Trade in a Bottle: Identifying Import Bottlenecks in International Trade

World of Extreme Bottlenecks

For 2018, 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]15[1]2
Argentina136(1)[1]597
Armenia15(10)12(9)3(3)
Australia208[2]533
Austria107(1)[2]24(1)[1]0
Azerbaijan31(12)16(9)1(1)
Bangladesh66(5)[1]29(2)2
Belarus138(117)[7]73(64)[3]5(4)
Belgium159(3)[3]38(2)[1]0
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)28193
Brazil233(3)[2]825
Brunei Darussalam27[2]12[1]3
Bulgaria35(4)[2]20(3)[1]1
Canada577[5]176[1]7
Chile181(1)[5]724
China232(9)[1]51(2)0
Colombia128(1)[1]44[1]5
Croatia18[1]80
Cuba28(2)[3]12(2)[1]2(1)
Cyprus12(2)[1]6(2)0
Czechia91(9)[1]18(4)[1]2(1)
Denmark83(3)[1]25(1)0
Ecuador49(1)[4]23[2]4
Egypt111(17)[1]48(6)6
Estonia30(10)[2]14(6)[1]1
Ethiopia64(2)[1]46(1)[1]7
European Union425(20)[2]71(2)2
Finland63(10)[2]18(3)2(1)
France150(1)190
Georgia21(7)[1]13(6)[1]0
Germany141[3]20[1]1
Greece45(2)[1]20(1)1
Greenland4[2]4[1]11
Hungary55(5)[1]14(3)1
Iceland4[1]20
India235(8)[1]65(2)3
Indonesia227[1]663
Iran86(20)[1]29(4)1
Ireland115[2]45[1]1
Israel84[3]251
Italy131(2)[2]181
Jamaica24[4]154
Japan404(2)752
Kazakhstan137(94)[2]68(47)[1]5(4)
Kuwait89(33)36(19)2
Latvia23(11)[4]7(1)[1]0
Lithuania35(6)[3]8(2)0
Luxembourg39(1)201
Malaysia200(1)[2]46(1)2
Mexico525(1)[8]169[3]12
Mongolia35(9)[3]25(8)[2]5(2)
Montenegro963
Morocco73(2)[1]212
Nepal106[3]84[2]16
Netherlands141(4)[1]210
New Zealand75[1]322
Nigeria97(1)425
Norway65(3)26(2)2
Oman70(58)43(38)9(8)
Other Asia, nes191(3)501
Pakistan163(7)84(2)8
Paraguay53294
Peru111(3)[3]43[1]4
Philippines133(2)483
Poland117(8)[1]24(3)2
Portugal117[2]422
Qatar56(2)26(1)3
Rep. of Korea362(6)[2]843
Rep. of Moldova12(6)[2]4(3)1(1)
Romania57(8)[1]14(2)0
Russian Federation223(17)[2]54(4)[1]2
Saudi Arabia117(11)32(3)2
Senegal21[1]17[1]1
Serbia34(7)[1]9(3)[1]1
Singapore148(8)[2]35(1)3
Slovakia51(8)[3]13(3)[2]1
Slovenia40131
South Africa119(2)[1]462
Spain130(3)[1]301
Sweden107(2)33(1)1
Switzerland86(1)[1]150
Thailand202(2)[2]52(1)3
Tunisia29(3)[2]14(1)[2]1
Türkiye115(8)37(3)2
Ukraine79(23)[1]33(8)[1]1
United Arab Emirates137(20)[4]39(6)[2]2
United Kingdom133[1]180
Uruguay27[2]183
USA434(3)[6]84[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.

[n]

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