Who supplies a country's imports, and how much rests on one supplier?
Choose an importing country to see, for every commodity it imported at least $250 million of in 2024, the largest and second-largest supplier and their shares, whether the largest supplier's government has an export control on that commodity in the register, and how large other exporters' sales to other buyers are next to the purchase. Enter what you spend on each commodity to see how much of your own mix rests on one supplier. It runs in your browser; nothing you enter is sent or saved.
Example: Japan
| Commodity | Imports | Largest supplier | Second supplier | Supplier controls in force | Others' sales to third countries, as a multiple of the purchase |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crude oil | $73 billion | United Arab Emirates 43% | Saudi Arabia 39% | — | — |
| Natural gas | $47 billion | Australia 35% | United States 17% | — | — |
| Coal | $27 billion | Australia 65% | Indonesia 16% | — | 6.20× |
| Copper | $13 billion | Chile 40% | Indonesia 16% | — | — |
| Iron ore | $8.5 billion | Australia 63% | Brazil 13% | — | 13× |
| Aluminum | $5.0 billion | United Arab Emirates 19% | Australia 16% | — | — |
| Pork | $4.2 billion | United States 25% | Canada 23% | — | — |
| Corn | $3.6 billion | United States 83% | Brazil 15% | — | 11× |
| Shrimp | $1.8 billion | Russia 20% | India 15% | — | — |
| Soybeans | $1.8 billion | United States 65% | Brazil 18% | — | 47× |
| Coffee | $1.6 billion | Brazil 35% | Vietnam 22% | — | — |
| Wheat | $1.6 billion | United States 40% | Canada 38% | — | — |
| Sawnwood | $1.5 billion | Canada 20% | Sweden 15% | — | — |
| Platinum | $1.5 billion | South Africa 79% | United Kingdom 5.7% | — | 7.13× |
| Beef | $1.5 billion | Australia 41% | United States 35% | — | — |
| Silver | $1.4 billion | South Korea 65% | Mexico 24% | — | 32× |
| Chicken | $1.4 billion | Brazil 62% | Thailand 36% | — | 31× |
| Palladium | $1.4 billion | South Africa 40% | Russia 28% | — | — |
| Steel | $1.4 billion | South Korea 64% | Other Asia, nes 24% | — | 61× |
| Cheese | $1.3 billion | Australia 23% | New Zealand 20% | — | — |
| Natural rubber | $1.2 billion | Indonesia 53% | Thailand 42% | — | 21× |
| Plywood | $1.1 billion | Indonesia 38% | Malaysia 28% | — | — |
| Canola | $1.1 billion | Australia 53% | Canada 46% | — | 17× |
| Rhodium | $983 million | South Africa 68% | United States 12% | — | 6.53× |
| Bananas | $930 million | Philippines 80% | Ecuador 6.7% | — | 19× |
| Nickel | $906 million | Australia 54% | Madagascar 16% | — | 25× |
| Molybdenum | $760 million | Chile 65% | United States 18% | — | 12× |
| Iridium | $751 million | South Africa 67% | Germany 13% | — | 1.82× |
| Sugar | $739 million | Australia 87% | Thailand 10% | — | 64× |
| Palm oil | $634 million | Malaysia 85% | Indonesia 14% | — | 53× |
| Rice | $606 million | United States 54% | Thailand 34% | — | 113× |
| Tin | $593 million | Malaysia 20% | Peru 19% | — | — |
| Gold | $534 million | Other Asia, nes 31% | Malaysia 25% | — | — |
| Logs | $436 million | United States 68% | Canada 22% | — | 36× |
| Sesame seed | $419 million | Nigeria 34% | Burkina Faso 9.4% | — | — |
| Olive oil | $413 million | Spain 52% | Italy 38% | — | 43× |
| Silicon | $380 million | China 67% | Australia 7.2% | — | 8.82× |
| Phosphate fertilizers | $353 million | China 67% | Morocco 15% | — | — |
| Barley | $328 million | Australia 62% | Canada 37% | — | 36× |
| Titanium | $326 million | Canada 46% | South Africa 22% | — | — |
| Rare earths | $280 million | Vietnam 58% | China 28% | 1 measure: Vietnam bans exports of raw rare earth minerals through am… | 4.87× |
| Fishmeal | $277 million | Peru 23% | Oman 12% | — | — |
| Orange juice | $261 million | Brazil 48% | Israel 20% | — | — |
How to read it
- Shares are of the country's whole imports of that commodity by value, from customs records of its trading partners (CEPII BACI). They are not your contracts: a firm can buy from a different mix than its country does.
- Supplier controls are measures by the supplier's government on that commodity that the register lists as in force as of 2026-10-09. The register does not say whether a measure applies to sales to this country, and a commodity can be controlled in one form (an ore) while another form (a refined metal) is not; read the entry.
- The multiple divides what every other exporter already sold to buyers other than this country by what the country bought from its largest supplier. Below 1, those sales are smaller than the purchase. It appears only where one supplier provides half or more of the imports and the substitution table holds the same line and supplier; a dash means no matching figure, not zero. It is a size comparison from one year of trade records, not spare capacity. See substitution coverage.
- "Other Asia, nes" is a customs reporting group for Asian trade not assigned to a named country, not a country; it appears as both an importer and a supplier.
- Trading hubs such as the Netherlands, Singapore and Belgium re-export goods made elsewhere, so their supplier shares describe where goods were shipped from, not where they were made.
- Nothing here predicts supply, prices or policy, and no score is computed. For minerals in particular see the supplier exposure report and the critical minerals hub; for the mix by commodity rather than by importer, see basket exposure.
Sources: CEPII BACI (bilateral trade by customs line, primary line per commodity, latest year); this site's export-controls register. The data file behind the tool is exposure-tool.json.