How dependent is China on New Zealand?

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%.

• New Zealand sells 28.6% of what the world exports of powdered and condensed milk; next come Netherlands (9.2%), United States (8.3%) and Germany (7.5%). The rest of the world exported 8.7 times what China buys from New Zealand.
• New Zealand sells 22.4% of what the world exports of butter and milk fats; next come Netherlands (14.6%), Ireland (14.4%) and Germany (8.4%). The rest of the world exported 12.1 times what China buys from New Zealand.
• New Zealand sells 8% of what the world exports of fresh milk and cream; next come Germany (13.8%), Netherlands (12.1%) and France (8%). The rest of the world exported 14.8 times what China buys from New Zealand.
• New Zealand sells 3.9% of what the world exports of cheese; next come Germany (14.9%), Italy (12.8%) and Netherlands (12.4%). The rest of the world exported 91.2 times what China buys from New Zealand.
• New Zealand sells 30.5% of what the world exports of casein; next come Ireland (15.7%), Netherlands (14.9%) and France (11.3%). The rest of the world exported 7.1 times what China buys from New Zealand.
• New Zealand sells 6.2% of what the world exports of apples and pears; next come United States (10.5%), Italy (9.9%) and South Africa (8.5%). The rest of the world exported 51 times what China buys from New Zealand.
• New Zealand sells 40% of what the world exports of ivory, tortoiseshell, horns and antlers, unworked; next come Russia (14.9%), India (4.8%) and Germany (3.7%). The rest of the world exported 2.2 times what China buys from New Zealand.
• New Zealand sells 1.3% of what the world exports of plain frozen vegetables; next come Belgium (17%), Spain (9.5%) and Mexico (6.9%). The rest of the world exported 196.9 times what China buys from New Zealand.
• New Zealand sells 11.2% of what the world exports of natural honey; next come Argentina (8.8%), India (8.6%) and Ukraine (7.2%). The rest of the world exported 51.4 times what China buys from New Zealand.
• New Zealand sells 16.4% of what the world exports of rabbit, game and other meat; next come Spain (10.7%), Poland (8%) and Netherlands (6.5%). The rest of the world exported 26 times what China buys from New Zealand.

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

China is New Zealand’s 1st-largest customer, with 25.2% of its exports.

• Trade between China and New Zealand
• Who does China rely on?
• Who does New Zealand rely on?
• Dependence of China on Australia
• Dependence of China on Brazil
• Dependence of China on Indonesia
• Dependence of China on Vietnam
• Dependence of China on the United States
• Dependence of China on Guinea
• Dependence of China on Japan
• Dependence of China on South Africa
• Dependence of China on Chile
• 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
• Dependence of China on Namibia
• Dependence of China on Myanmar
• Dependence of China on Malaysia
• Trade profile of China
• Trade profile of New Zealand
• 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.