How dependent is Haiti on the Dominican Republic?

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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 Dominican Republic sells 1.1% of what the world exports of t-shirts; next come Bangladesh (17.8%), China (17.1%) and Vietnam (6.4%). The rest of the world exported 482.5 times what Haiti buys from the Dominican Republic.
• The Dominican Republic sells 14.9% of what the world exports of other cotton fabric; next come China (34.9%), Italy (9.6%) and Pakistan (9.2%). The rest of the world exported 5.8 times what Haiti buys from the Dominican Republic.
• The Dominican Republic sells 0.84% of what the world exports of cement; next come Turkey (9.6%), Vietnam (9.5%) and Egypt (7.1%). The rest of the world exported 277.4 times what Haiti buys from the Dominican Republic.
• The Dominican Republic sells 0.54% of what the world exports of steel bars; next come Turkey (11.5%), China (10.8%) and Malaysia (10.3%). The rest of the world exported 403.6 times what Haiti buys from the Dominican Republic.
• The Dominican Republic sells 0.78% of what the world exports of wheat flour; next come Turkey (20.1%), Kazakhstan (8.6%) and Germany (8%). The rest of the world exported 128.6 times what Haiti buys from the Dominican Republic.
• The Dominican Republic sells 0.19% of what the world exports of plastic packaging; next come China (19.5%), United States (10.1%) and Germany (9.7%). The rest of the world exported 1,615.3 times what Haiti buys from the Dominican Republic.
• The Dominican Republic sells 0.12% of what the world exports of bread, biscuits and pastries; next come Germany (10.2%), Canada (9.7%) and Italy (7.8%). The rest of the world exported 1,622 times what Haiti buys from the Dominican Republic.
• The Dominican Republic sells 0.35% of what the world exports of sauces and condiments; next come United States (12%), Italy (10%) and Netherlands (7.1%). The rest of the world exported 570.8 times what Haiti buys from the Dominican Republic.
• The Dominican Republic sells 0.29% of what the world exports of soybean oil; next come Argentina (44.4%), Brazil (10%) and Netherlands (3.9%). The rest of the world exported 399.4 times what Haiti buys from the Dominican Republic.
• The Dominican Republic sells 0.2% of what the world exports of pasta; next come Italy (28.2%), South Korea (9%) and China (7.6%). The rest of the world exported 536.8 times what Haiti buys from the Dominican Republic.

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

Haiti is the Dominican Republic’s 2nd-largest customer, with 6.2% of its exports.

• Who does Haiti rely on?
• Who does the Dominican Republic rely on?
• Dependence of Haiti on the United States
• Trade profile of Haiti
• Trade profile of the Dominican Republic
• 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.