How dependent is Belgium on the United States?

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 24.6% of what the world exports of hormones; next come Ireland (48.5%), Denmark (3.8%) and China (3.5%). The rest of the world exported 88.1 times what Belgium buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 6.1% of what the world exports of machining centers; next come Japan (27.2%), Germany (20.5%) and China (9.2%). The rest of the world exported 74.1 times what Belgium buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 21.8% of what the world exports of cellulose derivatives; next come China (17.1%), Germany (15.2%) and Japan (5.6%). The rest of the world exported 52.5 times what Belgium buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 2.7% of what the world exports of aluminum oxide and hydroxide; next come Australia (30.5%), Brazil (17%) and China (9.8%). The rest of the world exported 279.7 times what Belgium buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 34% of what the world exports of artificial filament tow (acetate); next come Japan (19.4%), Germany (13.6%) and China (4.3%). The rest of the world exported 32.7 times what Belgium buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 32.7% of what the world exports of hops; next come Germany (36.9%), Czechia (9%) and Australia (4%). The rest of the world exported 9.6 times what Belgium buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 5.6% of what the world exports of radioactive elements; next come Kazakhstan (18.8%), Canada (17.6%) and Russia (11.8%). The rest of the world exported 534.9 times what Belgium buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 27.8% of what the world exports of nickel bars, profiles and wire; next come Germany (12.9%), France (10.1%) and Austria (8.9%). The rest of the world exported 110.8 times what Belgium buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 31.8% of what the world exports of hydrides, nitrides and silicides; next come China (28%), Japan (9.9%) and Germany (7.6%). The rest of the world exported 33.2 times what Belgium buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 45.4% of what the world exports of developed photographic plates and film; next come Japan (17.9%), Taiwan (13%) and Germany (8%). The rest of the world exported 241.5 times what Belgium buys from the United States.

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

Belgium is the United States’ 21st-largest customer, with 1.2% of its exports.

• Trade between Belgium and the United States
• Who does Belgium rely on?
• Who does the United States rely on?
• Dependence of Belgium on the Netherlands
• Dependence of Belgium on France
• Dependence of Belgium on Ireland
• Dependence of Belgium on Germany
• Dependence of Belgium on Sweden
• Dependence of Belgium on Russia
• Dependence of Belgium on China
• Trade profile of Belgium
• 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.