Summary
- Share of its imports
- 5.1%
- Value imported
- $34.9billion
- Rank among its suppliers
- 5th
- Products where it sells over 50%
- 28
- Products where it sells over 75%
- 6
- Dominated value
- $985million
- Share of total imports
- 0.1%
Trend
Trend in shares
Japan went from 14.4% to 5.1% of what Hong Kong buys
Share (%)
- Japan 5.1%
Source: CEPII BACI
Show the numbers
| Year | Value (USD millions) | Share | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 28,549 | 14.4% | 2 |
| 1996 | 26,431 | 13.3% | 2 |
| 1997 | 27,419 | 12.6% | 2 |
| 1998 | 22,734 | 12.2% | 2 |
| 1999 | 20,835 | 11.5% | 2 |
| 2000 | 27,137 | 12.4% | 2 |
| 2001 | 23,927 | 11.6% | 2 |
| 2002 | 24,862 | 11.4% | 2 |
| 2003 | 28,406 | 11.6% | 2 |
| 2004 | 33,639 | 11.9% | 2 |
| 2005 | 34,041 | 11% | 2 |
| 2006 | 35,447 | 10.2% | 2 |
| 2007 | 36,968 | 9.3% | 3 |
| 2008 | 37,561 | 9% | 2 |
| 2009 | 31,196 | 8.5% | 2 |
| 2010 | 41,399 | 9% | 2 |
| 2011 | 42,814 | 8% | 2 |
| 2012 | 41,048 | 7.1% | 2 |
| 2013 | 36,970 | 5.8% | 4 |
| 2014 | 38,043 | 6.3% | 3 |
| 2015 | 34,721 | 6% | 4 |
| 2016 | 32,939 | 5.9% | 4 |
| 2017 | 33,599 | 5.3% | 5 |
| 2018 | 32,812 | 5.1% | 5 |
| 2019 | 31,322 | 5.4% | 4 |
| 2020 | 32,047 | 5.6% | 5 |
| 2021 | 35,387 | 5% | 5 |
| 2022 | 32,819 | 5% | 5 |
| 2023 | 31,079 | 4.8% | 4 |
| 2024 | 34,927 | 5.1% | 5 |
Products where Japan sells more than half
| Product | Supplier | Share | Second | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pearls | Japan | 65.1% | French Polynesia · 9% | $282 million |
| Watch movements | Japan | 61.4% | China · 17.6% | $171 million |
| Complete unassembled clock or watch movements | Japan | 56.9% | Malaysia · 20.1% | $76 million |
| Gauze, bandages and dressings | Japan | 55.8% | China · 16.7% | $74 million |
| Bulldozers and excavators | Japan | 54.6% | China · 18.6% | $63 million |
| Coated flat steel | Japan | 66.2% | China · 25.5% | $56 million |
| Laser, plasma and EDM machine tools | Japan | 68.2% | China · 11.5% | $45 million |
| Alloy steel sheet | Japan | 84.4%over 75% | China · 8.1% | $42 million |
| Cider and other fermented drinks | Japan | 67.1% | China · 18.4% | $28 million |
| Metal pickling and soldering fluxes | Japan | 52% | China · 17.7% | $21 million |
| Seeds for planting | Japan | 61% | China · 10.6% | $21 million |
| Coral and shells, unworked | Japan | 81.8%over 75% | Tunisia · 11.3% | $15 million |
| Other ceramic articles | Japan | 66.2% | China · 7.7% | $12 million |
| Artificial filament fabric | Japan | 51.1% | Italy · 20.7% | $9 million |
| Cold-rolled flat steel | Japan | 55.1% | China · 34.2% | $9 million |
| Electron tubes and valves | Japan | 55% | China · 16.6% | $9 million |
| Limestone for lime and cement | Japan | 80%over 75% | China · 19.9% | $9 million |
| Cassava and other roots | Japan | 60.3% | China · 14.6% | $8 million |
| Pianos | Japan | 56.6% | China · 15.4% | $7 million |
| Synthetic monofilament and strip | Japan | 68.3% | China · 12.7% | $6 million |
| Zinc scrap | Japan | 57.4% | Spain · 17.5% | $5 million |
| Newspapers and magazines | Japan | 57% | China · 15% | $4 million |
| Base metals, silver or gold clad with platinum | Japan | 95.7%over 75% | United Kingdom · 2.3% | $3 million |
| Other copper articles | Japan | 65.7% | China · 16.5% | $2 million |
| Kaolin | Japan | 97%over 75% | United States · 0.73% | $2 million |
| Base metals clad with silver, semi-manufactured | Japan | 58.8% | United States · 16.3% | $2 million |
| Tantalum | Japan | 54% | China · 17.2% | $2 million |
| Granulated blast-furnace slag | Japan | 100%over 75% | Thailand · 0.01% | $1 million |
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?
- Japan sells 31.4% of what the world exports of pearls; next come Australia (14.3%), Indonesia (12.3%) and French Polynesia (8.5%). The rest of the world exported 2.4 times what Hong Kong buys from Japan.
- Japan sells 44.1% of what the world exports of watch movements; next come Switzerland (21.6%), China (9.7%) and Malaysia (3.3%). The rest of the world exported 2.5 times what Hong Kong buys from Japan.
- Japan sells 26.6% of what the world exports of complete unassembled clock or watch movements; next come Malaysia (32.1%), Singapore (16.9%) and China (8.9%). The rest of the world exported 3.5 times what Hong Kong buys from Japan.
- Japan sells 2.9% of what the world exports of gauze, bandages and dressings; next come China (27.5%), United States (10.9%) and Germany (8%). The rest of the world exported 140.6 times what Hong Kong buys from Japan.
- Japan sells 19.7% of what the world exports of bulldozers and excavators; next come China (25.8%), United States (6.8%) and Germany (6.3%). The rest of the world exported 763.6 times what Hong Kong buys from Japan.
- Japan sells 4.8% of what the world exports of coated flat steel; next come China (27.6%), South Korea (10.3%) and Germany (7.2%). The rest of the world exported 982.5 times what Hong Kong buys from Japan.
- Japan sells 12.9% of what the world exports of laser, plasma and EDM machine tools; next come China (28.8%), Germany (14.4%) and Switzerland (8.9%). The rest of the world exported 129.4 times what Hong Kong buys from Japan.
- Japan sells 14.7% of what the world exports of alloy steel sheet; next come China (16.4%), Germany (11%) and South Korea (7.9%). The rest of the world exported 632.7 times what Hong Kong buys from Japan.
- Japan sells 16.4% of what the world exports of cider and other fermented drinks; next come Canada (7.9%), Ireland (7.5%) and Sweden (7.1%). The rest of the world exported 54.5 times what Hong Kong buys from Japan.
- Japan sells 17.2% of what the world exports of metal pickling and soldering fluxes; next come United States (12.4%), Germany (11.1%) and China (10.5%). The rest of the world exported 89.5 times what Hong Kong buys from Japan.
Exports from the rest of the world already have buyers; the figure shows scale, not availability.
Seen from Japan
Hong Kong is Japan’s 5th-largest customer, with 4.6% 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.