How dependent is Australia on the United States?

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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%.

• The United States sells 25.2% of what the world exports of airplanes and helicopters; next come France (24.9%), Germany (15.2%) and Canada (6.6%). The rest of the world exported 71.8 times what Australia buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 30.3% of what the world exports of turbojets and gas turbines; next come United Kingdom (14.5%), France (10%) and Hong Kong (5.3%). The rest of the world exported 159.6 times what Australia buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 30.1% of what the world exports of aircraft parts; next come United Kingdom (11.8%), France (10.8%) and Germany (10.3%). The rest of the world exported 80.1 times what Australia buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 21.9% of what the world exports of armored vehicles; next come Canada (18.8%), South Korea (18.6%) and Germany (7.3%). The rest of the world exported 21 times what Australia buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 32.4% of what the world exports of navigation instruments; next come France (13%), United Kingdom (7.5%) and Germany (5.8%). The rest of the world exported 30 times what Australia buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 18% of what the world exports of natural gas and LPG; next come Norway (11%), Qatar (9.1%) and Russia (8.3%). The rest of the world exported 1,794.3 times what Australia buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 11.5% of what the world exports of zinc ore; next come Peru (15.8%), Bolivia (10.9%) and Mexico (8.6%). The rest of the world exported 66.1 times what Australia buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 32.2% of what the world exports of diesel and other locomotives; next come Spain (18.1%), South Korea (11.1%) and Germany (8.7%). The rest of the world exported 10.2 times what Australia buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 12.7% of what the world exports of self-propelled works trucks; next come Germany (16.8%), China (13.2%) and France (7.4%). The rest of the world exported 22.2 times what Australia buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 17.5% of what the world exports of carbonates; next come Chile (22.9%), Turkey (10.9%) and China (8.8%). The rest of the world exported 172.1 times what Australia buys from the United States.

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

Australia is the United States’ 14th-largest customer, with 1.8% of its exports.

• Trade between Australia and the United States
• Who does Australia rely on?
• Who does the United States rely on?
• Dependence of Australia on China
• 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 the United States
• 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.