How dependent is Eritrea on China?

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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%.

• China sells 31.7% of what the world exports of sorting and crushing machines; next come Germany (10%), United Kingdom (6.5%) and Italy (6.3%). The rest of the world exported 649.6 times what Eritrea buys from China.
• China sells 22.8% of what the world exports of new tires; next come Thailand (8%), Japan (6%) and Germany (5.3%). The rest of the world exported 6,413.7 times what Eritrea buys from China.
• China sells 31.2% of what the world exports of generating sets; next come Germany (11.9%), United States (10.6%) and Denmark (4.5%). The rest of the world exported 2,391.5 times what Eritrea buys from China.
• China sells 25% of what the world exports of electric motors and generators; next come Germany (11%), United States (7%) and Mexico (6.6%). The rest of the world exported 7,940.5 times what Eritrea buys from China.
• China sells 7.5% of what the world exports of trucks; next come Mexico (19.7%), United States (11.3%) and Germany (7.6%). The rest of the world exported 28,325.5 times what Eritrea buys from China.
• China sells 29.7% of what the world exports of steel structures; next come Germany (8.4%), Poland (4.7%) and Turkey (4.4%). The rest of the world exported 9,006.1 times what Eritrea buys from China.
• China sells 28.2% of what the world exports of other iron or steel articles; next come Germany (9.7%), United States (8.9%) and Italy (5.1%). The rest of the world exported 9,500.9 times what Eritrea buys from China.
• China sells 50.1% of what the world exports of blended synthetic fabric; next come Italy (8.4%), Pakistan (5.5%) and United States (3.9%). The rest of the world exported 246.2 times what Eritrea buys from China.
• China sells 14.5% of what the world exports of centrifuges and filters; next come Germany (15.2%), United States (13.2%) and Mexico (6.1%). The rest of the world exported 19,812.5 times what Eritrea buys from China.
• China sells 27.2% of what the world exports of sulfites and thiosulfates; next come Germany (14.7%), Italy (11.8%) and United States (8.1%). The rest of the world exported 129.2 times what Eritrea buys from China.

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

Eritrea is China’s 170th-largest customer, with 0% of its exports.

• Who does Eritrea rely on?
• Who does China rely on?
• Trade profile of Eritrea
• Trade profile of China
• 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.