How dependent is Guatemala 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 210.3 times what Guatemala 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 846.3 times what Guatemala 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 114.1 times what Guatemala 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 103.2 times what Guatemala 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 264.2 times what Guatemala buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 12.9% of what the world exports of poultry meat; next come Brazil (26.3%), Poland (12.7%) and Netherlands (7.5%). The rest of the world exported 146.8 times what Guatemala 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 18.9 times what Guatemala buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 22.7% of what the world exports of Kraft paper and paperboard; next come Sweden (16%), Austria (6%) and Finland (5.9%). The rest of the world exported 59.2 times what Guatemala 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 104.2 times what Guatemala buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 5.6% of what the world exports of cheese; next come Germany (14.9%), Italy (12.8%) and Netherlands (12.4%). The rest of the world exported 416.3 times what Guatemala buys from the United States.

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

Guatemala is the United States’ 34th-largest customer, with 0.52% of its exports.

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