How dependent is India on Thailand?

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%.

• Thailand sells 11.7% of what the world exports of air conditioners; next come China (39.4%), Mexico (11.7%) and United States (4.2%). The rest of the world exported 135.6 times what India buys from Thailand.
• Thailand sells 8.1% of what the world exports of radio receivers; next come China (26.3%), Mexico (20.7%) and Malaysia (8.9%). The rest of the world exported 40.7 times what India buys from Thailand.
• Thailand sells 9.3% of what the world exports of epoxides (ethylene and propylene oxide); next come Netherlands (17.2%), United States (15.4%) and Germany (14.1%). The rest of the world exported 33.4 times what India buys from Thailand.
• Thailand sells 8.3% of what the world exports of motorcycles; next come China (28.6%), Japan (10.4%) and Germany (8.3%). The rest of the world exported 830 times what India buys from Thailand.
• Thailand sells 12.4% of what the world exports of antimony; next come Tajikistan (34.5%), Vietnam (14.8%) and China (10.9%). The rest of the world exported 42.5 times what India buys from Thailand.
• Thailand sells 4.2% of what the world exports of particle board and OSB; next come Canada (22.2%), Germany (7.5%) and Austria (6.8%). The rest of the world exported 983.7 times what India buys from Thailand.
• Thailand sells 16.4% of what the world exports of pearl and gemstone articles; next come China (27.7%), United States (8.9%) and Vietnam (6.4%). The rest of the world exported 231.7 times what India buys from Thailand.
• Thailand sells 2.2% of what the world exports of ice cream; next come Germany (11.7%), France (11.5%) and Belgium (9.1%). The rest of the world exported 1,035.3 times what India buys from Thailand.
• Thailand sells 10.4% of what the world exports of fiber cement; next come China (13.6%), United States (13%) and Belgium (6%). The rest of the world exported 384.9 times what India buys from Thailand.
• Thailand sells 55.3% of what the world exports of rubber thread and cord; next come Malaysia (22.2%), China (9.4%) and Japan (1.1%). The rest of the world exported 77.1 times what India buys from Thailand.

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

India is Thailand’s 7th-largest customer, with 3.6% of its exports.

• Trade between India and Thailand
• Who does India rely on?
• Who does Thailand rely on?
• Dependence of India on China
• 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
• Trade profile of India
• Trade profile of Thailand
• All countries

Sources and licenses

• CEPII BACI · Licence Ouverte Etalab 2.0
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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.