How dependent is Myanmar 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 61.9% of what the world exports of synthetic filament fabric; next come Taiwan (4.8%), South Korea (4.5%) and India (3.3%). The rest of the world exported 17.7 times what Myanmar buys from China.
• China sells 50.6% of what the world exports of other knitted fabric; next come Taiwan (6.3%), Turkey (5.8%) and South Korea (5.5%). The rest of the world exported 44.1 times what Myanmar buys from China.
• China sells 50.1% of what the world exports of blended synthetic fabric; next come Italy (8.4%), Pakistan (5.5%) and United States (3.9%). The rest of the world exported 3.4 times what Myanmar 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 1,190.3 times what Myanmar buys from China.
• China sells 27.6% of what the world exports of coated flat steel; next come South Korea (10.3%), Germany (7.2%) and Belgium (4.8%). The rest of the world exported 275.2 times what Myanmar buys from China.
• China sells 44% of what the world exports of synthetic staple fiber fabric; next come United States (6.5%), Turkey (6.3%) and Italy (5.2%). The rest of the world exported 16.7 times what Myanmar buys from China.
• China sells 40.6% of what the world exports of plastic-coated fabric; next come Germany (7.2%), South Korea (6.6%) and United States (5.4%). The rest of the world exported 71.7 times what Myanmar 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 49.4 times what Myanmar buys from China.
• China sells 80.4% of what the world exports of knitted plush and terry fabric; next come Malaysia (3.6%), South Korea (2.4%) and Taiwan (1.5%). The rest of the world exported 12.4 times what Myanmar buys from China.
• China sells 17.5% of what the world exports of toilet paper and tissues; next come Germany (9.1%), Poland (6.3%) and United States (5.7%). The rest of the world exported 298.6 times what Myanmar buys from China.

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

Myanmar is China’s 63rd-largest customer, with 0.2% of its exports.

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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.