How dependent is Sweden 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 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 62.4 times what Sweden buys from China.
• China sells 31% of what the world exports of cargo and cruise ships; next come South Korea (29.6%), Japan (10.9%) and India (3.1%). The rest of the world exported 240.6 times what Sweden buys from China.
• China sells 69.1% of what the world exports of steel kitchenware and household articles; next come India (4.2%), Germany (3.8%) and France (2.8%). The rest of the world exported 83.4 times what Sweden buys from China.
• China sells 40.9% of what the world exports of carbon electrodes; next come Japan (8.1%), United States (5.4%) and Germany (5.2%). The rest of the world exported 61.7 times what Sweden buys from China.
• China sells 54.8% of what the world exports of knitted gloves; next come Sri Lanka (8.3%), Vietnam (7.3%) and Pakistan (4.9%). The rest of the world exported 45.4 times what Sweden buys from China.
• China sells 83.8% of what the world exports of festive and Christmas articles; next come Cambodia (2.2%), Netherlands (1.6%) and India (1.4%). The rest of the world exported 49.7 times what Sweden buys from China.
• China sells 51.3% of what the world exports of costume jewelry; next come Italy (8.8%), France (8%) and Thailand (4.3%). The rest of the world exported 141.5 times what Sweden buys from China.
• China sells 91% of what the world exports of artificial flowers and foliage; next come Netherlands (1.6%), Germany (1.1%) and Poland (0.55%). The rest of the world exported 13.7 times what Sweden buys from China.
• China sells 26.6% of what the world exports of chromates, permanganates and other metal salts; next come South Korea (48.4%), Japan (10.6%) and United States (2.5%). The rest of the world exported 223.9 times what Sweden buys from China.
• China sells 74.9% of what the world exports of blankets and travel rugs; next come India (5.4%), Vietnam (1.7%) and Pakistan (1.6%). The rest of the world exported 63.7 times what Sweden buys from China.

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

Sweden is China’s 48th-largest customer, with 0.33% of its exports.

• Trade between Sweden and China
• Who does Sweden rely on?
• Who does China rely on?
• Dependence of Sweden on Norway
• Dependence of Sweden on the Netherlands
• Dependence of Sweden on Germany
• Dependence of Sweden on the United States
• Dependence of Sweden on Finland
• Trade profile of Sweden
• 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.