How dependent is Egypt on the United Arab Emirates?

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 Arab Emirates sells 8.3% of what the world exports of copper wire; next come Germany (12.4%), Belgium (7.2%) and Spain (6.7%). The rest of the world exported 44.2 times what Egypt buys from the United Arab Emirates.
• The United Arab Emirates sells 0.47% of what the world exports of crustaceans (shrimp, lobster, crab); next come Ecuador (22.5%), India (16%) and Canada (11.3%). The rest of the world exported 273.2 times what Egypt buys from the United Arab Emirates.
• The United Arab Emirates sells 10.6% of what the world exports of gold; next come Switzerland (19.2%), Hong Kong (6.4%) and Australia (6.1%). The rest of the world exported 4,938.6 times what Egypt buys from the United Arab Emirates.
• The United Arab Emirates sells 1.8% of what the world exports of copper bars and profiles; next come Germany (15.5%), France (7.4%) and Italy (6.9%). The rest of the world exported 69.9 times what Egypt buys from the United Arab Emirates.
• The United Arab Emirates sells 2.1% of what the world exports of uninsulated copper cable; next come Turkey (19.4%), Germany (14.4%) and United States (14.3%). The rest of the world exported 48 times what Egypt buys from the United Arab Emirates.
• The United Arab Emirates sells 7.2% of what the world exports of cast iron pipes; next come China (30.8%), France (14.1%) and India (10.2%). The rest of the world exported 35.5 times what Egypt buys from the United Arab Emirates.
• The United Arab Emirates sells 1.9% of what the world exports of used clothing; next come United States (17.9%), China (13.3%) and United Kingdom (9.3%). The rest of the world exported 267.3 times what Egypt buys from the United Arab Emirates.
• The United Arab Emirates sells 0.65% of what the world exports of sanitary pads, diapers and textile wadding; next come China (14.7%), South Korea (7.4%) and Netherlands (5.6%). The rest of the world exported 263.1 times what Egypt buys from the United Arab Emirates.
• The United Arab Emirates sells 2.9% of what the world exports of tissue paper stock; next come Indonesia (14.5%), Turkey (11.3%) and China (9.9%). The rest of the world exported 838.9 times what Egypt buys from the United Arab Emirates.
• The United Arab Emirates sells 0.07% of what the world exports of isotopes and their compounds; next come Ireland (45%), China (10.1%) and United States (9.6%). The rest of the world exported 1,603.4 times what Egypt buys from the United Arab Emirates.

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

Egypt is the United Arab Emirates’ 20th-largest customer, with 0.87% of its exports.

• Trade between Egypt and the United Arab Emirates
• Who does Egypt rely on?
• Who does the United Arab Emirates rely on?
• Dependence of Egypt on China
• Dependence of Egypt on Russia
• Dependence of Egypt on Brazil
• Dependence of Egypt on the United States
• Dependence of Egypt on Saudi Arabia
• Dependence of Egypt on India
• Dependence of Egypt on Indonesia
• Dependence of Egypt on the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Trade profile of Egypt
• Trade profile of the United Arab Emirates
• 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.