How dependent is Japan on Thailand?

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%.

• Thailand sells 18.9% of what the world exports of dextrins and modified starches; next come Netherlands (13.7%), Germany (10.3%) and United States (9.4%). The rest of the world exported 18.6 times what Japan buys from Thailand.
• Thailand sells 6.2% of what the world exports of trucks; next come Mexico (19.7%), United States (11.3%) and Germany (7.6%). The rest of the world exported 829.1 times what Japan buys from Thailand.
• Thailand sells 24.7% of what the world exports of starches; next come Vietnam (12.4%), Germany (7.1%) and Netherlands (6.1%). The rest of the world exported 76.3 times what Japan buys from Thailand.
• Thailand sells 3.8% of what the world exports of copper bars and profiles; next come Germany (15.5%), France (7.4%) and Italy (6.9%). The rest of the world exported 117.1 times what Japan buys from Thailand.
• Thailand sells 11.6% of what the world exports of gypsum and plaster; next come Spain (15%), Oman (11.2%) and Germany (9.7%). The rest of the world exported 35.2 times what Japan buys from Thailand.
• Thailand sells 4.6% of what the world exports of molasses; next come Indonesia (9.3%), Guatemala (8.3%) and Egypt (5.6%). The rest of the world exported 49 times what Japan buys from Thailand.
• Thailand sells 16.2% of what the world exports of candied fruit; next come Cambodia (23.8%), China (19.5%) and Italy (8%). The rest of the world exported 43.8 times what Japan buys from Thailand.
• Thailand sells 25.2% of what the world exports of condoms and other rubber hygiene articles; next come China (17.4%), France (11.4%) and Malaysia (7.6%). The rest of the world exported 92 times what Japan buys from Thailand.
• Thailand sells 4.2% of what the world exports of tin bars, rods, profiles and wire; next come Malaysia (10.1%), United States (9.2%) and Germany (8.8%). The rest of the world exported 63.8 times what Japan buys from Thailand.
• Thailand sells 7.4% of what the world exports of filter blocks and plates of paper pulp; next come Germany (35.8%), Denmark (7.1%) and Switzerland (5.5%). The rest of the world exported 34.3 times what Japan buys from Thailand.

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

Japan is Thailand’s 3rd-largest customer, with 7% of its exports.

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