How dependent is the Philippines 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 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 64.2 times what the Philippines buys from China.
• China sells 38.7% of what the world exports of computers; next come Taiwan (14.2%), Mexico (12.6%) and Vietnam (7%). The rest of the world exported 404.1 times what the Philippines buys from China.
• China sells 50.1% of what the world exports of printed circuit boards; next come Taiwan (9.5%), South Korea (8.6%) and Japan (7.8%). The rest of the world exported 43.6 times what the Philippines buys from China.
• China sells 37.2% of what the world exports of bags, suitcases and cases; next come Italy (14.9%), France (14.7%) and Vietnam (6%). The rest of the world exported 97.3 times what the Philippines buys from China.
• China sells 56.2% of what the world exports of phones and telecom equipment; next come Vietnam (11.1%), South Korea (5.6%) and Taiwan (3.4%). The rest of the world exported 60 times what the Philippines buys from China.
• China sells 29.7% of what the world exports of steel structures; next come Germany (8.4%), Poland (4.7%) and Turkey (4.4%). The rest of the world exported 97.5 times what the Philippines buys from China.
• China sells 34.6% of what the world exports of transformers and power supplies; next come Germany (7%), Mexico (4.5%) and Japan (3.9%). The rest of the world exported 207.3 times what the Philippines buys from China.
• China sells 30.8% of what the world exports of furniture; next come Vietnam (10.4%), Italy (7.3%) and Germany (7%). The rest of the world exported 149.9 times what the Philippines buys from China.
• China sells 37.8% of what the world exports of steel sheet piling; next come Luxembourg (20.6%), Czechia (4.2%) and Poland (3.7%). The rest of the world exported 3.2 times what the Philippines buys from China.
• China sells 17.3% of what the world exports of ceramic tiles; next come Italy (22.9%), Spain (18.6%) and India (13.4%). The rest of the world exported 35.4 times what the Philippines buys from China.

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

The Philippines is China’s 27th-largest customer, with 1% of its exports.

• Trade between the Philippines and China
• Who does the Philippines rely on?
• Who does China rely on?
• Dependence of the Philippines on Indonesia
• Dependence of the Philippines on Vietnam
• Dependence of the Philippines on Thailand
• Dependence of the Philippines on the United States
• Dependence of the Philippines on Japan
• Dependence of the Philippines on Singapore
• Dependence of the Philippines on Australia
• Dependence of the Philippines on Malaysia
• Trade profile of the Philippines
• 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.