Extreme Import Bottlenecks
The tables below show Colombia's import sources for HS product codes where a single source country accounts for >= 80% of total imports and the import value is >= 10,000,000 USD. Only data for the most recent available year is displayed. If you want more data, visit the Country Matrix.
Colombia
85 bottlenecks| # | Partner | HS Code | HS Description | Year | Share (%) | Value (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | USA | 2709 | Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals; crude | 2025 | 100.00% | 134,050,340 |
| 2 | China | 8603 | Railway or tramway coaches, vans and trucks; self-propelled tenders, other than those of heading no. 8604 | 2025 | 99.91% | 40,227,799 |
| 3 | USA | 1201 | Soya beans, whether or not broken | 2025 | 99.89% | 257,910,928 |
| 4 | USA | 2303 | Residues of starch manufacture, similar residues; beet-pulp, bagasse and other waste of sugar manufacture, brewing or distilling dregs and waste, whether or not in the form of pellets | 2025 | 99.82% | 177,086,882 |
| 5 | United Rep. of Tanzania | 2814 | Ammonia; anhydrous or in aqueous solution | 2025 | 99.80% | 58,943,226 |
| 6 | China | 5508 | Sewing thread of man-made staple fibres, whether or not put up for retail sale | 2025 | 99.71% | 12,340,219 |
| 7 | China | 6601 | Umbrellas; sun umbrellas (including walking stick umbrellas, garden umbrellas and similar umbrellas) | 2025 | 99.10% | 12,019,345 |
| 8 | USA | 0207 | Meat and edible offal of poultry; of the poultry of heading no. 0105, (i.e. fowls of the species Gallus domesticus), fresh, chilled or frozen | 2025 | 99.09% | 83,844,183 |
| 9 | South Africa | 9101 | Wrist-watches, pocket-watches, stop-watches and other watches; with case of precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal | 2025 | 97.78% | 14,748,647 |
| 10 | China | 6702 | Flowers, foliage and fruit, artificial, and parts thereof; articles made of artificial flowers, foliage or fruit | 2025 | 97.72% | 17,368,170 |
| 11 | USA | 1005 | Maize (corn) | 2025 | 97.60% | 1,776,205,694 |
| 12 | China | 9615 | Combs, hair-slides and similar; hairpins, curling pins, curling grips and hair curlers and the like, other than those of heading no. 8516 and parts thereof | 2025 | 97.47% | 10,543,990 |
| 13 | China | 3827 | Mixtures containing halogenated derivatives of methane, ethane or propane, not elsewhere specified or included | 2025 | 96.84% | 10,181,801 |
| 14 | USA | 2902 | Cyclic hydrocarbons | 2025 | 96.66% | 153,410,706 |
| 15 | Other Asia, nes | 0603 | Flowers; cut flowers and flower buds of a kind suitable for bouquets or for ornamental purposes, fresh, dried, dyed, bleached, impregnated or otherwise prepared | 2025 | 96.35% | 16,475,099 |
| 16 | China | 8541 | Semiconductor devices (e.g. diodes, transistors, semiconductor based transducers); including photovoltaic cells assembled or not in modules or panels, light-emitting diodes (LED) assembled with other LEDs or not, mounted piezo-electric crystals | 2025 | 96.18% | 251,792,454 |
| 17 | Chile | 1104 | Cereal grains otherwise worked (e.g. hulled, rolled, flaked, pearled, sliced or kibbled) except rice of heading no. 1006; germ of cereals whole, rolled, flaked or ground | 2025 | 96.10% | 28,703,249 |
| 18 | USA | 2901 | Acyclic hydrocarbons | 2025 | 95.47% | 260,073,903 |
| 19 | China | 6001 | Fabrics; pile fabrics, including long pile fabrics and terry fabrics, knitted or crocheted | 2025 | 95.30% | 106,812,505 |
| 20 | USA | 2304 | Oil-cake and other solid residues; whether or not ground or in the form of pellets, resulting from the extraction of soya-bean oil | 2025 | 94.98% | 689,521,729 |
| 21 | USA | 2207 | Ethyl alcohol, undenatured; of an alcoholic strength by volume of 80% vol. or higher; ethyl alcohol and other spirits, denatured, of any strength | 2025 | 94.89% | 335,663,497 |
| 22 | USA | 2903 | Halogenated derivatives of hydrocarbons | 2025 | 94.82% | 275,213,814 |
| 23 | China | 2618 | Granulated slag (slag sand) from the manufacture of iron or steel | 2025 | 94.62% | 10,416,298 |
| 24 | China | 7219 | Stainless steel; flat-rolled products of width of 600mm or more | 2025 | 94.17% | 89,122,855 |
| 25 | China | 5810 | Embroidery; in the piece, in strips or in motifs | 2025 | 94.06% | 14,226,179 |
| 26 | China | 8513 | Lamps; portable, electric, designed to function by their own source of energy (e.g. dry batteries, accumulators, magnetos), excluding lighting equipment of heading no. 8512 | 2025 | 94.06% | 10,362,920 |
| 27 | USA | 0802 | Nuts (excluding coconuts, Brazils and cashew nuts); fresh or dried, whether or not shelled or peeled | 2025 | 94.06% | 27,757,430 |
| 28 | China | 9505 | Festive, carnival or other entertainment articles, including conjuring tricks and novelty jokes | 2025 | 93.69% | 62,490,560 |
| 29 | China | 5514 | Woven fabrics of synthetic staple fibres, containing less than 85% by weight of such fibres, mixed mainly or solely with cotton, of a weight exceeding 170g/m2 | 2025 | 92.30% | 11,437,472 |
| 30 | China | 9617 | Vacuum flasks and other vacuum vessels, complete with cases; parts thereof other than glass inners | 2025 | 92.10% | 20,679,900 |
| 31 | USA | 8710 | Tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles; motorised, whether or not fitted with weapons, and parts of such vehicles | 2025 | 91.93% | 29,048,989 |
| 32 | Other Asia, nes | 0306 | Crustaceans; in shell or not, live, fresh, chilled, frozen, dried, salted or in brine; smoked, cooked or not before or during smoking; in shell, steamed or boiled, whether or not chilled, frozen, dried, salted or in brine | 2025 | 91.66% | 75,886,479 |
| 33 | China | 6912 | Ceramic tableware, kitchenware, other household articles and toilet articles; other than of porcelain or china | 2025 | 90.32% | 17,992,607 |
| 34 | Brazil | 0105 | Poultry; live, fowls of the species Gallus domesticus, ducks, geese, turkeys and guinea fowls | 2025 | 90.18% | 24,002,752 |
| 35 | 6809 | Plaster or compositions based on plaster; articles thereof | 2025 | 90.03% | 13,571,132 | |
| 36 | China | 9405 | Luminaires and light fittings; including searchlights, spotlights and parts thereof, n.e.c.; illuminated signs, name-plates and the like, having permanently fixed light source and parts thereof n.e.c. or included | 2025 | 88.89% | 151,750,196 |
| 37 | China | 6910 | Ceramic sinks, wash basins, wash basin pedestals, baths, bidets, water closet pans, flushing cisterns, urinals and similar sanitary fixtures | 2025 | 88.76% | 26,165,609 |
| 38 | Peru | 7901 | Zinc; unwrought | 2025 | 88.73% | 41,215,269 |
| 39 | China | 5515 | Woven fabrics of synthetic staple fibres, n.e.c. in chapter 55 | 2025 | 88.70% | 39,377,830 |
| 40 | Canada | 1514 | Rape, colza or mustard oil and their fractions; whether or not refined, but not chemically modified | 2025 | 88.67% | 19,337,780 |
| 41 | Nigeria | 0601 | Bulbs, tubers, tuberous roots, corms, crowns and rhizomes; dormant, in growth or in flower; chicory plants and roots other than roots of heading no. 1212 | 2025 | 88.50% | 37,854,108 |
| 42 | China | 4013 | Inner tubes, of rubber | 2025 | 88.17% | 11,850,913 |
| 43 | Chile | 7403 | Copper; refined and copper alloys, unwrought | 2025 | 87.76% | 10,519,360 |
| 44 | China | 6212 | Brassieres, girdles, corsets, braces, suspenders, garters and similar articles and parts thereof; whether or not knitted or crocheted | 2025 | 87.66% | 15,796,638 |
| 45 | China | 6004 | Fabrics; knitted or crocheted fabrics of a width exceeding 30 cm, other than those of heading 60.01, containing by weight 5% or more of elastomeric yarn or rubber thread | 2025 | 87.39% | 67,250,491 |
| 46 | China | 7604 | Aluminium; bars, rods and profiles | 2025 | 87.27% | 74,734,787 |
| 47 | China | 6810 | Cement, concrete or artificial stone; whether or not reinforced, articles thereof | 2025 | 87.22% | 18,188,189 |
| 48 | China | 7615 | Aluminium; table, kitchen or other household articles and parts thereof, pot scourers and scouring or polishing pads, gloves and the like, sanitary ware and parts thereof | 2025 | 87.19% | 27,726,207 |
| 49 | China | 8508 | Vacuum cleaners | 2025 | 87.09% | 18,656,097 |
| 50 | China | 8527 | Reception apparatus for radio-broadcasting, whether or not combined, in the same housing, with sound recording or reproducing apparatus or a clock. | 2025 | 86.98% | 44,844,663 |
| 51 | China | 6005 | Fabrics; warp knit (including those made on galloon knitting machines), other than those of headings 60.01 to 60.04 | 2025 | 86.88% | 25,653,951 |
| 52 | China | 2941 | Antibiotics | 2025 | 85.98% | 73,972,792 |
| 53 | China | 5516 | Woven fabrics of artificial staple fibres | 2025 | 85.89% | 52,688,629 |
| 54 | China | 4202 | Trunks; suit, camera, jewellery, cutlery cases; travel, tool, similar bags; wholly or mainly covered by leather, composition leather, plastic sheeting, textile materials, vulcanised fibre, paperboard | 2025 | 85.53% | 175,287,550 |
| 55 | China | 8529 | Transmission apparatus; parts suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of heading no. 8524 to 8528 | 2025 | 85.38% | 158,895,191 |
| 56 | China | 8516 | Electric water, space, soil heaters; electro-thermic hair-dressing apparatus; hand dryers, irons; electro-thermic appliances for domestic purposes; electro heating resistors, not of heading no. 8545 | 2025 | 85.23% | 158,540,489 |
| 57 | China | 4820 | Registers, account books, diaries and similar; albums for samples or collections, of paper or paperboard | 2025 | 85.18% | 21,360,108 |
| 58 | Sri Lanka | 0906 | Cinnamon and cinnamon-tree flowers | 2025 | 85.16% | 12,933,758 |
| 59 | Spain | 1509 | Olive oil and its fractions; whether or not refined, but not chemically modified | 2025 | 84.88% | 51,355,697 |
| 60 | USA | 3502 | Albumins (including concentrates of two or more whey proteins, containing by weight more than 80% whey proteins, calculated on the dry matter), albuminates and other albumin derivatives | 2025 | 84.76% | 17,503,376 |
| 61 | China | 5903 | Textile fabrics impregnated, coated, covered or laminated with plastics, other than those of heading no. 5902 | 2025 | 84.75% | 36,162,990 |
| 62 | China | 6406 | Footwear; parts of footwear; removable in-soles, heel cushions and similar articles; gaiters, le.g.ings and similar articles, and parts thereof | 2025 | 84.52% | 16,873,114 |
| 63 | China | 5407 | Woven fabrics of synthetic filament yarn, including woven fabrics obtained from materials of heading no. 5404 | 2025 | 84.39% | 131,750,641 |
| 64 | China | 9503 | Tricycles, scooters, pedal cars and similar wheeled toys; dolls' carriages; dolls; other toys; reduced-size (scale) models and similar recreational models, working or not; puzzles of all kinds | 2025 | 84.02% | 141,307,315 |
| 65 | USA | 9013 | Lasers, other than laser diodes; other optical appliances and instruments n.e.c. in this chapter | 2025 | 83.96% | 13,666,592 |
| 66 | China | 8456 | Machine-tools; for working any material by removal of material, by laser or other light or photon beam, ultrasonic, electro-discharge, electro-chemical, electron beam, ionic-beam, or plasma arc processes; water-jet cutting machines | 2025 | 83.74% | 14,673,513 |
| 67 | China | 8215 | Cutlery; spoons, forks, ladles, skimmers, cake-servers, fish-knives, butter knives, sugar tongs and similar kitchen or tableware | 2025 | 83.68% | 11,183,390 |
| 68 | China | 5801 | Fabrics; woven pile and chenille fabrics, other than fabrics of heading no. 5802 or 5806 | 2025 | 83.34% | 18,934,642 |
| 69 | China | 8524 | Flat panel display modules, whether or not incorporating touch-sensitive screens | 2025 | 83.30% | 33,081,035 |
| 70 | China | 5211 | Woven fabrics of cotton, containing less than 85% by weight of cotton, mixed mainly or solely with man-made fibres, weighing more than 200g/m2 | 2025 | 83.27% | 103,065,070 |
| 71 | China | 2925 | Carboxyimide-function compounds (including saccharin and its salts) and imine-function compounds | 2025 | 83.25% | 16,898,568 |
| 72 | China | 7117 | Imitation jewellery | 2025 | 82.61% | 17,865,275 |
| 73 | China | 7216 | Iron or non-alloy steel, angles, shapes and sections | 2025 | 81.83% | 81,785,032 |
| 74 | China | 3924 | Tableware, kitchenware, other household articles and hygienic or toilet articles, of plastics | 2025 | 81.62% | 84,790,580 |
| 75 | Slovakia | 4806 | Vegetable parchment, greaseproof papers, tracing papers, glassine and other glazed transparent or translucent papers, in rolls or sheets | 2025 | 81.46% | 27,086,473 |
| 76 | China | 7323 | Table, kitchen, other household articles and parts, of iron or steel; iron or steel wool; pot scourers and scouring or polishing pads, gloves and the like, of iron or steel | 2025 | 81.35% | 49,066,587 |
| 77 | China | 7210 | Iron or non-alloy steel; flat-rolled products, width 600mm or more, clad, plated or coated | 2025 | 81.25% | 200,579,616 |
| 78 | USA | 3904 | Polymers of vinyl chloride or of other halogenated olefins, in primary forms | 2025 | 80.81% | 101,542,248 |
| 79 | China | 9404 | Mattress supports; articles of bedding (e.g. mattresses, quilts, eiderdowns, cushions pouffes and pillows), fitted with springs or stuffed, whether or not covered | 2025 | 80.79% | 28,693,716 |
| 80 | China | 2833 | Sulphates; alums; peroxosulphates (persulphates) | 2025 | 80.69% | 48,519,328 |
| 81 | China | 6506 | Headgear; n.e.c. in chapter 65, whether or not lined or trimmed | 2025 | 80.54% | 38,123,862 |
| 82 | China | 8415 | Air conditioning machines; comprising a motor driven fan and elements for changing the temperature and humidity, including those machines in which the humidity cannot be separately regulated | 2025 | 80.42% | 149,892,005 |
| 83 | China | 5309 | Woven fabrics of flax | 2025 | 80.41% | 12,454,712 |
| 84 | China | 7007 | Safety glass, consisting of toughened (tempered) or laminated glass | 2025 | 80.33% | 26,375,466 |
| 85 | China | 3925 | Plastics; builders' wares n.e.c. or included | 2025 | 80.23% | 84,405,168 |
China: 56 occurrences
USA: 15 occurrences
Chile: 2 occurrences
Other Asia, nes: 2 occurrences
Brazil: 1 occurrence
Canada: 1 occurrence
Nigeria: 1 occurrence
Peru: 1 occurrence
Slovakia: 1 occurrence
South Africa: 1 occurrence
Spain: 1 occurrence
Sri Lanka: 1 occurrence
United Rep. of Tanzania: 1 occurrence
: 1 occurrence
Legend:
Highlight - the row matches a Danger Zone country and/or a Critical Goods HS code.
ABCBold red partner name - the import source country is flagged in the Danger Zone.
1234Bold lime HS code - the product code is flagged in Critical Goods.