Trade in a Bottle: Identifying Import Bottlenecks in International Trade

World of Extreme Bottlenecks

For 2006, 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)
Albania13(2)[1]11(2)2
Argentina101[2]51[2]7
Armenia6(3)[1]6(3)[1]2(1)
Australia174[2]564
Austria140(1)[1]43[1]1
Azerbaijan21(7)14(5)2(1)
Belarus76(66)[7]47(42)[3]7(7)
Belgium141(2)[1]31[1]0
Brazil117(1)[2]383
Bulgaria35(3)[1]18(1)2
Canada740[4]243[1]16
Chile93[4]57[1]7
China125(6)[1]35(1)0
Croatia30(1)[1]15(1)[1]1
Cyprus11(1)5(1)0
Czechia59(7)[1]14(2)[1]1
Denmark84(3)[1]22(2)[1]0
Egypt23(3)[1]15(2)[1]8(1)
Estonia21(8)[3]9(4)[2]3
Ethiopia12(2)[1]8(2)[1]3(1)
European Union351(12)[1]511
Finland78(9)[2]24(2)[1]0
France146170
Georgia6(3)[1]5(3)[1]1
Germany136(1)[2]23[1]0
Greece42(1)[1]101
Hungary59(4)19(2)1
Iceland741
India88(3)30(1)1
Indonesia55211
Iran52(1)31(1)5
Ireland113[3]29[2]0
Israel49[5]13[2]2
Italy111(2)[1]15(1)1
Japan463(2)[1]12010
Kazakhstan66(45)[2]40(32)[2]4(4)
Kuwait28(12)16(8)0
Latvia15(6)[2]8(3)[1]0
Lithuania20(6)[2]11(6)[2]2(1)
Luxembourg43(2)[2]17(2)[2]1
Malaysia88(1)[2]291
Mexico505(2)[2]181[1]9
Montenegro8[1]62
Morocco36[1]181
Netherlands165(2)312
New Zealand68[1]39[1]3
Nigeria37151
Norway46(2)13(1)0
Other Asia, nes151(1)[1]422
Pakistan33(6)16(2)6(1)
Philippines32111
Poland78(7)[1]20(1)[1]1
Portugal93[2]301
Qatar31(8)11(2)1
Rep. of Korea292(4)965
Romania60(7)[1]25(3)[1]1
Russian Federation123(34)[2]41(5)[2]3(1)
Serbia19(7)[2]13(4)[2]2
Singapore115(2)352
Slovakia39(7)[2]13(3)[2]1
Slovenia23(1)121
South Africa73(1)431
Spain116(4)260
Sweden85[4]191
Switzerland76(1)18(1)0
Thailand104[1]31[1]1
Türkiye82(5)20(1)1
Ukraine91(51)[1]47(30)[1]2(1)
United Arab Emirates121(3)1
United Kingdom135240
USA403(3)[1]933
Venezuela50(1)28(1)3

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.

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

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