Summary
- Share of its imports
- 4.9%
- Value imported
- $14billion
- Rank among its suppliers
- 5th
- Products where it sells over 50%
- 6
- Products where it sells over 75%
- 1
- Dominated value
- $1.5billion
- Share of total imports
- 0.5%
Trend
Trend in shares
Thailand went from 1.4% to 4.9% of what Australia buys
Share (%)
- Thailand 4.9%
Source: CEPII BACI
Show the numbers
| Year | Value (USD millions) | Share | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 802 | 1.4% | 18 |
| 1996 | 880 | 1.4% | 17 |
| 1997 | 989 | 1.6% | 15 |
| 1998 | 1,051 | 1.7% | 14 |
| 1999 | 1,450 | 2.2% | 13 |
| 2000 | 1,793 | 2.5% | 12 |
| 2001 | 1,557 | 2.4% | 13 |
| 2002 | 1,787 | 2.4% | 14 |
| 2003 | 2,493 | 2.8% | 13 |
| 2004 | 2,967 | 2.7% | 12 |
| 2005 | 4,019 | 3.2% | 10 |
| 2006 | 5,110 | 3.7% | 8 |
| 2007 | 7,383 | 4.5% | 6 |
| 2008 | 9,062 | 4.6% | 6 |
| 2009 | 8,389 | 5.2% | 6 |
| 2010 | 10,488 | 5.3% | 4 |
| 2011 | 8,737 | 3.8% | 6 |
| 2012 | 10,466 | 4.3% | 6 |
| 2013 | 11,079 | 4.9% | 6 |
| 2014 | 9,648 | 4.4% | 8 |
| 2015 | 10,313 | 5.3% | 5 |
| 2016 | 11,665 | 6.3% | 4 |
| 2017 | 11,445 | 5.2% | 5 |
| 2018 | 11,459 | 5% | 5 |
| 2019 | 10,578 | 4.8% | 4 |
| 2020 | 10,328 | 4.9% | 4 |
| 2021 | 11,775 | 4.6% | 4 |
| 2022 | 12,814 | 4.2% | 6 |
| 2023 | 13,479 | 4.7% | 5 |
| 2024 | 14,002 | 4.9% | 5 |
Products where Thailand sells more than half
| Product | Supplier | Share | Second | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Air conditioners | Thailand | 60.4% | China · 21.9% | $1.1 billion |
| Prepared fish and caviar | Thailand | 50.9% | China · 10.3% | $259 million |
| Toothpaste and oral care | Thailand | 52.4% | United States · 12.7% | $103 million |
| Quicklime and slaked lime | Thailand | 51.4% | Malaysia · 42% | $28 million |
| Boiler auxiliary equipment | Thailand | 50.1% | China · 24.6% | $9 million |
| Lead oxides and red lead | Thailand | 77.1%over 75% | South Korea · 5.8% | $8 million |
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%.
Are there other suppliers in the world?
- Thailand sells 11.7% of what the world exports of air conditioners; next come China (39.4%), Mexico (11.7%) and United States (4.2%). The rest of the world exported 54.2 times what Australia buys from Thailand.
- Thailand sells 16.5% of what the world exports of prepared fish and caviar; next come China (14.6%), Ecuador (8%) and Spain (6.1%). The rest of the world exported 64.3 times what Australia buys from Thailand.
- Thailand sells 7.4% of what the world exports of toothpaste and oral care; next come China (10.6%), Germany (9.6%) and Poland (8.8%). The rest of the world exported 64.2 times what Australia buys from Thailand.
- Thailand sells 3.3% of what the world exports of quicklime and slaked lime; next come France (10.4%), Germany (5.7%) and Malaysia (5.6%). The rest of the world exported 51.3 times what Australia buys from Thailand.
- Thailand sells 2.5% of what the world exports of boiler auxiliary equipment; next come China (29.3%), Germany (8.2%) and Finland (4.7%). The rest of the world exported 157.1 times what Australia buys from Thailand.
- Thailand sells 6.8% of what the world exports of lead oxides and red lead; next come Germany (15.5%), Taiwan (11.1%) and India (9.4%). The rest of the world exported 17.5 times what Australia buys from Thailand.
Exports from the rest of the world already have buyers; the figure shows scale, not availability.
Seen from Thailand
Australia is Thailand’s 4th-largest customer, with 4.1% of its exports.
Links
- Trade between Australia and Thailand
- Who does Australia rely on?
- Who does Thailand rely on?
- Dependence of Australia on China
- Dependence of Australia on the United States
- Dependence of Australia on Indonesia
- Dependence of Australia on New Zealand
- Dependence of Australia on Switzerland
- Trade profile of Australia
- Trade profile of Thailand
- All countries
Sources and method
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.