How dependent is Taiwan 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 30.3% of what the world exports of computer and office machine parts; next come Vietnam (10.6%), South Korea (7.3%) and Thailand (7.3%). The rest of the world exported 43.1 times what Taiwan buys from China.
• China sells 46.2% of what the world exports of cameras and broadcast equipment; next come Vietnam (13.1%), India (4.3%) and South Korea (3.8%). The rest of the world exported 77.7 times what Taiwan buys from China.
• China sells 38.7% of what the world exports of computers; next come Mexico (12.6%), Vietnam (7%) and United States (6%). The rest of the world exported 50 times what Taiwan buys from China.
• China sells 50.1% of what the world exports of printed circuit boards; next come South Korea (8.6%), Japan (7.8%) and Vietnam (3.9%). The rest of the world exported 7 times what Taiwan buys from China.
• China sells 34.6% of what the world exports of transformers and power supplies; next come Germany (7%), Mexico (4.5%) and Japan (3.9%). The rest of the world exported 60.8 times what Taiwan buys from China.
• China sells 23.1% of what the world exports of low-voltage switches and connectors; next come Germany (12.2%), United States (8.1%) and Japan (6.5%). The rest of the world exported 66.5 times what Taiwan buys from China.
• China sells 56.2% of what the world exports of phones and telecom equipment; next come Vietnam (11.1%), South Korea (5.6%) and United States (2.6%). The rest of the world exported 23 times what Taiwan 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 78.7 times what Taiwan buys from China.
• China sells 20.3% of what the world exports of cables and wire; next come Mexico (11.1%), United States (6%) and Germany (5.3%). The rest of the world exported 151 times what Taiwan buys from China.
• China sells 34.4% of what the world exports of parts for broadcast equipment; next come Vietnam (17.7%), South Korea (17.7%) and United States (4.4%). The rest of the world exported 57.3 times what Taiwan buys from China.

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

Taiwan is China’s 12th-largest customer, with 2.2% of its exports.

• Trade between Taiwan and China
• Who does Taiwan rely on?
• Who does China rely on?
• Dependence of Taiwan on Australia
• 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 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.