How dependent is the United States on Mexico?

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%.

• Mexico sells 19.7% of what the world exports of trucks; next come Germany (7.6%), China (7.5%) and Thailand (6.2%). The rest of the world exported 4.1 times what the United States buys from Mexico.
• Mexico sells 11.1% of what the world exports of cables and wire; next come China (20.3%), Germany (5.3%) and Vietnam (4.9%). The rest of the world exported 8.4 times what the United States buys from Mexico.
• Mexico sells 17.8% of what the world exports of monitors and projectors; next come China (32.3%), Vietnam (7%) and Poland (5.6%). The rest of the world exported 5.1 times what the United States buys from Mexico.
• Mexico sells 15.9% of what the world exports of tractors; next come Germany (14.8%), China (10.3%) and Netherlands (8.1%). The rest of the world exported 5.5 times what the United States buys from Mexico.
• Mexico sells 37.5% of what the world exports of beer; next come Netherlands (10.4%), Belgium (9.8%) and Germany (6.9%). The rest of the world exported 1.7 times what the United States buys from Mexico.
• Mexico sells 23.9% of what the world exports of avocados, mangoes, pineapples and dates; next come Peru (10%), Costa Rica (9.3%) and Netherlands (4.1%). The rest of the world exported 3.7 times what the United States buys from Mexico.
• Mexico sells 21.2% of what the world exports of other fresh vegetables; next come Spain (19%), Netherlands (10.3%) and China (6.2%). The rest of the world exported 4.3 times what the United States buys from Mexico.
• Mexico sells 30% of what the world exports of tomatoes; next come Netherlands (15.1%), Morocco (13.1%) and Spain (10.7%). The rest of the world exported 2.5 times what the United States buys from Mexico.
• Mexico sells 42.8% of what the world exports of railway freight cars; next come China (8.3%), Romania (6.2%) and Slovakia (6.2%). The rest of the world exported 1.2 times what the United States buys from Mexico.
• Mexico sells 9.8% of what the world exports of trailers; next come China (20.4%), Germany (17.8%) and Poland (4.4%). The rest of the world exported 8.7 times what the United States buys from Mexico.

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

The United States is Mexico’s 1st-largest customer, with 76.2% of its exports.

• Trade between the United States and Mexico
• Who does the United States rely on?
• Who does Mexico rely on?
• Dependence of the United States on Canada
• Dependence of the United States on China
• Dependence of the United States on Ireland
• Dependence of the United States on Chile
• Dependence of the United States on Switzerland
• Dependence of the United States on Brazil
• Dependence of the United States on South Africa
• Dependence of the United States on Indonesia
• Dependence of the United States on Australia
• Dependence of the United States on Vietnam
• Dependence of the United States on Colombia
• Dependence of the United States on India
• Dependence of the United States on Peru
• Dependence of the United States on the Dominican Republic
• Dependence of the United States on Thailand
• Dependence of the United States on Japan
• Trade profile of the United States
• Trade profile of Mexico
• All countries

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.