Summary
- Share of its imports
- 10.5%
- Share of its imports from outside the EU
- 29.8%
- Value imported
- $2.3billion
- Rank among its suppliers
- 2nd
- Products where it sells over 50%
- 34
- Products where it sells over 75%
- 8
- Dominated value
- $775million
- Share of total imports
- 3.6%
Trend
Trend in shares
China went from 0.46% to 10.5% of what Estonia buys
Share (%)
- China 10.5%
Source: CEPII BACI
Show the numbers
| Year | Value (USD millions) | Share | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 13 | 0.46% | 28 |
| 1996 | 18 | 0.5% | 26 |
| 1997 | 27 | 0.57% | 26 |
| 1998 | 37 | 0.73% | 24 |
| 1999 | 48 | 1.1% | 21 |
| 2000 | 159 | 3.2% | 6 |
| 2001 | 181 | 3.7% | 6 |
| 2002 | 274 | 4.6% | 5 |
| 2003 | 343 | 4.9% | 6 |
| 2004 | 427 | 4.9% | 5 |
| 2005 | 651 | 5.9% | 5 |
| 2006 | 802 | 5.5% | 5 |
| 2007 | 937 | 5.8% | 5 |
| 2008 | 1,004 | 6.1% | 6 |
| 2009 | 640 | 5.8% | 5 |
| 2010 | 952 | 7% | 5 |
| 2011 | 1,489 | 7.8% | 4 |
| 2012 | 1,469 | 7% | 5 |
| 2013 | 1,506 | 7% | 4 |
| 2014 | 1,536 | 7.4% | 4 |
| 2015 | 1,277 | 8.3% | 4 |
| 2016 | 1,310 | 8.4% | 4 |
| 2017 | 1,487 | 8.6% | 4 |
| 2018 | 1,677 | 8.7% | 4 |
| 2019 | 1,514 | 8.3% | 3 |
| 2020 | 1,634 | 9.2% | 4 |
| 2021 | 2,109 | 8.6% | 4 |
| 2022 | 2,375 | 9.3% | 3 |
| 2023 | 2,143 | 9.9% | 3 |
| 2024 | 2,260 | 10.5% | 2 |
Products where China sells more than half
| Product | Supplier | Share | Second | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cameras and broadcast equipment | China | 54% | Lithuania · 7.6% | $340 million |
| Computers | China | 56.8% | Lithuania · 11.6% | $136 million |
| Diodes, transistors and solar cells | China | 51.2% | United States · 17.6% | $58 million |
| Batteries | China | 58.9% | Germany · 8.6% | $53 million |
| Toys | China | 59.3% | Czechia · 10.7% | $49 million |
| Vacuum cleaners | China | 58.1% | Romania · 11.4% | $42 million |
| Home appliances | China | 51.9% | Germany · 15.5% | $22 million |
| Uninsulated aluminum cable | China | 75.7%over 75% | Finland · 11.4% | $7 million |
| Baby carriages and strollers | China | 81.7%over 75% | Poland · 6.2% | $6 million |
| Industrial and laboratory electric furnaces | China | 57.6% | Sweden · 13.5% | $6 million |
| Antibiotics | China | 87.4%over 75% | Netherlands · 11.2% | $6 million |
| Festive and Christmas articles | China | 63.6% | Netherlands · 8.1% | $5 million |
| Ion-exchange resins | China | 85%over 75% | Serbia · 5.6% | $4 million |
| Knitted gloves | China | 58.3% | Poland · 5% | $4 million |
| Curtains and interior blinds | China | 55.2% | Poland · 12.4% | $4 million |
| Other synthetic fiber fabric | China | 66% | Netherlands · 11.5% | $4 million |
| Sound players and recorders | China | 56.2% | Malaysia · 7.1% | $3 million |
| Gloves (not knitted) | China | 66.8% | Vietnam · 11% | $3 million |
| Costume jewelry | China | 55.4% | Italy · 10% | $2 million |
| Wooden picture and mirror frames | China | 77.6%over 75% | Latvia · 7.6% | $2 million |
| Nitrogen heterocyclic compounds | China | 55.6% | India · 20.4% | $2 million |
| Lightweight polyester-cotton fabric | China | 57.8% | Pakistan · 28.7% | $2 million |
| Sulfonamides | China | 82.6%over 75% | India · 8.6% | $2 million |
| Wall clocks and alarm clocks | China | 85.7%over 75% | Finland · 3.8% | $2 million |
| Shipping containers | China | 56.7% | Bermuda · 6.9% | $2 million |
| Artificial flowers and foliage | China | 75.2%over 75% | Netherlands · 6.2% | $1 million |
| Vacuum flasks (thermoses) | China | 59.6% | Romania · 10.6% | $1 million |
| Children's picture and coloring books | China | 56.8% | Lithuania · 19.1% | $1 million |
| Other glass articles | China | 50.1% | Lithuania · 8.5% | $1 million |
| Ceramic figurines and ornaments | China | 57.3% | Germany · 8.9% | $1 million |
and 4 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?
- China sells 46.2% of what the world exports of cameras and broadcast equipment; next come Vietnam (13.1%), Taiwan (4.4%) and India (4.3%). The rest of the world exported 996.7 times what Estonia buys from China.
- China sells 38.7% of what the world exports of computers; next come Taiwan (14.2%), Mexico (12.6%) and Vietnam (7%). The rest of the world exported 1,887.1 times what Estonia buys from China.
- China sells 39.2% of what the world exports of diodes, transistors and solar cells; next come Malaysia (8.6%), Japan (7.4%) and Vietnam (5.9%). The rest of the world exported 1,404.1 times what Estonia buys from China.
- China sells 50.8% of what the world exports of batteries; next come South Korea (6.1%), United States (5.4%) and Poland (5.4%). The rest of the world exported 1,419.5 times what Estonia buys from China.
- China sells 66.3% of what the world exports of toys; next come Vietnam (5.8%), Czechia (4.1%) and Mexico (2.6%). The rest of the world exported 409.9 times what Estonia buys from China.
- China sells 51.3% of what the world exports of vacuum cleaners; next come Vietnam (8.2%), Germany (7.7%) and Mexico (7.2%). The rest of the world exported 264.3 times what Estonia buys from China.
- China sells 56.2% of what the world exports of home appliances; next come Germany (7.7%), Malaysia (6.5%) and Vietnam (4.9%). The rest of the world exported 650.6 times what Estonia buys from China.
- China sells 23.6% of what the world exports of uninsulated aluminum cable; next come India (24.4%), Bahrain (11.2%) and Turkey (5.9%). The rest of the world exported 253.1 times what Estonia buys from China.
- China sells 79.6% of what the world exports of baby carriages and strollers; next come Germany (5.2%), Netherlands (3.5%) and Poland (3%). The rest of the world exported 75.8 times what Estonia buys from China.
- China sells 24.2% of what the world exports of industrial and laboratory electric furnaces; next come Germany (17%), Italy (10.7%) and United States (7.6%). The rest of the world exported 889.2 times what Estonia buys from China.
Exports from the rest of the world already have buyers; the figure shows scale, not availability.
Seen from China
Estonia is China’s 107th-largest customer, with 0.06% 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.