Syrian Natural Stone Exports (HS 2515, 2516, 6802)

Syrian Natural Stone Exports (HS 2515, 2516, 6802)

This page compiles official trade statistics on natural and building stone exported from Syria. Syria has not reported its own trade for most recent years, so the main series uses mirror data: what importing countries recorded as imports from Syria.¹ The figures describe the national trade as a whole, not any single company, including ours.

What the data cover

Three headings of the Harmonized System are included:⁴

• 2515: Marble, travertine and other calcareous building stone, crude or roughly cut into blocks or slabs.
• 2516: Granite, basalt, sandstone and other building stone, crude or roughly cut into blocks or slabs.
• 6802: Worked monumental or building stone and articles of it (cut, dressed, polished tiles, slabs and products).

Values are in US dollars as reported (nominal), shown here in millions.

Partner-reported imports from Syria by year (US$ million)

Columns by HS heading: 6802 worked stone; 2515 marble, travertine and other calcareous stone; 2516 granite, basalt and other building stone. Partners is the number of countries that reported that year.

The latest year is provisional: many partners report a year or more late, so its total is expected to rise. The number of reporting partners also changes from year to year, which affects the totals as much as trade itself does.

Syria's own reports to UN Comtrade are available for 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010; they are kept separate and are not mixed with the partner figures.¹

Main importing countries, 2019–2023

Combined value of the three headings, as recorded by the importing countries (total US$ 95.38 million).¹

Method and limits

• Each importing country's yearly records of imports from Syria were taken from UN Comtrade and added up by heading. Only each country's overall totals are used (all customs procedures and transport modes), so nothing is counted twice.¹
• Mirror values usually include freight and insurance (CIF), so they are higher than export values would be at the Syrian border.
• Countries that do not report, or report late, are missing; recent years may rise when late reports arrive. The number of reporting partners is shown for each year.
• Re-exports and transit can attribute stone to Syria, or hide it.
• The page shows figures we computed (yearly totals and rankings), not raw records: UN Comtrade allows transformed data to be shared, while raw records may not be re-disseminated as-is without UNSD's permission.²³ The source is credited as "Source: UN Comtrade".

A longer series covering eleven stone and quarry headings, with weights and unit values, is in our reference data on Syrian natural stone.

How to cite

Phoenician Stone Group (2026). Syrian natural stone exports (HS 2515, 2516, 6802). https://phoenicianstone.net/guides/syrian-stone-export-data/. Derived from UN Comtrade (DESA/UNSD). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.24108332

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