How dependent is the Marshall Islands on China?

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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%.

• 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 553.7 times what the Marshall Islands buys from China.
• China sells 16.8% of what the world exports of 3D printers; next come Germany (18.5%), United States (11.7%) and Japan (6.4%). The rest of the world exported 50.7 times what the Marshall Islands 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 383 times what the Marshall Islands buys from China.
• China sells 51.5% of what the world exports of shipping containers; next come United States (6.6%), Germany (4.2%) and Poland (3.8%). The rest of the world exported 43.8 times what the Marshall Islands buys from China.
• China sells 11.7% of what the world exports of engine parts; next come Germany (19.1%), United States (8.3%) and Japan (7.7%). The rest of the world exported 1,597.9 times what the Marshall Islands buys from China.
• China sells 14.5% of what the world exports of centrifuges and filters; next come Germany (15.2%), United States (13.2%) and Mexico (6.1%). The rest of the world exported 2,040 times what the Marshall Islands buys from China.
• China sells 4.9% of what the world exports of synthetic paints and varnishes; next come Germany (16%), United States (10.1%) and Japan (8.2%). The rest of the world exported 489.6 times what the Marshall Islands buys from China.
• China sells 11.6% of what the world exports of other industrial machines; next come Japan (16.2%), United States (12%) and Netherlands (10.6%). The rest of the world exported 10,662.9 times what the Marshall Islands buys from China.
• China sells 28.4% of what the world exports of air pumps, compressors and fans; next come Germany (11%), United States (8.2%) and Japan (5.7%). The rest of the world exported 9,797.1 times what the Marshall Islands buys from China.
• China sells 17% of what the world exports of control panels; next come Germany (11.9%), Mexico (10.9%) and United States (8.5%). The rest of the world exported 11,774 times what the Marshall Islands buys from China.

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

The Marshall Islands is China’s 77th-largest customer, with 0.15% of its exports.

• Trade between the Marshall Islands and China
• Who does the Marshall Islands rely on?
• Who does China rely on?
• Dependence of the Marshall Islands on the Netherlands
• Trade profile of the Marshall Islands
• Trade profile of China
• 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.