How dependent is Kuwait on the United States?

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 30.1% 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 153.8 times what Kuwait buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 21.8% of what the world exports of catalysts; next come Germany (16.1%), North Macedonia (9.6%) and Poland (6.9%). The rest of the world exported 132.9 times what Kuwait buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 7.6% of what the world exports of other vegetable oils; next come India (20%), Mexico (9.1%) and Spain (5.7%). The rest of the world exported 77.5 times what Kuwait buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 46.2% of what the world exports of other nuts (almonds, walnuts); next come Turkey (10%), China (5.7%) and Australia (4.4%). The rest of the world exported 352.3 times what Kuwait buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 2.7% of what the world exports of aluminum oxide and hydroxide; next come Australia (30.5%), Brazil (17%) and China (9.8%). The rest of the world exported 951.5 times what Kuwait 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 1,494.6 times what Kuwait buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 12.9% of what the world exports of fuses, detonators and caps; next come Czechia (10.7%), France (9.6%) and Canada (7.7%). The rest of the world exported 324.4 times what Kuwait buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 5.8% of what the world exports of manganese oxides; next come China (24.2%), Japan (11.4%) and India (7.2%). The rest of the world exported 195.9 times what Kuwait buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 18.4% of what the world exports of glands, heparin and organ extracts; next come China (18.8%), Singapore (12.7%) and France (8.5%). The rest of the world exported 1,882.5 times what Kuwait buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 2.6% of what the world exports of unwrought nickel; next come Canada (11.8%), Norway (11.7%) and Australia (10.1%). The rest of the world exported 12,142.6 times what Kuwait buys from the United States.

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

Kuwait is the United States’ 56th-largest customer, with 0.19% of its exports.

• Trade between Kuwait and the United States
• Who does Kuwait rely on?
• Who does the United States rely on?
• Dependence of Kuwait on China
• Dependence of Kuwait on the United Arab Emirates
• Dependence of Kuwait on India
• Trade profile of Kuwait
• 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.