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Turkey — critical-material dependency

Turkey imports 31 of the 32 critical materials this atlas tracks ($8.3B). Its most supplier-concentrated dependence is palladium, unwrought (100% from Switzerland); 7 of those imports come mainly from China.

12/100
import-vulnerability index
31
critical materials imported
$8.3B
total imports (2024)
7
mainly-from-China dependencies
24
supplier ≠ the lead miner
How to read this. Each row is where Turkey imports a material from — the immediate customs origin, sorted by single-supplier concentration. marks a top source that is also the material's lead miner (a genuine origin); without it, the supplier is a refiner or hub and the real mine sits further upstream (open the material's profile to see where).

Import-vulnerability index (12/100). A value-weighted average, across Turkey’s imports, of each material’s supply-risk index × how concentrated Turkey’s own sourcing of it is. High when it buys intrinsically risky materials from a single supplier; lower when it diversifies. The risk column below is the material’s own score — multiply it by the country’s share to see where Turkey is most exposed.
China’s share of Turkey’s critical-material imports, 2002–2024: 3% → 1%
Turkey — import sources by material (2024)
MaterialTop sourceshareimport HHIriskChina# sourcesimports
Palladium, unwrought🇨🇭 Switzerland100%1.00250%1$705k
Tantalum, unwrought🇩🇪 Germany96%0.92334%4$116k
Magnesium, unwrought🇨🇳 China 96%0.916096%8$24M
Natural graphite🇩🇪 Germany93%0.87513%10$1M
Feldspar🇪🇸 Spain90%0.81271%11$6M
Arsenic🇨🇳 China88%0.793188%6$364k
Rare-earth permanent magnets🇨🇳 China 82%0.695282%10$36M
Phosphate rock🇲🇦 Morocco80%0.66300%6$140M
Phosphorus🇨🇳 China 76%0.635676%4$159k
Strontium carbonate🇩🇪 Germany76%0.635723%5$621k
Lithium carbonate🇩🇪 Germany76%0.606511%7$10M
Aluminium ores / bauxite🇨🇳 China71%0.544571%12$24M
Germanium🇭🇰 Hong Kong68%0.51473%8$2M
Gallium🇭🇰 Hong Kong68%0.51583%8$2M
Hafnium, unwrought🇭🇰 Hong Kong68%0.51333%8$2M
Manganese ore🇿🇦 South Africa 68%0.50460%9$25M
Baryte🇲🇦 Morocco66%0.47150%12$24M
Platinum, unwrought🇯🇵 Japan65%0.48390%6$2M
Tungsten, unwrought🇬🇧 United Kingdom65%0.525031%6$556k
Silicon, < 99.99%🇨🇳 China 61%0.424761%6$28M
Natural borates🇮🇹 Italy60%0.434120%4$1k
Ferro-niobium🇧🇷 Brazil 55%0.37640%13$57M
Coking coal🇷🇺 Russia53%0.34220%12$4.6B
Refined copper cathodes🇰🇿 Kazakhstan37%0.24240%14$3.1B
Cobalt oxides & hydroxides🇫🇮 Finland34%0.215219%9$9M
Titanium, unwrought🇨🇳 China 34%0.234334%8$817k
Nickel, unwrought🇯🇵 Japan33%0.25320%9$96M
Ferro-vanadium🇷🇺 Russia29%0.21465%10$23M
Fluorspar, >97% CaF2🇩🇪 Germany28%0.185011%10$1M
Helium🇷🇺 Russia26%0.19210%10$22M
Antimony, unwrought🇻🇳 Vietnam17%0.143515%8$5M
See Turkey's trade on the map → All countries The origin gap

Computed from out/flows_2024.json + out/data.json by build_profiles.py. Customs records the immediate shipper, not the mine — see methodology.