Summary
- Share of its imports
- 11.1%
- Value imported
- $5.2billion
- Rank among its suppliers
- 2nd
- Products where it sells over 50%
- 60
- Products where it sells over 75%
- 25
- Dominated value
- $1.6billion
- Share of total imports
- 3.3%
Trend
Trend in shares
Australia went from 24.9% to 11.1% of what New Zealand buys
Share (%)
- Australia 11.1%
Source: CEPII BACI
Show the numbers
| Year | Value (USD millions) | Share | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 3,625 | 24.9% | 1 |
| 1996 | 4,207 | 27.6% | 1 |
| 1997 | 3,769 | 25.3% | 1 |
| 1998 | 2,623 | 22.2% | 1 |
| 1999 | 3,579 | 24.3% | 1 |
| 2000 | 3,223 | 22.6% | 1 |
| 2001 | 3,048 | 22.4% | 1 |
| 2002 | 3,573 | 23.3% | 1 |
| 2003 | 4,393 | 23% | 1 |
| 2004 | 5,345 | 22.7% | 1 |
| 2005 | 5,567 | 21% | 1 |
| 2006 | 5,484 | 20.5% | 1 |
| 2007 | 6,488 | 20.8% | 1 |
| 2008 | 6,298 | 18.1% | 1 |
| 2009 | 4,798 | 18.7% | 1 |
| 2010 | 6,021 | 19.5% | 1 |
| 2011 | 5,889 | 15.9% | 1 |
| 2012 | 5,923 | 15.4% | 2 |
| 2013 | 5,291 | 13.3% | 2 |
| 2014 | 5,387 | 12.5% | 2 |
| 2015 | 4,522 | 12.3% | 2 |
| 2016 | 4,776 | 13.2% | 2 |
| 2017 | 4,951 | 12.3% | 2 |
| 2018 | 5,002 | 11.4% | 2 |
| 2019 | 4,881 | 11.5% | 2 |
| 2020 | 4,572 | 12.3% | 2 |
| 2021 | 5,684 | 11.4% | 2 |
| 2022 | 6,043 | 11% | 2 |
| 2023 | 5,498 | 10.9% | 2 |
| 2024 | 5,178 | 11.1% | 2 |
Products where Australia sells more than half
| Product | Supplier | Share | Second | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aluminum oxide and hydroxide | Australia | 98.5%over 75% | South Korea · 0.7% | $230 million |
| Pet and animal feed | Australia | 56.6% | Thailand · 14.6% | $190 million |
| Wheat | Australia | 100%over 75% | Malaysia · 0.01% | $157 million |
| Chocolate | Australia | 60.3% | Italy · 8.6% | $135 million |
| Soft drinks | Australia | 54.4% | United States · 11.3% | $79 million |
| Kraft paper and paperboard | Australia | 76.3%over 75% | South Africa · 11.3% | $65 million |
| Rapeseed and mustard oil | Australia | 71.3% | Malaysia · 26% | $62 million |
| Uncoated paper | Australia | 85.2%over 75% | Indonesia · 5% | $53 million |
| Natural gas and LPG | Australia | 90.1%over 75% | South Korea · 5.7% | $46 million |
| Fiber cement | Australia | 83.8%over 75% | Thailand · 7.8% | $40 million |
| Instant coffee and tea extracts | Australia | 59.5% | South Korea · 7.3% | $40 million |
| Breakfast cereals | Australia | 65.2% | Thailand · 7.4% | $40 million |
| Live horses, donkeys and mules | Australia | 75.7%over 75% | United States · 18.2% | $34 million |
| Malt extract and food mixes | Australia | 52.1% | Singapore · 8.3% | $26 million |
| Fresh beef | Australia | 99.8%over 75% | Japan · 0.16% | $24 million |
| Ice cream | Australia | 51.4% | United States · 7.7% | $19 million |
| Gold | Australia | 63.9% | Switzerland · 11.7% | $19 million |
| Precious metal scrap | Australia | 64.2% | Thailand · 35.8% | $19 million |
| Water-based paints and varnishes | Australia | 63.3% | Germany · 6.3% | $18 million |
| Unwrought aluminum | Australia | 59.6% | Qatar · 21.1% | $17 million |
| Prepared meat | Australia | 55.2% | Thailand · 9.6% | $16 million |
| Frozen beef | Australia | 94.2%over 75% | United States · 2.3% | $16 million |
| Soups and broths | Australia | 73.2% | United Kingdom · 7.7% | $16 million |
| Alloy steel bars and sections | Australia | 66% | Germany · 8.4% | $15 million |
| Gypsum and plaster | Australia | 97.9%over 75% | United States · 0.52% | $14 million |
| Gold and silverware | Australia | 75.8%over 75% | Switzerland · 14.4% | $13 million |
| Bulk medicines | Australia | 70.3% | Ireland · 6.8% | $12 million |
| Newsprint | Australia | 55.2% | Japan · 13.9% | $10 million |
| Lithium hydroxide and other metal oxides | Australia | 75.4%over 75% | United States · 17.1% | $10 million |
| Aluminum cans, drums and containers | Australia | 63.1% | China · 30.5% | $9 million |
and 30 more
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%.
Are there other suppliers in the world?
- Australia sells 30.5% of what the world exports of aluminum oxide and hydroxide; next come Brazil (17%), China (9.8%) and Indonesia (9.4%). The rest of the world exported 63.1 times what New Zealand buys from Australia.
- Australia sells 0.84% of what the world exports of pet and animal feed; next come Germany (9.9%), United States (9.5%) and Netherlands (8.9%). The rest of the world exported 240.2 times what New Zealand buys from Australia.
- Australia sells 9.6% of what the world exports of wheat; next come Russia (16.1%), Canada (13.7%) and United States (11.5%). The rest of the world exported 328.1 times what New Zealand buys from Australia.
- Australia sells 0.66% of what the world exports of chocolate; next come Germany (16.2%), Belgium (11.9%) and Poland (7.5%). The rest of the world exported 311.8 times what New Zealand buys from Australia.
- Australia sells 0.6% of what the world exports of soft drinks; next come Austria (9.8%), Germany (8.4%) and Netherlands (7.9%). The rest of the world exported 372.2 times what New Zealand buys from Australia.
- Australia sells 2.4% of what the world exports of Kraft paper and paperboard; next come United States (22.7%), Sweden (16%) and Austria (6%). The rest of the world exported 227.8 times what New Zealand buys from Australia.
- Australia sells 2.2% of what the world exports of rapeseed and mustard oil; next come Canada (36.8%), Germany (10.9%) and Russia (9.8%). The rest of the world exported 187.8 times what New Zealand buys from Australia.
- Australia sells 1% of what the world exports of uncoated paper; next come Germany (17.3%), United States (8.4%) and Malaysia (5.4%). The rest of the world exported 319.2 times what New Zealand buys from Australia.
- Australia sells 10% of what the world exports of natural gas and LPG; next come United States (18%), Norway (11%) and Qatar (9.1%). The rest of the world exported 9,529.2 times what New Zealand buys from Australia.
- Australia sells 2.4% of what the world exports of fiber cement; next come China (13.6%), United States (13%) and Thailand (10.4%). The rest of the world exported 40.9 times what New Zealand buys from Australia.
Exports from the rest of the world already have buyers; the figure shows scale, not availability.
Seen from Australia
New Zealand is Australia’s 14th-largest customer, with 1.4% of its exports.
Sources and method
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.