How dependent is China on Japan?

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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%.

• Japan sells 58.5% of what the world exports of photographic chemicals; next come South Korea (11.4%), United States (8.2%) and Taiwan (5.5%). The rest of the world exported 2 times what China buys from Japan.
• Japan sells 4.9% of what the world exports of silver; next come Mexico (10.1%), South Korea (7.4%) and United Arab Emirates (6.9%). The rest of the world exported 25.5 times what China buys from Japan.
• Japan sells 27.2% of what the world exports of machining centers; next come Germany (20.5%), Taiwan (7.9%) and South Korea (6.4%). The rest of the world exported 6.5 times what China buys from Japan.
• Japan sells 13.9% of what the world exports of hot-rolled flat steel; next come South Korea (9%), Germany (4.5%) and Belgium (3.7%). The rest of the world exported 56.9 times what China buys from Japan.
• Japan sells 24.3% of what the world exports of spinning and winding machines; next come Germany (20.9%), India (9.4%) and Italy (7.4%). The rest of the world exported 3.4 times what China buys from Japan.
• Japan sells 4.2% of what the world exports of aluminum foil; next come Germany (10.8%), Italy (4.7%) and Austria (4.1%). The rest of the world exported 30.2 times what China buys from Japan.
• Japan sells 19.7% of what the world exports of bulldozers and excavators; next come United States (6.8%), Germany (6.3%) and South Korea (4.8%). The rest of the world exported 142.9 times what China buys from Japan.
• Japan sells 22.6% of what the world exports of weaving looms; next come Belgium (17.9%), Italy (8.2%) and Germany (7.5%). The rest of the world exported 4.5 times what China buys from Japan.
• Japan sells 6.7% of what the world exports of video game consoles and games; next come United States (5.3%), Germany (3.3%) and Vietnam (3.2%). The rest of the world exported 65.5 times what China buys from Japan.
• Japan sells 13.9% of what the world exports of ballpoint pens, markers and fountain pens; next come Germany (10.1%), France (5.5%) and Mexico (4.8%). The rest of the world exported 21.6 times what China buys from Japan.

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

China is Japan’s 2nd-largest customer, with 18.1% of its exports.

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• Dependence of China on Chile
• Dependence of China on New Zealand
• Dependence of China on Thailand
• Dependence of China on South Korea
• Dependence of China on Canada
• Dependence of China on the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Dependence of China on Russia
• Dependence of China on Switzerland
• Dependence of China on India
• Dependence of China on Germany
• Dependence of China on Kazakhstan
• Dependence of China on the Philippines
• Dependence of China on France
• Dependence of China on Denmark
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• Trade profile of China
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Sources and licenses

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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.