Summary
- Share of its imports
- 33.5%
- Value imported
- $4.5billion
- Rank among its suppliers
- 1st
- Products where it sells over 50%
- 156
- Products where it sells over 75%
- 85
- Dominated value
- $3billion
- Share of total imports
- 22.1%
Trend
Trend in shares
China went from 23.1% to 33.5% of what Macao buys
Share (%)
- China 33.5%
Source: CEPII BACI
Show the numbers
| Year | Value (USD millions) | Share | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 606 | 23.1% | 2 |
| 1996 | 578 | 21.8% | 2 |
| 1997 | 722 | 24.7% | 2 |
| 1998 | 771 | 27.7% | 2 |
| 1999 | 834 | 31.3% | 1 |
| 2000 | 846 | 30.4% | 2 |
| 2001 | 894 | 32.8% | 1 |
| 2002 | 1,089 | 35.7% | 1 |
| 2003 | 1,370 | 39.1% | 1 |
| 2004 | 1,698 | 44.2% | 1 |
| 2005 | 1,752 | 41.1% | 1 |
| 2006 | 2,195 | 44.5% | 1 |
| 2007 | 2,517 | 42.8% | 1 |
| 2008 | 2,264 | 38.2% | 1 |
| 2009 | 1,713 | 34.4% | 1 |
| 2010 | 1,975 | 34.8% | 1 |
| 2011 | 2,439 | 31.6% | 1 |
| 2012 | 2,620 | 31.9% | 1 |
| 2013 | 3,276 | 31.4% | 2 |
| 2014 | 3,601 | 31.3% | 2 |
| 2015 | 2,848 | 23.2% | 2 |
| 2016 | 3,243 | 36.3% | 1 |
| 2017 | 3,234 | 33.8% | 1 |
| 2018 | 3,400 | 33% | 1 |
| 2019 | 3,647 | 32.6% | 1 |
| 2020 | 3,107 | 33.9% | 1 |
| 2021 | 5,331 | 35.3% | 1 |
| 2022 | 5,256 | 35.8% | 1 |
| 2023 | 4,866 | 33.7% | 1 |
| 2024 | 4,506 | 33.5% | 1 |
Products where China sells more than half
| Product | Supplier | Share | Second | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electricity | China | 100%over 75% | — | $529 million |
| Cameras and broadcast equipment | China | 90.1%over 75% | Vietnam · 5.5% | $486 million |
| Computers | China | 83%over 75% | United States · 7.5% | $182 million |
| Steel structures | China | 98.5%over 75% | Taiwan · 0.34% | $145 million |
| Airplanes and helicopters | China | 100%over 75% | — | $83 million |
| Natural gas and LPG | China | 100%over 75% | Ireland · 0.01% | $82 million |
| Computer and office machine parts | China | 68.9% | United States · 12% | $80 million |
| Refined petroleum | China | 84.2%over 75% | Singapore · 14% | $68 million |
| Poultry meat | China | 57.3% | Hong Kong · 24.4% | $67 million |
| Textile footwear | China | 51.6% | Indonesia · 9.2% | $61 million |
| Furniture | China | 92.8%over 75% | Italy · 1.5% | $54 million |
| Cement and concrete articles | China | 99.5%over 75% | Hong Kong · 0.27% | $53 million |
| Water | China | 93.4%over 75% | France · 1.9% | $52 million |
| Cables and wire | China | 71.4% | United Kingdom · 9.1% | $47 million |
| Live pigs | China | 100%over 75% | — | $42 million |
| Steel bars | China | 96.8%over 75% | Malaysia · 2.9% | $37 million |
| Aluminum structures | China | 96.6%over 75% | Taiwan · 1.2% | $37 million |
| Discs and storage media | China | 64.4% | Japan · 8.2% | $33 million |
| Toilet paper and tissues | China | 72.5% | Japan · 12% | $29 million |
| Eggs in shell | China | 86.8%over 75% | Hong Kong · 7.3% | $25 million |
| Other plastic articles | China | 51.3% | United States · 24.1% | $23 million |
| Gold and silverware | China | 63.9% | Hong Kong · 29.4% | $23 million |
| Cement | China | 87.1%over 75% | Hong Kong · 11% | $22 million |
| Prepared meat | China | 58.8% | Hong Kong · 15.5% | $22 million |
| Microphones and speakers | China | 72.2% | United States · 7.5% | $22 million |
| Gravel and crushed stone | China | 99.4%over 75% | Spain · 0.58% | $20 million |
| Pasta | China | 58.6% | Hong Kong · 21.3% | $19 million |
| Wood joinery | China | 78.9%over 75% | Belgium · 18.3% | $19 million |
| Buses | China | 97.4%over 75% | Hong Kong · 1.6% | $19 million |
| Plastic tableware and household items | China | 90%over 75% | Japan · 1.9% | $18 million |
and 126 more
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%.
Are there other suppliers in the world?
- China sells 2.7% of what the world exports of electricity; next come France (14%), Germany (6.8%) and Switzerland (6.1%). The rest of the world exported 115.7 times what Macao buys from China.
- 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 698 times what Macao 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 1,410.6 times what Macao buys from China.
- China sells 29.7% of what the world exports of steel structures; next come Germany (8.4%), Poland (4.7%) and Turkey (4.4%). The rest of the world exported 316.1 times what Macao buys from China.
- China sells 1.7% of what the world exports of airplanes and helicopters; next come United States (25.2%), France (24.9%) and Germany (15.2%). The rest of the world exported 1,830.5 times what Macao buys from China.
- China sells 0.7% of what the world exports of natural gas and LPG; next come United States (18%), Norway (11%) and Australia (10%). The rest of the world exported 5,969.3 times what Macao 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 2,786.9 times what Macao buys from China.
- China sells 3.5% of what the world exports of refined petroleum; next come United States (11.7%), Singapore (6.3%) and South Korea (5.9%). The rest of the world exported 12,274.1 times what Macao buys from China.
- China sells 3% of what the world exports of poultry meat; next come Brazil (26.3%), United States (12.9%) and Poland (12.7%). The rest of the world exported 507.7 times what Macao buys from China.
- China sells 30.7% of what the world exports of textile footwear; next come Vietnam (30.9%), Indonesia (7.9%) and Italy (6.1%). The rest of the world exported 498.4 times what Macao buys from China.
Exports from the rest of the world already have buyers; the figure shows scale, not availability.
Seen from China
Macao is China’s 82nd-largest customer, with 0.13% of its exports.
Links
Sources and method
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.