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How dependent is Belize on the United States?

In 2024, the United States sold $656 million to Belize, 40.5% of its imports, ranking 1st among its suppliers. Its share was 37.6% in 2019 and 42.6% in 1995. In 86 products it sells more than 50% of what Belize buys of them (in 29, more than 75%); what Belize buys from the United States in those products (dominated value) adds up to $448 million, 27.7% of its imports.

Summary

Share of its imports
40.5%
Value imported
$656million
Rank among its suppliers
1st
Products where it sells over 50%
86
Products where it sells over 75%
29
Dominated value
$448million
Share of total imports
27.7%

Trend

Trend in shares

The United States went from 42.6% to 40.5% of what Belize buys

Share (%)

  • United States 40.5%

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearValue (USD millions)ShareRank
199516442.6%1
199616540%1
199718239%1
199818141.6%1
199910522.4%2
200026446.9%1
200121640%1
200219737.5%1
200323744.2%1
200417432.1%1
200516025.8%1
200625233.2%1
200721627.5%1
200829725.2%1
200923218.1%2
201023630.1%1
20112456.6%2
201224717.9%1
201329423.3%1
201431524.5%1
201535628.8%1
201639334.3%1
201733927.8%1
201841936.8%1
201943937.6%1
202033735.2%1
202139431.5%1
202260334.3%1
202360034.9%1
202465640.5%1

Products where the United States sells more than half

ProductSupplierShareSecondValue
Refined petroleumUnited States81.2%over 75%Guatemala · 12.3%$170 million
CarsUnited States68.6%Japan · 7.8%$17 million
Generating setsUnited States78.4%over 75%China · 11.7%$16 million
Natural gas and LPGUnited States71%Cayman Islands · 28.6%$15 million
WheatUnited States99.8%over 75%China · 0.23%$12 million
MargarineUnited States74.8%Guatemala · 23.1%$10 million
Sawn woodUnited States90%over 75%Honduras · 2.7%$9 million
Transformers and power suppliesUnited States70.4%China · 12.7%$8 million
Turbojets and gas turbinesUnited States82.3%over 75%Canada · 16.5%$8 million
ComputersUnited States77.3%over 75%China · 13.1%$8 million
Soups and brothsUnited States87.9%over 75%Guatemala · 9%$7 million
Auto partsUnited States68.1%United Kingdom · 7.1%$7 million
SpiritsUnited States57.1%Panama · 17.7%$6 million
Spark-ignition enginesUnited States69.2%Japan · 23.4%$6 million
Low-voltage switches and connectorsUnited States82.6%over 75%China · 4.8%$6 million
Cameras and broadcast equipmentUnited States64.8%China · 26.5%$6 million
FurnitureUnited States55.5%China · 17.2%$5 million
Liquid pumpsUnited States67%China · 9.7%$5 million
Printers and printing machinesUnited States93.8%over 75%China · 2.2%$5 million
Screws, bolts and nutsUnited States69%China · 19.2%$4 million
Computer and office machine partsUnited States81.2%over 75%China · 4.4%$4 million
Airplanes and helicoptersUnited States100%over 75%—$4 million
Centrifuges and filtersUnited States53.2%Colombia · 14.1%$4 million
Valves and tapsUnited States62.2%China · 15%$4 million
SausagesUnited States76%over 75%Jamaica · 18.1%$4 million
Control panelsUnited States73.6%Mexico · 11.8%$4 million
Other vegetable oilsUnited States55.4%Guatemala · 26.4%$3 million
CoffeeUnited States75.2%over 75%Guatemala · 14%$3 million
Putty and sealantsUnited States79.7%over 75%Mexico · 10.5%$3 million
Special-purpose vehiclesUnited States72.9%China · 17.4%$3 million

and 56 more

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%.

Are there other suppliers in the world?

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

Seen from the United States

Belize is the United States’ 101st-largest customer, with 0.04% of its exports.

Sources and method

Sources and licenses

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.