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How dependent is Czechia on Germany?

In 2024, Germany sold $47.3 billion to Czechia, 21.1% of its imports, ranking 1st among its suppliers. Its share was 25% in 2019 and 32.1% in 1995. In 73 products it sells more than 50% of what Czechia buys of them (in 17, more than 75%); what Czechia buys from Germany in those products (dominated value) adds up to $5.5 billion, 2.5% of its imports.

Summary

Share of its imports
21.1%
Value imported
$47.3billion
Rank among its suppliers
1st
Products where it sells over 50%
73
Products where it sells over 75%
17
Dominated value
$5.5billion
Share of total imports
2.5%

Trend

Trend in shares

Germany went from 32.1% to 21.1% of what Czechia buys

Share (%)

  • Germany 21.1%

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearValue (USD millions)ShareRank
19958,24132.1%1
19968,72031.6%1
19979,14434.2%1
199811,06136%1
199910,24034.9%1
200011,11033.4%1
200112,61533.7%1
200215,28831.6%1
200317,49033.3%1
200421,16531.5%1
200523,41531.1%1
200627,28328.7%1
200733,26228%1
200838,04327.1%1
200928,08727%1
201031,83225.9%1
201139,45626.3%1
201236,48625.9%1
201337,48026.4%1
201440,61926.6%1
201536,88226.4%1
201637,91926.5%1
201742,58726.1%1
201847,19526.2%1
201944,50825%1
202040,62124.2%1
202148,16223.7%1
202248,18620.5%1
202349,39221.6%1
202447,26321.1%1

Products where Germany sells more than half

ProductSupplierShareSecondValue
Refined petroleumGermany64.9%Slovakia · 14.9%$2.4 billion
CatalystsGermany60.1%Poland · 16.2%$604 million
ElectricityGermany59.6%Slovakia · 13.9%$569 million
TrailersGermany51.9%Poland · 14.8%$188 million
Copper plates and stripGermany50.2%Serbia · 12.6%$162 million
Soybean meal and pelletsGermany70.9%Netherlands · 9.8%$130 million
Petroleum coke and bitumenGermany60.1%Austria · 17.4%$96 million
Plastic rods and profilesGermany55.2%Poland · 9.9%$96 million
AmmoniaGermany75.8%over 75%Slovakia · 15.3%$76 million
Electric locomotivesGermany94.6%over 75%Poland · 5.4%$72 million
Pulp and papermaking machineryGermany67.7%Finland · 13.2%$72 million
Open-chain hydrocarbonsGermany63.3%Poland · 12.9%$68 million
Generating setsGermany50.8%China · 8.3%$60 million
Machining centersGermany51.9%Japan · 8.5%$59 million
Glass and lamp making machinesGermany88%over 75%Belgium · 3.2%$56 million
Textile and paper finishing agentsGermany56.1%Austria · 10.6%$54 million
FeltGermany73.7%Turkey · 8.8%$46 million
SiliconesGermany63.8%Italy · 7.4%$46 million
Copper springsGermany57.6%Italy · 12.3%$45 million
SaltGermany60.9%Austria · 12.3%$43 million
PotatoesGermany50.7%France · 20.1%$43 million
Cocoa pasteGermany91.3%over 75%Netherlands · 6.6%$41 million
Petroleum resins and other polymersGermany58.4%France · 6.5%$40 million
Textile machine accessoriesGermany57.8%Switzerland · 20.3%$36 million
Crude glycerinGermany73.9%Poland · 6.6%$36 million
Potash fertilizersGermany66.7%Canada · 19.3%$32 million
Pickled vegetables and fruitGermany56.3%Austria · 12.2%$29 million
Uninsulated copper cableGermany51.3%Turkey · 15.2%$23 million
Flexible metal tubingGermany54.2%China · 13.8%$22 million
Passenger rail coachesGermany84.7%over 75%Luxembourg · 13.9%$21 million

and 43 more

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%.

Are there other suppliers in the world?

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

Seen from Germany

Czechia is Germany’s 12th-largest customer, with 3.1% of its exports.

Sources and method

Sources and licenses

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.