How dependent is Thailand 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 30.8% of what the world exports of waste paper; next come United Kingdom (8.3%), Netherlands (5.3%) and France (4.3%). The rest of the world exported 13.8 times what Thailand 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 256.4 times what Thailand buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 10.3% of what the world exports of coal tar oils; next come Netherlands (8.4%), India (8.4%) and South Korea (7.2%). The rest of the world exported 128.8 times what Thailand 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 36.8 times what Thailand buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 21.9% of what the world exports of sculptures; next come United Kingdom (15.7%), France (10%) and Switzerland (8.6%). The rest of the world exported 60.3 times what Thailand 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 387.5 times what Thailand 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 313.1 times what Thailand buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 8.8% of what the world exports of live poultry; next come Germany (18.8%), France (10.4%) and United Kingdom (8.8%). The rest of the world exported 183.4 times what Thailand buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 0.21% of what the world exports of nickel matte; next come Indonesia (54.8%), Canada (10.1%) and Zimbabwe (7%). The rest of the world exported 1,905.9 times what Thailand buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 4.5% of what the world exports of raw hides and skins of bovine or equine animals; next come Italy (21.7%), China (13%) and Austria (9.3%). The rest of the world exported 30.4 times what Thailand buys from the United States.

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

Thailand is the United States’ 23rd-largest customer, with 1% of its exports.

• Trade between Thailand and the United States
• Who does Thailand rely on?
• Who does the United States rely on?
• Dependence of Thailand on China
• Dependence of Thailand on Taiwan
• Dependence of Thailand on Japan
• Dependence of Thailand on Brazil
• Dependence of Thailand on Laos
• Dependence of Thailand on Indonesia
• Dependence of Thailand on France
• Dependence of Thailand on Singapore
• Dependence of Thailand on Myanmar
• Trade profile of Thailand
• 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.