Summary
- Share of its imports
- 10.6%
- Value imported
- $76.4billion
- Rank among its suppliers
- 2nd
- Products where it sells over 50%
- 21
- Products where it sells over 75%
- 4
- Dominated value
- $866million
- Share of total imports
- 0.1%
Trend
Trend in shares
Germany went from 15.3% to 10.6% of what the United Kingdom buys
Share (%)
- Germany 10.6%
Source: CEPII BACI
Show the numbers
| Year | Value (USD millions) | Share | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 40,382 | 15.3% | 1 |
| 1996 | 40,728 | 14.1% | 1 |
| 1997 | 41,078 | 13.4% | 1 |
| 1998 | 42,583 | 13.4% | 2 |
| 1999 | 43,444 | 13.4% | 1 |
| 2000 | 43,988 | 12.1% | 2 |
| 2001 | 45,256 | 13% | 1 |
| 2002 | 50,156 | 13.7% | 1 |
| 2003 | 59,545 | 14.3% | 1 |
| 2004 | 65,808 | 13.6% | 1 |
| 2005 | 69,522 | 13.5% | 1 |
| 2006 | 77,967 | 13.4% | 1 |
| 2007 | 83,396 | 12.9% | 1 |
| 2008 | 79,690 | 11.9% | 1 |
| 2009 | 66,203 | 13.4% | 1 |
| 2010 | 75,701 | 13% | 1 |
| 2011 | 86,920 | 13% | 1 |
| 2012 | 82,964 | 13% | 1 |
| 2013 | 88,132 | 13.6% | 1 |
| 2014 | 100,101 | 14.6% | 1 |
| 2015 | 94,306 | 15.1% | 1 |
| 2016 | 88,402 | 14% | 1 |
| 2017 | 90,171 | 14.3% | 1 |
| 2018 | 91,480 | 13.7% | 1 |
| 2019 | 85,949 | 13% | 1 |
| 2020 | 73,967 | 12.1% | 2 |
| 2021 | 75,605 | 11.1% | 2 |
| 2022 | 71,797 | 9.4% | 3 |
| 2023 | 76,987 | 10.4% | 3 |
| 2024 | 76,443 | 10.6% | 2 |
Products where Germany sells more than half
| Product | Supplier | Share | Second | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Special-purpose vehicles | Germany | 65.4% | Ireland · 9.5% | $283 million |
| Precious metal compounds | Germany | 76.5%over 75% | Ireland · 9.2% | $246 million |
| Large-diameter steel pipes | Germany | 53.2% | Greece · 13% | $88 million |
| Copper plates and strip | Germany | 54.8% | Italy · 8.2% | $85 million |
| Crude glycerin | Germany | 54% | Netherlands · 28.5% | $34 million |
| Other paints and varnishes | Germany | 59% | Netherlands · 9.2% | $24 million |
| Hydraulic brake fluids | Germany | 60.8% | United States · 12.2% | $22 million |
| Nonmetal halides | Germany | 84.9%over 75% | Italy · 4.2% | $21 million |
| Other metalworking machines | Germany | 58.5% | Italy · 7.9% | $19 million |
| Artificial staple fiber (viscose) | Germany | 68.2% | Austria · 21.4% | $13 million |
| Glass balls, rods and tubes | Germany | 62.3% | China · 16.3% | $11 million |
| Wood wool and wood flour | Germany | 74.9% | United States · 8.7% | $4 million |
| Instrument panel clocks for vehicles and vessels | Germany | 50.7% | United States · 13.5% | $3 million |
| Sulfite wood pulp | Germany | 71.5% | Sweden · 16.9% | $3 million |
| Zinc bars, rods, profiles and wire | Germany | 65.4% | China · 5.6% | $3 million |
| Lead oxides and red lead | Germany | 69.7% | South Africa · 20.6% | $2 million |
| Base metals clad with silver, semi-manufactured | Germany | 68.6% | United States · 14.1% | $2 million |
| Sulfides of non-metals; phosphorus trisulfide | Germany | 88.7%over 75% | Netherlands · 3.4% | $1 million |
| Lignite | Germany | 93.2%over 75% | United States · 2.9% | $1 million |
| Mechanical wood pulp | Germany | 51.2% | United States · 32.4% | $925 thousand |
| Hog bristles and hair | Germany | 50.7% | China · 31.5% | $583 thousand |
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?
- Germany sells 26.9% of what the world exports of special-purpose vehicles; next come China (21.4%), United States (12.3%) and Italy (6.7%). The rest of the world exported 41.8 times what the United Kingdom buys from Germany.
- Germany sells 18.9% of what the world exports of precious metal compounds; next come Japan (24.7%), United States (14.4%) and Switzerland (7.7%). The rest of the world exported 20.9 times what the United Kingdom buys from Germany.
- Germany sells 13.6% of what the world exports of large-diameter steel pipes; next come China (13.6%), India (9.4%) and Indonesia (8.4%). The rest of the world exported 85.5 times what the United Kingdom buys from Germany.
- Germany sells 22.3% of what the world exports of copper plates and strip; next come China (13.2%), Japan (12.4%) and South Korea (7.5%). The rest of the world exported 91.6 times what the United Kingdom buys from Germany.
- Germany sells 18.1% of what the world exports of crude glycerin; next come Indonesia (33.6%), Malaysia (11.7%) and Brazil (8.3%). The rest of the world exported 62.1 times what the United Kingdom buys from Germany.
- Germany sells 17.9% of what the world exports of other paints and varnishes; next come United States (8.2%), Italy (6.9%) and China (6.7%). The rest of the world exported 28.8 times what the United Kingdom buys from Germany.
- Germany sells 28% of what the world exports of hydraulic brake fluids; next come United States (16.3%), Switzerland (5.8%) and France (5.3%). The rest of the world exported 33.3 times what the United Kingdom buys from Germany.
- Germany sells 12.6% of what the world exports of nonmetal halides; next come South Korea (24.4%), China (18.2%) and Japan (15.8%). The rest of the world exported 37 times what the United Kingdom buys from Germany.
- Germany sells 30.5% of what the world exports of other metalworking machines; next come China (23.3%), Italy (11.1%) and United States (4.3%). The rest of the world exported 85.4 times what the United Kingdom buys from Germany.
- Germany sells 4.6% of what the world exports of artificial staple fiber (viscose); next come Austria (27.5%), Indonesia (26.7%) and China (14.7%). The rest of the world exported 248.5 times what the United Kingdom buys from Germany.
Exports from the rest of the world already have buyers; the figure shows scale, not availability.
Seen from Germany
The United Kingdom is Germany’s 7th-largest customer, with 5.1% of its exports.
Links
- Trade between the United Kingdom and Germany
- Who does the United Kingdom rely on?
- Who does Germany rely on?
- Dependence of the United Kingdom on China
- Dependence of the United Kingdom on Norway
- Dependence of the United Kingdom on the United States
- Dependence of the United Kingdom on Ireland
- Dependence of the United Kingdom on Spain
- Dependence of the United Kingdom on Switzerland
- Dependence of the United Kingdom on the Netherlands
- Dependence of the United Kingdom on Belgium
- Dependence of the United Kingdom on Italy
- Trade profile of the United Kingdom
- Trade profile of Germany
- All countries
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.