How dependent is Somalia 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 68.6% of what the world exports of rayon fabric; next come Turkey (8.1%), Italy (6.2%) and Spain (3.8%). The rest of the world exported 10.7 times what Somalia 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 870.3 times what Somalia buys from China.
• China sells 61.9% of what the world exports of synthetic filament fabric; next come Taiwan (4.8%), South Korea (4.5%) and India (3.3%). The rest of the world exported 289.4 times what Somalia buys from China.
• China sells 50.6% of what the world exports of rubber and plastic footwear; next come Vietnam (16.4%), Indonesia (6%) and Germany (3.8%). The rest of the world exported 595.9 times what Somalia 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 2,334.2 times what Somalia 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 3,270.5 times what Somalia buys from China.
• China sells 31.5% of what the world exports of women's knitted suits and dresses; next come Bangladesh (9.9%), Vietnam (9.7%) and Cambodia (6%). The rest of the world exported 1,210.8 times what Somalia 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 2,463.9 times what Somalia buys from China.
• China sells 24.1% of what the world exports of other plastic articles; next come United States (15.3%), Germany (12.7%) and France (3.3%). The rest of the world exported 6,093.1 times what Somalia buys from China.
• China sells 8.8% of what the world exports of detergents and surfactants; next come Germany (10.8%), United States (9.5%) and France (6.5%). The rest of the world exported 2,561.4 times what Somalia buys from China.

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

Somalia is China’s 139th-largest customer, with 0.03% of its exports.

• Who does Somalia rely on?
• Who does China rely on?
• Trade profile of Somalia
• Trade profile of China
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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.