Summary
- Share of its imports
- 39.4%
- Value imported
- $13billion
- Rank among its suppliers
- 1st
- Products where it sells over 50%
- 144
- Products where it sells over 75%
- 58
- Dominated value
- $8.2billion
- Share of total imports
- 24.8%
Trend
Trend in shares
The United States went from 65.2% to 39.4% of what the Dominican Republic buys
Share (%)
- United States 39.4%
Source: CEPII BACI
Show the numbers
| Year | Value (USD millions) | Share | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 2,930 | 65.2% | 1 |
| 1996 | 3,101 | 62.3% | 1 |
| 1997 | 3,821 | 64% | 1 |
| 1998 | 3,864 | 58.6% | 1 |
| 1999 | 3,960 | 56.1% | 1 |
| 2000 | 4,330 | 51.5% | 1 |
| 2001 | 3,624 | 47.5% | 1 |
| 2002 | 4,807 | 49.5% | 1 |
| 2003 | 3,521 | 48.5% | 1 |
| 2004 | 3,414 | 45.7% | 1 |
| 2005 | 4,050 | 42.2% | 1 |
| 2006 | 5,370 | 44.3% | 1 |
| 2007 | 6,260 | 40.6% | 1 |
| 2008 | 7,309 | 39.6% | 1 |
| 2009 | 5,464 | 40.2% | 1 |
| 2010 | 6,168 | 37.4% | 1 |
| 2011 | 7,769 | 40.8% | 1 |
| 2012 | 6,609 | 36.6% | 1 |
| 2013 | 6,712 | 37.5% | 1 |
| 2014 | 7,694 | 40.5% | 1 |
| 2015 | 7,531 | 40.1% | 1 |
| 2016 | 8,229 | 42.2% | 1 |
| 2017 | 8,751 | 43.8% | 1 |
| 2018 | 9,645 | 42.9% | 1 |
| 2019 | 9,531 | 42.4% | 1 |
| 2020 | 7,597 | 39.9% | 1 |
| 2021 | 12,112 | 43.6% | 1 |
| 2022 | 12,942 | 40.5% | 1 |
| 2023 | 12,636 | 40.3% | 1 |
| 2024 | 12,994 | 39.4% | 1 |
Products where the United States sells more than half
| Product | Supplier | Share | Second | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Refined petroleum | United States | 80.1%over 75% | Netherlands · 3.2% | $2.3 billion |
| Natural gas and LPG | United States | 81.1%over 75% | Trinidad and Tobago · 15.4% | $953 million |
| Crude petroleum | United States | 100%over 75% | Brazil · 0% | $788 million |
| Other plastic articles | United States | 64.5% | China · 20.5% | $466 million |
| Cotton yarn | United States | 91.7%over 75% | India · 2.4% | $272 million |
| Jewelry | United States | 59.5% | Italy · 36.2% | $268 million |
| Pork | United States | 88.6%over 75% | Brazil · 9.7% | $266 million |
| Plastic packaging | United States | 61.3% | China · 11.5% | $192 million |
| Oilseed flours | United States | 98.9%over 75% | Argentina · 0.84% | $149 million |
| Polyethylene | United States | 72.6% | Mexico · 10.1% | $146 million |
| Cotton yarn put up for retail sale | United States | 99.5%over 75% | Indonesia · 0.16% | $136 million |
| Soybean meal and pellets | United States | 98.4%over 75% | Brazil · 1.6% | $126 million |
| Plastic sheets and film | United States | 55.6% | China · 12.7% | $120 million |
| Frozen beef | United States | 98.3%over 75% | Nicaragua · 1.3% | $113 million |
| Dried legumes (beans, lentils, peas) | United States | 79.6%over 75% | Brazil · 8.8% | $106 million |
| Poultry meat | United States | 74.3% | Brazil · 25.7% | $105 million |
| Kraft paper and paperboard | United States | 78.1%over 75% | Colombia · 8.9% | $104 million |
| Parts for switchgear | United States | 76.1%over 75% | China · 10.5% | $85 million |
| Sawn wood | United States | 70% | Peru · 8.3% | $85 million |
| Other processed tobacco | United States | 86.6%over 75% | Brazil · 4.7% | $78 million |
| Microchips | United States | 67% | China · 13.5% | $77 million |
| Self-adhesive plastic sheets | United States | 58% | China · 17.9% | $65 million |
| High-voltage switches and fuses | United States | 74.3% | China · 6.3% | $64 million |
| Petroleum coke and bitumen | United States | 90.7%over 75% | Colombia · 4.2% | $60 million |
| Printers and printing machines | United States | 58.9% | China · 25.1% | $59 million |
| PVC and other vinyl polymers | United States | 77.8%over 75% | Mexico · 14% | $54 million |
| Sauces and condiments | United States | 75.1%over 75% | Mexico · 7.8% | $47 million |
| Asphalt mixtures | United States | 73.2% | Venezuela · 24.6% | $46 million |
| Silver | United States | 99.1%over 75% | Italy · 0.68% | $40 million |
| Apples and pears | United States | 93.4%over 75% | Chile · 6.6% | $37 million |
and 114 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?
- 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 331.2 times what the Dominican Republic buys from the United States.
- The United States sells 18% of what the world exports of natural gas and LPG; next come Norway (11%), Australia (10%) and Qatar (9.1%). The rest of the world exported 422.4 times what the Dominican Republic buys from the United States.
- The United States sells 9.3% of what the world exports of crude petroleum; next come Saudi Arabia (14.3%), Russia (9.5%) and United Arab Emirates (8.7%). The rest of the world exported 1,505.7 times what the Dominican Republic buys from the United States.
- The United States sells 15.3% of what the world exports of other plastic articles; next come China (24.1%), Germany (12.7%) and France (3.3%). The rest of the world exported 267.9 times what the Dominican Republic buys from the United States.
- The United States sells 7.8% of what the world exports of cotton yarn; next come India (30%), Vietnam (17.8%) and Uzbekistan (10.7%). The rest of the world exported 38.4 times what the Dominican Republic buys from the United States.
- The United States sells 6.3% of what the world exports of jewelry; next come Italy (14.5%), France (10.9%) and India (10.9%). The rest of the world exported 410.6 times what the Dominican Republic buys from the United States.
- The United States sells 18% of what the world exports of pork; next come Spain (16.6%), Germany (11.1%) and Canada (9%). The rest of the world exported 113.1 times what the Dominican Republic buys from the United States.
- The United States sells 10.1% of what the world exports of plastic packaging; next come China (19.5%), Germany (9.7%) and France (4.2%). The rest of the world exported 313.3 times what the Dominican Republic buys from the United States.
- The United States sells 45.5% of what the world exports of oilseed flours; next come Nigeria (8.4%), Netherlands (6.8%) and China (6.6%). The rest of the world exported 4.2 times what the Dominican Republic buys from the United States.
- The United States sells 19.4% of what the world exports of polyethylene; next come Saudi Arabia (12.9%), South Korea (6.7%) and Canada (5.4%). The rest of the world exported 471.5 times what the Dominican Republic buys from the United States.
Exports from the rest of the world already have buyers; the figure shows scale, not availability.
Seen from the United States
The Dominican Republic is the United States’ 29th-largest customer, with 0.7% of its exports.
Links
Sources and method
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.