How dependent is China on Switzerland?

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%.

• Switzerland sells 64% of what the world exports of other wristwatches; next come Japan (2.9%), Germany (2.2%) and Hong Kong (2.2%). The rest of the world exported 4.4 times what China buys from Switzerland.
• Switzerland sells 71.1% of what the world exports of precious metal watches; next come France (4.5%), Singapore (3.2%) and Germany (2.9%). The rest of the world exported 6.5 times what China buys from Switzerland.
• Switzerland sells 11.6% of what the world exports of self-propelled trains and trams; next come Spain (13.7%), Poland (12.6%) and South Korea (10.7%). The rest of the world exported 48.1 times what China buys from Switzerland.
• Switzerland sells 6.6% of what the world exports of antiques; next come United Kingdom (24.4%), France (13.4%) and United States (13.3%). The rest of the world exported 71.4 times what China buys from Switzerland.
• Switzerland sells 5.5% of what the world exports of multilayer paper and paperboard; next come Netherlands (33.4%), Germany (15.2%) and United States (7.8%). The rest of the world exported 43.8 times what China buys from Switzerland.

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

China is Switzerland’s 3rd-largest customer, with 11.7% of its exports.

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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.