How dependent is Taiwan on the United States?

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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%.

• The United States sells 30.3% of what the world exports of turbojets and gas turbines; next come United Kingdom (14.5%), France (10%) and Hong Kong (5.3%). The rest of the world exported 73.3 times what Taiwan buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 30.1% of what the world exports of aircraft parts; next come United Kingdom (11.8%), France (10.8%) and Germany (10.3%). The rest of the world exported 66 times what Taiwan buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 13.2% of what the world exports of fresh beef; next come Australia (10.9%), Canada (8.3%) and Netherlands (8.3%). The rest of the world exported 79.5 times what Taiwan buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 11.5% of what the world exports of wheat; next come Russia (16.1%), Canada (13.7%) and Australia (9.6%). The rest of the world exported 142.4 times what Taiwan buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 12.9% of what the world exports of poultry meat; next come Brazil (26.3%), Poland (12.7%) and Netherlands (7.5%). The rest of the world exported 112.5 times what Taiwan buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 23.7% of what the world exports of bombs, missiles and ammunition; next come Bulgaria (13.9%), Poland (11.3%) and South Korea (6.5%). The rest of the world exported 125.5 times what Taiwan buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 6.7% of what the world exports of stone fruit (cherries, peaches, plums); next come Chile (39.7%), Spain (15.1%) and Hong Kong (11.5%). The rest of the world exported 108.7 times what Taiwan buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 22.1% of what the world exports of polishes and scouring creams; next come Japan (13.6%), Germany (8.5%) and China (7%). The rest of the world exported 21.2 times what Taiwan buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 10.5% of what the world exports of frozen vegetables; next come Belgium (28.8%), Netherlands (20%) and Canada (13.7%). The rest of the world exported 166.3 times what Taiwan buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 54.8% of what the world exports of starch, sugar and brewing residues; next come China (8.6%), Russia (4%) and Germany (3.2%). The rest of the world exported 37.4 times what Taiwan buys from the United States.

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

Taiwan is the United States’ 13th-largest customer, with 2.1% of its exports.

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