Trade in a Bottle: Identifying Import Bottlenecks in International Trade

World of Extreme Bottlenecks

For 2011, 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)
Albania21(2)[1]13(1)[1]3
Argentina137[1]565
Armenia11(3)9(2)2
Australia227[3]67[1]3
Austria160[2]43[1]3
Azerbaijan46(18)20(10)2(1)
Belarus87(65)[4]42(31)[2]7(5)
Belgium116(3)[3]24(2)[1]0
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)26113
Brazil252(4)[1]68(1)5
Brunei Darussalam10[1]10[1]4
Bulgaria46(11)[2]16(5)[2]0
Canada737[5]240[1]11
Chile164[3]795
China181(6)[1]46(1)0
Colombia99[1]343
Croatia32[1]14[1]1
Cyprus7(1)3(1)1
Czechia89(9)22(4)0
Denmark71(2)17(1)0
Ecuador39173
Egypt58(11)[1]25(4)[1]1
Estonia35(5)[1]14(3)[1]2
Ethiopia28(3)[1]13[1]3
European Union400(15)[1]64(2)3
Finland78(10)[4]28(3)[2]0
France167(2)[1]220
Georgia19(7)[1]11(4)[1]0
Germany150[3]22[1]0
Greece44(3)[2]13(1)0
Greenland7[2]8[1]18
Hungary61(9)[2]22(3)[1]1
Iceland5[1]30
India116(3)37(2)2
Indonesia135(1)423
Iran64(27)[1]22(10)[1]2
Ireland94[2]28[1]2
Israel56[3]22[1]1
Italy137(2)[1]20(1)2
Japan519(2)[1]1266
Kazakhstan127(93)[4]69(53)[2]3(3)
Kuwait45(15)23(7)0
Latvia27(14)[3]8(5)[1]0
Lithuania54(10)[3]27(8)[2]3(1)
Luxembourg48[2]24[2]0
Malaysia153(1)[3]36(1)2
Mexico527(1)[4]178[2]11
Montenegro11[1]95
Morocco61(3)[2]232
Nepal37(1)[2]37(1)[2]17(1)
Netherlands188(5)[1]33(1)0
New Zealand84(2)46(1)2
Nigeria111(2)[1]58(2)[1]5
Norway63241
Oman65(38)37(25)7(6)
Other Asia, nes195(2)[1]482
Pakistan74(10)40(6)9(1)
Paraguay58[3]32[1]5
Peru92(1)[1]42[1]4
Philippines45250
Poland106(10)[1]29(2)[1]2(1)
Portugal122(1)[2]491
Rep. of Korea334(4)[1]952
Rep. of Moldova8(5)8(5)1(1)
Romania65(6)[3]10(1)0
Russian Federation204(49)[3]52(7)4(1)
Saudi Arabia116(19)[1]24(4)2
Senegal9[1]5[1]1
Serbia40(9)[2]14(4)[1]3(1)
Singapore122(3)[1]26[1]2
Slovakia48(7)[2]15(3)[2]1
Slovenia29(1)91
South Africa118(4)[1]53(2)[1]1
Spain113(1)[2]280
Sweden119(2)[1]341
Switzerland94(1)190
Tunisia40(2)[2]25(2)[1]1
Türkiye143(9)37(2)4
Ukraine127(64)[3]46(23)[2]4(2)
United Kingdom140(3)[1]27(1)1
Uruguay37[2]195
USA447(1)[2]93[1]4

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.