How dependent is Curaçao on the United States?

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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%.

• The United States sells 11.7% of what the world exports of refined petroleum; next come Singapore (6.3%), South Korea (5.9%) and Netherlands (5.7%). The rest of the world exported 1,873.4 times what Curaçao buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 6% of what the world exports of cables and wire; next come China (20.3%), Mexico (11.1%) and Germany (5.3%). The rest of the world exported 4,184.5 times what Curaçao buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 3.8% of what the world exports of cameras and broadcast equipment; next come China (46.2%), Vietnam (13.1%) and Taiwan (4.4%). The rest of the world exported 19,382.9 times what Curaçao buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 9.4% of what the world exports of parts for cranes and excavators; next come China (22.1%), Germany (9.6%) and Italy (5.7%). The rest of the world exported 2,880.8 times what Curaçao buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 6% of what the world exports of computers; next come China (38.7%), Taiwan (14.2%) and Mexico (12.6%). The rest of the world exported 44,283.2 times what Curaçao buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 13.1% of what the world exports of valves and taps; next come China (20.1%), Germany (12.9%) and Italy (8.4%). The rest of the world exported 14,002.4 times what Curaçao buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 3.8% of what the world exports of computer and office machine parts; next come China (30.3%), Taiwan (15%) and Vietnam (10.6%). The rest of the world exported 44,852.1 times what Curaçao buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 7.2% of what the world exports of sawn wood; next come Canada (18%), Russia (9.7%) and Sweden (9.4%). The rest of the world exported 5,309.3 times what Curaçao buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 9% of what the world exports of auto parts; next come Germany (14.5%), China (12.1%) and Mexico (9.5%). The rest of the world exported 68,761 times what Curaçao buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 3.7% of what the world exports of monitors and projectors; next come China (32.3%), Mexico (17.8%) and Vietnam (7%). The rest of the world exported 15,512.5 times what Curaçao buys from the United States.

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

Curaçao is the United States’ 95th-largest customer, with 0.04% of its exports.

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