How dependent is Cuba on the United States?

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 12.9% of what the world exports of poultry meat; next come Brazil (26.3%), Poland (12.7%) and Netherlands (7.5%). The rest of the world exported 102 times what Cuba buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 6.6% of what the world exports of cars; next come Germany (17.4%), Japan (12.3%) and China (9.1%). The rest of the world exported 14,457.9 times what Cuba buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 23.6% of what the world exports of edible offal; next come Australia (8.9%), Spain (8.8%) and Canada (6.6%). The rest of the world exported 1,313.6 times what Cuba buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 28.9% of what the world exports of soybeans; next come Brazil (55.4%), Paraguay (4.1%) and Canada (3%). The rest of the world exported 19,971 times what Cuba buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 3.5% of what the world exports of instant coffee and tea extracts; next come Germany (9%), Brazil (8%) and Vietnam (7.1%). The rest of the world exported 4,848.3 times what Cuba buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 14.6% of what the world exports of other sugars; next come China (13.8%), Thailand (10.6%) and France (8.1%). The rest of the world exported 4,099.2 times what Cuba buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 6.6% of what the world exports of shipping containers; next come China (51.5%), Germany (4.2%) and Poland (3.8%). The rest of the world exported 3,497.1 times what Cuba buys from the United States.

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

Cuba is the United States’ 106th-largest customer, with 0.03% of its exports.

• Who does Cuba rely on?
• Who does the United States rely on?
• Trade profile of Cuba
• 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.