How dependent is Jamaica on the United States?

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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%.

• The United States sells 11.7% of what the world exports of refined petroleum; next come Singapore (6.3%), South Korea (5.9%) and Netherlands (5.7%). The rest of the world exported 940.1 times what Jamaica buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 18% of what the world exports of natural gas and LPG; next come Norway (11%), Australia (10%) and Qatar (9.1%). The rest of the world exported 2,567.8 times what Jamaica buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 19.6% of what the world exports of caustic soda and potash; next come China (16.4%), Germany (7.6%) and Japan (6.2%). The rest of the world exported 78 times what Jamaica buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 23.9% of what the world exports of corn; next come Brazil (19.5%), Argentina (16.3%) and Ukraine (13.1%). The rest of the world exported 513 times what Jamaica 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 155.1 times what Jamaica buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 18.3% of what the world exports of soybean meal and pellets; next come Brazil (28.7%), Argentina (26.7%) and Netherlands (3%). The rest of the world exported 483.7 times what Jamaica buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 10.4% of what the world exports of eggs in shell; next come Netherlands (17.5%), Turkey (8.1%) and Poland (7.8%). The rest of the world exported 109 times what Jamaica buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 11.5% of what the world exports of wheat; next come Russia (16.1%), Canada (13.7%) and Australia (9.6%). The rest of the world exported 1,050.3 times what Jamaica buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 7.2% of what the world exports of sawn wood; next come Canada (18%), Russia (9.7%) and Sweden (9.4%). The rest of the world exported 1,000.5 times what Jamaica buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 6% of what the world exports of computers; next come China (38.7%), Taiwan (14.2%) and Mexico (12.6%). The rest of the world exported 12,692.9 times what Jamaica buys from the United States.

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

Jamaica is the United States’ 61st-largest customer, with 0.13% of its exports.

• Trade between Jamaica and the United States
• Who does Jamaica rely on?
• Who does the United States rely on?
• Trade profile of Jamaica
• 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.