Trade in a Bottle: Identifying Import Bottlenecks in International Trade

World of Extreme Bottlenecks

For 2007, 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)
Albania16(2)[1]15(2)2
Argentina114[3]44[2]8
Armenia13(6)[1]11(5)[1]1
Australia170(1)[2]523
Austria163(2)[1]48[1]1
Azerbaijan26(9)[1]19(8)[1]2(1)
Belarus81(71)[6]45(42)[3]9(9)
Belgium132(2)[2]23[1]0
Brazil144(1)[1]563
Bulgaria34(4)[2]15(1)[1]1
Canada728[5]231[1]14
Chile103(1)[2]66[1]5
China143(5)36(1)0
Croatia33(3)[2]19(2)[2]1
Cyprus8(1)6(1)0
Czechia71(7)[1]20(2)[1]1
Denmark95(2)[1]18(2)[1]0
Egypt25(2)[1]19(1)[1]3
Estonia27(10)[2]11(4)[1]1
Ethiopia18(1)[1]13(1)[1]5
European Union355(10)[1]57(1)2
Finland71(10)[1]20(3)[1]0
France152[1]220
Georgia11(4)10(4)1
Germany151(1)[1]30[1]0
Greece41(2)142
Hungary69(10)[3]18(3)[1]1
Iceland3[1]10
India109(3)35(1)2
Indonesia68221
Ireland104[3]25[1]0
Israel42[3]16[1]1
Italy114(1)161
Japan452(2)[1]1147
Kazakhstan86(65)[2]45(36)[2]4(4)
Kuwait25(10)12(7)0
Latvia18(5)[3]8(2)[1]1
Lithuania26(7)[2]14(6)[2]2(1)
Luxembourg38[3]16[2]1
Malaysia99[2]291
Mexico511(1)[2]18614
Montenegro9[1]64
Morocco47[2]212
Netherlands155(3)[1]27(1)1
New Zealand70442
Nigeria40(1)100
Norway50(2)[1]17(2)[1]1
Other Asia, nes177(2)[1]533
Pakistan50(8)19(2)5
Philippines35(1)150
Poland91(7)[1]21(1)[1]1
Portugal104(1)[2]383
Qatar40(15)21(12)1
Rep. of Korea315(4)1065
Romania55(6)[1]13(2)[1]0
Russian Federation133(37)[2]37(6)[1]4(1)
Serbia28(7)[2]18(4)[2]2
Singapore127(1)302
Slovakia44(4)[2]9(2)[2]1
Slovenia23(1)111
South Africa74(4)[1]36(3)[1]2
Spain130(4)[1]300
Sweden86(1)[2]241
Switzerland96(1)[1]17(1)0
Türkiye94(7)272
Ukraine124(67)[1]50(32)[1]0
United Arab Emirates95(17)27(5)1
United Kingdom128(1)300
USA404(1)[3]933

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.