Extreme Import Bottlenecks
The tables below show India'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.
India
101 bottlenecks| # | Partner | HS Code | HS Description | Year | Share (%) | Value (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 2618 | Granulated slag (slag sand) from the manufacture of iron or steel | 2025 | 100.00% | 14,602,881 |
| 2 | Uzbekistan | 2612 | Uranium or thorium ores and concentrates | 2025 | 100.00% | 47,168,115 |
| 3 | Morocco | 3103 | Fertilizers; mineral or chemical, phosphatic | 2025 | 99.96% | 594,818,237 |
| 4 | Indonesia | 1203 | Copra | 2025 | 99.75% | 10,249,589 |
| 5 | Bangladesh | 5303 | Jute and other textile bast fibres (not flax, true hemp and ramie), raw or processed but not spun; tow and waste of these fibres, including yarn waste and garnetted stock | 2025 | 99.64% | 54,684,724 |
| 6 | China | 6603 | Trimmings, parts and accessories of articles of heading no. 6601 or 6602 | 2025 | 99.63% | 22,236,221 |
| 7 | Russian Federation | 8401 | Nuclear reactors; fuel elements (cartridges), non-irradiated, for nuclear reactors, machinery and apparatus for isotopic separation | 2025 | 99.31% | 182,753,513 |
| 8 | Indonesia | 1804 | Cocoa; butter, fat and oil | 2025 | 99.13% | 400,945,617 |
| 9 | China | 8603 | Railway or tramway coaches, vans and trucks; self-propelled tenders, other than those of heading no. 8604 | 2025 | 98.91% | 73,703,082 |
| 10 | 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 | 98.87% | 40,852,652 |
| 11 | China | 8715 | Baby carriages and parts thereof | 2025 | 98.10% | 12,753,587 |
| 12 | Brazil | 1701 | Cane or beet sugar and chemically pure sucrose, in solid form | 2025 | 98.08% | 1,208,097,436 |
| 13 | China | 5606 | Yarn and strip and the like of heading no. 5404 or 5405, gimped (other than those of heading no. 5606 and gimped horsehair yarn); chenille yarn (including flock chenille yarn); loop wale-yarn | 2025 | 97.84% | 43,530,871 |
| 14 | Rep. of Korea | 2808 | Nitric acid; sulphonitric acids | 2025 | 97.57% | 45,267,926 |
| 15 | China | 2828 | Hypochlorites; commercial calcium hypochlorite; chlorites; hypobromites | 2025 | 97.40% | 21,095,482 |
| 16 | China | 3818 | Chemical elements doped for use in electronics, in the form of discs, wafers or similar forms; chemical compounds doped for use in electronics | 2025 | 97.37% | 319,445,270 |
| 17 | Indonesia | 7218 | Stainless steel in ingots or other primary forms; semi-finished products of stainless steel | 2025 | 96.23% | 1,236,549,918 |
| 18 | China | 8104 | Magnesium; articles thereof, including waste and scrap | 2025 | 95.59% | 96,752,439 |
| 19 | 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 | 95.28% | 26,812,607 |
| 20 | China | 8522 | Sound or video recording apparatus; parts and accessories suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of heading 8519 or 8521 | 2025 | 95.07% | 56,465,305 |
| 21 | China | 7317 | Nails, tacks, drawing pins, corrugated nails, staples (not those of heading no. 8305) and the like, of iron or steel, with heads of other material or not, but excluding articles with heads of copper | 2025 | 94.83% | 35,711,774 |
| 22 | China | 2913 | Aldehydes; halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives of products of heading no. 2912 | 2025 | 94.71% | 22,121,027 |
| 23 | China | 7206 | Iron and non-alloy steel in ingots or other primary forms (excluding iron of heading no. 7203) | 2025 | 93.99% | 17,155,444 |
| 24 | China | 7105 | Dust and powder of natural or synthetic precious or semi-precious stone | 2025 | 93.62% | 33,159,237 |
| 25 | China | 9111 | Watch cases and parts thereof | 2025 | 93.62% | 26,173,316 |
| 26 | China | 6005 | Fabrics; warp knit (including those made on galloon knitting machines), other than those of headings 60.01 to 60.04 | 2025 | 93.53% | 193,805,939 |
| 27 | China | 8713 | Carriages for disabled persons; whether or not motorised or otherwise mechanically propelled | 2025 | 93.44% | 16,346,915 |
| 28 | China | 8214 | Cutlery; other articles, (e.g. hair clippers, butchers' or kitchen cleavers, choppers and mincing knives, paper knives), manicure or pedicure sets and instruments (including nail files) | 2025 | 93.40% | 14,546,797 |
| 29 | China | 8432 | Agricultural, horticultural or forestry machinery for soil preparation or cultivation; lawn or sports-ground rollers | 2025 | 93.32% | 117,725,158 |
| 30 | South Africa | 2610 | Chromium ores and concentrates | 2025 | 93.04% | 85,656,726 |
| 31 | China | 6301 | Blankets and travelling rugs | 2025 | 93.02% | 21,345,568 |
| 32 | 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 | 92.70% | 400,168,345 |
| 33 | China | 6702 | Flowers, foliage and fruit, artificial, and parts thereof; articles made of artificial flowers, foliage or fruit | 2025 | 92.60% | 29,204,548 |
| 34 | China | 9107 | Time switches; with clock, watch movement or synchronous motor | 2025 | 92.56% | 14,735,761 |
| 35 | Netherlands | 7611 | Aluminium; reservoirs, tanks, vats and the like for material (not compressed or liquefied gas) of capacity over 300l, whether or not lined, heat-insulated, not fitted with mechanical, thermal equipment | 2025 | 92.41% | 20,239,608 |
| 36 | China | 5810 | Embroidery; in the piece, in strips or in motifs | 2025 | 92.10% | 25,997,259 |
| 37 | China | 6304 | Furnishing articles; excluding those of heading no. 9404 | 2025 | 92.10% | 73,874,570 |
| 38 | China | 8303 | Safes; armoured or reinforced, strong-boxes, doors and safe deposit lockers for strong-rooms, cash or deed boxes and the like, of base metal | 2025 | 91.96% | 10,981,287 |
| 39 | China | 1518 | Animal, vegetable or microbial fats, oils and their fractions; boiled, oxidised, dehydrated or otherwise chemically modified, excluding those of heading no. 1516, inedible mixtures or preparations of fats, oils or their fractions, n.e.c. in chapter 15 | 2025 | 91.86% | 34,671,282 |
| 40 | China | 5515 | Woven fabrics of synthetic staple fibres, n.e.c. in chapter 55 | 2025 | 91.63% | 55,174,788 |
| 41 | Bangladesh | 5307 | Yarn of jute or of other textile bast fibres of heading no. 5305 | 2025 | 91.62% | 48,847,331 |
| 42 | China | 8111 | Manganese; articles thereof, including waste and scrap | 2025 | 91.48% | 97,453,688 |
| 43 | China | 4421 | Wooden articles n.e.c. in heading no. 4414 to 4420 | 2025 | 90.95% | 25,077,634 |
| 44 | China | 8213 | Scissors; tailors' shears and similar shears, and blades therefore | 2025 | 90.90% | 12,144,590 |
| 45 | China | 4419 | Tableware and kitchenware, of wood | 2025 | 90.75% | 25,304,188 |
| 46 | United Kingdom | 7613 | Aluminium; containers for compressed or liquefied gas | 2025 | 90.75% | 189,047,123 |
| 47 | China | 1401 | Vegetable materials of a kind used primarily for plaiting; (e.g. bamboos, rattans, reeds, rushes, osier, raffia, cleaned, bleached or dyed cereal straw and lime bark) | 2025 | 90.33% | 74,308,001 |
| 48 | China | 9620 | Monopods, bipods, tripods and similar articles | 2025 | 90.28% | 29,948,514 |
| 49 | China | 5403 | Artificial filament yarn (other than sewing thread), not put up for retail sale, including artificial monofilament of less than 67 decitex | 2025 | 90.14% | 402,582,644 |
| 50 | China | 8509 | Electro-mechanical domestic appliances; with self-contained electric motor, other than vacuum cleaners of heading 85.08. | 2025 | 90.04% | 60,699,280 |
| 51 | China | 5516 | Woven fabrics of artificial staple fibres | 2025 | 89.53% | 25,956,969 |
| 52 | Spain | 1509 | Olive oil and its fractions; whether or not refined, but not chemically modified | 2025 | 89.41% | 34,580,295 |
| 53 | China | 5907 | Textile fabrics; otherwise impregnated, coated or covered; painted canvas being theatrical scenery, studio back-cloths or the like | 2025 | 89.21% | 34,266,619 |
| 54 | China | 9113 | Watch straps, watch bands, watch bracelets and parts thereof | 2025 | 89.20% | 35,877,417 |
| 55 | Sri Lanka | 1106 | Flour, meal and powder; of the dried leguminous vegetables of heading no. 0713, of sago or of roots or tubers of heading no. 0714 or of the products of chapter 8 | 2025 | 88.85% | 26,270,756 |
| 56 | 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 | 88.81% | 22,584,355 |
| 57 | Türkiye | 2528 | Natural borates and concentrates thereof (whether or not calcined), but not including borates separated from natural brine; natural boric acid containing not more than 85 % of H3BO3 calculated on the dry weight | 2025 | 88.54% | 32,024,364 |
| 58 | China | 7016 | Glass; paving blocks, slabs, bricks, tiles etc, of pressed, moulded glass, whether or not wired, glass smallwares for decorative purposes leaded lights and the like; multicellular or foam glass | 2025 | 88.13% | 41,221,446 |
| 59 | China | 2927 | Diazo-, azo- or azoxy-compounds | 2025 | 87.75% | 41,480,344 |
| 60 | Bangladesh | 0302 | Fish; fresh or chilled, excluding fish fillets and other fish meat of heading 0304 | 2025 | 87.68% | 90,609,255 |
| 61 | Viet Nam | 0906 | Cinnamon and cinnamon-tree flowers | 2025 | 87.56% | 108,147,549 |
| 62 | China | 9505 | Festive, carnival or other entertainment articles, including conjuring tricks and novelty jokes | 2025 | 87.48% | 20,905,702 |
| 63 | China | 8507 | Electric accumulators, including separators therefor; whether or not rectangular (including square) | 2025 | 87.19% | 4,313,128,187 |
| 64 | China | 4809 | Carbon paper, self copy paper, and other copying or transfer papers (including coated or impregnated paper for duplicator stencils or offset plates), whether or not printed, in rolls or sheets | 2025 | 87.10% | 46,241,538 |
| 65 | China | 5309 | Woven fabrics of flax | 2025 | 86.96% | 52,092,301 |
| 66 | China | 8447 | Knitting machines, stitch-bonding machines and machines for making gimped yarn, tulle, lace, embroidery, trimmings, braid or net and machines for tufting | 2025 | 86.82% | 762,079,295 |
| 67 | China | 2941 | Antibiotics | 2025 | 86.80% | 1,667,279,524 |
| 68 | Australia | 1001 | Wheat and meslin | 2025 | 86.54% | 33,939,246 |
| 69 | Switzerland | 9101 | Wrist-watches, pocket-watches, stop-watches and other watches; with case of precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal | 2025 | 86.52% | 99,587,249 |
| 70 | China | 8706 | Chassis; fitted with engines, for the motor vehicles of heading no. 8701 to 8705 | 2025 | 86.29% | 31,008,707 |
| 71 | China | 2519 | Natural magnesium carbonate (magnesite); fused magnesia; dead-burned (sintered) magnesia, whether or not containing small quantities of other oxides added before sintering; magnesium oxide, pure or not | 2025 | 85.90% | 166,437,284 |
| 72 | China | 8201 | Tools, hand; spades, shovels, mattocks, picks, hoes, forks, rakes; axes, bill hooks etc; secateurs and pruners of any kind; scythes, sickles, hay knives, hedge shears, timber wedges and other tools used in agriculture, horticulture, forestry | 2025 | 85.69% | 14,622,080 |
| 73 | Thailand | 7114 | Articles of goldsmiths' or silversmiths' wares and parts thereof, of precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal | 2025 | 85.68% | 39,672,650 |
| 74 | China | 9617 | Vacuum flasks and other vacuum vessels, complete with cases; parts thereof other than glass inners | 2025 | 84.90% | 12,385,337 |
| 75 | Japan | 7302 | Railway or tramway track constructions of iron or steel; rails, check and track rails, switch blades, crossing frogs, point rods, sleepers, fish-plates, chair wedges, sole plates, bedplates, ties and the like | 2025 | 84.64% | 91,184,526 |
| 76 | China | 8215 | Cutlery; spoons, forks, ladles, skimmers, cake-servers, fish-knives, butter knives, sugar tongs and similar kitchen or tableware | 2025 | 84.26% | 13,087,069 |
| 77 | China | 6601 | Umbrellas; sun umbrellas (including walking stick umbrellas, garden umbrellas and similar umbrellas) | 2025 | 84.05% | 15,909,553 |
| 78 | China | 5007 | Woven fabrics of silk or of silk waste | 2025 | 83.69% | 29,460,818 |
| 79 | China | 6116 | Gloves, mittens and mitts; knitted or crocheted | 2025 | 83.68% | 30,839,624 |
| 80 | China | 9003 | Frames and mountings; for spectacles, goggles or the like, and parts | 2025 | 83.62% | 119,762,596 |
| 81 | Indonesia | 1805 | Cocoa; powder, not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter | 2025 | 83.62% | 273,280,585 |
| 82 | China | 9504 | Video game consoles and machines, articles for funfair, table or parlour games, including pintables, billiards, special tables for casino games and automatic bowling alley equipment | 2025 | 83.52% | 96,686,482 |
| 83 | Bangladesh | 5202 | Cotton waste (including yarn waste and garnetted stock) | 2025 | 83.47% | 23,721,352 |
| 84 | Japan | 7403 | Copper; refined and copper alloys, unwrought | 2025 | 83.43% | 1,969,788,018 |
| 85 | China | 8486 | Machines and apparatus of a kind used solely or principally for the manufacture of semiconductor boules or wafers, semiconductor devices, electronic integrated circuits or flat panel displays; machines & apparatus specified in note 11 (C) to this Chapter | 2025 | 83.41% | 923,923,407 |
| 86 | Indonesia | 7501 | Nickel mattes; nickel oxide sinters and other intermediate products of nickel metallurgy | 2025 | 83.41% | 24,365,132 |
| 87 | China | 5801 | Fabrics; woven pile and chenille fabrics, other than fabrics of heading no. 5802 or 5806 | 2025 | 83.15% | 17,693,978 |
| 88 | Thailand | 7110 | Platinum; unwrought or in semi-manufactured forms, or in powder form | 2025 | 83.04% | 2,621,165,071 |
| 89 | China | 3916 | Monofilament of which any cross-sectional dimension exceeds 1mm, rods, sticks and profile shapes, whether or not surface-worked but not otherwise worked, of plastics | 2025 | 82.57% | 120,939,472 |
| 90 | China | 9114 | Clock or watch parts; n.e.c. in chapter 91 | 2025 | 82.20% | 26,824,459 |
| 91 | China | 9202 | Musical instruments; string, n.e.c. in heading no. 9201, (e.g. guitars, violins, harps) | 2025 | 82.14% | 10,838,498 |
| 92 | China | 3827 | Mixtures containing halogenated derivatives of methane, ethane or propane, not elsewhere specified or included | 2025 | 82.13% | 25,530,877 |
| 93 | China | 7321 | Stoves, ranges, grates, cookers (those with subsidiary boilers for central heating), barbecues, braziers, gas-rings, plate warmers and similar non-electric domestic appliances and parts, of iron or steel | 2025 | 82.03% | 35,378,233 |
| 94 | China | 8508 | Vacuum cleaners | 2025 | 81.85% | 118,226,726 |
| 95 | China | 2924 | Carboxyamide-function compounds; amide-function compounds of carbonic acid | 2025 | 81.65% | 262,708,243 |
| 96 | China | 8503 | Electric motors and generators; parts suitable for use solely or principally with the machines of heading no. 8501 or 8502 | 2025 | 81.61% | 976,736,923 |
| 97 | China | 7018 | Glass beads, imitation pearls, precious or semi-precious stones and similar glass smallwares, statuettes and other ornaments of worked glass; glass microspheres not exceeding 1mm in diameter | 2025 | 81.48% | 115,361,701 |
| 98 | Guinea | 2606 | Aluminium ores and concentrates | 2025 | 81.23% | 376,627,685 |
| 99 | China | 4820 | Registers, account books, diaries and similar; albums for samples or collections, of paper or paperboard | 2025 | 80.43% | 11,099,485 |
| 100 | China | 1109 | Wheat gluten; whether or not dried | 2025 | 80.28% | 20,401,303 |
| 101 | China | 2908 | Phenols or phenol-alcohols; halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives | 2025 | 80.10% | 18,244,590 |
China: 72 occurrences
Indonesia: 5 occurrences
Bangladesh: 4 occurrences
Japan: 2 occurrences
Thailand: 2 occurrences
Australia: 1 occurrence
Brazil: 1 occurrence
Guinea: 1 occurrence
Morocco: 1 occurrence
Netherlands: 1 occurrence
Rep. of Korea: 1 occurrence
Russian Federation: 1 occurrence
South Africa: 1 occurrence
Spain: 1 occurrence
Sri Lanka: 1 occurrence
Switzerland: 1 occurrence
Türkiye: 1 occurrence
USA: 1 occurrence
United Kingdom: 1 occurrence
Uzbekistan: 1 occurrence
Viet Nam: 1 occurrence
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