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Cut a supplier

Pick a stage of one of the ten chains and an exporter, and cut its exports: who loses what share of their supply, who could fill the gap, and what passes one stage down the chain. First-round arithmetic on 2024 trade shares, not a forecast.

  • 89stages to choose from
  • 2024the year of the shares
  • 25exporters of this stage listed

Oil and gas to plastics · S1 · Crude oil

Cut the exports of Saudi Arabia in Crude oil (Oil and gas to plastics, stage 1) and follow the shortfall to the importers and one stage down the chain.

Who loses what share of their supply: Crude oil, 2024

  • World exports cut14.2%of world crude oil exports
  • Importers with over a quarter at risk8of the 40 largest importers
The 12 importers with the largest share of their imports at risk. Select one to see who could fill its gap.
ImporterShare of world importsFrom Saudi ArabiaAt risk, share of its importsIts other suppliers would ship
0.42%57.3%57.3%+134%
1.1%52.9%52.9%+112%
0.28%48.5%48.5%+94%
0.41%41.1%41.1%+70%
1.1%40.6%40.6%+68%
5.4%39.9%39.9%+67%
6.5%34.5%34.5%+53%
1.8%31.7%31.7%+46%
0.68%22%22%+28%
0.78%19.8%19.8%+25%
0.39%16.9%16.9%+20%
24.6%14.7%14.7%+17%

Who could fill the gap: Pakistan, 57.3% of its imports

The suppliers it already buys from, in proportion to their shares: each would have to ship 134% more. Share now, then the part of the gap it would take:

  • UAE 42.2% +56.5 pp
  • Smaller suppliers 0.54% +0.7 pp

The largest other exporters, by share of world exports

  • Russia 9.4%
  • United States 9%
  • UAE 8.6% · already a supplier
  • Canada 8.5%
  • Iraq 7.4%

One stage down the chain

Light oils (naphtha, with gasoline)

0.74% of world light oils (naphtha, with gasoline) exports at risk in the first round, summed over the 13 large exporters with an exposure upstream. The 8 listed below carry 0.69%.

ExporterShare of world exportsIts exposure upstreamWorld exports at risk
Korea5.2%34.5%0.21%
Malaysia2.7%40.6%0.13%
India5.6%13.8%0.09%
United States13.8%4.8%0.08%
Singapore8%8.1%0.08%
China2.2%14.7%0.04%
Netherlands5.9%5.2%0.04%
Greece1.6%8.8%0.02%

An exporter of the next stage loses its share of world exports × its own exposure upstream (× the use share). Exporters on a closed route lose their own exports × the cut. Exposure upstream is the share of its imported crude oil that came from the closed supplier, not of all the crude oil it uses: where most are made at home (Japan, Korea, Germany for car parts), it overstates the risk.

First-round arithmetic on trade shares, not a forecast: an importer’s exposure is its import share from the shocked suppliers × the cut. No stocks, no new suppliers, no price changes.

Suppliers are read from the flows the map stores for the stage: each importer’s ten largest suppliers and every flow above 0.05% of world trade; the rest are “smaller suppliers”. The next stage and the use share come from the chain file.

Source: UN Comtrade, Final data, HS6; mirror rule; shares of 2024.

datasteg: the flow sites