How dependent is Japan 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 46.2% of what the world exports of cameras and broadcast equipment; next come Vietnam (13.1%), Taiwan (4.4%) and India (4.3%). The rest of the world exported 16.9 times what Japan buys from China.
• China sells 38.7% of what the world exports of computers; next come Taiwan (14.2%), Mexico (12.6%) and Vietnam (7%). The rest of the world exported 23.9 times what Japan buys from China.
• China sells 30.3% of what the world exports of computer and office machine parts; next come Taiwan (15%), Vietnam (10.6%) and South Korea (7.3%). The rest of the world exported 51.6 times what Japan buys from China.
• China sells 50.8% of what the world exports of batteries; next come South Korea (6.1%), United States (5.4%) and Poland (5.4%). The rest of the world exported 28.2 times what Japan buys from China.
• China sells 29.8% of what the world exports of sweaters and pullovers; next come Bangladesh (11.8%), Vietnam (7.7%) and Italy (6.1%). The rest of the world exported 18.5 times what Japan buys from China.
• China sells 34.6% of what the world exports of transformers and power supplies; next come Germany (7%), Mexico (4.5%) and United States (3.8%). The rest of the world exported 40.1 times what Japan buys from China.
• 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 8.9 times what Japan buys from China.
• China sells 39.4% of what the world exports of air conditioners; next come Thailand (11.7%), Mexico (11.7%) and United States (4.2%). The rest of the world exported 19.9 times what Japan 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 32.2 times what Japan buys from China.
• China sells 58.5% of what the world exports of video game consoles and games; next come United States (5.3%), Germany (3.3%) and Vietnam (3.2%). The rest of the world exported 6.5 times what Japan buys from China.

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

Japan is China’s 3rd-largest customer, with 4.6% of its exports.

• Trade between Japan and China
• Who does Japan rely on?
• Who does China rely on?
• Dependence of Japan on Australia
• Dependence of Japan on the United States
• Dependence of Japan on Taiwan
• Dependence of Japan on Indonesia
• Dependence of Japan on South Africa
• Dependence of Japan on South Korea
• Dependence of Japan on Switzerland
• Dependence of Japan on the Philippines
• Dependence of Japan on Brazil
• Dependence of Japan on Malaysia
• Dependence of Japan on Thailand
• Trade profile of Japan
• 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.