How dependent is the United States on China?

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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%.

• China sells 50.8% of what the world exports of batteries; next come South Korea (6.1%), Poland (5.4%) and Germany (4.7%). The rest of the world exported 3.7 times what the United States buys from China.
• China sells 66.3% of what the world exports of toys; next come Vietnam (5.8%), Czechia (4.1%) and Mexico (2.6%). The rest of the world exported 1.4 times what the United States buys from China.
• China sells 48% of what the world exports of electric heaters and hair dryers; next come Germany (5.9%), Italy (4.2%) and Mexico (4%). The rest of the world exported 4.7 times what the United States buys from China.
• China sells 58.5% of what the world exports of video game consoles and games; next come Japan (6.7%), Germany (3.3%) and Vietnam (3.2%). The rest of the world exported 1.7 times what the United States buys from China.
• China sells 60.9% of what the world exports of plastic tableware and household items; next come Germany (3%), Turkey (2.6%) and Poland (2.4%). The rest of the world exported 1.3 times what the United States buys from China.
• China sells 83.8% of what the world exports of festive and Christmas articles; next come Cambodia (2.2%), Netherlands (1.6%) and India (1.4%). The rest of the world exported 0.3 times what the United States buys from China.
• China sells 50.4% of what the world exports of sports equipment; next come Taiwan (6.2%), Vietnam (4.6%) and Germany (2.9%). The rest of the world exported 3.1 times what the United States buys from China.
• China sells 53.7% of what the world exports of other made-up textiles; next come Germany (4.6%), Vietnam (4.2%) and Mexico (4%). The rest of the world exported 2.2 times what the United States buys from China.
• China sells 56.2% of what the world exports of home appliances; next come Germany (7.7%), Malaysia (6.5%) and Vietnam (4.9%). The rest of the world exported 3.7 times what the United States buys from China.
• China sells 50.6% of what the world exports of rubber and plastic footwear; next come Vietnam (16.4%), Indonesia (6%) and Germany (3.8%). The rest of the world exported 5.5 times what the United States buys from China.

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

The United States is China’s 1st-largest customer, with 12.5% of its exports.

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• Dependence of the United States on Colombia
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Sources and licenses

• CEPII BACI · Licence Ouverte Etalab 2.0
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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.