How dependent is Australia on China?

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A product has a dominant supplier when a single country sells more than 50% of what is bought of it; we flag it separately above 75%.

• China sells 46.2% of what the world exports of cameras and broadcast equipment; next come Vietnam (13.1%), Taiwan (4.4%) and India (4.3%). The rest of the world exported 73.3 times what Australia buys from China.
• China sells 38.7% of what the world exports of computers; next come Taiwan (14.2%), Mexico (12.6%) and Vietnam (7%). The rest of the world exported 62.5 times what Australia buys from China.
• China sells 30.8% of what the world exports of furniture; next come Vietnam (10.4%), Italy (7.3%) and Germany (7%). The rest of the world exported 44.7 times what Australia buys from China.
• China sells 30.3% of what the world exports of computer and office machine parts; next come Taiwan (15%), Vietnam (10.6%) and South Korea (7.3%). The rest of the world exported 166.2 times what Australia buys from China.
• China sells 20.3% of what the world exports of cables and wire; next come Mexico (11.1%), United States (6%) and Germany (5.3%). The rest of the world exported 117.4 times what Australia buys from China.
• China sells 32.9% of what the world exports of seats and chairs; next come Mexico (9.8%), Vietnam (8.1%) and Poland (7.2%). The rest of the world exported 55.1 times what Australia buys from China.
• China sells 66.3% of what the world exports of toys; next come Vietnam (5.8%), Czechia (4.1%) and Mexico (2.6%). The rest of the world exported 18.2 times what Australia buys from China.
• China sells 29.7% of what the world exports of steel structures; next come Germany (8.4%), Poland (4.7%) and Turkey (4.4%). The rest of the world exported 42.7 times what Australia buys from China.
• China sells 28.1% of what the world exports of women's suits and dresses; next come Bangladesh (9.3%), Turkey (6.7%) and Vietnam (6.4%). The rest of the world exported 49.3 times what Australia buys from China.
• China sells 48% of what the world exports of electric heaters and hair dryers; next come Germany (5.9%), Italy (4.2%) and Mexico (4%). The rest of the world exported 41.9 times what Australia buys from China.

Exports from the rest of the world already have buyers; the figure shows scale, not availability.

Australia is China’s 14th-largest customer, with 2.1% of its exports.

• Trade between Australia and China
• Who does Australia rely on?
• Who does China rely on?
• Dependence of Australia on the United States
• Dependence of Australia on Thailand
• Dependence of Australia on Indonesia
• Dependence of Australia on New Zealand
• Dependence of Australia on Switzerland
• Trade profile of Australia
• Trade profile of China
• All countries

Sources and licenses

• CEPII BACI · Licence Ouverte Etalab 2.0
• Natural Earth · Public domain

Methodology

The data come from CEPII BACI (Etalab 2.0 licence), which reconciles what the exporting and the importing country report, in current USD, FOB. Data up to 2024.

Dependence is the share of a country’s imports (or exports) that each partner accounts for. It does not measure whether a product has a substitute or how much it would cost to change supplier.

The concentration index (HHI) adds up the square of each partner’s share, in percent: it runs from 0 to 10,000. Its equivalent is 10,000 ÷ HHI, the number of partners of the same size that would give that value.

Products are HS4 headings of the 1992 nomenclature (some combine different goods), with a floor of $1 million per product and country.

The EU is the 27 current members in every year; the United Kingdom is outside the EU throughout the series.

Re-exports: countries that act as redistribution hubs carry their notice and the figures are not corrected.