Extreme Import Bottlenecks
The tables below show Philippines'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.
Philippines
95 bottlenecks| # | Partner | HS Code | HS Description | Year | Share (%) | Value (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Australia | 0102 | Bovine animals; live | 2025 | 100.00% | 30,429,081 |
| 2 | China | 9610 | Slates and boards, with writing or drawing surfaces, whether or not framed | 2025 | 99.85% | 62,162,416 |
| 3 | China | 2003 | Mushrooms and truffles, prepared or preserved other than by vinegar or acetic acid | 2025 | 98.74% | 23,891,062 |
| 4 | China | 7213 | Iron or non-alloy steel; bars and rods, hot-rolled, in irregularly wound coils | 2025 | 98.65% | 275,309,360 |
| 5 | China | 0709 | Vegetables; n.e.c. in chapter 07, fresh or chilled | 2025 | 98.63% | 12,235,349 |
| 6 | Indonesia | 2701 | Coal; briquettes, ovoids and similar solid fuels manufactured from coal | 2025 | 98.57% | 2,585,822,971 |
| 7 | China | 9617 | Vacuum flasks and other vacuum vessels, complete with cases; parts thereof other than glass inners | 2025 | 98.46% | 40,019,607 |
| 8 | China | 6601 | Umbrellas; sun umbrellas (including walking stick umbrellas, garden umbrellas and similar umbrellas) | 2025 | 98.19% | 31,401,577 |
| 9 | China | 7212 | Iron or non-alloy steel; flat-rolled products, width less than 600mm, clad, plated or coated | 2025 | 97.88% | 524,969,176 |
| 10 | China | 9620 | Monopods, bipods, tripods and similar articles | 2025 | 97.72% | 14,353,788 |
| 11 | China | 4419 | Tableware and kitchenware, of wood | 2025 | 97.64% | 11,802,832 |
| 12 | China | 7301 | Iron or steel sheet piling, whether or not drilled, punched or made from assembled elements; welded angles, shapes and sections, of iron or steel | 2025 | 97.55% | 350,920,890 |
| 13 | Rep. of Korea | 8906 | Vessels; other, including warships and lifeboats, other than rowing boats | 2025 | 97.18% | 520,843,570 |
| 14 | China | 0808 | Apples, pears and quinces; fresh | 2025 | 97.08% | 263,069,052 |
| 15 | China | 7211 | Iron or non-alloy steel; flat-rolled products, width less than 600mm, not clad, plated or coated | 2025 | 97.08% | 133,114,017 |
| 16 | Thailand | 1701 | Cane or beet sugar and chemically pure sucrose, in solid form | 2025 | 95.89% | 244,432,507 |
| 17 | Japan | 7410 | Copper foil (whether or not printed or backed with paper, paperboard, plastics or similar backing materials) of a thickness (excluding any backing) not exceeding 0.15mm | 2025 | 95.73% | 244,244,477 |
| 18 | China | 4421 | Wooden articles n.e.c. in heading no. 4414 to 4420 | 2025 | 95.55% | 18,489,465 |
| 19 | Brazil | 2601 | Iron ores and concentrates; including roasted iron pyrites | 2025 | 95.22% | 524,614,560 |
| 20 | Japan | 8540 | Thermionic, cold cathode or photo-cathode valves and tubes (e.g. vacuum, vapour, gas filled valves and tubes, mercury arc rectifying valves and tubes, cathode-ray and television camera tubes) | 2025 | 95.10% | 30,996,880 |
| 21 | China | 9505 | Festive, carnival or other entertainment articles, including conjuring tricks and novelty jokes | 2025 | 95.05% | 33,912,472 |
| 22 | Viet Nam | 0801 | Nuts, edible; coconuts, Brazil nuts and cashew nuts, fresh or dried, whether or not shelled or peeled | 2025 | 94.94% | 15,655,646 |
| 23 | China | 4814 | Wallpaper and similar wall coverings; window transparencies of paper | 2025 | 94.92% | 15,218,406 |
| 24 | 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 | 94.56% | 1,160,277,340 |
| 25 | China | 6306 | Tarpaulins, awnings and sunblinds; tents (including temporary canopies and similar articles); sails for boats, sailboards or landcraft; camping goods | 2025 | 94.53% | 38,699,982 |
| 26 | China | 4420 | Wood marquetry and inlaid wood; caskets and cases for jewellery or cutlery, and similar articles of wood; statuettes and other ornaments of wood; wooden articles of furniture not falling in chapter 94 | 2025 | 94.38% | 11,929,989 |
| 27 | Japan | 7106 | Silver (including silver plated with gold or platinum); unwrought or in semi-manufactured forms, or in powder form | 2025 | 94.18% | 24,975,966 |
| 28 | China | 6207 | Singlets and other vests, underpants, briefs, night-shirts, pyjamas, bathrobes, dressing gowns and similar articles; men's or boys' (not knitted or crocheted) | 2025 | 94.13% | 10,978,178 |
| 29 | 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 | 93.53% | 20,757,050 |
| 30 | Rep. of Korea | 2503 | Sulphur of all kinds; other than sublimed, precipitated and colloidal sulphur | 2025 | 93.27% | 17,188,680 |
| 31 | Switzerland | 9101 | Wrist-watches, pocket-watches, stop-watches and other watches; with case of precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal | 2025 | 93.05% | 13,304,864 |
| 32 | Japan | 6914 | Ceramic articles; n.e.c. in chapter 69 | 2025 | 92.83% | 70,247,144 |
| 33 | China | 2925 | Carboxyimide-function compounds (including saccharin and its salts) and imine-function compounds | 2025 | 92.75% | 16,307,805 |
| 34 | China | 5513 | Woven fabrics of synthetic staple fibres, containing less than 85% by weight of such fibres, mixed mainly or solely with cotton, of a weight not exceeding 170g/m2 | 2025 | 92.06% | 10,368,027 |
| 35 | China | 7216 | Iron or non-alloy steel, angles, shapes and sections | 2025 | 92.03% | 238,900,995 |
| 36 | China | 7314 | Cloth (including endless bands), grill, netting and fencing, of iron or steel wire; expanded metal of iron or steel | 2025 | 91.78% | 65,293,315 |
| 37 | China | 7217 | Wire of iron or non-alloy steel | 2025 | 91.17% | 85,309,762 |
| 38 | Indonesia | 1513 | Coconut (copra), palm kernel or babassu oil and their fractions; whether or not refined but not chemically modified | 2025 | 91.12% | 232,792,400 |
| 39 | China | 6405 | Footwear; other footwear n.e.c. in chapter 64 | 2025 | 91.06% | 116,307,739 |
| 40 | China | 0710 | Vegetables (uncooked or cooked by steaming or boiling in water); frozen | 2025 | 91.00% | 36,765,079 |
| 41 | Marshall Isds | 8905 | Light-vessels, fire-floats, dredgers, floating cranes, other vessels; the navigability of which is subsidiary to main function; floating docks, floating, submersible drilling, production platforms | 2025 | 90.85% | 461,892,013 |
| 42 | 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 | 90.43% | 176,401,524 |
| 43 | China | 2002 | Tomatoes; prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid | 2025 | 90.23% | 42,673,473 |
| 44 | 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 | 89.68% | 20,405,820 |
| 45 | 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 | 89.62% | 48,533,068 |
| 46 | China | 4817 | Envelopes, letter cards, plain postcards and correspondence cards, of paper, paperboard; boxes, pouches, wallets and writing compendiums, of paper or paperboard containing assortment of paper stationery | 2025 | 89.54% | 11,493,018 |
| 47 | China | 7614 | Aluminium; stranded wire, cables, plaited bands and the like, (not electrically insulated) | 2025 | 89.07% | 42,173,388 |
| 48 | Indonesia | 3823 | Industrial monocarboxylic fatty acids; acid oils from refining; industrial fatty alcohols | 2025 | 88.75% | 145,198,618 |
| 49 | China | 7303 | Tubes, pipes and hollow profiles, of cast iron | 2025 | 88.70% | 20,053,224 |
| 50 | China | 6802 | Monumental or building stone, worked (except slate) and articles thereof (not of heading no. 6801) mosaic cubes etc., of natural stone including slate; artificially coloured granules of natural stone | 2025 | 88.68% | 34,879,922 |
| 51 | Japan | 8702 | Vehicles; public transport passenger type | 2025 | 88.62% | 393,946,516 |
| 52 | China | 4820 | Registers, account books, diaries and similar; albums for samples or collections, of paper or paperboard | 2025 | 88.10% | 25,133,502 |
| 53 | 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 | 88.01% | 80,162,042 |
| 54 | China | 3925 | Plastics; builders' wares n.e.c. or included | 2025 | 87.67% | 116,395,366 |
| 55 | China | 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 | 87.34% | 94,665,108 |
| 56 | China | 7306 | Iron or steel (excluding cast iron); tubes, pipes and hollow profiles (not seamless), n.e.c. in chapter 73 | 2025 | 87.31% | 224,194,313 |
| 57 | China | 0703 | Onions, shallots, garlic, leeks and other alliaceous vegetables; fresh or chilled | 2025 | 87.04% | 64,895,574 |
| 58 | China | 6107 | Underpants, briefs, nightshirts, pyjamas, bathrobes, dressing gowns and similar articles; men's or boys', knitted or crocheted | 2025 | 86.98% | 13,616,092 |
| 59 | China | 6910 | Ceramic sinks, wash basins, wash basin pedestals, baths, bidets, water closet pans, flushing cisterns, urinals and similar sanitary fixtures | 2025 | 86.97% | 71,931,587 |
| 60 | Japan | 5502 | Artificial filament tow | 2025 | 86.30% | 46,557,465 |
| 61 | Japan | 7403 | Copper; refined and copper alloys, unwrought | 2025 | 86.05% | 32,885,167 |
| 62 | 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 | 85.93% | 46,798,184 |
| 63 | 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 | 85.79% | 13,129,276 |
| 64 | Viet Nam | 1101 | Wheat or meslin flour | 2025 | 85.25% | 31,021,718 |
| 65 | New Zealand | 0405 | Butter and other fats and oils derived from milk; dairy spreads | 2025 | 85.20% | 159,282,530 |
| 66 | Japan | 7204 | Ferrous waste and scrap; remelting scrap ingots of iron or steel | 2025 | 84.88% | 33,449,961 |
| 67 | China | 8101 | Tungsten (wolfram); articles thereof, including waste and scrap | 2025 | 84.84% | 23,918,600 |
| 68 | 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 | 84.78% | 162,980,702 |
| 69 | Australia | 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 | 84.72% | 12,721,342 |
| 70 | China | 7311 | Containers for compressed or liquefied gas, of iron or steel | 2025 | 84.71% | 24,634,084 |
| 71 | China | 3924 | Tableware, kitchenware, other household articles and hygienic or toilet articles, of plastics | 2025 | 84.47% | 117,471,573 |
| 72 | China | 6304 | Furnishing articles; excluding those of heading no. 9404 | 2025 | 84.45% | 10,397,618 |
| 73 | China | 8712 | Bicycles and other cycles; including delivery tricycles, not motorised | 2025 | 84.23% | 11,219,544 |
| 74 | China | 6912 | Ceramic tableware, kitchenware, other household articles and toilet articles; other than of porcelain or china | 2025 | 84.17% | 21,348,784 |
| 75 | China | 8509 | Electro-mechanical domestic appliances; with self-contained electric motor, other than vacuum cleaners of heading 85.08. | 2025 | 84.03% | 24,257,644 |
| 76 | India | 2619 | Slag, dross; (other than granulated slag), scalings and other waste from the manufacture of iron or steel | 2025 | 83.55% | 26,367,147 |
| 77 | 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 | 83.51% | 72,430,968 |
| 78 | China | 9619 | Sanitary towels (pads) and tampons, napkins (diapers), napkin liners and similar articles, of any material | 2025 | 83.17% | 240,422,866 |
| 79 | China | 6907 | Ceramic flags and paving, hearth or wall tiles; ceramic mosaic cubes and the like, whether or not on a backing; finishing ceramics | 2025 | 83.01% | 518,189,810 |
| 80 | China | 7214 | Iron or non-alloy steel; bars and rods, not further worked than forged, hot-rolled, hot drawn or hot-extruded, but including those twisted after rolling | 2025 | 82.63% | 13,691,156 |
| 81 | China | 8524 | Flat panel display modules, whether or not incorporating touch-sensitive screens | 2025 | 82.60% | 32,597,769 |
| 82 | China | 0805 | Citrus fruit; fresh or dried | 2025 | 82.08% | 160,806,014 |
| 83 | China | 7308 | Structures of iron or steel and parts thereof; plates, rods, angles, shapes, sections, tubes and the like, prepared for use in structures | 2025 | 81.29% | 738,136,598 |
| 84 | China | 3918 | Floor coverings of plastics, self-adhesive or not, in rolls or tiles; wall or ceiling coverings of plastics, in rolls of a width not less than 45cm | 2025 | 81.15% | 52,290,539 |
| 85 | China | 7411 | Copper tubes and pipes | 2025 | 81.14% | 24,305,430 |
| 86 | China | 2508 | Clays; (not including expanded clays of heading no. 6806), andalusite kyanite and sillimanite, whether or not calcined; mullite; chamotte or dinas earth | 2025 | 81.11% | 17,390,864 |
| 87 | 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 | 81.09% | 50,519,285 |
| 88 | China | 6806 | Slag, rock wool and similar mineral wools; exfoliated vermiculite, expanded clays, foamed slag, mixtures and articles of heat, sound insulating or sound-absorbing mineral materials | 2025 | 80.79% | 19,938,707 |
| 89 | Viet Nam | 1006 | Rice | 2025 | 80.67% | 1,385,678,177 |
| 90 | China | 2835 | Phosphinates (hypophosphites), phosphonates (phosphites), and phosphates; and polyphosphates, whether or not chemically defined | 2025 | 80.64% | 60,526,955 |
| 91 | China | 0806 | Grapes; fresh or dried | 2025 | 80.52% | 176,940,565 |
| 92 | USA | 4703 | Chemical wood pulp, soda or sulphate, other than dissolving grades | 2025 | 80.50% | 43,297,719 |
| 93 | China | 7013 | Glassware of a kind used for table, kitchen, toilet, office, indoor decoration or similar purposes (other than of heading no. 7010 or 7018) | 2025 | 80.14% | 34,089,209 |
| 94 | USA | 1201 | Soya beans, whether or not broken | 2025 | 80.11% | 48,681,234 |
| 95 | China | 6911 | Tableware, kitchenware, other household articles and toilet articles; of porcelain or china | 2025 | 80.10% | 23,461,365 |
China: 67 occurrences
Japan: 8 occurrences
USA: 4 occurrences
Indonesia: 3 occurrences
Viet Nam: 3 occurrences
Australia: 2 occurrences
Rep. of Korea: 2 occurrences
Brazil: 1 occurrence
India: 1 occurrence
Marshall Isds: 1 occurrence
New Zealand: 1 occurrence
Switzerland: 1 occurrence
Thailand: 1 occurrence
Legend:
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