How dependent is Ireland on China?

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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%.

• China sells 66.3% of what the world exports of toys; next come Vietnam (5.8%), Czechia (4.1%) and Mexico (2.6%). The rest of the world exported 103.6 times what Ireland buys from China.
• China sells 32.9% of what the world exports of seats and chairs; next come Mexico (9.8%), Vietnam (8.1%) and Poland (7.2%). The rest of the world exported 358 times what Ireland buys from China.
• China sells 42.6% of what the world exports of amino acids and amino alcohols (lysine); next come Germany (6.8%), Singapore (6.4%) and India (6%). The rest of the world exported 56.5 times what Ireland buys from China.
• China sells 58.5% of what the world exports of video game consoles and games; next come Japan (6.7%), United States (5.3%) and Germany (3.3%). The rest of the world exported 135 times what Ireland buys from China.
• China sells 56.2% of what the world exports of home appliances; next come Germany (7.7%), Malaysia (6.5%) and Vietnam (4.9%). The rest of the world exported 193.4 times what Ireland buys from China.
• China sells 44.6% of what the world exports of other organo-inorganic compounds; next come United States (14.5%), Germany (10%) and South Korea (4.8%). The rest of the world exported 83.3 times what Ireland buys from China.
• China sells 83.8% of what the world exports of festive and Christmas articles; next come Cambodia (2.2%), Netherlands (1.6%) and India (1.4%). The rest of the world exported 40.3 times what Ireland buys from China.
• China sells 69.1% of what the world exports of steel kitchenware and household articles; next come India (4.2%), Germany (3.8%) and France (2.8%). The rest of the world exported 135.5 times what Ireland buys from China.
• China sells 51.3% of what the world exports of costume jewelry; next come Italy (8.8%), France (8%) and Thailand (4.3%). The rest of the world exported 120.1 times what Ireland buys from China.
• China sells 52.9% of what the world exports of dust and powder of precious and semi-precious stones; next come United States (10.7%), South Korea (5.6%) and Hong Kong (3.5%). The rest of the world exported 5.7 times what Ireland buys from China.

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

Ireland is China’s 45th-largest customer, with 0.34% of its exports.

• Trade between Ireland and China
• Who does Ireland rely on?
• Who does China rely on?
• Dependence of Ireland on the United Kingdom
• Dependence of Ireland on the United States
• Dependence of Ireland on Israel
• Dependence of Ireland on Italy
• Trade profile of Ireland
• Trade profile of China
• 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.