Trade in a Bottle: Identifying Import Bottlenecks in International Trade

World of Extreme Bottlenecks

For 2017, 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)
Albania17131
Argentina139[1]598
Armenia10(7)[1]6(5)[1]1(1)
Australia201493
Austria114(1)[2]37(1)[1]1
Azerbaijan8(1)4(2)1
Belarus133(107)[7]64(58)[3]6(5)
Belgium157(6)[4]30(3)[1]0
Brazil235(3)[3]683
Bulgaria39(8)[2]18(4)[1]1
Canada598(1)[5]182(1)[1]8
Chile151[4]692
China207(8)[1]49(1)0
Croatia23(1)100
Cuba18(1)11(2)1(1)
Curaçao220
Cyprus5(1)3(1)0
Czechia88(10)[3]20(5)[1]1
Denmark77(2)[1]19(1)0
Egypt79(3)[1]31(2)1
Estonia23(7)[2]11(3)[2]1
Ethiopia69406
European Union419(17)[1]71(3)2
Finland65(13)[5]22(4)[1]2(1)
France140[1]210
Georgia18(7)[1]13(6)[1]2(1)
Germany135(1)[3]17(1)[1]1
Greece37(3)[2]13(1)1
Hungary42(4)[1]12(2)2
Iceland9[1]70
India228(5)73(2)5
Indonesia193623
Iran92(13)24(3)3(1)
Ireland122[3]44[1]3
Israel62[5]213
Italy116(3)211
Japan419(2)862
Kazakhstan129(90)[2]70(52)[2]4(3)
Latvia22(11)[3]8(2)[1]1
Lithuania27(5)[2]12(2)0
Luxembourg41(1)[1]141
Malaysia167(1)[2]473
Mexico510(2)[7]174[2]9
Montenegro431
Morocco69(4)[1]20(1)2
Netherlands149[1]250
New Zealand62251
Nigeria70(2)41(1)7
Norway66(3)28(1)2
Other Asia, nes184(2)541
Pakistan174(9)[1]85(2)8
Philippines115371
Poland117(8)[1]21(2)2
Portugal108[2]452
Qatar43(6)20(4)1
Rep. of Korea336(6)[1]753
Romania51(8)[1]14(2)0
Russian Federation234(19)[1]61(4)[1]2
Serbia20(5)[1]9(3)[1]1
Singapore137(4)[2]38(1)2
Slovakia34(6)[2]10(3)[2]1
Slovenia28111
South Africa117(2)[1]42[1]1
Spain126(5)[1]20(1)0
Sweden104(2)[2]361
Switzerland75(1)10(1)0
Türkiye120(11)37(3)5
Ukraine60(18)[1]23(6)[1]1
United Kingdom146(2)[2]240
USA402(1)[6]85[1]2

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.