Summary
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- Share of its imports
- 31.6%
- Value imported
- $529million
- Rank among its suppliers
- 1st
- Products where it sells over 50%
- 18
- Products where it sells over 75%
- 3
- Dominated value
- $341million
- Share of total imports
- 20.4%
Trend
Trend in shares
The United Arab Emirates went from 0.46% to 31.6% of what the Seychelles buys
Share (%)
- United Arab Emirates 31.6%
Source: CEPII BACI
Show the numbers
| Year | Value (USD millions) | Share | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 1 | 0.46% | 25 |
| 1996 | 2 | 0.48% | 22 |
| 1997 | 4 | 0.95% | 20 |
| 1998 | 4 | 0.75% | 23 |
| 1999 | 4 | 0.65% | 25 |
| 2000 | 5 | 1.2% | 16 |
| 2001 | 5 | 0.85% | 16 |
| 2002 | 7 | 1.2% | 17 |
| 2003 | 18 | 1.7% | 10 |
| 2004 | 28 | 2.1% | 10 |
| 2005 | 73 | 3.8% | 9 |
| 2006 | 93 | 4.3% | 8 |
| 2007 | 133 | 5.7% | 5 |
| 2008 | 322 | 14.3% | 1 |
| 2009 | 556 | 23.4% | 1 |
| 2010 | 1,100 | 36.8% | 1 |
| 2011 | 1,926 | 45.1% | 1 |
| 2012 | 278 | 12.4% | 2 |
| 2013 | 258 | 10.8% | 2 |
| 2014 | 233 | 11.4% | 3 |
| 2015 | 104 | 9.4% | 2 |
| 2016 | 110 | 6.8% | 4 |
| 2017 | 183 | 5.2% | 4 |
| 2018 | 221 | 12% | 1 |
| 2019 | 183 | 12.3% | 2 |
| 2020 | 273 | 11.9% | 2 |
| 2021 | 294 | 15.2% | 3 |
| 2022 | 387 | 17.4% | 2 |
| 2023 | 515 | 30.8% | 1 |
| 2024 | 529 | 31.6% | 1 |
Products where the United Arab Emirates sells more than half
| Product | Supplier | Share | Second | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Refined petroleum | United Arab Emirates | 98.9%over 75% | Spain · 0.56% | $300 million |
| Wine | United Arab Emirates | 52.1% | France · 24.4% | $10 million |
| Computers | United Arab Emirates | 50.6% | Malaysia · 13.4% | $5 million |
| Powdered and condensed milk | United Arab Emirates | 51.9% | France · 10.3% | $3 million |
| Monitors and projectors | United Arab Emirates | 51.8% | China · 15.8% | $3 million |
| Steel wire rod | United Arab Emirates | 97.2%over 75% | China · 0.92% | $2 million |
| Natural gas and LPG | United Arab Emirates | 57% | Kenya · 42.7% | $2 million |
| Printing and writing inks | United Arab Emirates | 82.3%over 75% | South Africa · 7.3% | $2 million |
| Computer and office machine parts | United Arab Emirates | 50.7% | France · 12.4% | $2 million |
| Crustaceans (shrimp, lobster, crab) | United Arab Emirates | 57.2% | India · 26.2% | $2 million |
| Porcelain tableware | United Arab Emirates | 61.1% | France · 11.9% | $2 million |
| Curtains and interior blinds | United Arab Emirates | 62.7% | Singapore · 18.8% | $1 million |
| Microphones and speakers | United Arab Emirates | 52.4% | Netherlands · 8.3% | $1 million |
| Iron or steel sanitary ware | United Arab Emirates | 64.8% | China · 9.1% | $1 million |
| Industrial fatty acids and oils | United Arab Emirates | 50.1% | Mauritius · 12.3% | $1 million |
| Prepared shellfish | United Arab Emirates | 56% | India · 11.3% | $921 thousand |
| Mollusks (squid, mussels, oysters) | United Arab Emirates | 54.4% | China · 24.6% | $706 thousand |
| Dried legumes (beans, lentils, peas) | United Arab Emirates | 52.6% | India · 22.3% | $669 thousand |
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?
- The United Arab Emirates sells 5.4% of what the world exports of refined petroleum; next come United States (11.7%), Singapore (6.3%) and South Korea (5.9%). The rest of the world exported 2,710.3 times what the Seychelles buys from the United Arab Emirates.
- The United Arab Emirates sells 0.03% of what the world exports of wine; next come France (33.8%), Italy (23%) and Spain (8.9%). The rest of the world exported 3,898.4 times what the Seychelles buys from the United Arab Emirates.
- The United Arab Emirates sells 0.07% of what the world exports of computers; next come China (38.7%), Taiwan (14.2%) and Mexico (12.6%). The rest of the world exported 84,127.9 times what the Seychelles buys from the United Arab Emirates.
- The United Arab Emirates sells 0.66% of what the world exports of powdered and condensed milk; next come New Zealand (28.6%), Netherlands (9.2%) and United States (8.3%). The rest of the world exported 6,846 times what the Seychelles buys from the United Arab Emirates.
- The United Arab Emirates sells 0.06% of what the world exports of monitors and projectors; next come China (32.3%), Mexico (17.8%) and Vietnam (7%). The rest of the world exported 24,536.2 times what the Seychelles buys from the United Arab Emirates.
- The United Arab Emirates sells 3.2% of what the world exports of steel wire rod; next come China (17.5%), Germany (10%) and Italy (5.5%). The rest of the world exported 5,203.3 times what the Seychelles buys from the United Arab Emirates.
- The United Arab Emirates sells 3% of what the world exports of natural gas and LPG; next come United States (18%), Norway (11%) and Australia (10%). The rest of the world exported 197,221.6 times what the Seychelles buys from the United Arab Emirates.
- The United Arab Emirates sells 0.09% of what the world exports of printing and writing inks; next come Japan (11.8%), Germany (11.5%) and India (9.6%). The rest of the world exported 5,761.4 times what the Seychelles buys from the United Arab Emirates.
- The United Arab Emirates sells 0.05% of what the world exports of computer and office machine parts; next come China (30.3%), Taiwan (15%) and Vietnam (10.6%). The rest of the world exported 139,134.2 times what the Seychelles buys from the United Arab Emirates.
- The United Arab Emirates sells 0.47% of what the world exports of crustaceans (shrimp, lobster, crab); next come Ecuador (22.5%), India (16%) and Canada (11.3%). The rest of the world exported 16,177.4 times what the Seychelles buys from the United Arab Emirates.
Exports from the rest of the world already have buyers; the figure shows scale, not availability.
Seen from the United Arab Emirates
The Seychelles is the United Arab Emirates’ 47th-largest customer, with 0.17% of its exports.
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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.