How dependent is the Bahamas 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 11.7% of what the world exports of refined petroleum; next come Singapore (6.3%), South Korea (5.9%) and Netherlands (5.7%). The rest of the world exported 275.5 times what the Bahamas buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 10.6% of what the world exports of generating sets; next come China (31.2%), Germany (11.9%) and Denmark (4.5%). The rest of the world exported 228.7 times what the Bahamas buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 6.6% of what the world exports of cars; next come Germany (17.4%), Japan (12.3%) and China (9.1%). The rest of the world exported 9,248.3 times what the Bahamas buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 1.8% of what the world exports of furniture; next come China (30.8%), Vietnam (10.4%) and Italy (7.3%). The rest of the world exported 1,314.3 times what the Bahamas buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 5.7% of what the world exports of yachts and pleasure boats; next come Netherlands (17.7%), Italy (17.1%) and Cayman Islands (9.5%). The rest of the world exported 371.2 times what the Bahamas buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 4.6% of what the world exports of bread, biscuits and pastries; next come Germany (10.2%), Canada (9.7%) and Italy (7.8%). The rest of the world exported 1,166.3 times what the Bahamas buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 6.3% of what the world exports of jewelry; next come Italy (14.5%), France (10.9%) and India (10.9%). The rest of the world exported 2,374.9 times what the Bahamas buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 12.9% of what the world exports of poultry meat; next come Brazil (26.3%), Poland (12.7%) and Netherlands (7.5%). The rest of the world exported 700.8 times what the Bahamas buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 2.6% of what the world exports of aluminum structures; next come China (30.4%), Germany (8.6%) and Poland (5.4%). The rest of the world exported 399.7 times what the Bahamas buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 18% of what the world exports of natural gas and LPG; next come Norway (11%), Australia (10%) and Qatar (9.1%). The rest of the world exported 12,713.5 times what the Bahamas buys from the United States.

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

The Bahamas is the United States’ 48th-largest customer, with 0.3% of its exports.

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