Summary
- Share of its imports
- 3.6%
- Value imported
- $26.3billion
- Rank among its suppliers
- 8th
- Products where it sells over 50%
- 13
- Products where it sells over 75%
- 3
- Dominated value
- $2billion
- Share of total imports
- 0.3%
Trend
Trend in shares
Spain went from 2.7% to 3.6% of what the United Kingdom buys
Share (%)
- Spain 3.6%
Source: CEPII BACI
Show the numbers
| Year | Value (USD millions) | Share | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 7,211 | 2.7% | 9 |
| 1996 | 8,529 | 2.9% | 9 |
| 1997 | 8,894 | 2.9% | 9 |
| 1998 | 9,729 | 3.1% | 9 |
| 1999 | 9,781 | 3% | 9 |
| 2000 | 10,218 | 2.8% | 10 |
| 2001 | 10,269 | 2.9% | 10 |
| 2002 | 13,076 | 3.6% | 10 |
| 2003 | 14,854 | 3.6% | 10 |
| 2004 | 17,016 | 3.5% | 10 |
| 2005 | 17,633 | 3.4% | 11 |
| 2006 | 19,976 | 3.4% | 10 |
| 2007 | 21,631 | 3.4% | 10 |
| 2008 | 19,680 | 2.9% | 11 |
| 2009 | 14,707 | 3% | 10 |
| 2010 | 16,399 | 2.8% | 10 |
| 2011 | 18,431 | 2.8% | 10 |
| 2012 | 17,061 | 2.7% | 10 |
| 2013 | 21,291 | 3.3% | 9 |
| 2014 | 22,265 | 3.3% | 9 |
| 2015 | 21,781 | 3.5% | 8 |
| 2016 | 21,936 | 3.5% | 8 |
| 2017 | 20,818 | 3.3% | 9 |
| 2018 | 22,519 | 3.4% | 9 |
| 2019 | 22,209 | 3.4% | 8 |
| 2020 | 18,997 | 3.1% | 9 |
| 2021 | 20,577 | 3% | 10 |
| 2022 | 23,378 | 3.1% | 8 |
| 2023 | 25,513 | 3.4% | 8 |
| 2024 | 26,310 | 3.6% | 8 |
Products where Spain sells more than half
| Product | Supplier | Share | Second | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Olive oil | Spain | 67% | Italy · 24.5% | $371 million |
| Steel angles and sections | Spain | 50.4% | Germany · 10.6% | $308 million |
| Cabbage, cauliflower and broccoli | Spain | 74.8% | Netherlands · 6.4% | $280 million |
| Armored vehicles | Spain | 90.7%over 75% | Netherlands · 4.8% | $254 million |
| Lettuce and chicory | Spain | 87.4%over 75% | Netherlands · 4.5% | $207 million |
| Cucumbers and gherkins | Spain | 56.9% | Netherlands · 35.7% | $183 million |
| Stone fruit (cherries, peaches, plums) | Spain | 59.9% | South Africa · 16.5% | $181 million |
| Worked slate | Spain | 74.6% | Brazil · 10.7% | $119 million |
| Gypsum and plaster | Spain | 55.2% | Ireland · 16.7% | $46 million |
| Mixed alkylbenzenes | Spain | 50.5% | Italy · 43.5% | $27 million |
| Olive pomace oil | Spain | 92.9%over 75% | Italy · 3.4% | $23 million |
| Dolomite | Spain | 61.3% | Norway · 26.3% | $14 million |
| Citrus and melon peel | Spain | 67.1% | Germany · 9.3% | $2 million |
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?
- Spain sells 43.3% of what the world exports of olive oil; next come Italy (18.8%), Tunisia (10%) and Portugal (9.8%). The rest of the world exported 24.7 times what the United Kingdom buys from Spain.
- Spain sells 10.8% of what the world exports of steel angles and sections; next come China (17.6%), Germany (10.4%) and Turkey (8%). The rest of the world exported 44.9 times what the United Kingdom buys from Spain.
- Spain sells 20.8% of what the world exports of cabbage, cauliflower and broccoli; next come China (21.8%), United States (10.5%) and Mexico (10.4%). The rest of the world exported 11.5 times what the United Kingdom buys from Spain.
- Spain sells 4.4% of what the world exports of armored vehicles; next come United States (21.9%), Canada (18.8%) and South Korea (18.6%). The rest of the world exported 27.3 times what the United Kingdom buys from Spain.
- Spain sells 29.1% of what the world exports of lettuce and chicory; next come United States (16.9%), Mexico (15.8%) and Italy (8.2%). The rest of the world exported 11.9 times what the United Kingdom buys from Spain.
- Spain sells 26.2% of what the world exports of cucumbers and gherkins; next come Mexico (24.1%), Netherlands (16.6%) and Canada (14.5%). The rest of the world exported 15.9 times what the United Kingdom buys from Spain.
- Spain sells 15.1% of what the world exports of stone fruit (cherries, peaches, plums); next come Chile (39.7%), Hong Kong (11.5%) and United States (6.7%). The rest of the world exported 52.5 times what the United Kingdom buys from Spain.
- Spain sells 60.8% of what the world exports of worked slate; next come China (13.8%), Brazil (6%) and India (4.1%). The rest of the world exported 2.1 times what the United Kingdom buys from Spain.
- Spain sells 15% of what the world exports of gypsum and plaster; next come Thailand (11.6%), Oman (11.2%) and Germany (9.7%). The rest of the world exported 35.2 times what the United Kingdom buys from Spain.
- Spain sells 8.4% of what the world exports of mixed alkylbenzenes; next come Saudi Arabia (21.9%), United States (9.7%) and Canada (8.6%). The rest of the world exported 88.2 times what the United Kingdom buys from Spain.
Exports from the rest of the world already have buyers; the figure shows scale, not availability.
Seen from Spain
The United Kingdom is Spain’s 5th-largest customer, with 6.7% of its exports.
Links
- Trade between the United Kingdom and Spain
- Who does the United Kingdom rely on?
- Who does Spain 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 Switzerland
- Dependence of the United Kingdom on the Netherlands
- Dependence of the United Kingdom on Belgium
- Dependence of the United Kingdom on Italy
- Dependence of the United Kingdom on Germany
- Trade profile of the United Kingdom
- Trade profile of Spain
- 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.