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Mexico, not China, now sells America the most goods

Share of all US goods imports from four partners, 2000–2025.

Trade and money rewired
  1. 1. Mexico, not China, now sells America the most goods
  2. 2. China's ASEAN trade is now almost double its US trade
  3. 3. Central banks now hold more gold than Treasuries or euros
  4. 4. China now pays the world mostly in yuan
  5. 5. Migrants now send home four times all foreign aid
  6. 6. Tether now holds more US Treasuries than the UAE
  7. 7. Developing countries' interest bill has nearly tripled since 2010
  8. 8. America's duty-free parcels grew almost tenfold in nine years
  9. 9. Poles edge past the Japanese in income per person
  10. 10. In dollars, Nigeria's economy has more than halved since 2014
  11. 11. Argentina's monthly inflation fell from 25.5% to 1.9%
  12. 12. Guyana now produces more per person than America
  13. 13. Mexico's factories now outproduce Britain's and France's
  14. 14. Ukraine received four times the aid of any other country
  15. 15. The UAE sold more goods abroad than France in 2025
  16. 16. Singapore now draws twice as much foreign investment as China
  17. 17. The EU now buys more US gas than Russian gas
  18. 18. Malaysia again sells more to America than to China
  19. 19. 22 governments now owe more than a year's national output
  20. 20. Brazil mines 93% of the world's niobium
  21. 21. More Vietnamese now work in industry than on farms
  22. 22. Money sent home to Guatemala nearly quadrupled in ten years
  23. 23. In purchasing power, Russia's economy is now bigger than Japan's
  24. 24. Indonesia set to use more palm oil than it exports
  25. 25. Factories now make more of Cambodia's economy than China's
15.6%

Mexico's share of US goods imports in 2025, the largest of any country.

21.6% → 9.0%

China's share fell from its 2017 peak to its lowest level since 2001.

0.1% → 5.7%

Vietnam went from almost nothing in 2000 to a top supplier as factories moved south.

Source: US Census Bureau, Foreign Trade: Trade in Goods by Country (annual totals), 2025
the numbers & method
Mexico, not China, now sells America the most goods. Source: US Census Bureau, Foreign Trade: Trade in Goods by Country (annual totals), 2025.
YearMexico (%)China (%)Canada (%)Vietnam (%)
200011.28.219.00.1
200111.59.019.00.1
200211.610.818.00.2
200311.012.117.60.4
200410.613.417.40.4
200510.214.517.40.4
200610.715.516.30.5
200710.816.416.20.5
200810.316.116.10.6
200911.319.014.50.8
201012.019.114.50.8
201111.918.114.30.8
201212.218.714.20.9
201312.419.414.71.1
201412.619.914.81.3
201513.221.513.21.7
201613.421.112.71.9
201713.421.612.82.0
201813.621.212.61.9
201914.318.012.82.7
202013.918.611.63.4
202113.517.812.63.6
202214.016.613.53.9
202315.413.913.63.7
202415.413.512.64.2
202515.69.011.25.7

Claim types Fact

Shares derived by progrss: country general imports (census basis, nominal US$; pages c5700 China, c2010 Mexico, c1220 Canada, c5520 Vietnam) divided by total US goods imports from the World page c0004 (census basis). Mexico passed China in 2023. China figures exclude Hong Kong and Taiwan. 2026 is a partial year and is not shown.

Published 25 Sep 2026

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