How dependent is Serbia 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 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 1,767.4 times what Serbia buys from China.
• China sells 39.4% of what the world exports of air conditioners; next come Thailand (11.7%), Mexico (11.7%) and United States (4.2%). The rest of the world exported 528.8 times what Serbia buys from China.
• China sells 32.3% of what the world exports of monitors and projectors; next come Mexico (17.8%), Vietnam (7%) and Poland (5.6%). The rest of the world exported 630.2 times what Serbia 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 1,064.6 times what Serbia 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 608.1 times what Serbia buys from China.
• China sells 66.3% of what the world exports of toys; next come Vietnam (5.8%), Czechia (4.1%) and Mexico (2.6%). The rest of the world exported 472.3 times what Serbia buys from China.
• China sells 45.7% of what the world exports of magnets and electromagnets; next come Germany (10.1%), Japan (8.5%) and Vietnam (3.6%). The rest of the world exported 247.1 times what Serbia buys from China.
• China sells 26.6% of what the world exports of nitrogen heterocyclic compounds; next come Switzerland (17.1%), Ireland (13.8%) and India (12.6%). The rest of the world exported 3,261 times what Serbia buys from China.
• China sells 45.9% of what the world exports of microphones and speakers; next come Vietnam (17.2%), Mexico (4.5%) and Germany (3.8%). The rest of the world exported 1,477 times what Serbia buys from China.
• China sells 34.4% of what the world exports of parts for broadcast equipment; next come Vietnam (17.7%), South Korea (17.7%) and United States (4.4%). The rest of the world exported 2,411.1 times what Serbia buys from China.

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

Serbia is China’s 85th-largest customer, with 0.12% of its exports.

• Trade between Serbia and China
• Who does Serbia rely on?
• Who does China rely on?
• Dependence of Serbia on Russia
• Trade profile of Serbia
• 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.