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"code": "OWID_SRM"}, {"id": 233, "name": "Seychelles", "code": "SYC"}, {"id": 87, "name": "Sierra Leone", "code": "SLE"}, {"id": 86, "name": "Singapore", "code": "SGP"}, {"id": 281, "name": "Sint Maarten (Dutch part)", "code": "SXM"}, {"id": 85, "name": "Slovakia", "code": "SVK"}, {"id": 83, "name": "Slovenia", "code": "SVN"}, {"id": 195, "name": "Solomon Islands", "code": "SLB"}, {"id": 82, "name": "Somalia", "code": "SOM"}, {"id": 81, "name": "South Africa", "code": "ZAF"}, {"id": 295, "name": "South America", "code": "OWID_SAM"}, {"id": 127, "name": "South Korea", "code": "KOR"}, {"id": 258, "name": "South Sudan", "code": "SSD"}, {"id": 9, "name": "Spain", "code": "ESP"}, {"id": 141, "name": "Sri Lanka", "code": "LKA"}, {"id": 79, "name": "Sudan", "code": "SDN"}, {"id": 234, "name": "Suriname", "code": "SUR"}, {"id": 10, "name": "Sweden", "code": "SWE"}, {"id": 7, "name": "Switzerland", "code": "CHE"}, {"id": 77, "name": "Syria", "code": "SYR"}, {"id": 76, "name": "Tajikistan", "code": "TJK"}, {"id": 64, "name": "Tanzania", "code": "TZA"}, {"id": 75, "name": "Thailand", "code": "THA"}, {"id": 74, "name": "Togo", "code": "TGO"}, {"id": 235, "name": "Tonga", "code": "TON"}, {"id": 73, "name": "Trinidad and Tobago", "code": "TTO"}, {"id": 71, "name": "Tunisia", "code": "TUN"}, {"id": 70, "name": "Turkey", "code": "TUR"}, {"id": 69, "name": "Turkmenistan", "code": "TKM"}, {"id": 237, "name": "Tuvalu", "code": "TUV"}, {"id": 270, "name": "USSR", "code": "OWID_USS"}, {"id": 68, "name": "Uganda", "code": "UGA"}, {"id": 67, "name": "Ukraine", "code": "UKR"}, {"id": 72, "name": "United Arab Emirates", "code": "ARE"}, {"id": 1, "name": "United Kingdom", "code": "GBR"}, {"id": 13, "name": "United States", "code": "USA"}, {"id": 63, "name": "Uruguay", "code": "URY"}, {"id": 62, "name": "Uzbekistan", "code": "UZB"}, {"id": 221, "name": "Vanuatu", "code": "VUT"}, {"id": 257, "name": "Vatican", "code": "VAT"}, {"id": 238, "name": "Venezuela", "code": "VEN"}, {"id": 84, "name": "Vietnam", "code": "VNM"}, {"id": 61, "name": "Yemen", "code": "YEM"}, {"id": 381, "name": "Yemen Arab Republic", "code": "OWID_YAR"}, {"id": 271, "name": "Yugoslavia", "code": "OWID_YGS"}, {"id": 60, "name": "Zambia", "code": "ZMB"}, {"id": 80, "name": "Zimbabwe", "code": "ZWE"}]}}, "descriptionShort": "Percentage of a country's total goods imports, including freight and insurance costs, that come from China.", "descriptionProcessing": "We calculated the share of imports from China by dividing the value of CIF imports from that country by total CIF imports from the World, then multiplying by 100.\n\nTrade with continents, with Asia (excluding China), and with the World is the sum of trade with the individual countries in them, calculated by Our World in Data. It therefore leaves out trade the IMF cannot attribute to a specific partner country. Values for continents and for Asia (excluding China) as reporters are, likewise, the sum of the values of their member countries.", "type": "float", "patchConfigIdETL": "01a1683d-116b-74ee-97c0-12ba9c4cbcd2", "datasetName": "International Trade in Goods (by partner country) (IMTS)", "updatePeriodDays": 365, "datasetVersion": "2026-10-05", "nonRedistributable": false, "display": {"name": "China", "unit": "%", "shortUnit": "%", "numDecimalPlaces": 1}, "schemaVersion": 2, "processingLevel": "major", "presentation": {"titlePublic": "Imports from China as a share of total imports", "attributionShort": "IMF", "topicTagsLinks": ["Trade & Globalization"]}, "descriptionKey": "- This indicator shows how much of a country\u2019s merchandise imports are sourced from China, expressed as a percentage of the country's total imports.\n- In this data, imports are valued at \"cost, insurance, and freight\" (CIF). That is the value of the goods plus the cost of shipping and insuring them to the importing country's border. Not every country records its imports this way; for some of those that don't, the IMF adds an estimate of these costs.\n- The data covers **goods only**, not services such as software, tourism, or financial services.\n- It highlights how central China is as a supplier of goods to the country.\n- A higher percentage means stronger dependence on that partner for imports.\n- This measure is useful for assessing the diversification of import sources and for spotting vulnerabilities in supply chains if reliance on a single partner is high.", "origins": [{"id": 28234, "title": "International Trade in Goods (by partner country) (IMTS)", "description": "The International Trade in Goods (by partner country) dataset, formerly called Direction of Trade Statistics (DOTS), shows the value of each country's exports and imports of goods, broken down by trading partner. It covers more than 200 countries and territories, with annual data from 1948 onward, in US dollars.\n\nMost values come from the official trade statistics each country reports. For countries that report late, or don't publish their trade by partner, the IMF estimates the values from the data their trading partners report.", "producer": "International Monetary Fund", "citationFull": "International Monetary Fund. International Trade in Goods (by partner country), https://data.imf.org/en/datasets/IMF.STA:IMTS. Accessed on 05 October 2026.", "attributionShort": "IMF", "urlMain": "https://data.imf.org/en/datasets/IMF.STA:IMTS", "dateAccessed": "2026-10-05", "datePublished": "2026-10-01", "license": {"url": "https://www.imf.org/en/About/copyright-and-terms", "name": "International Monetary Fund Copyright"}}]}