How dependent is India on the United States?

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 United States sells 30.3% of what the world exports of turbojets and gas turbines; next come United Kingdom (14.5%), France (10%) and Hong Kong (5.3%). The rest of the world exported 64.1 times what India buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 46.2% of what the world exports of other nuts (almonds, walnuts); next come Turkey (10%), China (5.7%) and Australia (4.4%). The rest of the world exported 9.8 times what India buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 10.3% of what the world exports of coal tar oils; next come Netherlands (8.4%), South Korea (7.2%) and Germany (5.8%). The rest of the world exported 31.1 times what India buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 31.8% of what the world exports of open-chain hydrocarbons; next come South Korea (14.3%), Netherlands (6.8%) and Belgium (4.4%). The rest of the world exported 32.4 times what India buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 32.9% of what the world exports of ethyl alcohol (ethanol); next come Brazil (12.5%), Netherlands (11.5%) and Belgium (6.2%). The rest of the world exported 19.8 times what India buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 34% of what the world exports of artificial filament tow (acetate); next come Japan (19.4%), Germany (13.6%) and Belgium (9.8%). The rest of the world exported 36.6 times what India buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 39.3% of what the world exports of other nickel articles; next come United Kingdom (9.9%), Mexico (7.1%) and France (6.3%). The rest of the world exported 46.6 times what India buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 1.8% of what the world exports of prepared shellfish; next come China (12.6%), Vietnam (12.5%) and Russia (8.7%). The rest of the world exported 975.7 times what India buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 32.2% of what the world exports of diesel and other locomotives; next come Spain (18.1%), South Korea (11.1%) and Germany (8.7%). The rest of the world exported 82.8 times what India buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 35.9% of what the world exports of wooden barrels and casks; next come France (39.1%), Spain (13%) and Austria (1.2%). The rest of the world exported 87.9 times what India buys from the United States.

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

India is the United States’ 12th-largest customer, with 2.1% of its exports.

• Trade between India and the United States
• Who does India rely on?
• Who does the United States rely on?
• Dependence of India on China
• Dependence of India on Indonesia
• 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 the United States
• 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.