Trade in a Bottle: Identifying Import Bottlenecks in International Trade

World of Extreme Bottlenecks

For 2008, 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)
Albania18(1)[1]15(1)3
Argentina127[2]518
Armenia12(6)[1]11(6)[1]0
Australia195[2]654
Austria169(3)[1]48(1)[1]0
Azerbaijan29(11)18(8)1(1)
Belarus109(93)[6]58(52)[3]5(5)
Belgium144(2)[3]25[1]0
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)20113
Brazil192(3)[2]59(1)3
Brunei Darussalam876
Bulgaria35(6)[2]20(3)[2]2
Canada747(1)[5]247[1]13
Chile122(1)[3]71[1]5
China142(4)38(2)1
Colombia88291
Croatia52(4)[2]23(2)[2]1
Cyprus10(1)7(1)1
Czechia84(6)[1]18(2)[1]1
Denmark95(2)[1]20(1)[1]0
Ecuador37182
Egypt51(6)[2]25(4)[1]1
Estonia29(5)[1]9(2)[1]0
Ethiopia29(1)164
European Union378(18)[2]58(1)2
Finland76(11)[2]27(5)[2]1
France150220
Georgia13(7)[1]12(7)[1]2(1)
Germany136(1)[3]19[1]0
Greece53(6)[4]19(2)2
Greenland4[2]7[1]14
Hungary62(7)[2]18(3)[1]0
Iceland520
India116(2)39(1)2
Indonesia105(2)[2]291
Ireland115[2]37[1]0
Israel48(1)[4]18[1]1
Italy128(1)182
Jamaica29[3]17[2]6
Japan503(2)1268
Jordan26(10)[2]12(5)[1]0
Kazakhstan77(56)[2]41(34)[2]3(3)
Kuwait42(11)18(8)0
Latvia20(7)[2]12(6)[1]0
Lithuania36(10)[2]20(8)[2]2(2)
Luxembourg48[1]20[1]0
Malaysia119(1)[4]341
Mexico511(1)[2]18413
Montenegro20(1)[1]15(1)4
Morocco53(2)[3]20(1)1
Netherlands178(3)[1]31(1)2
New Zealand71[1]414
Nigeria31(1)142
Norway67(2)20(1)0
Oman65(42)[1]26(16)3(2)
Other Asia, nes190(3)[2]451
Pakistan60(9)[1]23(4)[1]4
Paraguay44[2]26[1]6
Peru66[1]322
Philippines38170
Poland97(4)[1]24(2)[1]1
Portugal123[2]491
Qatar45(14)[1]19(8)0
Rep. of Korea323(3)884
Rep. of Moldova8(7)[2]5(5)[1]0
Romania53(4)[1]13(1)[1]0
Russian Federation176(40)[3]51(6)[1]3(1)
Saudi Arabia91(14)27(5)1
Senegal14[1]9[1]1
Serbia49(11)[2]22(6)[2]3
Singapore109(1)[1]211
Slovakia46(7)[2]13(5)[2]1
Slovenia30(2)161
South Africa86(4)[1]39(3)[1]1
Spain136(2)[1]260
Sweden102(2)[3]26(1)1
Switzerland113(2)[1]130
Thailand111[1]33[1]1
Tunisia37(1)[3]22(1)[1]3
Türkiye106(5)292
Ukraine139(72)[2]63(35)[1]1
United Kingdom150(1)300
Uruguay37(2)[3]20(1)[2]6
USA416(1)[1]91[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.

[n]

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