plate 176 · 2025 data

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.

Trade 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. America's duty-free parcels grew almost tenfold in nine years
  4. 4. Mexico's factories now outproduce Britain's and France's
  5. 5. The UAE sold more goods abroad than France in 2025
  6. 6. The EU now buys more US gas than Russian gas
  7. 7. Malaysia again sells more to America than to China
  8. 8. Brazil mines 93% of the world's niobium
  9. 9. More Vietnamese now work in industry than on farms
  10. 10. Indonesia set to use more palm oil than it exports
  11. 11. Factories now make more of Cambodia's economy than China's
  12. 12. China now buys more from Brazil than from Germany
  13. 13. Kazakhstan now sells Russia more than Germany does
  14. 14. China fell to third among America's suppliers in 2025
  15. 15. America overtook China as Taiwan's biggest export market
  16. 16. Mongolia's coal exports hit a record 90 million tonnes
  17. 17. Viet Nam's ports now handle more containers than Japan's
  18. 18. Liberia overtook Panama as the biggest flag by ship capacity
  19. 19. Nickel made Indonesia the world's fifth-biggest iron and steel exporter
−30%

US goods imports from China fell from US$440bn in 2024 to US$309bn in 2025, below Canada's US$382bn.

9.0%

China's share of all US goods imports in 2025, down from 21.5% in 2015, when it was first.

#4 and #5

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.

Source: US Census Bureau, International Trade API: US imports of goods by country (general imports), 2025
the numbers & method
China fell to third among America's suppliers in 2025. Source: US Census Bureau, International Trade API: US imports of goods by country (general imports), 2025.
20152025
Mexico296534
Canada296382
China483309
Taiwan41201
Vietnam38194
Germany125156
Japan131146

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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