How dependent is Barbados 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 6% of what the world exports of computers; next come China (38.7%), Taiwan (14.2%) and Mexico (12.6%). The rest of the world exported 19,508.3 times what Barbados buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 13.8% of what the world exports of other food preparations; next come Germany (9.2%), Singapore (8.3%) and Netherlands (6.1%). The rest of the world exported 3,709.4 times what Barbados 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 6,988.5 times what Barbados buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 28.9% of what the world exports of soybeans; next come Brazil (55.4%), Paraguay (4.1%) and Canada (3%). The rest of the world exported 4,220.7 times what Barbados 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 32,747 times what Barbados buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 10.5% of what the world exports of cabbage, cauliflower and broccoli; next come China (21.8%), Spain (20.8%) and Mexico (10.4%). The rest of the world exported 300 times what Barbados buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 3.8% of what the world exports of cameras and broadcast equipment; next come China (46.2%), Vietnam (13.1%) and Taiwan (4.4%). The rest of the world exported 51,768.1 times what Barbados buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 4.1% of what the world exports of refrigerators, freezers and heat pumps; next come China (31.5%), Mexico (11.1%) and Italy (6.9%). The rest of the world exported 5,779.1 times what Barbados buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 3.7% of what the world exports of monitors and projectors; next come China (32.3%), Mexico (17.8%) and Vietnam (7%). The rest of the world exported 6,873.9 times what Barbados buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 3.8% of what the world exports of transformers and power supplies; next come China (34.6%), Germany (7%) and Mexico (4.5%). The rest of the world exported 15,890.7 times what Barbados buys from the United States.

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

Barbados is the United States’ 94th-largest customer, with 0.04% of its exports.

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• Trade profile of Barbados
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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.