How dependent is Malaysia 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 15.6% of what the world exports of aluminum scrap; next come Germany (9.2%), Canada (5.5%) and United Kingdom (5.1%). The rest of the world exported 44.3 times what Malaysia buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 30.8% of what the world exports of waste paper; next come United Kingdom (8.3%), Netherlands (5.3%) and France (4.3%). The rest of the world exported 13.8 times what Malaysia 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 288.9 times what Malaysia buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 24.8% of what the world exports of aluminum powder and flakes; next come Germany (9%), Austria (5.9%) and China (4.8%). The rest of the world exported 3.3 times what Malaysia buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 17.5% of what the world exports of carbonates; next come Chile (22.9%), Turkey (10.9%) and China (8.8%). The rest of the world exported 75.8 times what Malaysia buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 10.6% of what the world exports of gallium, germanium, chromium and other metals; next come China (27.5%), Brazil (13.7%) and Germany (8.9%). The rest of the world exported 44 times what Malaysia buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 54.8% of what the world exports of starch, sugar and brewing residues; next come China (8.6%), Russia (4%) and Germany (3.2%). The rest of the world exported 78.4 times what Malaysia buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 39.3% of what the world exports of other nickel articles; next come United Kingdom (9.9%), Mexico (7.1%) and France (6.3%). The rest of the world exported 81.2 times what Malaysia buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 5.8% of what the world exports of cyclic alcohols (menthol); next come China (32.2%), India (14.7%) and Germany (12%). The rest of the world exported 110.1 times what Malaysia buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 12.3% of what the world exports of slag and ash with metals; next come Germany (7.8%), Australia (7%) and Canada (6.9%). The rest of the world exported 749.5 times what Malaysia buys from the United States.

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

Malaysia is the United States’ 19th-largest customer, with 1.4% of its exports.

• Trade between Malaysia and the United States
• Who does Malaysia rely on?
• Who does the United States rely on?
• Dependence of Malaysia on China
• Dependence of Malaysia on Indonesia
• Dependence of Malaysia on Australia
• Dependence of Malaysia on Brazil
• Dependence of Malaysia on Thailand
• Dependence of Malaysia on Argentina
• Dependence of Malaysia on Singapore
• Dependence of Malaysia on Japan
• Dependence of Malaysia on India
• Trade profile of Malaysia
• 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.