How dependent is Sint Maarten on the United States?

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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%.

• The United States sells 6.3% of what the world exports of jewelry; next come Italy (14.5%), France (10.9%) and India (10.9%). The rest of the world exported 568.2 times what Sint Maarten buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 11.7% of what the world exports of refined petroleum; next come Singapore (6.3%), South Korea (5.9%) and Netherlands (5.7%). The rest of the world exported 9,063.8 times what Sint Maarten buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 8.9% of what the world exports of pearl and gemstone articles; next come China (27.7%), Thailand (16.4%) and Vietnam (6.4%). The rest of the world exported 26.4 times what Sint Maarten buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 6.7% of what the world exports of diamonds; next come India (23.4%), Belgium (12%) and United Arab Emirates (10.5%). The rest of the world exported 2,604.4 times what Sint Maarten buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 5.7% of what the world exports of yachts and pleasure boats; next come Netherlands (17.7%), Italy (17.1%) and Cayman Islands (9.5%). The rest of the world exported 799.4 times what Sint Maarten buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 1.4% of what the world exports of other wristwatches; next come Switzerland (64%), China (12.7%) and Japan (2.9%). The rest of the world exported 1,502.2 times what Sint Maarten buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 6.6% of what the world exports of cars; next come Germany (17.4%), Japan (12.3%) and China (9.1%). The rest of the world exported 47,919.7 times what Sint Maarten buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 2% of what the world exports of precious metal watches; next come Switzerland (71.1%), France (4.5%) and Singapore (3.2%). The rest of the world exported 1,647 times what Sint Maarten buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 5.8% of what the world exports of soft drinks; next come Austria (9.8%), Germany (8.4%) and Netherlands (7.9%). The rest of the world exported 2,947.5 times what Sint Maarten buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 3.8% of what the world exports of cameras and broadcast equipment; next come China (46.2%), Vietnam (13.1%) and Taiwan (4.4%). The rest of the world exported 70,614.6 times what Sint Maarten buys from the United States.

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

Sint Maarten is the United States’ 97th-largest customer, with 0.04% of its exports.

• Who does Sint Maarten rely on?
• Who does the United States rely on?
• Trade profile of Sint Maarten
• Trade profile of the United States
• 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.