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"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": "Rank of China among a country's import partners, based on import values that include the cost of goods, freight, and insurance. A rank of 1 means it is the country's largest import partner.", "descriptionProcessing": "For each country and year, all import partners were ordered from largest to smallest by their CIF import values in current US dollars. The position of China in this ranking was then recorded: 1 if it was the top supplier, 2 if the second largest, and so on. Rankings were produced separately for each year.", "type": "float", "patchConfigIdETL": "01a1683d-1cbb-75ff-a0f4-5dece90d62ed", "datasetName": "International Trade in Goods (by partner country) (IMTS)", "updatePeriodDays": 365, "datasetVersion": "2026-10-05", "nonRedistributable": false, "display": {"name": "Rank of China", "unit": "rank", "numDecimalPlaces": 0}, "schemaVersion": 2, "processingLevel": "major", "presentation": {"titlePublic": "Rank of China among import partners", "attributionShort": "IMF", "topicTagsLinks": ["Trade & Globalization"]}, "descriptionKey": "- This indicator shows the rank of China among a country's import partners.\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- Rank 1 indicates that China was the largest import partner for that country in a given year; rank 2 indicates the second largest, and higher numbers represent lower positions.\n- This ranking highlights whether China was a dominant supplier of [merchandise imports](#dod:merchandise-imports) or played a smaller role in a country's imports.", "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"}}]}