How dependent is Taiwan on Australia?

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%.

• Australia sells 33.5% of what the world exports of coal; next come Indonesia (19.9%), Russia (12.6%) and United States (10.6%). The rest of the world exported 22.4 times what Taiwan buys from Australia.
• Australia sells 54.2% of what the world exports of iron ore; next come Brazil (20.8%), Canada (4.4%) and South Africa (4.1%). The rest of the world exported 48.4 times what Taiwan buys from Australia.
• Australia sells 12.2% of what the world exports of salt; next come India (13.2%), Germany (7.7%) and Netherlands (7.7%). The rest of the world exported 46.9 times what Taiwan buys from Australia.
• Australia sells 2% of what the world exports of cobalt; next come Democratic Republic of the Congo (54.4%), United States (8%) and Canada (5.3%). The rest of the world exported 72.2 times what Taiwan buys from Australia.
• Australia sells 4.1% of what the world exports of nickel ore; next come Philippines (39.6%), Zambia (10.8%) and Finland (8.2%). The rest of the world exported 89.5 times what Taiwan buys from Australia.
• Australia sells 10.5% of what the world exports of natural sand; next come United States (18.4%), Cambodia (8.6%) and Germany (7.2%). The rest of the world exported 47.2 times what Taiwan buys from Australia.
• Australia sells 42.2% of what the world exports of lamb and goat meat; next come New Zealand (24.4%), United Kingdom (8.7%) and Ireland (4.6%). The rest of the world exported 111.5 times what Taiwan buys from Australia.
• Australia sells 2.2% of what the world exports of rapeseed and mustard oil; next come Canada (36.8%), Germany (10.9%) and Russia (9.8%). The rest of the world exported 372 times what Taiwan buys from Australia.
• Australia sells 20.6% of what the world exports of sorghum; next come United States (62.2%), Argentina (8.8%) and France (1.6%). The rest of the world exported 134.9 times what Taiwan buys from Australia.
• Australia sells 4.5% of what the world exports of rolled oats and other processed grains; next come Canada (16.8%), Germany (9.7%) and Chile (6.3%). The rest of the world exported 129.1 times what Taiwan buys from Australia.

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

Taiwan is Australia’s 6th-largest customer, with 4% of its exports.

• Trade between Taiwan and Australia
• Who does Taiwan rely on?
• Who does Australia rely on?
• Dependence of Taiwan on China
• Dependence of Taiwan on the United States
• Dependence of Taiwan on Japan
• Dependence of Taiwan on Indonesia
• Dependence of Taiwan on Hong Kong
• Dependence of Taiwan on Brazil
• Dependence of Taiwan on Switzerland
• Trade profile of Taiwan
• Trade profile of Australia
• 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.