How dependent is Germany on the United States?

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 24.6% of what the world exports of hormones; next come Ireland (48.5%), Denmark (3.8%) and China (3.5%). The rest of the world exported 17.2 times what Germany buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 28.9% of what the world exports of soybeans; next come Brazil (55.4%), Paraguay (4.1%) and Canada (3%). The rest of the world exported 52 times what Germany buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 15% of what the world exports of bulk medicines; next come Ireland (18.2%), Portugal (13.7%) and China (5.3%). The rest of the world exported 15.4 times what Germany buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 26.5% of what the world exports of signal glassware and optical glass elements; next come China (20.7%), Japan (13.6%) and Malaysia (7.1%). The rest of the world exported 3.3 times what Germany buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 13.2% of what the world exports of coins; next come Australia (32%), Poland (6.5%) and Bulgaria (5.6%). The rest of the world exported 8 times what Germany buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 9.6% of what the world exports of isotopes and their compounds; next come Ireland (45%), China (10.1%) and Hong Kong (9.5%). The rest of the world exported 60.1 times what Germany buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 32.7% of what the world exports of photographic film in rolls; next come Japan (26.3%), Belgium (9.6%) and China (8.9%). The rest of the world exported 21.3 times what Germany buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 24.7% of what the world exports of raw hides; next come Zimbabwe (17.9%), Australia (13.7%) and France (5%). The rest of the world exported 7.4 times what Germany buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 17.8% of what the world exports of quartz and quartzite; next come China (18.8%), India (17.4%) and Brazil (10.9%). The rest of the world exported 43 times what Germany buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 5.7% of what the world exports of raw furskins; next come Finland (31.9%), Denmark (30.8%) and Poland (9.8%). The rest of the world exported 171.7 times what Germany buys from the United States.

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

Germany is the United States’ 4th-largest customer, with 4.9% of its exports.

• Trade between Germany and the United States
• Who does Germany rely on?
• Who does the United States rely on?
• Dependence of Germany on China
• Dependence of Germany on Norway
• Dependence of Germany on the Netherlands
• Dependence of Germany on Poland
• Dependence of Germany on Ireland
• Dependence of Germany on Switzerland
• Dependence of Germany on Spain
• Dependence of Germany on Italy
• Dependence of Germany on Bulgaria
• Dependence of Germany on Denmark
• Trade profile of Germany
• 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.