How dependent is Ireland 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 14.7% of what the world exports of vaccines, blood and antisera; next come Germany (12.3%), Switzerland (12%) and Belgium (7.9%). The rest of the world exported 66.9 times what Ireland buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 9.3% of what the world exports of crude petroleum; next come Saudi Arabia (14.3%), Russia (9.5%) and United Arab Emirates (8.7%). The rest of the world exported 1,031.1 times what Ireland buys from the United States.
• 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 144.2 times what Ireland buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 30.1% of what the world exports of aircraft parts; next come United Kingdom (11.8%), France (10.8%) and Germany (10.3%). The rest of the world exported 117 times what Ireland buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 45.4% of what the world exports of developed photographic plates and film; next come Japan (17.9%), Taiwan (13%) and Germany (8%). The rest of the world exported 2.3 times what Ireland buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 6.1% of what the world exports of motor and generator parts; next come China (25.6%), Germany (12.7%) and Japan (6.9%). The rest of the world exported 106 times what Ireland buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 6% of what the world exports of spirits; next come United Kingdom (23.5%), Mexico (14.6%) and France (14.3%). The rest of the world exported 218.9 times what Ireland buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 54.8% of what the world exports of starch, sugar and brewing residues; next come China (8.6%), Russia (4%) and Germany (3.2%). The rest of the world exported 24.7 times what Ireland 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 9 times what Ireland buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 8% of what the world exports of cobalt; next come Democratic Republic of the Congo (54.4%), Canada (5.3%) and China (3.5%). The rest of the world exported 66.5 times what Ireland buys from the United States.

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

Ireland is the United States’ 20th-largest customer, with 1.3% of its exports.

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