How dependent is Russia 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 9.1% of what the world exports of cars; next come Germany (17.4%), Japan (12.3%) and South Korea (7.3%). The rest of the world exported 57.4 times what Russia 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 87.7 times what Russia 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 91.5 times what Russia buys from China.
• China sells 10.3% of what the world exports of tractors; next come Mexico (15.9%), Germany (14.8%) and Netherlands (8.1%). The rest of the world exported 23.2 times what Russia buys from China.
• China sells 7.5% of what the world exports of trucks; next come Mexico (19.7%), United States (11.3%) and Germany (7.6%). The rest of the world exported 64.6 times what Russia buys from China.
• China sells 12.1% of what the world exports of auto parts; next come Germany (14.5%), Mexico (9.5%) and United States (9%). The rest of the world exported 147.4 times what Russia buys from China.
• China sells 25.8% of what the world exports of bulldozers and excavators; next come Japan (19.7%), United States (6.8%) and Germany (6.3%). The rest of the world exported 20.6 times what Russia buys from China.
• China sells 11.6% of what the world exports of other industrial machines; next come Japan (16.2%), United States (12%) and Netherlands (10.6%). The rest of the world exported 122.9 times what Russia buys from China.
• China sells 22.8% of what the world exports of new tires; next come Thailand (8%), Japan (6%) and Germany (5.3%). The rest of the world exported 52.4 times what Russia buys from China.
• China sells 48% of what the world exports of electric heaters and hair dryers; next come Germany (5.9%), Italy (4.2%) and Mexico (4%). The rest of the world exported 24.7 times what Russia buys from China.

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

Russia is China’s 8th-largest customer, with 3.2% 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.