How dependent is Japan 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 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 24.6 times what Japan 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 11.4 times what Japan buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 25.1% of what the world exports of ethers and organic peroxides; next come China (17.9%), Saudi Arabia (12.5%) and Netherlands (7.4%). The rest of the world exported 8.3 times what Japan 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 51 times what Japan buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 28.9% of what the world exports of soybeans; next come Brazil (55.4%), Paraguay (4.1%) and Canada (3%). The rest of the world exported 46.6 times what Japan buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 23.6% of what the world exports of edible offal; next come Australia (8.9%), Spain (8.8%) and Canada (6.6%). The rest of the world exported 11.5 times what Japan buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 21.8% of what the world exports of petroleum coke and bitumen; next come Canada (9.4%), Singapore (5.3%) and United Arab Emirates (4.4%). The rest of the world exported 41.2 times what Japan buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 49.7% of what the world exports of forage (alfalfa and hay); next come Australia (13.4%), Canada (7.5%) and Spain (7%). The rest of the world exported 3.4 times what Japan buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 6.5% of what the world exports of rice; next come India (29.3%), Thailand (17.2%) and Vietnam (10.5%). The rest of the world exported 108.2 times what Japan buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 31.8% of what the world exports of open-chain hydrocarbons; next come South Korea (14.3%), Netherlands (6.8%) and Belgium (4.4%). The rest of the world exported 50.9 times what Japan buys from the United States.

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

Japan is the United States’ 5th-largest customer, with 4.3% of its exports.

• Trade between Japan and the United States
• Who does Japan rely on?
• Who does the United States rely on?
• Dependence of Japan on China
• Dependence of Japan on Australia
• 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 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.