How dependent is Japan on the Philippines?

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 Philippines sells 5.2% of what the world exports of wood joinery; next come China (11.8%), Canada (9.5%) and Austria (9.1%). The rest of the world exported 18.1 times what Japan buys from the Philippines.
• The Philippines sells 9.2% of what the world exports of bananas; next come Ecuador (28.3%), Colombia (10.9%) and Costa Rica (10.7%). The rest of the world exported 19.1 times what Japan buys from the Philippines.
• The Philippines sells 0.86% of what the world exports of cargo and cruise ships; next come China (31%), South Korea (29.6%) and India (3.1%). The rest of the world exported 143.7 times what Japan buys from the Philippines.
• The Philippines sells 1.7% of what the world exports of cement and concrete articles; next come China (20.3%), Germany (8.9%) and Malaysia (7.8%). The rest of the world exported 80.7 times what Japan buys from the Philippines.
• The Philippines sells 15.7% of what the world exports of sulfides; next come China (31.6%), Austria (10.1%) and United States (9.2%). The rest of the world exported 5.3 times what Japan buys from the Philippines.
• The Philippines sells 1.2% of what the world exports of plastic baths, sinks and sanitary ware; next come China (30.6%), Germany (16.8%) and Poland (5.1%). The rest of the world exported 88.8 times what Japan buys from the Philippines.
• The Philippines sells 0.94% of what the world exports of wood wool and plant-fiber panels; next come China (25.7%), Germany (8.6%) and Austria (6.5%). The rest of the world exported 103.2 times what Japan buys from the Philippines.
• The Philippines sells 5.4% of what the world exports of base metals or silver clad with gold, semi-manufactured; next come Mozambique (22.2%), Germany (10.1%) and United States (10.1%). The rest of the world exported 16.2 times what Japan buys from the Philippines.
• The Philippines sells 2.1% of what the world exports of cast iron pipes; next come China (30.8%), France (14.1%) and India (10.2%). The rest of the world exported 662.6 times what Japan buys from the Philippines.

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

Japan is the Philippines’ 4th-largest customer, with 10.6% of its exports.

• Trade between Japan and the Philippines
• Who does Japan rely on?
• Who does the Philippines rely on?
• Dependence of Japan on China
• 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 Brazil
• Dependence of Japan on Malaysia
• Dependence of Japan on Thailand
• Trade profile of Japan
• Trade profile of the Philippines
• 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.