How dependent is El Salvador 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 468.2 times what El Salvador 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 1,085.8 times what El Salvador buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 23.9% of what the world exports of corn; next come Brazil (19.5%), Argentina (16.3%) and Ukraine (13.1%). The rest of the world exported 269.6 times what El Salvador buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 26.8% of what the world exports of raw cotton; next come Brazil (30.7%), Australia (13.7%) and India (5.5%). The rest of the world exported 133.2 times what El Salvador buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 18.3% of what the world exports of soybean meal and pellets; next come Brazil (28.7%), Argentina (26.7%) and Netherlands (3%). The rest of the world exported 300.8 times what El Salvador 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 983.2 times what El Salvador buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 9.4% of what the world exports of synthetic fiber yarn; next come China (33.6%), India (9.5%) and Indonesia (8.4%). The rest of the world exported 64.9 times what El Salvador 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 172.6 times what El Salvador buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 17.9% of what the world exports of used clothing; next come China (13.3%), United Kingdom (9.3%) and Germany (7%). The rest of the world exported 65.5 times what El Salvador 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 548.2 times what El Salvador buys from the United States.

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

El Salvador is the United States’ 51st-largest customer, with 0.24% of its exports.

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