How dependent is Ecuador 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 246.8 times what Ecuador buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 10.3% of what the world exports of coal tar oils; next come Netherlands (8.4%), India (8.4%) and South Korea (7.2%). The rest of the world exported 21.2 times what Ecuador 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 518.4 times what Ecuador 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 409 times what Ecuador buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 22.7% of what the world exports of Kraft paper and paperboard; next come Sweden (16%), Austria (6%) and Finland (5.9%). The rest of the world exported 70.5 times what Ecuador buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 11.3% of what the world exports of meat and fish meal; next come Peru (17.3%), Chile (5.3%) and Denmark (4.9%). The rest of the world exported 176.7 times what Ecuador buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 21.8% of what the world exports of petroleum coke and bitumen; next come Canada (9.4%), Singapore (5.3%) and United Arab Emirates (4.4%). The rest of the world exported 667.7 times what Ecuador buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 21.7% of what the world exports of fuel and lubricant additives; next come France (17.7%), Singapore (14%) and Italy (8.5%). The rest of the world exported 416.1 times what Ecuador buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 54.8% of what the world exports of starch, sugar and brewing residues; next come China (8.6%), Russia (4%) and Germany (3.2%). The rest of the world exported 114.8 times what Ecuador buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 11.1% of what the world exports of chemical wood pulp; next come Brazil (28.2%), Canada (9.6%) and Chile (7.4%). The rest of the world exported 2,390.1 times what Ecuador buys from the United States.

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

Ecuador is the United States’ 38th-largest customer, with 0.42% of its exports.

• Trade between Ecuador and the United States
• Who does Ecuador rely on?
• Who does the United States rely on?
• Dependence of Ecuador on China
• Dependence of Ecuador on Colombia
• Trade profile of Ecuador
• 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.