How dependent is the United States on India?

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%.

• India sells 38.6% of what the world exports of synthetic gemstones; next come China (14.5%), Hong Kong (13.2%) and United Arab Emirates (5.9%). The rest of the world exported 2.4 times what the United States buys from India.
• India sells 40.7% of what the world exports of knotted carpets; next come Nepal (9.5%), Turkey (7.9%) and China (7.8%). The rest of the world exported 2.2 times what the United States buys from India.
• India sells 9.5% of what the world exports of chassis with engines; next come Sweden (14.9%), China (11.2%) and Brazil (9.3%). The rest of the world exported 26.4 times what the United States buys from India.
• India sells 54.8% of what the world exports of anise, coriander and cumin seeds; next come Egypt (6.9%), China (6.6%) and Vietnam (3.8%). The rest of the world exported 9.3 times what the United States buys from India.
• India sells 36.4% of what the world exports of coir, abaca and ramie; next come Sri Lanka (23.3%), Kenya (7%) and Brazil (6.3%). The rest of the world exported 8.8 times what the United States buys from India.
• India sells 34.9% of what the world exports of jute fabric; next come Bangladesh (33.3%), Nepal (15.4%) and China (6.7%). The rest of the world exported 5 times what the United States buys from India.
• India sells 50.2% of what the world exports of prepared human hair; next come China (21.8%), Bangladesh (10.3%) and Myanmar (4.8%). The rest of the world exported 34.1 times what the United States buys from India.
• India sells 24.3% of what the world exports of halogenated or nitrated aldehyde derivatives; next come China (57.1%), Japan (6.8%) and Germany (5.4%). The rest of the world exported 24.9 times what the United States buys from India.

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

The United States is India’s 1st-largest customer, with 19.4% of its exports.

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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.