Trade in a Bottle: Identifying Import Bottlenecks in International Trade

World of Extreme Bottlenecks

For 2013, 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)
Albania20(1)12(1)5
Argentina131[2]50[1]6
Armenia15(8)[1]9(6)[1]1(1)
Australia219(1)[2]52[1]2
Austria149(1)[1]38(1)[1]2
Azerbaijan42(14)18(9)2
Belarus108(77)[4]53(44)[2]5(4)
Belgium136(3)[4]29(2)[1]1
Brazil259(3)[2]712
Bulgaria36(8)[3]18(5)[2]0
Canada695(1)[7]227[1]11
Chile159(1)[4]814
China187(6)[1]47(2)0
Croatia29100
Cyprus5[1]20
Czechia95(8)22(1)0
Denmark92(2)[1]26(2)[1]0
Egypt83(10)[1]38(3)[1]1
Estonia40(9)[2]18(4)[2]1
Ethiopia48(4)255
European Union414(9)[1]71(1)2
Finland84(11)[5]28(4)[2]0
France153220
Georgia16(3)[1]12(3)[1]1
Germany149(1)[2]24[1]0
Greece39(2)[2]111
Hungary73(7)[1]27(4)[1]1
Iceland6[1]31
India188(8)[1]57(3)5(1)
Indonesia149(1)423
Iran82(15)22(4)1
Ireland116[4]35[2]2
Israel47[2]18[1]2
Italy130(4)[1]21(2)1
Japan483(3)[1]1015
Kazakhstan128(72)[2]60(43)[2]3(2)
Kuwait58(18)23(10)3
Latvia23(13)[3]9(5)[1]0
Lithuania50(10)[3]18(6)[2]3(1)
Luxembourg41[2]19[1]0
Malaysia151[2]422
Mexico545(3)[4]189(1)[1]14
Montenegro12[1]86
Morocco71(5)[2]25(1)1
Netherlands170(1)320
New Zealand79421
Nigeria78(2)487
Norway53210
Other Asia, nes194(1)483
Pakistan74(8)47(3)8(1)
Philippines58(1)210
Poland113(8)[1]25(3)[1]1
Portugal116[2]572
Qatar49(18)25(12)3(1)
Rep. of Korea301(5)[2]683
Romania54(9)[2]18(5)[1]0
Russian Federation242(36)[5]59(7)[1]4
Serbia30(5)[1]10(1)1
Singapore134(6)[2]36(1)2
Slovakia47(6)[2]12(3)[2]1
Slovenia26110
South Africa126(4)[1]51(2)1
Spain111(1)[2]211
Sweden124(3)[2]29(1)2
Switzerland93(1)210
Thailand163(1)[3]39(1)1
Türkiye143(10)[1]46(1)2
Ukraine129(61)[3]45(23)[1]2(1)
United Kingdom137(1)[2]151
USA455(2)[5]88[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.