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BOOKS AND BOOKS LTDA

Registered importer🇨🇴 Colombia
NIT 800202510On record 2017 to 2026🔒 Compliance check
Printed matterGamesOptical media
Declared CIF value
$5.6M
2025 · +4% vs 2024
Import declarations
262
2025 · 2,282 since 2017
Net weight
145.2 t
2025
Avg. per declaration
$21.5k
declared CIF value
Products
12
HS subheadings on record
Rank · printed books
#3
of 239 importers in 2025

Import activity

2017 to 2026
01803602017201820192020202120222023202420252026 YTD
Shaded year is the current year to date.
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What BOOKS AND BOOKS LTDA imports

share of the ranked product mix
Printed matter, books, brochures, leaflets and similar printed matter in item no. 4901.10 or 4901.91 (HS 4901999000): 33.6%Printed matter, books, brochures, leaflets and similarprinted matter in item no. 4901.10 or 4901.9134% HS 4901999000Printed matter, in heading no. 4911 (HS 4911990000): 16.8%Printed matter, in headingno. 491117% HS 4911990000Printed matter, trade advertising material, commercial catalogues and the like (HS 4911100000): 12.1%Printed matter, trade advertisingmaterial, commercial catalogues andthe like12% HS 4911100000Printed matter, dictionaries, encyclopaedias and serial instalments thereof (HS 4901910000): 11.4%Printed matter, dictionaries,encyclopaedias and serial instalmentsthereof11% HS 4901910000Games, articles for funfair, table or parlour games, including pintables, special tables for casino games, automatic bowling alley equipment in heading 9504 (HS 9504909900): 10.1%Games, articles forfunfair, table orparlour games,10% HS 9504909900Optical media, recorded, excluding products of Chapter 37 (HS 8523492000): 4.7%Optical media,recorded, excludingproducts of Chapter 374.7% HS 8523492000Tricycles, scooters, pedal cars and similar wheeled toys, dolls' carriages, dolls, other toys, reduced-size (scale) models and similar recreational models, working or not, puzzles of all kinds (HS 9503009990): 2.7%Tricycles,scooters, pedalcars and similar2.7%Printed matter, children's picture, drawing or colouring books (HS 4903000000): 2.0%2%Printed matter, pictures, designs and photographs in item no. 4911.10 (HS 4911910000): 2.0%2%Washing machines, household or laundry-type, not fully-automatic, without built-in centrifugal drier, of a dry linen capacity not exceeding 10kg (HS 8450190000): 2.0%Washingmachines,household or2.0%Centrifuges, clothes-dryers (HS 8421120000): 1.3%Centrifuges,1.3%Tricycles, scooters, pedal cars and similar wheeled toys, dolls' carriages, dolls, other toys, reduced-size (scale) models and similar recreational models, working or not, puzzles of all kinds (HS 9503004000): 1.3%
HS codeProductShareRanked
4901999000Printed matter, books, brochures, leaflets and similar printed matter in item no. 4901.10 or 4901.9133.3%#1 · 10 yrs
4911990000Printed matter, in heading no. 491116.7%#2 · 9 yrs
4911100000Printed matter, trade advertising material, commercial catalogues and the like12.0%#2 · 9 yrs
4901910000Printed matter, dictionaries, encyclopaedias and serial instalments thereof11.3%#2 · 6 yrs
9504909900Games, articles for funfair, table or parlour games, including pintables, special tables for casino games, automatic bowling alley equipment in heading 950410.0%#2 · 6 yrs
8523492000Optical media, recorded, excluding products of Chapter 374.7%#2 · 2 yrs
9503009990Tricycles, scooters, pedal cars and similar wheeled toys, dolls' carriages, dolls, other toys, reduced-size (scale) models and similar recreational models, working or not, puzzles of all kinds2.7%#3 · 2 yrs
4903000000Printed matter, children's picture, drawing or colouring books2.0%#3 · 2025
4911910000Printed matter, pictures, designs and photographs in item no. 4911.102.0%#3 · 2017
8450190000Washing machines, household or laundry-type, not fully-automatic, without built-in centrifugal drier, of a dry linen capacity not exceeding 10kg2.0%#3 · 2018

Share folds the directory's yearly top-five ranks across every year on record (a #1 counts five times a #5); the source publishes ranks, not per-product volumes.

Largest importers of printed books

ranked by declared CIF, all years
#CompanyActiveProductsDeclarationsDeclared value
1PANAMERICANA LIBRERIA Y PAPELERIA SA10 yr51,657$37.1M
2LABORATORIOS SERVIER DE COLOMBIA SAS6 yr4132$36M
3BOOKS AND BOOKS LTDA10 yr5262$5.6M
4IGLESIA CRISTIANA DE LOS TESTIGOS DE JEHOVA10 yr5384$5.3M
5BUSCALIBRECOLOMBIAS.A.S.9 yr52,658$5.1M
6CASA EDITORIAL EL TIEMPO S.A.9 yr585$4.6M
7CONFESION INTERNACIONAL GEDEONES COLOMBIA3 yr12$2.7M
8BOIRON S.A.S3 yr532$2.6M
9SOCIEDAD BIBLICA COLOMBIANA9 yr430$2.6M
10DISTRIBUIDORA PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE SAS10 yr558$2.5M

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Common questions

What does BOOKS AND BOOKS LTDA import?

Colombia's customs importer directory (DIAN) list printed matter, games and optical media as BOOKS AND BOOKS LTDA's principal imports (ranked by HS subheading, 12 products on record).

How much does BOOKS AND BOOKS LTDA import?

$5.6M of declared CIF value in 2025 across 262 import declarations (+4% versus 2024); $46.4M in total between 2017 to 2026.

Where does BOOKS AND BOOKS LTDA source from?

Colombia's importer directory publishes each importer's products, declared value, net weight and declaration count, but not its origin countries or suppliers.

Who else imports printed books in Colombia?

PANAMERICANA LIBRERIA Y PAPELERIA SA, LABORATORIOS SERVIER DE COLOMBIA SAS and IGLESIA CRISTIANA DE LOS TESTIGOS DE JEHOVA rank among the largest importers of printed books (HS 4901) in Colombia, out of 239 importers on record in 2025.

Where does this data come from?

Directly from Colombia's customs importer directory (DIAN). Exsigo ingests the official records; nothing here is scraped from directories or estimated.