Summary
- Share of its imports
- 30.5%
- Value imported
- $2.4billion
- Rank among its suppliers
- 1st
- Products where it sells over 50%
- 109
- Products where it sells over 75%
- 35
- Dominated value
- $1.4billion
- Share of total imports
- 17.7%
Trend
Trend in shares
The United States went from 45% to 30.5% of what Trinidad and Tobago buys
Share (%)
- United States 30.5%
Source: CEPII BACI
Show the numbers
| Year | Value (USD millions) | Share | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 856 | 45% | 1 |
| 1996 | 966 | 38.2% | 1 |
| 1997 | 1,753 | 49.6% | 1 |
| 1998 | 1,487 | 43.1% | 1 |
| 1999 | 1,109 | 37% | 1 |
| 2000 | 1,210 | 33.9% | 1 |
| 2001 | 1,373 | 31.7% | 1 |
| 2002 | 1,262 | 32.4% | 1 |
| 2003 | 1,220 | 28.7% | 1 |
| 2004 | 1,721 | 30.7% | 1 |
| 2005 | 1,533 | 25.7% | 1 |
| 2006 | 1,783 | 25.4% | 1 |
| 2007 | 1,991 | 25.5% | 1 |
| 2008 | 2,331 | 23.2% | 1 |
| 2009 | 2,008 | 27.9% | 1 |
| 2010 | 1,847 | 26.2% | 1 |
| 2011 | 2,593 | 25.4% | 1 |
| 2012 | 3,616 | 35% | 1 |
| 2013 | 2,765 | 22.7% | 1 |
| 2014 | 2,522 | 27.2% | 1 |
| 2015 | 3,001 | 30.2% | 1 |
| 2016 | 2,538 | 30.2% | 1 |
| 2017 | 1,825 | 24.1% | 1 |
| 2018 | 1,937 | 25% | 1 |
| 2019 | 2,628 | 39.8% | 1 |
| 2020 | 1,904 | 35.8% | 1 |
| 2021 | 2,046 | 33.8% | 1 |
| 2022 | 2,482 | 37.9% | 1 |
| 2023 | 3,987 | 40.6% | 1 |
| 2024 | 2,399 | 30.5% | 1 |
Products where the United States sells more than half
| Product | Supplier | Share | Second | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Refined petroleum | United States | 57% | Italy · 10.3% | $615 million |
| Turbojets and gas turbines | United States | 64.4% | Canada · 13.7% | $62 million |
| Pet and animal feed | United States | 74.4% | Netherlands · 11.1% | $42 million |
| Airplanes and helicopters | United States | 98.7%over 75% | China · 1.2% | $28 million |
| Eggs in shell | United States | 97.6%over 75% | Canada · 2.4% | $28 million |
| Wheat | United States | 82%over 75% | Canada · 18% | $26 million |
| Other industrial machines | United States | 53.3% | China · 11.1% | $25 million |
| Liquid pumps | United States | 52.5% | Guyana · 10.3% | $24 million |
| Industrial fatty acids and oils | United States | 79.1%over 75% | China · 8.1% | $24 million |
| Toilet paper and tissues | United States | 67.7% | China · 9.6% | $23 million |
| Corn | United States | 97.9%over 75% | Mexico · 0.91% | $23 million |
| Soybean meal and pellets | United States | 98.4%over 75% | Brazil · 1.3% | $22 million |
| Poultry meat | United States | 77.6%over 75% | Canada · 14.9% | $21 million |
| Centrifuges and filters | United States | 56.5% | China · 13.5% | $21 million |
| Aircraft parts | United States | 69.7% | Italy · 14.1% | $20 million |
| Makeup and skin care | United States | 71.3% | China · 7.8% | $18 million |
| Cameras and broadcast equipment | United States | 58.5% | China · 23.7% | $18 million |
| Polyethylene | United States | 78.2%over 75% | Mexico · 11.9% | $15 million |
| Malt extract and food mixes | United States | 50.6% | Italy · 10.1% | $14 million |
| Prepared meat | United States | 62.6% | Brazil · 28.1% | $13 million |
| Printers and printing machines | United States | 71.1% | Malaysia · 10% | $13 million |
| Hair care | United States | 77.2%over 75% | Turkey · 6.5% | $12 million |
| PVC and other vinyl polymers | United States | 88.2%over 75% | Colombia · 5.2% | $12 million |
| Deodorants, shaving and bath products | United States | 64.1% | Mexico · 11.5% | $12 million |
| Transmission shafts, gears and gearboxes | United States | 57.6% | Germany · 16.8% | $11 million |
| Sawn wood | United States | 67.4% | Brazil · 10.1% | $10 million |
| Sauces and condiments | United States | 55.3% | Canada · 13.7% | $9 million |
| Peanuts | United States | 83.6%over 75% | China · 9% | $9 million |
| Flow, level and pressure meters | United States | 51.7% | Germany · 10.4% | $9 million |
| Fuel and lubricant additives | United States | 76.5%over 75% | Singapore · 16% | $9 million |
and 79 more
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?
- The United States sells 11.7% of what the world exports of refined petroleum; next come Singapore (6.3%), South Korea (5.9%) and Netherlands (5.7%). The rest of the world exported 1,233.1 times what Trinidad and Tobago buys from the United States.
- 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 2,389.5 times what Trinidad and Tobago buys from the United States.
- The United States sells 9.5% of what the world exports of pet and animal feed; next come Germany (9.9%), Netherlands (8.9%) and France (7.6%). The rest of the world exported 999.7 times what Trinidad and Tobago buys from the United States.
- The United States sells 25.2% of what the world exports of airplanes and helicopters; next come France (24.9%), Germany (15.2%) and Canada (6.6%). The rest of the world exported 4,148.1 times what Trinidad and Tobago buys from the United States.
- The United States sells 10.4% of what the world exports of eggs in shell; next come Netherlands (17.5%), Turkey (8.1%) and Poland (7.8%). The rest of the world exported 190.4 times what Trinidad and Tobago 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 1,914.4 times what Trinidad and Tobago buys from the United States.
- The United States sells 12% of what the world exports of other industrial machines; next come Japan (16.2%), China (11.6%) and Netherlands (10.6%). The rest of the world exported 8,110.1 times what Trinidad and Tobago buys from the United States.
- The United States sells 11.5% of what the world exports of liquid pumps; next come China (18.6%), Germany (14.7%) and Italy (6.7%). The rest of the world exported 2,833.7 times what Trinidad and Tobago buys from the United States.
- The United States sells 10.2% of what the world exports of industrial fatty acids and oils; next come China (13.9%), Germany (11.9%) and Netherlands (7.2%). The rest of the world exported 3,110.3 times what Trinidad and Tobago buys from the United States.
- The United States sells 5.7% of what the world exports of toilet paper and tissues; next come China (17.5%), Germany (9.1%) and Poland (6.3%). The rest of the world exported 1,326.3 times what Trinidad and Tobago buys from the United States.
Exports from the rest of the world already have buyers; the figure shows scale, not availability.
Seen from the United States
Trinidad and Tobago is the United States’ 63rd-largest customer, with 0.13% of its exports.
Sources and method
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.