Summary
- Share of its imports
- 21.2%
- Value imported
- $218million
- Rank among its suppliers
- 2nd
- Products where it sells over 50%
- 3
- Products where it sells over 75%
- 3
- Dominated value
- $196million
- Share of total imports
- 19.1%
Trend
Trend in shares
China went from 0% to 21.2% of what the British Virgin Islands buys
Share (%)
- China 21.2%
Source: CEPII BACI
Show the numbers
| Year | Value (USD millions) | Share | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 0 | 0% | — |
| 1996 | 0 | 0.01% | 41 |
| 1997 | 0 | 0% | 52 |
| 1998 | 1 | 0.07% | 28 |
| 1999 | 2 | 0.08% | 28 |
| 2000 | 1 | 0.01% | 33 |
| 2001 | 1 | 0.01% | 40 |
| 2002 | 16 | 0.47% | 12 |
| 2003 | 76 | 2% | 6 |
| 2004 | 1 | 0.02% | 45 |
| 2005 | 22 | 0.47% | 19 |
| 2006 | 121 | 2.8% | 7 |
| 2007 | 115 | 3% | 6 |
| 2008 | 54 | 1.7% | 15 |
| 2009 | 10 | 0.35% | 22 |
| 2010 | 135 | 3.4% | 7 |
| 2011 | 148 | 3.6% | 10 |
| 2012 | 154 | 4.7% | 6 |
| 2013 | 11 | 0.46% | 22 |
| 2014 | 115 | 4.8% | 7 |
| 2015 | 424 | 19.2% | 2 |
| 2016 | 37 | 2.6% | 11 |
| 2017 | 12 | 0.74% | 14 |
| 2018 | 37 | 2.8% | 7 |
| 2019 | 10 | 0.65% | 18 |
| 2020 | 9 | 0.85% | 18 |
| 2021 | 19 | 0.91% | 11 |
| 2022 | 109 | 11% | 3 |
| 2023 | 72 | 8.1% | 4 |
| 2024 | 218 | 21.2% | 2 |
Products where China sells more than half
| Product | Supplier | Share | Second | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shipping containers | China | 99.7%over 75% | United States · 0.33% | $193 million |
| New tires | China | 82.5%over 75% | United States · 13.9% | $2 million |
| Tugboats | China | 100%over 75% | — | $2 million |
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?
- China sells 51.5% of what the world exports of shipping containers; next come United States (6.6%), Germany (4.2%) and Poland (3.8%). The rest of the world exported 17.6 times what the British Virgin Islands buys from China.
- China sells 22.8% of what the world exports of new tires; next come Thailand (8%), Japan (6%) and Germany (5.3%). The rest of the world exported 46,439.7 times what the British Virgin Islands buys from China.
- China sells 11.2% of what the world exports of tugboats; next come Saudi Arabia (24.9%), Turkey (8.7%) and Thailand (8.2%). The rest of the world exported 2,599.1 times what the British Virgin Islands buys from China.
Exports from the rest of the world already have buyers; the figure shows scale, not availability.
Seen from China
The British Virgin Islands is China’s 163rd-largest customer, with 0.01% of its exports.
Links
Sources and method
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.