How dependent is the United Arab Emirates on India?

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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%.

• India sells 5.7% of what the world exports of refined petroleum; next come United States (11.7%), Singapore (6.3%) and South Korea (5.9%). The rest of the world exported 111.9 times what the United Arab Emirates buys from India.
• India sells 8.4% of what the world exports of coal tar oils; next come United States (10.3%), Netherlands (8.4%) and South Korea (7.2%). The rest of the world exported 16.7 times what the United Arab Emirates buys from India.
• India sells 3.8% of what the world exports of airplanes and helicopters; next come United States (25.2%), France (24.9%) and Germany (15.2%). The rest of the world exported 92.4 times what the United Arab Emirates buys from India.
• India sells 9.6% of what the world exports of printing and writing inks; next come Japan (11.8%), Germany (11.5%) and China (9.3%). The rest of the world exported 11.8 times what the United Arab Emirates buys from India.
• India sells 29.3% of what the world exports of rice; next come Thailand (17.2%), Vietnam (10.5%) and Pakistan (10.1%). The rest of the world exported 56.2 times what the United Arab Emirates buys from India.
• India sells 6.4% of what the world exports of ferroalloys; next come Indonesia (30.3%), South Africa (11.5%) and Brazil (9.1%). The rest of the world exported 160.1 times what the United Arab Emirates buys from India.
• India sells 3.1% of what the world exports of other made-up textiles; next come China (53.7%), Germany (4.6%) and Vietnam (4.2%). The rest of the world exported 96.7 times what the United Arab Emirates buys from India.
• India sells 2.4% of what the world exports of other processed tobacco; next come Italy (15.3%), Romania (10.2%) and Germany (9.4%). The rest of the world exported 76.1 times what the United Arab Emirates buys from India.
• India sells 16% of what the world exports of crustaceans (shrimp, lobster, crab); next come Ecuador (22.5%), Canada (11.3%) and Vietnam (7.3%). The rest of the world exported 194.3 times what the United Arab Emirates buys from India.
• India sells 11.3% of what the world exports of lightweight cotton fabric; next come China (41.7%), Pakistan (8.1%) and Italy (5.1%). The rest of the world exported 61.7 times what the United Arab Emirates buys from India.

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

The United Arab Emirates is India’s 2nd-largest customer, with 8.1% of its exports.

• Trade between the United Arab Emirates and India
• Who does the United Arab Emirates rely on?
• Who does India rely on?
• Dependence of the United Arab Emirates on China
• Dependence of the United Arab Emirates on Saudi Arabia
• Dependence of the United Arab Emirates on Brazil
• Dependence of the United Arab Emirates on Australia
• Dependence of the United Arab Emirates on Switzerland
• Dependence of the United Arab Emirates on the United States
• Dependence of the United Arab Emirates on Hong Kong
• Trade profile of the United Arab Emirates
• Trade profile of India
• 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.