How dependent is Switzerland on the United States?

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 9.3% of what the world exports of crude petroleum; next come Saudi Arabia (14.3%), Russia (9.5%) and United Arab Emirates (8.7%). The rest of the world exported 1,393.3 times what Switzerland buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 12% of what the world exports of enzymes; next come Denmark (23.5%), China (9.2%) and Germany (8.5%). The rest of the world exported 111.8 times what Switzerland buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 32.4% of what the world exports of navigation instruments; next come France (13%), United Kingdom (7.5%) and Germany (5.8%). The rest of the world exported 108.5 times what Switzerland buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 8.5% of what the world exports of natural dyes; next come China (16.4%), Netherlands (9.7%) and Peru (7.8%). The rest of the world exported 61.7 times what Switzerland buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 18.4% of what the world exports of glands, heparin and organ extracts; next come China (18.8%), Singapore (12.7%) and France (8.5%). The rest of the world exported 117.9 times what Switzerland buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 25.5% of what the world exports of nickel plates, sheets and foil; next come Germany (26%), Japan (16.1%) and Sweden (8.5%). The rest of the world exported 64.8 times what Switzerland buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 2.6% of what the world exports of unwrought nickel; next come Canada (11.8%), Norway (11.7%) and Australia (10.1%). The rest of the world exported 669.7 times what Switzerland buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 12.7% of what the world exports of lead ore; next come Mexico (20.1%), Peru (15.7%) and Russia (9.7%). The rest of the world exported 316.5 times what Switzerland buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 12.8% of what the world exports of nonmetal halides; next come South Korea (24.4%), China (18.2%) and Japan (15.8%). The rest of the world exported 63.7 times what Switzerland buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 31.8% of what the world exports of hydrides, nitrides and silicides; next come China (28%), Japan (9.9%) and Germany (7.6%). The rest of the world exported 77.9 times what Switzerland buys from the United States.

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

Switzerland is the United States’ 15th-largest customer, with 1.6% of its exports.

• Trade between Switzerland and the United States
• Who does Switzerland rely on?
• Who does the United States rely on?
• Dependence of Switzerland on Germany
• Dependence of Switzerland on Zambia
• Dependence of Switzerland on France
• Dependence of Switzerland on Italy
• Dependence of Switzerland on China
• Trade profile of Switzerland
• 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.