How dependent is Mexico 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 11.7% of what the world exports of refined petroleum; next come Singapore (6.3%), South Korea (5.9%) and Netherlands (5.7%). The rest of the world exported 36.6 times what Mexico buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 9% of what the world exports of auto parts; next come Germany (14.5%), China (12.1%) and Japan (6.1%). The rest of the world exported 19.9 times what Mexico buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 18% of what the world exports of natural gas and LPG; next come Norway (11%), Australia (10%) and Qatar (9.1%). The rest of the world exported 55.6 times what Mexico buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 20.5% of what the world exports of diesel engines; next come Germany (11.9%), United Kingdom (8.6%) and Japan (7.8%). The rest of the world exported 6.1 times what Mexico buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 20.1% of what the world exports of medical and dental instruments; next come Germany (10.4%), China (7.8%) and Ireland (6.1%). The rest of the world exported 34.2 times what Mexico buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 5.4% of what the world exports of batteries; next come China (50.8%), South Korea (6.1%) and Poland (5.4%). The rest of the world exported 40.9 times what Mexico buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 10.1% of what the world exports of plastic packaging; next come China (19.5%), Germany (9.7%) and France (4.2%). The rest of the world exported 20.2 times what Mexico buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 18% of what the world exports of pork; next come Spain (16.6%), Germany (11.1%) and Canada (9%). The rest of the world exported 11.1 times what Mexico buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 15.8% of what the world exports of spark-ignition engines; next come Germany (11.5%), Japan (7.3%) and China (6.9%). The rest of the world exported 15.8 times what Mexico buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 10.4% of what the world exports of parts for switchgear; next come China (16.9%), Germany (14.6%) and Japan (5%). The rest of the world exported 13.8 times what Mexico buys from the United States.

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

Mexico is the United States’ 2nd-largest customer, with 12.7% of its exports.

• Trade between Mexico and the United States
• Who does Mexico rely on?
• Who does the United States rely on?
• Dependence of Mexico on China
• Dependence of Mexico on Ireland
• Dependence of Mexico on Germany
• Trade profile of Mexico
• 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.