Country Matrix
For 2011, the matrix below shows Saudi Arabia's number of import bottlenecks for different combinations of minimum import share (%) and minimum import value (USD). Red parentheses show bottlenecks from Danger Zone countries, and lime square brackets show bottlenecks involving Critical Goods.
Saudi Arabia
Year: 2011(45 in Danger Zone)| Value \ Share | >= 30% | >= 40% | >= 50% | >= 60% | >= 70% | >= 80% | >= 90% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| >= 10 mln USD | 363(45) | 227(29) | 152(18) | 106(15) | 56(8) | 24(4) | 9(2) |
| >= 50 mln USD | 150(19) | 101(16) | 64(10) | 47(9) | 23(5) | 9(3) | 4(2) |
| >= 100 mln USD | 93(12) | 65(9) | 39(5) | 32(5) | 16(2) | 5 | 2 |
| >= 200 mln USD | 43(6) | 29(5) | 16(2) | 14(2) | 6(1) | 2 | 1 |
| >= 500 mln USD | 13 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Danger Zone Bottlenecks (45 records, >= 30% share, >= 10 mln USD)
| # | Partner | HS Code | HS Description | Year | Share (%) | Value (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bahrain | 7614 | Aluminium; stranded wire, cables, plaited bands and the like, (not electrically insulated) | 2011 | 97.68% | 95,137,719 |
| 2 | United Arab Emirates | 7008 | Glass; multiple-walled insulating units of glass | 2011 | 94.57% | 67,065,417 |
| 3 | Syria | 0702 | Tomatoes; fresh or chilled | 2011 | 88.14% | 53,704,067 |
| 4 | Qatar | 3817 | Mixed alkylbenzenes and mixed alkylnaphthalenes, other than those of heading no. 2707 or 2902 | 2011 | 82.82% | 29,005,103 |
| 5 | Bahrain | 7604 | Aluminium; bars, rods and profiles | 2011 | 75.24% | 306,188,383 |
| 6 | United Arab Emirates | 4005 | Compounded rubber, unvulcanised, in primary forms or in plates, sheets or strip | 2011 | 72.91% | 27,226,701 |
| 7 | Kuwait | 1101 | Wheat or meslin flour | 2011 | 72.88% | 24,117,897 |
| 8 | United Arab Emirates | 7408 | Copper wire | 2011 | 71.87% | 189,831,437 |
| 9 | Kuwait | 2804 | Hydrogen, rare gases and other non-metals | 2011 | 67.81% | 14,615,218 |
| 10 | United Arab Emirates | 0902 | Tea | 2011 | 66.21% | 152,446,057 |
| 11 | United Arab Emirates | 7213 | Iron or non-alloy steel; bars and rods, hot-rolled, in irregularly wound coils | 2011 | 66.12% | 285,253,690 |
| 12 | United Arab Emirates | 3212 | Pigments (metallic powders and flakes) dispersed in non-aqueous media in liquid or paste form, as used in manufacture of paints (including enamels); stamping foils, dyes etc in forms, packing for retail sale | 2011 | 66.01% | 13,445,350 |
| 13 | United Arab Emirates | 7226 | Alloy steel flat-rolled products, of a width of less than 600mm | 2011 | 64.82% | 16,980,021 |
| 14 | Ukraine | 1512 | Sun-flower seed, safflower or cotton-seed oil and their fractions; whether or not refined, but not chemically modified | 2011 | 62.31% | 87,667,310 |
| 15 | United Arab Emirates | 7409 | Copper plates, sheets and strip; of a thickness exceeding 0.15mm | 2011 | 60.44% | 119,150,816 |
| 16 | Ukraine | 9999 | Commodities not specified according to kind | 2011 | 59.69% | 18,465,356 |
| 17 | Lebanon | 7114 | Articles of goldsmiths' or silversmiths' wares and parts thereof, of precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal | 2011 | 58.98% | 16,143,220 |
| 18 | United Arab Emirates | 7610 | Aluminium; structures (excluding prefabricated buildings of heading no. 9406) and parts (e.g. bridges and sections, towers, lattice masts, etc) plates, rods, profiles and tubes for structures | 2011 | 53.76% | 52,719,799 |
| 19 | United Arab Emirates | 7222 | Stainless steel bars and rods, angles, shapes and sections | 2011 | 49.66% | 46,140,058 |
| 20 | Qatar | 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 | 2011 | 48.55% | 248,106,177 |
| 21 | United Arab Emirates | 3401 | Soap; organic surface-active preparations used as soap, skin washing, in bars, cakes, moulded pieces, shapes, liquid or cream, containing soap or not; for retail, paper, wadding, felt and nonwovens, impregnated, coated or covered with soap or detergent | 2011 | 46.23% | 59,489,674 |
| 22 | United Arab Emirates | 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 | 2011 | 46.21% | 365,025,523 |
| 23 | United Arab Emirates | 8903 | Yachts and other vessels; for pleasure or sports, rowing boats and canoes | 2011 | 45.45% | 11,313,347 |
| 24 | Bahrain | 7203 | Ferrous products obtained by direct reduction of iron ore and other spongy ferrous products, in lumps, pellets or the like; iron having a minimum purity of 99.94%, in lumps, pellets or similar forms | 2011 | 45.35% | 213,718,667 |
| 25 | United Arab Emirates | 1806 | Chocolate and other food preparations containing cocoa | 2011 | 44.47% | 160,692,734 |
| 26 | Bahrain | 7605 | Aluminium wire | 2011 | 43.61% | 66,628,617 |
| 27 | United Arab Emirates | 7005 | Glass; float glass and surface ground or polished glass, in sheets, whether or not having an absorbent, reflecting or non-reflecting layer, but not otherwise worked | 2011 | 42.10% | 17,863,489 |
| 28 | United Arab Emirates | 8404 | Auxiliary plant for use with boilers of heading no. 8402 or 8403; e.g. economisers, super-heaters, soot removers, gas recoverers), condensers for steam or other vapour power units | 2011 | 41.20% | 36,047,512 |
| 29 | Syria | 0809 | Apricots, cherries, peaches (including nectarines), plums and sloes, fresh | 2011 | 40.54% | 15,277,086 |
| 30 | United Arab Emirates | 2523 | Portland cement, aluminous cement (ciment fondu), slag cement, supersulphate cement and similar hydraulic cements, whether or not coloured or in the form of clinkers | 2011 | 39.28% | 27,365,901 |
| 31 | United Arab Emirates | 2306 | Oil-cake and other solid residues; whether or not ground or in the form of pellets, resulting from the extraction of vegetable or microbial fats or oils, other than those of heading no. 2304 or 2305 | 2011 | 38.57% | 25,260,565 |
| 32 | United Arab Emirates | 7601 | Aluminium; unwrought | 2011 | 37.23% | 37,737,381 |
| 33 | Russian Federation | 7407 | Copper; bars, rods and profiles | 2011 | 36.56% | 315,667,328 |
| 34 | United Arab Emirates | 5703 | Carpets and other textile floor coverings (including turf); tufted, whether or not made up | 2011 | 35.12% | 12,185,082 |
| 35 | Qatar | 7601 | Aluminium; unwrought | 2011 | 34.64% | 35,110,444 |
| 36 | United Arab Emirates | 7612 | Aluminium casks, drums, cans, boxes etc (including rigid, collapsible tubular containers), for materials other than compressed, liquefied gas, 300l capacity or less, lined, heat-insulated or not | 2011 | 34.60% | 10,424,280 |
| 37 | United Arab Emirates | 1511 | Palm oil and its fractions; whether or not refined, but not chemically modified | 2011 | 33.74% | 177,595,155 |
| 38 | Russian Federation | 7201 | Pig iron and spiegeleisen in pigs, blocks or other primary forms | 2011 | 33.38% | 104,913,198 |
| 39 | Bahrain | 4818 | Toilet paper, width 36cm or less or cut to size/shape; handkerchiefs, tissues, towels, serviettes, bed sheets and similar household or hospital articles, apparel and clothing accessories of paper pulp, paper, cellulose wadding or webs of cellulose fibres | 2011 | 32.59% | 44,852,056 |
| 40 | United Arab Emirates | 8309 | Stoppers, caps, lids (including crown corks, screw caps, pouring stoppers); capsules for bottles, threaded bungs, bung covers, seals and other packaging accessories, of base metal | 2011 | 32.56% | 14,129,084 |
| 41 | Kuwait | 7206 | Iron and non-alloy steel in ingots or other primary forms (excluding iron of heading no. 7203) | 2011 | 32.35% | 34,404,043 |
| 42 | United Arab Emirates | 7616 | Aluminium; articles n.e.c. in chapter 76 | 2011 | 31.20% | 14,209,351 |
| 43 | United Arab Emirates | 3808 | Insecticides, rodenticides, fungicides, herbicides, anti-sprouting products, plant growth regulators, disinfectants and the like, put up in forms or packings for retail sale or as preparations or articles | 2011 | 30.57% | 38,882,182 |
| 44 | United Arab Emirates | 6810 | Cement, concrete or artificial stone; whether or not reinforced, articles thereof | 2011 | 30.19% | 11,288,547 |
| 45 | United Arab Emirates | 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 | 2011 | 30.12% | 14,254,151 |
Partner frequency summary:
United Arab Emirates: 27 occurrences
Bahrain: 5 occurrences
Qatar: 3 occurrences
Kuwait: 3 occurrences
Syria: 2 occurrences
Ukraine: 2 occurrences
Russian Federation: 2 occurrences
Lebanon: 1 occurrence
Legend:
(n)
The number in red parentheses indicates bottlenecks from countries flagged in the Danger Zone.
[n]
The number in lime square brackets indicates bottlenecks involving HS codes flagged in Critical Goods.