China fell to third among America's suppliers in 2025
Rank by value of US goods imports, individual countries, 2015 and 2025; China now trails Mexico and Canada.
- 1. Mexico, not China, now sells America the most goods
- 2. China's ASEAN trade is now almost double its US trade
- 3. Central banks now hold more gold than Treasuries or euros
- 4. China now pays the world mostly in yuan
- 5. Migrants now send home four times all foreign aid
- 6. Tether now holds more US Treasuries than the UAE
- 7. Developing countries' interest bill has nearly tripled since 2010
- 8. America's duty-free parcels grew almost tenfold in nine years
- 9. Poles edge past the Japanese in income per person
- 10. In dollars, Nigeria's economy has more than halved since 2014
- 11. Argentina's monthly inflation fell from 25.5% to 1.9%
- 12. Guyana now produces more per person than America
- 13. Mexico's factories now outproduce Britain's and France's
- 14. Ukraine received four times the aid of any other country
- 15. The UAE sold more goods abroad than France in 2025
- 16. Singapore now draws twice as much foreign investment as China
- 17. The EU now buys more US gas than Russian gas
- 18. Malaysia again sells more to America than to China
- 19. 22 governments now owe more than a year's national output
- 20. Brazil mines 93% of the world's niobium
- 21. More Vietnamese now work in industry than on farms
- 22. Money sent home to Guatemala nearly quadrupled in ten years
- 23. In purchasing power, Russia's economy is now bigger than Japan's
- 24. Indonesia set to use more palm oil than it exports
- 25. Factories now make more of Cambodia's economy than China's
- 26. China now buys more from Brazil than from Germany
- 27. Kazakhstan now sells Russia more than Germany does
- 28. China fell to third among America's suppliers in 2025
US goods imports from China fell from US$440bn in 2024 to US$309bn in 2025, below Canada's US$382bn.
China's share of all US goods imports in 2025, down from 21.5% in 2015, when it was first.
Taiwan and Vietnam, 11th and 13th in 2015, now rank next after China, so much of America's Asian supply has moved rather than vanished.
the numbers & method
| 2015 | 2025 | |
|---|---|---|
| Mexico | 296 | 534 |
| Canada | 296 | 382 |
| China | 483 | 309 |
| Taiwan | 41 | 201 |
| Vietnam | 38 | 194 |
| Germany | 125 | 156 |
| Japan | 131 | 146 |
Claim types Fact · Interpretation
US Census Bureau international trade time series (api.census.gov/data/timeseries/intltrade/imports/enduse, field GEN_VAL_YR = general imports, customs value, year to date at December), read from the Census API through the progrss data vault. Calendar years, current US$, not adjusted for prices. 2025 general imports (US$ bn): Mexico 534.31, Canada 381.92, China 308.65, Taiwan 201.37, Vietnam 193.88, Germany 155.83, Japan 145.84; 2024: Mexico 503.11, China 440.32, Canada 411.77; 2015: China 483.20, Mexico 296.43, Canada 296.31, Japan 131.45, Germany 124.89, Taiwan 40.91 (11th), Vietnam 38.01 (13th). Ranks are among individual countries and territories; the European Union taken as one block (US$632.90bn in 2025) would rank above Canada and is not shown. China's peak in this series was US$538.51bn in 2018. Shares are of the Census total for all countries (US$2,248.81bn in 2015, US$3,414.51bn in 2025); shares and percent changes are progrss calculations. China (code 5700) excludes Hong Kong and Macau. Mexico first passed China in 2023: see plate 012. Takeaway 3's reading of the shift is an interpretation. Licence: US government work, credit US Census Bureau.
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