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How dependent is Thailand on Taiwan?

In 2024, Taiwan sold $19.9 billion to Thailand, 6.6% of its imports, ranking 3rd among its suppliers. Its share was 3.5% in 2019 and 4.8% in 1995. In 4 products it sells more than 50% of what Thailand buys of them (in 1, more than 75%); what Thailand buys from Taiwan in those products (dominated value) adds up to $3.9 billion, 1.3% of its imports.

Summary

Share of its imports
6.6%
Value imported
$19.9billion
Rank among its suppliers
3rd
Products where it sells over 50%
4
Products where it sells over 75%
1
Dominated value
$3.9billion
Share of total imports
1.3%

Trend

Trend in shares

Taiwan went from 4.8% to 6.6% of what Thailand buys

Share (%)

  • Taiwan 6.6%

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearValue (USD millions)ShareRank
19953,4104.8%5
19963,1364.4%6
19973,0744.9%5
19982,4735.7%4
19992,5595%5
20003,0555%6
20012,7184.4%6
20023,0144.8%6
20033,3354.4%6
20044,0734.3%6
20054,6264%7
20065,3314.2%7
20076,0874.3%7
20086,1753.5%9
20095,1683.9%8
20106,8993.8%8
20117,5493.4%9
20128,2703.5%8
20137,6273.1%11
20147,5593.4%9
20157,5103.7%6
20167,0843.7%6
20178,2423.7%6
20188,7153.5%7
20198,0853.5%7
20206,2953.1%7
20218,3363.2%7
202211,4233.9%6
202314,8905.3%5
202419,9246.6%3

Products where Taiwan sells more than half

ProductSupplierShareSecondValue
ComputersTaiwan54.5%China · 34.2%$3.8 billion
Steelmaking slag and wasteTaiwan87.6%over 75%Malaysia · 4.7%$7 million
Lead oxides and red leadTaiwan69.5%South Korea · 25.1%$4 million
Feathers and downTaiwan73.3%China · 11.6%$3 million

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%.

Are there other suppliers in the world?

  • Taiwan sells 14.2% of what the world exports of computers; next come China (38.7%), Mexico (12.6%) and Vietnam (7%). The rest of the world exported 91.5 times what Thailand buys from Taiwan.
  • Taiwan sells 4.5% of what the world exports of steelmaking slag and waste; next come India (14.1%), Russia (6.5%) and United Arab Emirates (6%). The rest of the world exported 74.3 times what Thailand buys from Taiwan.
  • Taiwan sells 11.1% of what the world exports of lead oxides and red lead; next come Germany (15.5%), India (9.4%) and Spain (6.7%). The rest of the world exported 31 times what Thailand buys from Taiwan.
  • Taiwan sells 10% of what the world exports of feathers and down; next come China (35.4%), Poland (6.8%) and Germany (6.4%). The rest of the world exported 569.5 times what Thailand buys from Taiwan.

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

Seen from Taiwan

Thailand is Taiwan’s 7th-largest customer, with 3.5% of its exports.

Sources and method

Sources and licenses

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.