Extreme Import Bottlenecks
The tables below show North Macedonia'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.
North Macedonia
34 bottlenecks| # | Partner | HS Code | HS Description | Year | Share (%) | Value (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 720712 | Iron or non-alloy steel; semi-finished products of iron or non-alloy steel; containing by weight less than 0.25% of carbon, of rectangular (other than square) cross-section | 2025 | 100.00% | 34,274,016 |
| 2 | Serbia | 040721 | Birds' eggs, in shell; fresh, not for incubation, of fowls of the species Gallus domesticus (domestic hens) | 2025 | 100.00% | 12,503,501 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 711021 | Metals; palladium, unwrought or in powder form | 2025 | 100.00% | 636,413,186 |
| 4 | Türkiye | 720918 | Iron or non-alloy steel; in coils, flat-rolled, width 600mm or more, cold-rolled, of a thickness of less than 0.5mm | 2025 | 99.97% | 27,027,236 |
| 5 | United Kingdom | 711011 | Metals; platinum, unwrought or in powder form | 2025 | 99.97% | 689,186,642 |
| 6 | United Kingdom | 284390 | Inorganic or organic compounds of precious metals, n.e.c.; amalgams | 2025 | 99.96% | 211,292,579 |
| 7 | China | 390761 | Poly(ethylene terephthalate); in primary forms, having a viscosity of 78ml/g or higher | 2025 | 99.91% | 17,244,780 |
| 8 | Greece | 720711 | Iron or non-alloy steel; semi-finished products of iron or non-alloy steel; containing by weight less than 0.25% of carbon, of rectangular (including square) cross-section, width less than twice thickness | 2025 | 99.86% | 43,541,609 |
| 9 | Romania | 240411 | Products containing tobacco or reconstituted tobacco, intended for inhalation without combustion | 2025 | 99.82% | 13,950,511 |
| 10 | Albania | 270112 | Coal; bituminous, whether or not pulverised, but not agglomerated | 2025 | 99.42% | 11,059,291 |
| 11 | Thailand | 021099 | Meat and edible meat offal; salted, in brine, dried or smoked, and edible flours and meals of meat or meat offal, other than of primates, whales, dolphins, porpoises, manatees, dugongs, seals, sea lions, walruses, reptiles (including snakes and turtles) | 2025 | 98.72% | 20,983,966 |
| 12 | China | 640520 | Footwear; with uppers of textile materials, n.e.c. in chapter 64 | 2025 | 98.63% | 12,865,156 |
| 13 | Greece | 270210 | Lignite; whether or not pulverised, but not agglomerated, excluding jet | 2025 | 98.53% | 39,897,778 |
| 14 | Türkiye | 720917 | Iron or non-alloy steel; in coils, flat-rolled, width 600mm or more, cold-rolled, of a thickness of 0.5mm or more but not exceeding 1mm | 2025 | 97.19% | 12,430,827 |
| 15 | China | 854143 | Electrical apparatus; photosensitive semiconductor devices, photovoltaic cells assembled in modules or made up into panels | 2025 | 96.84% | 33,520,476 |
| 16 | Serbia | 100199 | Cereals; wheat and meslin, other than durum wheat, other than seed | 2025 | 96.56% | 11,806,645 |
| 17 | Argentina | 230400 | 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 | 94.22% | 13,332,312 |
| 18 | Greece | 271320 | Petroleum bitumen; obtained from bituminous minerals | 2025 | 93.68% | 19,721,052 |
| 19 | Germany | 842199 | Machinery; parts for filtering or purifying liquids or gases | 2025 | 93.18% | 26,261,217 |
| 20 | Serbia | 151219 | Vegetable oils; sunflower seed or safflower oil and their fractions, other than crude, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified | 2025 | 92.93% | 14,980,237 |
| 21 | China | 847130 | Automatic data processing machines; portable, weighing not more than 10kg, consisting of at least a central processing unit, a keyboard and a display | 2025 | 92.81% | 48,186,799 |
| 22 | Poland | 410792 | Leather; further prepared after tanning or crusting, including parchment-dressed, of bovine (including buffalo) or equine animals, without hair on, other than leather of heading 41.14, not whole hides and skins, but including sides, grain splits | 2025 | 92.58% | 10,408,415 |
| 23 | Serbia | 740311 | Copper; refined, unwrought, cathodes and sections of cathodes | 2025 | 90.57% | 28,930,399 |
| 24 | China | 841510 | Air conditioning machines; comprising a motor-driven fan and elements for changing the temperature and humidity, of a kind designed to be fixed to a window, wall, ceiling or floor, self-contained or 'split-system' | 2025 | 90.08% | 34,835,451 |
| 25 | Greece | 200570 | Vegetable preparations; olives, prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, not frozen | 2025 | 89.33% | 10,023,350 |
| 26 | China | 850760 | Electric accumulators; lithium-ion, including separators, whether or not rectangular (including square) | 2025 | 89.23% | 29,414,043 |
| 27 | Serbia | 200520 | Vegetable preparations; potatoes, prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, not frozen | 2025 | 86.49% | 13,276,358 |
| 28 | China | 853400 | Circuits; printed | 2025 | 86.37% | 59,690,597 |
| 29 | Italy | 560314 | Nonwovens; whether or not impregnated, coated, covered or laminated, of man-made filaments, (weighing more than 150g/m2) | 2025 | 86.27% | 18,322,816 |
| 30 | Serbia | 110100 | Wheat or meslin flour | 2025 | 84.01% | 19,334,946 |
| 31 | China | 950300 | 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 | 81.82% | 10,070,786 |
| 32 | Serbia | 690410 | Ceramic building bricks | 2025 | 81.37% | 10,554,714 |
| 33 | China | 850450 | Electrical inductors; n.e.c. in heading no. 8504 | 2025 | 81.03% | 12,572,019 |
| 34 | Indonesia | 151190 | Vegetable oils; palm oil and its fractions, other than crude, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified | 2025 | 81.01% | 13,537,678 |
China: 10 occurrences
Serbia: 7 occurrences
Greece: 4 occurrences
United Kingdom: 3 occurrences
Türkiye: 2 occurrences
Albania: 1 occurrence
Argentina: 1 occurrence
Germany: 1 occurrence
Indonesia: 1 occurrence
Italy: 1 occurrence
Poland: 1 occurrence
Romania: 1 occurrence
Thailand: 1 occurrence
Legend:
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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.