How dependent is the Philippines on Japan?

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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%.

• Japan sells 10.1% of what the world exports of buses; next come China (21.1%), Turkey (13%) and Germany (8.4%). The rest of the world exported 58.7 times what the Philippines buys from Japan.
• Japan sells 20% of what the world exports of copper foil; next come Taiwan (23.9%), China (15.6%) and South Korea (11.3%). The rest of the world exported 27.4 times what the Philippines buys from Japan.
• Japan sells 9% of what the world exports of halogenated hydrocarbons; next come China (26.6%), United States (21.6%) and Germany (6.5%). The rest of the world exported 102.4 times what the Philippines buys from Japan.
• Japan sells 7.8% of what the world exports of diesel engines; next come United States (20.5%), Germany (11.9%) and United Kingdom (8.6%). The rest of the world exported 675.4 times what the Philippines buys from Japan.
• Japan sells 5.9% of what the world exports of ferrous scrap; next come United States (13.9%), Germany (9.9%) and United Kingdom (7.6%). The rest of the world exported 738.3 times what the Philippines buys from Japan.
• Japan sells 10.9% of what the world exports of other ceramic articles; next come China (23.6%), Spain (15.2%) and United States (6.9%). The rest of the world exported 32.2 times what the Philippines buys from Japan.
• Japan sells 19.4% of what the world exports of artificial filament tow (acetate); next come United States (34%), Germany (13.6%) and Belgium (9.8%). The rest of the world exported 44 times what the Philippines buys from Japan.
• Japan sells 8.1% of what the world exports of sulfuric acid; next come China (14.5%), Canada (8.5%) and South Korea (8.1%). The rest of the world exported 63.9 times what the Philippines buys from Japan.
• Japan sells 8.2% of what the world exports of railway track material; next come China (18.1%), Austria (14.7%) and France (8.2%). The rest of the world exported 127 times what the Philippines buys from Japan.
• Japan sells 8.4% of what the world exports of rare earth compounds; next come Myanmar (31.6%), China (15.8%) and Malaysia (15.4%). The rest of the world exported 66.5 times what the Philippines buys from Japan.

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

The Philippines is Japan’s 17th-largest customer, with 1.4% of its exports.

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