How dependent is China on Vietnam?

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%.

• Vietnam sells 13.1% of what the world exports of cameras and broadcast equipment; next come Taiwan (4.4%), India (4.3%) and South Korea (3.8%). The rest of the world exported 9.3 times what China buys from Vietnam.
• Vietnam sells 28% of what the world exports of firewood and wood chips; next come United States (18%), Australia (7%) and Canada (5%). The rest of the world exported 5.1 times what China buys from Vietnam.
• Vietnam sells 17.8% of what the world exports of cotton yarn; next come India (30%), Uzbekistan (10.7%) and United States (7.8%). The rest of the world exported 5.2 times what China buys from Vietnam.
• Vietnam sells 30.9% of what the world exports of textile footwear; next come Indonesia (7.9%), Italy (6.1%) and Germany (3.2%). The rest of the world exported 16.1 times what China buys from Vietnam.
• Vietnam sells 16.4% of what the world exports of rubber and plastic footwear; next come Indonesia (6%), Germany (3.8%) and Italy (2.6%). The rest of the world exported 19.4 times what China buys from Vietnam.
• Vietnam sells 31.4% of what the world exports of blended cotton yarn; next come India (12.8%), Turkey (6%) and Indonesia (4.9%). The rest of the world exported 2.7 times what China buys from Vietnam.
• Vietnam sells 17% of what the world exports of garments of coated or nonwoven fabric; next come Bangladesh (7.2%), Myanmar (3.9%) and Cambodia (3.9%). The rest of the world exported 28 times what China buys from Vietnam.
• Vietnam sells 4.3% of what the world exports of dried, salted and smoked fish; next come Norway (16%), Poland (13.8%) and Netherlands (6.7%). The rest of the world exported 34.5 times what China buys from Vietnam.
• Vietnam sells 6.8% of what the world exports of bran and milling residues; next come Russia (10.3%), India (7.9%) and United States (6.6%). The rest of the world exported 15.9 times what China buys from Vietnam.
• Vietnam sells 12.5% of what the world exports of bras and corsets; next come Sri Lanka (6.6%), Bangladesh (6.3%) and Indonesia (4.6%). The rest of the world exported 64.7 times what China buys from Vietnam.

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

China is Vietnam’s 2nd-largest customer, with 18.6% of its exports.

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• CEPII BACI · Licence Ouverte Etalab 2.0
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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.