How dependent is the Cayman Islands 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 11.7% of what the world exports of refined petroleum; next come Singapore (6.3%), South Korea (5.9%) and Netherlands (5.7%). The rest of the world exported 3,800.9 times what the Cayman Islands 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 3,412.2 times what the Cayman Islands 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 1,999.9 times what the Cayman Islands buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 4% of what the world exports of gold; next come Switzerland (19.2%), United Arab Emirates (10.6%) and Hong Kong (6.4%). The rest of the world exported 19,448.9 times what the Cayman Islands buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 6.3% of what the world exports of jewelry; next come Italy (14.5%), France (10.9%) and India (10.9%). The rest of the world exported 4,583.7 times what the Cayman Islands buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 2.9% of what the world exports of plastic tableware and household items; next come China (60.9%), Germany (3%) and Turkey (2.6%). The rest of the world exported 1,172.9 times what the Cayman Islands buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 20.1% of what the world exports of medical and dental instruments; next come Mexico (10.9%), Germany (10.4%) and China (7.8%). The rest of the world exported 8,873.4 times what the Cayman Islands 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 4,286.8 times what the Cayman Islands buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 4.1% of what the world exports of plastic building fittings; next come China (20%), Poland (12.6%) and Germany (11.3%). The rest of the world exported 1,054.2 times what the Cayman Islands buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 4.2% of what the world exports of air conditioners; next come China (39.4%), Thailand (11.7%) and Mexico (11.7%). The rest of the world exported 4,703.3 times what the Cayman Islands buys from the United States.

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

The Cayman Islands is the United States’ 78th-largest customer, with 0.06% of its exports.

• Trade between the Cayman Islands and the United States
• Who does the Cayman Islands rely on?
• Who does the United States rely on?
• Trade profile of the Cayman Islands
• 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.