Summary
- Share of its imports
- 17.8%
- Value imported
- $122.3billion
- Rank among its suppliers
- 1st
- Products where it sells over 50%
- 315
- Products where it sells over 75%
- 120
- Dominated value
- $72.1billion
- Share of total imports
- 10.5%
Trend
Trend in shares
China went from 2.7% to 17.8% of what India buys
Share (%)
- China 17.8%
Source: CEPII BACI
Show the numbers
| Year | Value (USD millions) | Share | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 951 | 2.7% | 13 |
| 1996 | 878 | 2.3% | 17 |
| 1997 | 1,261 | 3.1% | 10 |
| 1998 | 1,272 | 2.8% | 15 |
| 1999 | 1,414 | 2.6% | 16 |
| 2000 | 1,715 | 3.7% | 8 |
| 2001 | 2,069 | 4.6% | 7 |
| 2002 | 2,852 | 5.6% | 4 |
| 2003 | 3,900 | 6.1% | 3 |
| 2004 | 6,427 | 7.6% | 1 |
| 2005 | 10,617 | 9.1% | 1 |
| 2006 | 16,115 | 9.1% | 1 |
| 2007 | 24,994 | 10.3% | 1 |
| 2008 | 28,732 | 8.9% | 1 |
| 2009 | 28,942 | 10.5% | 1 |
| 2010 | 38,291 | 10.6% | 1 |
| 2011 | 51,151 | 11% | 1 |
| 2012 | 51,342 | 10.5% | 1 |
| 2013 | 48,873 | 10.7% | 1 |
| 2014 | 52,066 | 11.5% | 1 |
| 2015 | 56,334 | 14.7% | 1 |
| 2016 | 59,957 | 16.7% | 1 |
| 2017 | 71,568 | 16% | 1 |
| 2018 | 74,081 | 14.4% | 1 |
| 2019 | 69,810 | 14.1% | 1 |
| 2020 | 60,003 | 15.8% | 1 |
| 2021 | 88,629 | 15.2% | 1 |
| 2022 | 103,238 | 14.2% | 1 |
| 2023 | 124,473 | 18.7% | 1 |
| 2024 | 122,308 | 17.8% | 1 |
Products where China sells more than half
| Product | Supplier | Share | Second | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Computers | China | 67.6% | Malaysia · 8% | $6.4 billion |
| Phones and telecom equipment | China | 76.8%over 75% | Vietnam · 12.2% | $5.7 billion |
| Cameras and broadcast equipment | China | 50.2% | Vietnam · 12.9% | $4.5 billion |
| Diodes, transistors and solar cells | China | 71.6% | Vietnam · 9.2% | $4.4 billion |
| Parts for broadcast equipment | China | 89.7%over 75% | Vietnam · 3.2% | $4 billion |
| Computer and office machine parts | China | 53.6% | Vietnam · 12.5% | $2.8 billion |
| Batteries | China | 78.3%over 75% | South Korea · 7.2% | $2.7 billion |
| Other industrial machines | China | 54.4% | Germany · 12.1% | $2.4 billion |
| Transformers and power supplies | China | 64.4% | Germany · 5.4% | $2.3 billion |
| Nitrogen heterocyclic compounds | China | 75.5%over 75% | Italy · 4.1% | $1.7 billion |
| Antibiotics | China | 88.8%over 75% | Italy · 2.6% | $1.7 billion |
| Air pumps, compressors and fans | China | 54.3% | Germany · 10.1% | $1.4 billion |
| Microphones and speakers | China | 63.4% | Vietnam · 22% | $1.1 billion |
| Printed circuit boards | China | 69.8% | Taiwan · 9.2% | $1 billion |
| Parts for cranes and excavators | China | 53.3% | South Korea · 8.3% | $922 million |
| Plastic sheets and film | China | 53.4% | United States · 8.6% | $919 million |
| Electric motors and generators | China | 52.6% | Germany · 7.3% | $757 million |
| Inorganic pigments and other colorants | China | 57.2% | Australia · 10.9% | $726 million |
| Cranes | China | 81.4%over 75% | Germany · 4.6% | $725 million |
| Capacitors | China | 63.1% | Japan · 7.2% | $664 million |
| Amino acids and amino alcohols (lysine) | China | 72.8% | Germany · 3.5% | $616 million |
| Seamless steel pipes | China | 66.5% | Italy · 6.5% | $609 million |
| Synthetic filament fabric | China | 79.8%over 75% | Indonesia · 5.7% | $590 million |
| Elevators, escalators and conveyors | China | 54% | South Korea · 7.7% | $541 million |
| Aluminum foil | China | 66.8% | Thailand · 20.8% | $537 million |
| Nucleic acids and other heterocycles | China | 68.3% | Slovenia · 4.2% | $534 million |
| Other knitted fabric | China | 75.4%over 75% | Bangladesh · 4.4% | $524 million |
| Amines | China | 56.6% | Belgium · 13.7% | $522 million |
| Safety glass (tempered and laminated) | China | 90.4%over 75% | Vietnam · 4.5% | $518 million |
| Motor and generator parts | China | 72.8% | Japan · 4.2% | $477 million |
and 285 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 38.7% of what the world exports of computers; next come Taiwan (14.2%), Mexico (12.6%) and Vietnam (7%). The rest of the world exported 40.2 times what India 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 5 times what India buys from China.
- China sells 46.2% of what the world exports of cameras and broadcast equipment; next come Vietnam (13.1%), Taiwan (4.4%) and South Korea (3.8%). The rest of the world exported 70 times what India 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 18.3 times what India buys from China.
- China sells 34.4% of what the world exports of parts for broadcast equipment; next come Vietnam (17.7%), South Korea (17.7%) and United States (4.4%). The rest of the world exported 10.5 times what India 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 79.9 times what India buys from China.
- China sells 50.8% of what the world exports of batteries; next come South Korea (6.1%), United States (5.4%) and Poland (5.4%). The rest of the world exported 27.6 times what India buys from China.
- China sells 11.6% of what the world exports of other industrial machines; next come Japan (16.2%), United States (12%) and Netherlands (10.6%). The rest of the world exported 87.4 times what India 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 42.4 times what India buys from China.
- China sells 26.6% of what the world exports of nitrogen heterocyclic compounds; next come Switzerland (17.1%), Ireland (13.8%) and Germany (3.6%). The rest of the world exported 33.3 times what India buys from China.
Exports from the rest of the world already have buyers; the figure shows scale, not availability.
Seen from China
India is China’s 7th-largest customer, with 3.4% of its exports.
Links
- Trade between India and China
- Who does India rely on?
- Who does China rely on?
- Dependence of India on Indonesia
- Dependence of India on the United States
- Dependence of India on the United Arab Emirates
- Dependence of India on Japan
- Dependence of India on Argentina
- Dependence of India on Russia
- Dependence of India on Brazil
- Dependence of India on Zambia
- Dependence of India on South Korea
- Dependence of India on South Africa
- Dependence of India on Vietnam
- Dependence of India on Bangladesh
- Dependence of India on Thailand
- Trade profile of India
- Trade profile of China
- All countries
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.