How dependent is the United States on Ireland?

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%.

• Ireland sells 48.5% of what the world exports of hormones; next come Denmark (3.8%), China (3.5%) and Switzerland (2.7%). The rest of the world exported 0.7 times what the United States buys from Ireland.
• Ireland sells 35.9% of what the world exports of fragrance mixtures; next come France (8.2%), Germany (7.6%) and Singapore (6.7%). The rest of the world exported 4.8 times what the United States buys from Ireland.
• Ireland sells 31.2% of what the world exports of sulfonamides; next come Switzerland (26.4%), India (9.2%) and China (8.8%). The rest of the world exported 4.3 times what the United States buys from Ireland.
• Ireland sells 14.4% of what the world exports of butter and milk fats; next come New Zealand (22.4%), Netherlands (14.6%) and Germany (8.4%). The rest of the world exported 19.7 times what the United States buys from Ireland.

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

The United States is Ireland’s 1st-largest customer, with 34.2% of its exports.

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Sources and licenses

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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.