Summary
- Share of its imports
- 40.6%
- Value imported
- $277billion
- Rank among its suppliers
- 1st
- Products where it sells over 50%
- 368
- Products where it sells over 75%
- 174
- Dominated value
- $136.1billion
- Share of total imports
- 20%
Trend
Trend in shares
China went from 33.3% to 40.6% of what Hong Kong buys
Share (%)
- China 40.6%
Source: CEPII BACI
Show the numbers
| Year | Value (USD millions) | Share | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 65,912 | 33.3% | 1 |
| 1996 | 65,892 | 33.3% | 1 |
| 1997 | 73,222 | 33.6% | 1 |
| 1998 | 67,421 | 36.1% | 1 |
| 1999 | 70,601 | 39% | 1 |
| 2000 | 82,813 | 37.8% | 1 |
| 2001 | 80,003 | 38.7% | 1 |
| 2002 | 87,915 | 40.5% | 1 |
| 2003 | 98,293 | 40% | 1 |
| 2004 | 113,304 | 40.1% | 1 |
| 2005 | 131,811 | 42.5% | 1 |
| 2006 | 150,816 | 43.4% | 1 |
| 2007 | 172,483 | 43.6% | 1 |
| 2008 | 186,103 | 44.6% | 1 |
| 2009 | 165,818 | 45.4% | 1 |
| 2010 | 205,547 | 44.5% | 1 |
| 2011 | 228,410 | 42.5% | 1 |
| 2012 | 263,371 | 45.8% | 1 |
| 2013 | 275,663 | 43.2% | 1 |
| 2014 | 272,052 | 44.7% | 1 |
| 2015 | 276,220 | 47.4% | 1 |
| 2016 | 255,864 | 45.7% | 1 |
| 2017 | 265,041 | 41.7% | 1 |
| 2018 | 281,092 | 43.7% | 1 |
| 2019 | 267,487 | 45.7% | 1 |
| 2020 | 251,712 | 43.6% | 1 |
| 2021 | 312,983 | 44.2% | 1 |
| 2022 | 265,537 | 40.6% | 1 |
| 2023 | 259,661 | 39.9% | 1 |
| 2024 | 276,993 | 40.6% | 1 |
Products where China sells more than half
| Product | Supplier | Share | Second | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cameras and broadcast equipment | China | 69.9% | United States · 7% | $43.9 billion |
| Computer and office machine parts | China | 55.9% | South Korea · 9.9% | $15.2 billion |
| Diodes, transistors and solar cells | China | 55.5% | Singapore · 10.2% | $8.9 billion |
| Printed circuit boards | China | 80.9%over 75% | Japan · 6.6% | $6.4 billion |
| Phones and telecom equipment | China | 70.7% | Vietnam · 5.6% | $5.7 billion |
| Transformers and power supplies | China | 70.2% | Japan · 6% | $4.2 billion |
| Low-voltage switches and connectors | China | 59.6% | Japan · 15.1% | $3.7 billion |
| Silver | China | 77.1%over 75% | South Korea · 9.8% | $3.1 billion |
| Cables and wire | China | 70.6% | United Arab Emirates · 4.3% | $2.1 billion |
| Natural gas and LPG | China | 83.5%over 75% | Qatar · 8.9% | $2.1 billion |
| Batteries | China | 79.3%over 75% | Malaysia · 5.9% | $2 billion |
| Other plastic articles | China | 71.6% | United States · 8% | $1.9 billion |
| Microphones and speakers | China | 68.5% | Malaysia · 6.9% | $1.1 billion |
| Printers and printing machines | China | 56.5% | Japan · 16.4% | $1.1 billion |
| Eyeglasses and sunglasses | China | 76.7%over 75% | Italy · 13.6% | $970 million |
| Live horses, donkeys and mules | China | 83.6%over 75% | Australia · 10.3% | $901 million |
| Other electrical devices | China | 66.6% | Japan · 7.1% | $889 million |
| Electricity | China | 99.9%over 75% | Thailand · 0.08% | $865 million |
| Women's suits and dresses | China | 59.4% | Italy · 11.8% | $774 million |
| Resistors | China | 55.9% | Taiwan · 11.2% | $732 million |
| Women's knitted suits and dresses | China | 80%over 75% | Italy · 4.4% | $705 million |
| Air pumps, compressors and fans | China | 77.9%over 75% | Germany · 3% | $649 million |
| Steel structures | China | 95.4%over 75% | United States · 0.75% | $636 million |
| Water | China | 95%over 75% | France · 2.7% | $619 million |
| Sweaters and pullovers | China | 56.8% | Italy · 14.4% | $617 million |
| Toys | China | 75.7%over 75% | Japan · 11.6% | $597 million |
| Eyeglass frames | China | 81.4%over 75% | Italy · 5.5% | $549 million |
| Sports equipment | China | 80.9%over 75% | Taiwan · 5.5% | $539 million |
| Electric motors and generators | China | 55.4% | Philippines · 18.7% | $480 million |
| Poultry meat | China | 55.5% | United States · 14.3% | $480 million |
and 338 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 7.4 times what Hong Kong buys from China.
- China sells 30.3% of what the world exports of computer and office machine parts; next come Taiwan (15%), Vietnam (10.6%) and South Korea (7.3%). The rest of the world exported 14.5 times what Hong Kong 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 9.1 times what Hong Kong buys from China.
- China sells 50.1% of what the world exports of printed circuit boards; next come Taiwan (9.5%), South Korea (8.6%) and Japan (7.8%). The rest of the world exported 3.9 times what Hong Kong buys from China.
- China sells 56.2% of what the world exports of phones and telecom equipment; next come Vietnam (11.1%), South Korea (5.6%) and Taiwan (3.4%). The rest of the world exported 4.8 times what Hong Kong buys from China.
- China sells 34.6% of what the world exports of transformers and power supplies; next come Germany (7%), Mexico (4.5%) and Japan (3.9%). The rest of the world exported 23.5 times what Hong Kong buys from China.
- China sells 23.1% of what the world exports of low-voltage switches and connectors; next come Germany (12.2%), United States (8.1%) and Japan (6.5%). The rest of the world exported 24.3 times what Hong Kong buys from China.
- China sells 16.7% of what the world exports of silver; next come Mexico (10.1%), South Korea (7.4%) and United Arab Emirates (6.9%). The rest of the world exported 8 times what Hong Kong buys from China.
- China sells 20.3% of what the world exports of cables and wire; next come Mexico (11.1%), United States (6%) and Germany (5.3%). The rest of the world exported 64.2 times what Hong Kong buys from China.
- China sells 0.7% of what the world exports of natural gas and LPG; next come United States (18%), Norway (11%) and Australia (10%). The rest of the world exported 236 times what Hong Kong buys from China.
Exports from the rest of the world already have buyers; the figure shows scale, not availability.
Seen from China
Hong Kong is China’s 2nd-largest customer, with 7.7% 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.