How dependent is the Solomon Islands 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 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 16,452 times what the Solomon Islands 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 4,765.2 times what the Solomon Islands buys from China.
• China sells 29.7% of what the world exports of steel structures; next come Germany (8.4%), Poland (4.7%) and Turkey (4.4%). The rest of the world exported 6,559.3 times what the Solomon Islands buys from China.
• China sells 19.5% of what the world exports of plastic packaging; next come United States (10.1%), Germany (9.7%) and France (4.2%). The rest of the world exported 8,495.9 times what the Solomon Islands 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 71,237.3 times what the Solomon Islands buys from China.
• China sells 30.8% of what the world exports of furniture; next come Vietnam (10.4%), Italy (7.3%) and Germany (7%). The rest of the world exported 13,647.2 times what the Solomon Islands buys from China.
• China sells 50.8% of what the world exports of batteries; next come South Korea (6.1%), United States (5.4%) and Poland (5.4%). The rest of the world exported 15,833.7 times what the Solomon Islands buys from China.
• China sells 8.7% of what the world exports of prepared meat; next come Thailand (14.7%), Germany (8.6%) and Poland (8.3%). The rest of the world exported 4,068.8 times what the Solomon Islands buys from China.
• China sells 27.6% of what the world exports of coated flat steel; next come South Korea (10.3%), Germany (7.2%) and Belgium (4.8%). The rest of the world exported 9,452.3 times what the Solomon Islands buys from China.
• China sells 10.8% of what the world exports of steel bars; next come Turkey (11.5%), Malaysia (10.3%) and Italy (6.2%). The rest of the world exported 4,077.6 times what the Solomon Islands buys from China.

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

The Solomon Islands is China’s 164th-largest customer, with 0.01% of its exports.

• Who does the Solomon Islands rely on?
• Who does China rely on?
• Trade profile of the Solomon Islands
• 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.