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Trade with China by country

China made up 81.7% of North Korea's trade in goods in 2025, the highest share, followed by Eritrea at 73.3% and Mongolia at 62.3%. Among larger economies, China made up 30.4% of Australia's trade, 29.5% of Indonesia's, 28.7% of Vietnam's and 27.1% of Brazil's. Of 164 countries with both figures, 123 traded more with China than with the United States.

IMF International Trade in Goods (by partner country) · 181 countries · Updated September 2026

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China's share of each country's goods trade (exports plus imports), 2025

World map shaded by china's share of each country's goods trade (exports plus imports), 2025
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Trade with China by country: China's share of each country's goods trade (exports plus imports), 2025
# Country China's share US share Trade with China
1 North Korea est. 81.7% 0.1%$2.9bn
2 Eritrea 73.3% 4.7%$1.0bn
3 Mongolia 62.3% 1.3%$18.6bn
4 Turkmenistan 55.8% ·$9.7bn
5 Republic of the Congo 47.7% 2.9%$7.1bn
6 DR Congo 46.0% 1.0%$29.1bn
7 Solomon Islands est. 36.7% 1.9%$493m
8 Angola 35.5% 2.8%$17.9bn
9 Myanmar 34.9% 2.4%$10.3bn
10 Laos 34.0% 1.4%$5.0bn
11 Ethiopia 33.6% 6.7%$8.3bn
12 Chile 33.0% 16.9%$67.1bn
13 Iraq est. 30.8% 6.0%$50.2bn
14 Australia 30.4% 9.3%$198bn
15 Cambodia 29.9% 21.7%$18.6bn
16 Peru 29.6% 16.1%$39.7bn
17 Indonesia 29.5% 8.4%$155bn
18 Vietnam 28.7% 19.3%$255bn
19 Marshall Islands est. 27.9% 0.9%$6.1bn
20 Gabon 27.8% 3.0%$3.6bn
21 Cuba 27.6% 4.5%$2.5bn
22 Brazil 27.1% 13.4%$175bn
23 Qatar 26.4% 5.5%$27.2bn
24 Kazakhstan 26.2% 3.4%$30.9bn
25 Central African Republic 25.6% 3.6%$263m
26 Russia 24.2% 3.2%$160bn
27 Pakistan 23.7% 9.1%$22.8bn
28 New Zealand 23.6% 11.0%$22.4bn
29 Paraguay 22.7% 5.9%$7.1bn
30 Rwanda 22.6% 1.3%$1.2bn
31 Nauru est. 22.5% 1.1%$69m
32 Burundi 22.3% ·$210m
33 Philippines 21.9% 10.0%$47.7bn
34 Tanzania 21.8% 2.3%$6.6bn
35 Bolivia 21.6% 4.6%$4.3bn
36 Uzbekistan 21.6% 1.0%$47.3bn
37 Thailand 21.5% 13.5%$149bn
38 Mali 21.2% 1.8%$1.9bn
39 Madagascar 21.0% 6.2%$1.6bn
40 Ecuador 20.6% 23.0%$14.4bn
41 Somalia est. 20.6% 1.1%$1.1bn
42 Japan 20.3% 15.1%$304bn
43 South Korea 20.3% 14.7%$273bn
44 Saudi Arabia 20.3% 6.1%$114bn
45 Togo 20.0% 1.7%$1.2bn
46 Equatorial Guinea est. 19.8% 5.2%$921m
47 Uruguay 19.6% 9.7%$4.7bn
48 Papua New Guinea est. 18.7% 1.1%$3.0bn
49 Maldives 18.6% 3.8%$699m
50 Tajikistan 18.6% 2.5%$1.5bn
51 Namibia 18.0% 3.2%$2.8bn
52 Colombia 17.9% 26.5%$21.0bn
53 Mauritania 17.9% 1.9%$1.8bn
54 Malaysia 17.7% 12.0%$127bn
55 Bangladesh 17.5% 10.1%$19.3bn
56 Chad est. 17.4% 2.3%$1.1bn
57 Algeria 17.1% 3.6%$16.8bn
58 Nepal 17.1% 3.2%$2.7bn
59 Taiwan 17.1% 21.9%$192bn
60 Argentina 17.0% 9.1%$27.7bn
61 Ukraine 16.6% 0.9%$20.1bn
62 South Africa 16.5% 7.0%$37.4bn
63 Bhutan 16.2% 0.9%$427m
64 Brunei 15.7% 2.3%$2.6bn
65 Zambia 15.7% 1.1%$5.7bn
66 Uganda 15.6% 1.4%$4.7bn
67 Fiji 15.5% 6.5%$685m
68 Zimbabwe 15.5% 0.9%$2.8bn
69 Kenya 15.0% 6.7%$4.7bn
70 Belize 14.9% 39.1%$260m
71 El Salvador 14.9% 28.1%$3.6bn
72 Guatemala 14.8% 29.0%$7.4bn
73 Jordan 14.8% 13.5%$6.3bn
74 Cameroon 14.6% 2.8%$2.0bn
75 Timor-Leste 14.6% 2.1%$153m
76 Mauritius 14.5% 3.8%$1.2bn
77 Guinea-Bissau 14.3% ·$93m
78 United Arab Emirates est. 14.2% 4.6%$129bn
79 Mozambique 14.0% 1.5%$2.3bn
80 Dominican Republic 13.9% 44.7%$6.4bn
81 Panama 13.5% 16.9%$2.2bn
82 Honduras 13.0% 30.6%$3.1bn
83 Trinidad and Tobago 12.9% 31.5%$1.7bn
84 Egypt 12.6% 10.1%$19.1bn
85 Armenia 12.4% 1.6%$6.8bn
86 Sudan 12.2% ·$1.8bn
87 Sri Lanka 12.0% 9.5%$4.6bn
88 India 11.9% 11.9%$143bn
89 Ghana 11.8% 4.7%$6.1bn
90 Singapore 11.7% 10.1%$125bn
91 Kosovo 11.6% 1.6%$1.0bn
92 Belarus 11.4% 0.3%$5.9bn
93 Israel 11.4% 16.6%$17.5bn
94 Micronesia est. 11.3% 21.4%$87m
95 Montenegro 11.3% 1.3%$721m
96 Djibouti 11.2% 1.5%$1.0bn
97 Suriname 11.2% 24.2%$360m
98 Mexico 11.1% 59.7%$151bn
99 Serbia 11.1% 1.9%$9.4bn
100 Lebanon 10.7% 2.5%$2.6bn
101 Costa Rica 10.6% 42.0%$5.1bn
102 Malawi 10.5% ·$427m
103 Benin 10.4% 5.6%$577m
104 Moldova 10.3% 0.3%$1.5bn
105 Gambia 10.1% 3.3%$84m
106 Azerbaijan 9.9% 3.2%$4.9bn
107 Jamaica 9.9% 38.4%$905m
108 Senegal 9.5% 3.8%$1.9bn
109 Libya 9.2% 3.1%$4.3bn
110 Comoros 9.1% 0.2%$31m
111 Georgia 8.9% 11.2%$2.3bn
112 Tonga 8.9% 11.1%$25m
113 United States 8.9% ·$501bn
114 Albania 8.7% 1.7%$1.3bn
115 Côte d'Ivoire 8.7% 4.7%$4.1bn
116 Yemen 8.7% ·$408m
117 Bahrain 8.6% 7.5%$2.4bn
118 United Kingdom 8.6% 11.9%$114bn
119 South Sudan est. 8.5% 0.4%$360m
120 Iceland 8.3% 7.8%$1.5bn
121 Netherlands 8.3% 6.9%$152bn
122 Turkey 8.3% 5.4%$52.8bn
123 Afghanistan 8.2% 1.0%$470m
124 Nigeria 8.2% 7.3%$6.2bn
125 Burkina Faso 8.1% 1.8%$1.4bn
126 Canada 8.1% 58.7%$93.3bn
127 Antigua and Barbuda 7.9% 42.9%$47m
128 Morocco 7.7% 6.8%$14.8bn
129 Syria 7.7% 0.2%$894m
130 Palau 7.5% 33.7%$37m
131 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 7.5% 32.9%$34m
132 Slovenia 7.2% 0.8%$13.4bn
133 Niger 7.0% 1.1%$515m
134 Bosnia and Herzegovina 6.9% 1.3%$1.9bn
135 Tunisia 6.9% 2.6%$3.4bn
136 Denmark 6.8% 5.8%$19.3bn
137 North Macedonia 6.8% 2.2%$1.5bn
138 Barbados 6.7% 35.0%$180m
139 Norway 6.4% 5.2%$17.6bn
140 Botswana 6.3% ·$654m
141 Germany 6.3% 7.4%$208bn
142 Spain 6.2% 5.1%$59.3bn
143 Italy 6.1% 8.6%$84.6bn
144 Czechia 5.9% 2.2%$31.6bn
145 Switzerland 5.8% 17.7%$63.0bn
146 Greece 5.6% 3.7%$8.1bn
147 Cyprus 5.5% 1.4%$1.1bn
148 Poland 5.5% 3.3%$45.8bn
149 France 5.4% 7.3%$78.5bn
150 Guyana 5.4% 26.8%$1.9bn
151 Bulgaria 5.1% 2.2%$5.4bn
152 Belgium 4.8% 6.8%$53.8bn
153 Hungary 4.8% 2.6%$15.5bn
154 Finland 4.7% 7.2%$8.0bn
155 Ireland 4.6% 33.0%$20.6bn
156 Sweden 4.6% 6.3%$18.8bn
157 Lesotho 4.4% 6.0%$113m
158 Romania 4.3% 1.6%$11.1bn
159 Seychelles 4.3% 0.6%$95m
160 Palestine 3.5% 1.3%$1.0bn
161 Malta 3.4% 2.9%$454m
162 Portugal 3.4% 3.7%$7.3bn
163 Eswatini 3.4% 1.4%$166m
164 Estonia 3.3% 2.2%$1.5bn
165 Lithuania 3.1% 4.4%$2.8bn
166 Austria 2.9% 4.4%$13.3bn
167 Grenada 2.9% 38.7%$19m
168 Latvia 2.9% 2.0%$1.4bn
169 Slovakia 2.8% 2.1%$6.9bn
170 Luxembourg 2.5% 2.8%$1.1bn
171 Croatia 2.4% 2.1%$1.9bn
172 San Marino est. 2.4% 14.4%$19m
173 Tuvalu est. 1.8% ·$1m

Why they rank where they do

  • North Korea

    The IMF's figure for North Korea is an estimate. South Korea's trade agency, KOTRA, which tracks North Korea's trade, puts China at 98.2% of North Korea's recorded trade in 2025. UN Security Council resolutions in 2017 banned most North Korean exports.

  • Mongolia

    China took about 89% of Mongolia's exports in 2025. Most of what Mongolia sends to China is coal and copper.

  • DR Congo

    DR Congo mined 73% of the world's cobalt in 2025, and Chinese companies own or finance most of its cobalt mines.

  • Chile

    Chile signed a free trade agreement with China on November 18, 2005, China's first with a Latin American country. China took 90.8% of Chile's fresh cherry exports in the 2024-25 season.

  • Australia

    After Australia called for an inquiry into the origins of COVID-19 on April 19, 2020, China restricted imports of Australian barley, beef, coal, wine and lobster. China lifted the last restriction, on lobster, on December 20, 2024.

  • Vietnam

    Vietnam's trade grew with both powers. China's share rose from 20.4% in 2015, and the US share rose from 12.7%.

  • Brazil

    China has been Brazil's largest trading partner since 2009 and in 2025 bought about three-quarters of Brazil's record soybean exports. China bought no US soybeans for about five months in 2025, until the Busan truce.

  • Russia

    Trade between Russia and China reached about $245 billion in 2024 and fell 6.9% to $228.1 billion in 2025. Russia's finance minister said in November 2025 that 99.1% of payments between Russia and China are in rubles and yuan.

  • Japan

    China is Japan's largest trading partner in goods, but the United States is Japan's largest export market.

  • Taiwan

    In 2025 Taiwan's exports rose 34.9% to $640.75 billion, driven by artificial intelligence hardware. The United States passed mainland China and Hong Kong together as Taiwan's largest export market, for the first time since 2000.

  • India

    The United States was India's largest trading partner in the year to March 2025. China overtook the United States in the year to March 2026, with $151.1 billion, and India's trade deficit with China reached a record $112.16 billion.

  • Mexico

    In 2023 the United States imported more from Mexico than from China, for the first time since 2002. Mexico was the largest US trading partner in goods in 2025, with $871.6 billion of trade.

  • United States

    President Trump's extra tariffs on Chinese goods peaked at 145% in April 2025, and US imports from China fell 29.9% that year. On February 20, 2026, the US Supreme Court ruled that the law he had used does not allow tariffs, and those tariffs ended four days later.

  • Germany

    China was Germany's largest trading partner from 2016 to 2023, the United States in 2024, and China again in 2025. Destatis, Germany's statistics office, put China's total at €251.8 billion against €240.5 billion for the United States.

How many countries trade more with China than with the US?

123 of 164 countries with both figures traded more with China than with the United States in 2025. 40 traded more with the United States, and India traded exactly as much with each, at 11.9%. In 90 countries China's share was at least twice the US share.

The 40 are mostly in the Americas and Europe: Canada, Mexico, most of Central America and the Caribbean, and much of Western Europe, including the United Kingdom, Germany, France and Italy. Israel, Georgia, Taiwan and some Pacific islands also trade more with the United States. In 2015, 117 of 166 countries traded more with China and 49 with the United States. Eleven countries switched from the United States to China, including Denmark, Iceland and Côte d'Ivoire. Georgia and Luxembourg switched the other way. The Lowy Institute found that in 2001 more than 80% of countries traded more with the United States than with China.

Which countries depend most on trade with the US?

The United States made up 59.7% of Mexico's trade in 2025, the highest share of any country, and 58.7% of Canada's. The Dominican Republic followed at 44.7%, then Antigua and Barbuda at 42.9%, Costa Rica at 42.0%, Belize at 39.1%, Grenada at 38.7% and Jamaica at 38.4%.

Mexico's US share fell from 63.4% in 2015, and Canada's from 64.4%, but both still rely on the United States for more than half their trade. Ireland's US share was 33.0%, the highest in Europe, and Switzerland's was next at 17.7%. Vietnam's US share rose from 12.7% in 2015 to 19.3% in 2025, and South Korea's from 11.9% to 14.7%. Saudi Arabia's fell from 11.2% to 6.1%.

  1. Mexico59.7%
  2. Canada58.7%
  3. Dominican Republic44.7%
  4. Antigua and Barbuda42.9%
  5. Costa Rica42.0%
  6. Belize39.1%
  7. Grenada38.7%
  8. Jamaica38.4%

Who are China's biggest trading partners?

The United States is China's largest trading partner. The US reported $501.5 billion of trade with China in 2025, down from $620.1 billion in 2015. Japan was second at $303.8 billion, then South Korea at $272.5 billion, Vietnam at $255.4 billion, Germany at $207.7 billion, Australia at $198.3 billion, Taiwan at $191.8 billion and Brazil at $175.1 billion.

China's exports were $3.77 trillion and its imports $2.58 trillion in 2025. China's trade surplus was a record $1.19 trillion, the first time above $1 trillion. China reported $562.2 billion of trade with the United States, 8.8% of China's trade, down from 14.3% in 2015. Xi Jinping proposed the Belt and Road Initiative in 2013, and China says more than 150 countries have signed agreements. Italy left in 2023 and Panama in 2025.

  1. United States$501bn
  2. Japan$304bn
  3. South Korea$273bn
  4. Vietnam$255bn
  5. Germany$208bn
  6. Australia$198bn
  7. Taiwan$192bn
  8. Brazil$175bn

Why are Iran and Venezuela missing from this ranking?

China bought about 1.38 million barrels a day of Iranian oil in 2025, more than 80% of Iran's crude exports. Chinese customs recorded none of it. The oil is relabeled, mainly as Malaysian. China also bought about 389,000 barrels a day of Venezuelan oil, while its customs recorded under 7,000. The main buyers are small independent refineries in Shandong province.

Oman and Kuwait are left out because their trade figures list most oil exports under no partner country. Guinea, Sierra Leone, Kyrgyzstan, Vanuatu, Haiti, the Bahamas, Nicaragua and Saint Kitts and Nevis are left out because China or the United States reports buying more from them than they report exporting to all partners.

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