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
16 bottlenecks| # | Partner | HS Code | HS Description | Year | Share (%) | Value (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United Kingdom | 7110 | Platinum; unwrought or in semi-manufactured forms, or in powder form | 2025 | 99.98% | 1,325,599,828 |
| 2 | United Kingdom | 2843 | Colloidal precious metals; inorganic or organic compounds of precious metals, whether or not chemically defined; amalgams of precious metals | 2025 | 99.68% | 211,293,185 |
| 3 | Greece | 2702 | Lignite; whether or not agglomerated, excluding jet | 2025 | 98.53% | 39,897,778 |
| 4 | Serbia | 0407 | Birds' eggs, in shell; fresh, preserved or cooked | 2025 | 98.44% | 12,918,012 |
| 5 | Türkiye | 7209 | Iron or non-alloy steel; flat-rolled products, width 600mm or more, cold-rolled (cold-reduced), not clad, plated or coated | 2025 | 97.58% | 47,956,356 |
| 6 | Serbia | 1001 | Wheat and meslin | 2025 | 95.30% | 13,573,668 |
| 7 | Albania | 2701 | Coal; briquettes, ovoids and similar solid fuels manufactured from coal | 2025 | 95.11% | 11,059,291 |
| 8 | Argentina | 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 | 94.22% | 13,332,312 |
| 9 | Serbia | 7403 | Copper; refined and copper alloys, unwrought | 2025 | 90.46% | 28,967,723 |
| 10 | Romania | 2404 | Products containing tobacco, reconstituted tobacco, nicotine, or tobacco or nicotine substitutes, intended for inhalation without combustion; other nicotine containing products intended for the intake of nicotine into the human body | 2025 | 90.20% | 13,950,511 |
| 11 | China | 6405 | Footwear; other footwear n.e.c. in chapter 64 | 2025 | 89.92% | 14,119,689 |
| 12 | China | 8534 | Circuits; printed | 2025 | 86.37% | 59,690,597 |
| 13 | Serbia | 1101 | Wheat or meslin flour | 2025 | 84.01% | 19,334,946 |
| 14 | Switzerland | 7108 | Gold (including gold plated with platinum) unwrought or in semi-manufactured forms, or in powder form | 2025 | 82.63% | 14,136,437 |
| 15 | 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 | 81.82% | 10,070,786 |
| 16 | Indonesia | 1511 | Palm oil and its fractions; whether or not refined, but not chemically modified | 2025 | 80.86% | 13,537,678 |
Serbia: 4 occurrences
China: 3 occurrences
United Kingdom: 2 occurrences
Albania: 1 occurrence
Argentina: 1 occurrence
Greece: 1 occurrence
Indonesia: 1 occurrence
Romania: 1 occurrence
Switzerland: 1 occurrence
Türkiye: 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.