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140 countries, each with up to twenty imports it is best placed to replace: the import bill, where it comes from, and how close each line sits to what the country already exports well. Built from the world trade record for 2024, the same way for every country.

Every country

Manufactured imports in 2024, and the page for each.

The gaps most countries share

Of 156 countries scored, these are the product lines that most of them import at scale, do not yet export well, and sit close to what they already export. Many are heavy or bulky goods that travel badly, and a few supplier countries recur across the list.

  1. Medicaments, packaged for retailHS 30049090 of 155 countriesUSD 149bn a year, mostly from India, Germany
  2. Fabricated steel structuresHS 73089086 of 145 countriesUSD 16bn a year, mostly from China, Turkey
  3. Food preparations (mixes and supplements)HS 21069083 of 153 countriesUSD 16bn a year, mostly from United States, France
  4. Insulated wire and cable, low voltageHS 85444983 of 142 countriesUSD 13bn a year, mostly from China, Turkey
  5. Nappies and sanitary productsHS 96190078 of 132 countriesUSD 6.6bn a year, mostly from China, Turkey
  6. Skincare preparationsHS 33049973 of 127 countriesUSD 12bn a year, mostly from France, South Africa
  7. Electrical control panelsHS 85371071 of 132 countriesUSD 18bn a year, mostly from China, Germany
  8. Refined sugarHS 17019970 of 125 countriesUSD 9.5bn a year, mostly from Brazil, India
  9. Antibiotic medicamentsHS 30042066 of 115 countriesUSD 6.8bn a year, mostly from India, Italy
  10. BusesHS 87021066 of 114 countriesUSD 5.9bn a year, mostly from China, Japan

A gap here is a line imported at USD 10m or more that the country does not yet export well and that sits in the upper half of its candidates for proximity. Adjacent capability, never a cost case.

Every country, its page

"+ buyers": the page also shows which public bodies bought in each product family, from that country's own award record (32 countries).

Not scored, because the country is outside the set used to measure capability (countries exporting at least USD 1bn a year): American Samoa, Andorra, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bonaire, British Indian Ocean Territory, British Virgin Islands, Burundi, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Christmas Island, Cocos Islands, Comoros, Cook Islands, Cuba, Curaçao, Djibouti, Dominica, Eritrea, Falkland Islands, French Polynesia, French Southern Territories, Gambia, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Kiribati, Maldives, Micronesia, Montserrat, Nauru, Niue, Norfolk Island, North Korea, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Palestine, Pitcairn, Rwanda, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Helena, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Samoa, San Marino, Sao Tome and Principe, Seychelles, Sint Maarten, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Sudan, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Syria, Timor-Leste, Tokelau, Tonga, Turks and Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Wallis and Futuna, Yemen.

Not scored, because the record holds too few lines to say anything honest (fewer than 20 products imported at USD 10m or more, or fewer than 10 that pass the test): Cayman Islands, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Eswatini, Fiji, Greenland, Italy, Lesotho, Marshall Islands, Mauritius, New Caledonia, Niger, Sierra Leone, Suriname.

Not published, because most of their imports are re-exports rather than local demand: Hong Kong, Macao, Singapore.

The United Kingdom page carries two more layers, which public bodies buy each line and which region holds the capability, because the UK publishes the records that make them possible. Every other page says what it lacks.