How dependent is the United Arab Emirates 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 46.2% of what the world exports of other nuts (almonds, walnuts); next come Turkey (10%), China (5.7%) and Australia (4.4%). The rest of the world exported 19.4 times what the United Arab Emirates 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 26.4 times what the United Arab Emirates buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 34% of what the world exports of artificial filament tow (acetate); next come Japan (19.4%), Germany (13.6%) and Belgium (9.8%). The rest of the world exported 19.2 times what the United Arab Emirates buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 7.2% of what the world exports of drawing and length-measuring instruments; next come China (40%), Japan (11%) and Germany (7.5%). The rest of the world exported 58.5 times what the United Arab Emirates buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 21.9% of what the world exports of armored vehicles; next come Canada (18.8%), South Korea (18.6%) and Germany (7.3%). The rest of the world exported 153 times what the United Arab Emirates buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 17.2% of what the world exports of artificial filament yarn (viscose); next come China (39.4%), Japan (9.9%) and Germany (8.6%). The rest of the world exported 37.1 times what the United Arab Emirates buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 39.3% of what the world exports of other nickel articles; next come United Kingdom (9.9%), Mexico (7.1%) and France (6.3%). The rest of the world exported 63.9 times what the United Arab Emirates buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 14.4% of what the world exports of precious metal compounds; next come Japan (24.7%), Germany (18.9%) and United Kingdom (9.9%). The rest of the world exported 189.2 times what the United Arab Emirates buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 29.9% of what the world exports of parachutes; next come United Kingdom (9.7%), Vietnam (8.3%) and Canada (7.3%). The rest of the world exported 15.3 times what the United Arab Emirates buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 12.9% of what the world exports of railway maintenance vehicles; next come Austria (26.5%), Germany (13.2%) and China (9.9%). The rest of the world exported 79.7 times what the United Arab Emirates buys from the United States.

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

The United Arab Emirates is the United States’ 22nd-largest customer, with 1.2% of its exports.

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