How dependent is Belarus 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 9.1% of what the world exports of cars; next come Germany (17.4%), Japan (12.3%) and South Korea (7.3%). The rest of the world exported 466.1 times what Belarus buys from China.
• China sells 32.3% of what the world exports of monitors and projectors; next come Mexico (17.8%), Vietnam (7%) and Poland (5.6%). The rest of the world exported 146.6 times what Belarus buys from China.
• China sells 5.4% of what the world exports of diesel engines; next come United States (20.5%), Germany (11.9%) and United Kingdom (8.6%). The rest of the world exported 283.7 times what Belarus buys from China.
• China sells 39.2% of what the world exports of washing machines; next come Poland (9%), Thailand (8.2%) and Turkey (5.9%). The rest of the world exported 132.5 times what Belarus 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 3,199.6 times what Belarus buys from China.
• China sells 28.6% of what the world exports of motorcycles; next come Japan (10.4%), Germany (8.3%) and Thailand (8.3%). The rest of the world exported 375.4 times what Belarus buys from China.
• China sells 11.6% of what the world exports of other industrial machines; next come Japan (16.2%), United States (12%) and Netherlands (10.6%). The rest of the world exported 3,009.2 times what Belarus buys from China.
• 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 5,012.1 times what Belarus 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 514.2 times what Belarus 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 3,303.6 times what Belarus buys from China.

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

Belarus is China’s 66th-largest customer, with 0.18% of its exports.

• Trade between Belarus and China
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• Trade profile of Belarus
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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.