tacks$69 million · 3.3%
    50 thousand tonnes
  6. Enzymes$69 million · 3.3%
    27 tonnes
  7. Plastic building fittings$46 million · 2.2%
    10 thousand tonnes
  8. Vaccines, blood and antisera$42 million · 2%
    4 tonnes · the United States’ sources
  9. Industrial fatty acids and oils$42 million · 2%
    90 tonnes
  10. LCD panels, lasers and other optical devices$40 million · 1.9%
    49 tonnes

What the United States sells to Lithuania

The top 10 headings in 2024, with their share of the total.

  1. Natural gas and LPG$464 million · 26.1%
    837 thousand tonnes
  2. Crude petroleum$433 million · 24.4%
    656 thousand tonnes · the United States’ destinations
  3. Armored vehicles$104 million · 5.9%
    2 thousand tonnes
  4. Cars$88 million · 5%
    23 thousand tonnes · the United States’ destinations
  5. Turbojets and gas turbines$42 million · 2.4%
    41 tonnes · the United States’ destinations
  6. Refined petroleum$42 million · 2.4%
    46 thousand tonnes · the United States’ destinations
  7. Bombs, missiles and ammunition$41 million · 2.3%
    631 tonnes
  8. Aircraft parts$39 million · 2.2%
    172 tonnes
  9. Frozen fish$38 million · 2.1%
    9 thousand tonnes
  10. Fish fillets$32 million · 1.8%
    13 thousand tonnes

How it travels

Estimated sea route from Klaipeda to Los Angeles.

The estimated sea route between Klaipeda and Los Angeles is 8,648 nautical miles (16,016 km) long: ≈ 20–25.5 days at sea (at 18 and 14 knots).

Passages it crosses: Øresund and Panama Canal.

Sailing estimate without port calls, waiting or transshipment; not a schedule. One main reference port per country: in large countries it does not represent all of its ports.

Split by transport mode

  1. Sea$2.5 billion · 65.3%
  2. Air$1.3 billion · 34.7%

Mode estimated from value per kilo and geography; both directions together.

How much each matters to the other

The United States was Lithuania’s 5th largest trading partner (5% of its trade), and Lithuania was the United States’ 72nd (0.1%).

The United States in Lithuania’s trade
4.9%
The United States’ rank among Lithuania’s partners
5th
Lithuania in the United States’ trade
0.1%
Lithuania’s rank among the United States’ partners
72nd

Compare with

Other partners of Lithuania

Other partners of the United States

Sources and methodology

Sources and licenses

Methodology

Goods trade from CEPII BACI (BACI_HS92_V202601), in current US dollars, with exports and imports reconciled between countries. The transport mode is our own estimate based on value per kilo and geography. The sea route comes from our own network derived from World Bank shipping density (not from nautical charts), between one main reference port per country (World Port Index); days are the distance at 14 and 18 knots, without port calls or waiting. Data up to 2024.