How dependent is the United Arab Emirates on Switzerland?

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%.

• Switzerland sells 64% of what the world exports of other wristwatches; next come China (12.7%), Japan (2.9%) and Germany (2.2%). The rest of the world exported 13.8 times what the United Arab Emirates buys from Switzerland.
• Switzerland sells 71.1% of what the world exports of precious metal watches; next come France (4.5%), Singapore (3.2%) and Germany (2.9%). The rest of the world exported 7.9 times what the United Arab Emirates buys from Switzerland.
• Switzerland sells 9.6% of what the world exports of collectors' items; next come United States (23.1%), United Kingdom (18.4%) and Germany (8.6%). The rest of the world exported 66.7 times what the United Arab Emirates buys from Switzerland.
• Switzerland sells 24.3% of what the world exports of clocks with watch movements; next come China (34.3%), France (10.4%) and Japan (3.4%). The rest of the world exported 14.9 times what the United Arab Emirates buys from Switzerland.
• Switzerland sells 14.1% of what the world exports of watch cases; next come China (55.9%), Hong Kong (10.2%) and Malaysia (3.3%). The rest of the world exported 887.5 times what the United Arab Emirates buys from Switzerland.

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

The United Arab Emirates is Switzerland’s 10th-largest customer, with 2.8% of its exports.

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