Trade in a Bottle: Identifying Import Bottlenecks in International Trade

World of Extreme Bottlenecks

For 2003, the table below shows, for each importing country in the database, the number of identified import bottlenecks - HS product codes where a single source country accounts for >= 80% of total imports and the import value is >= 10,000,000 USD. Counts are provided separately for 6-digit, 4-digit, and 2-digit HS codes.

CountryBottlenecks (6-digit HS)Bottlenecks (4-digit HS)Bottlenecks (2-digit HS)
Albania443
Argentina62418
Armenia4(3)[1]3(2)[1]1(1)
Australia118454
Austria115[1]36[1]1
Azerbaijan8(2)[1]7(3)[1]1
Belarus67(61)[6]60(58)[3]11(11)
Belgium120(1)[1]300
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)562
Bosnia Herzegovina13(2)[2]12(2)[1]2
Brazil67(1)[3]193
Brunei Darussalam652
Bulgaria15(6)10(5)1
Canada714[4]265[1]17
Chile46[4]26[1]4
China114(7)31(1)0
Colombia37151
Croatia20130
Cyprus331
Czechia54(4)170
Denmark66(1)[1]19(1)[1]0
Ecuador1172
Egypt17(1)[1]14[1]3
Estonia15(7)[1]8(5)[1]2(1)
Ethiopia1174
European Union320(14)[1]391
Finland55(9)[1]28(6)[1]0
France136[1]200
Georgia5(2)[1]3(1)[1]1
Germany121(1)[1]28[1]0
Greece45(1)161
Greenland2[1]3[1]4
Hungary43(6)[2]11(1)0
Iceland2(1)10
India34(5)[3]15(1)[2]2
Indonesia44(1)18(1)2
Iran44(14)21(8)4(1)
Ireland108[4]37[3]1
Israel30(2)[4]14(1)[2]1
Italy109(2)180
Japan373(2)907
Kazakhstan33(25)[1]21(16)[1]2(2)
Kuwait7(2)6(1)0
Latvia7(4)[1]7(4)[1]0
Lithuania18(11)[3]15(8)[2]2(1)
Luxembourg35121
Malaysia78[4]32[1]0
Mexico542(2)[3]226(1)[1]19
Mongolia2(2)[2]1(1)[1]1(1)
Morocco1591
Nepal14[2]14[2]9
Netherlands138(5)314
New Zealand44251
Nigeria32[3]18[2]7
Norway42(3)[1]18(2)[1]1
Oman10(6)[1]7(4)[1]4(1)
Other Asia, nes122(1)311
Pakistan18(4)62
Paraguay13[2]9[1]2
Peru22[1]91
Philippines2390
Poland57(6)[1]18(3)[1]1
Portugal61[1]272
Qatar5(2)4(1)0
Rep. of Korea228(1)[1]745
Rep. of Moldova3(3)2(2)1(1)
Romania40(7)[2]20(3)[2]1
Russian Federation86(23)[2]32(4)[2]4
Saudi Arabia49(8)15(2)1
Senegal6[1]4[1]1
Singapore89(1)283
Slovakia24(5)[2]13(3)[2]0
Slovenia21(2)80
South Africa31(1)17(1)1
Spain100(2)190
Sweden66(1)[2]190
Switzerland62(1)170
Tunisia20(1)[2]13(1)[1]1
Türkiye54(2)17(2)2
Ukraine50(32)[1]34(26)[1]1(1)
United Arab Emirates124(4)2
United Kingdom115(3)[1]190
Uruguay7[2]4[1]2
USA389(2)[2]88[1]3
Venezuela23161

Legend:

This icon indicates that at least one HS chapter group (HS 0-9) has no records in the Results Database for the given country and year. It is very likely that not all import flows have been included yet, so the bottleneck count shown in the table may be underestimated.

(n)

The number in red parentheses indicates how many of the bottlenecks originate from countries flagged in the Danger Zone.

[n]

The number in lime square brackets indicates how many of the bottlenecks involve HS codes flagged in Critical Goods.