How dependent is Vietnam on Japan?

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%.

• Japan sells 5.9% of what the world exports of ferrous scrap; next come United States (13.9%), Germany (9.9%) and United Kingdom (7.6%). The rest of the world exported 46.3 times what Vietnam buys from Japan.
• Japan sells 9.1% of what the world exports of cold-rolled flat steel; next come China (18.5%), South Korea (14.8%) and Belgium (6.6%). The rest of the world exported 154.3 times what Vietnam buys from Japan.
• Japan sells 58.5% of what the world exports of photographic chemicals; next come South Korea (11.4%), United States (8.2%) and Taiwan (5.5%). The rest of the world exported 52.2 times what Vietnam buys from Japan.
• Japan sells 3.3% of what the world exports of silk fabric; next come China (38.1%), Italy (23.2%) and India (14.7%). The rest of the world exported 40.9 times what Vietnam buys from Japan.
• Japan sells 36.8% of what the world exports of pianos; next come Germany (20.1%), Indonesia (14.1%) and China (7.8%). The rest of the world exported 38.2 times what Vietnam buys from Japan.
• Japan sells 1.7% of what the world exports of wheat flour; next come Turkey (20.1%), Kazakhstan (8.6%) and Germany (8%). The rest of the world exported 827.5 times what Vietnam buys from Japan.
• Japan sells 3.4% of what the world exports of platinum; next come South Africa (37.2%), Russia (8.7%) and Germany (6.8%). The rest of the world exported 6,678.1 times what Vietnam buys from Japan.
• Japan sells 1.4% of what the world exports of alloy steel ingots and semi-finished products; next come Brazil (16.7%), Mexico (12.3%) and Italy (8%). The rest of the world exported 770 times what Vietnam buys from Japan.
• Japan sells 2.8% of what the world exports of cobalt; next come Democratic Republic of the Congo (54.4%), United States (8%) and Canada (5.3%). The rest of the world exported 2,017.6 times what Vietnam buys from Japan.
• Japan sells 5.7% of what the world exports of magnesium hydroxide and peroxide; strontium and barium oxides; next come China (18.1%), Russia (17.5%) and Netherlands (12.4%). The rest of the world exported 181.4 times what Vietnam buys from Japan.

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

Vietnam is Japan’s 12th-largest customer, with 2.1% of its exports.

• Trade between Vietnam and Japan
• Who does Vietnam rely on?
• Who does Japan rely on?
• Dependence of Vietnam on China
• Dependence of Vietnam on Argentina
• Dependence of Vietnam on Cambodia
• Dependence of Vietnam on Indonesia
• Dependence of Vietnam on Hong Kong
• Dependence of Vietnam on Australia
• Dependence of Vietnam on India
• Dependence of Vietnam on the United States
• Dependence of Vietnam on South Korea
• Dependence of Vietnam on Thailand
• Dependence of Vietnam on Singapore
• Dependence of Vietnam on Germany
• Trade profile of Vietnam
• Trade profile of Japan
• 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.