How dependent is Mozambique 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 50.6% of what the world exports of rubber and plastic footwear; next come Vietnam (16.4%), Indonesia (6%) and Germany (3.8%). The rest of the world exported 200.1 times what Mozambique buys from China.
• China sells 28.6% of what the world exports of motorcycles; next come Japan (10.4%), Germany (8.3%) and Thailand (8.3%). The rest of the world exported 337.7 times what Mozambique 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 4,507.8 times what Mozambique buys from China.
• China sells 8.3% of what the world exports of railway freight cars; next come Mexico (42.8%), United States (8.6%) and Romania (6.2%). The rest of the world exported 105 times what Mozambique buys from China.
• China sells 25.8% of what the world exports of bulldozers and excavators; next come Japan (19.7%), United States (6.8%) and Germany (6.3%). The rest of the world exported 813.2 times what Mozambique buys from China.
• China sells 41.7% of what the world exports of lightweight cotton fabric; next come India (11.3%), Pakistan (8.1%) and Italy (5.1%). The rest of the world exported 96.7 times what Mozambique buys from China.
• China sells 59.2% of what the world exports of lamps and light fittings; next come Germany (4.7%), Mexico (4%) and Italy (3.6%). The rest of the world exported 434.7 times what Mozambique buys from China.
• China sells 25% of what the world exports of pesticides and herbicides; next come United States (10.8%), Germany (9.2%) and France (8.1%). The rest of the world exported 766.4 times what Mozambique buys from China.
• China sells 47.3% of what the world exports of shovels, hoes and other garden tools; next come Germany (5.9%), Taiwan (5.6%) and Mexico (5.4%). The rest of the world exported 33.8 times what Mozambique buys from China.
• China sells 22.8% of what the world exports of new tires; next come Thailand (8%), Japan (6%) and Germany (5.3%). The rest of the world exported 2,523.3 times what Mozambique buys from China.

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

Mozambique is China’s 104th-largest customer, with 0.07% of its exports.

• Trade between Mozambique and China
• Who does Mozambique rely on?
• Who does China rely on?
• Dependence of Mozambique on South Africa
• Trade profile of Mozambique
• 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.