Summary
- Share of its imports
- 8.6%
- Value imported
- $4billion
- Rank among its suppliers
- 4th
- Products where it sells over 50%
- 3
- Products where it sells over 75%
- 1
- Dominated value
- $3.3billion
- Share of total imports
- 7%
Trend
Trend in shares
South Korea went from 1.6% to 8.6% of what New Zealand buys
Share (%)
- South Korea 8.6%
Source: CEPII BACI
Show the numbers
| Year | Value (USD millions) | Share | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 239 | 1.6% | 13 |
| 1996 | 268 | 1.8% | 12 |
| 1997 | 288 | 1.9% | 9 |
| 1998 | 232 | 2% | 11 |
| 1999 | 356 | 2.4% | 8 |
| 2000 | 337 | 2.4% | 9 |
| 2001 | 312 | 2.3% | 9 |
| 2002 | 361 | 2.4% | 9 |
| 2003 | 500 | 2.6% | 8 |
| 2004 | 665 | 2.8% | 9 |
| 2005 | 718 | 2.7% | 8 |
| 2006 | 777 | 2.9% | 8 |
| 2007 | 888 | 2.9% | 7 |
| 2008 | 925 | 2.7% | 10 |
| 2009 | 855 | 3.3% | 7 |
| 2010 | 1,000 | 3.2% | 8 |
| 2011 | 1,180 | 3.2% | 7 |
| 2012 | 1,406 | 3.7% | 8 |
| 2013 | 1,594 | 4% | 8 |
| 2014 | 1,941 | 4.5% | 6 |
| 2015 | 1,417 | 3.9% | 7 |
| 2016 | 1,554 | 4.3% | 7 |
| 2017 | 1,357 | 3.4% | 9 |
| 2018 | 1,971 | 4.5% | 7 |
| 2019 | 1,585 | 3.7% | 9 |
| 2020 | 1,763 | 4.8% | 5 |
| 2021 | 2,247 | 4.5% | 7 |
| 2022 | 3,268 | 6% | 5 |
| 2023 | 3,702 | 7.4% | 4 |
| 2024 | 4,041 | 8.6% | 4 |
Products where South Korea sells more than half
| Product | Supplier | Share | Second | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Refined petroleum | South Korea | 56.3% | Singapore · 28.8% | $3.2 billion |
| Cold-rolled flat steel | South Korea | 88.5%over 75% | China · 4.9% | $15 million |
| Nitric and sulfonitric acids | South Korea | 72.5% | Belgium · 25.7% | $3 million |
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?
- South Korea sells 5.9% of what the world exports of refined petroleum; next come United States (11.7%), Singapore (6.3%) and Netherlands (5.7%). The rest of the world exported 249.5 times what New Zealand buys from South Korea.
- South Korea sells 14.8% of what the world exports of cold-rolled flat steel; next come China (18.5%), Japan (9.1%) and Belgium (6.6%). The rest of the world exported 931 times what New Zealand buys from South Korea.
- South Korea sells 31.1% of what the world exports of nitric and sulfonitric acids; next come Belgium (16%), Germany (15.9%) and Poland (3.8%). The rest of the world exported 97.9 times what New Zealand buys from South Korea.
Exports from the rest of the world already have buyers; the figure shows scale, not availability.
Seen from South Korea
New Zealand is South Korea’s 31st-largest customer, with 0.53% 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.