Country Matrix
For 2017, 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: 2017(40 in Danger Zone)[1 Critical Good]| Value \ Share | >= 30% | >= 40% | >= 50% | >= 60% | >= 70% | >= 80% | >= 90% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| >= 10 mln USD | 359(40)[1] | 229(23) | 146(17) | 91(9) | 48(3) | 27(1) | 11 |
| >= 50 mln USD | 161(17)[1] | 110(11) | 74(9) | 52(4) | 28(2) | 14 | 6 |
| >= 100 mln USD | 98(9)[1] | 76(7) | 53(7) | 37(3) | 21(1) | 11 | 6 |
| >= 200 mln USD | 49(5)[1] | 39(3) | 28(3) | 21(2) | 12(1) | 6 | 3 |
| >= 500 mln USD | 15(3)[1] | 13(2) | 13(2) | 10(1) | 6(1) | 3 | 1 |
Danger Zone Bottlenecks (40 records, >= 30% share, >= 10 mln USD)
| # | Partner | HS Code | HS Description | Year | Share (%) | Value (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kuwait | 7206 | Iron and non-alloy steel in ingots or other primary forms (excluding iron of heading no. 7203) | 2017 | 88.53% | 33,713,807 |
| 2 | United Arab Emirates | 7108 | Gold (including gold plated with platinum) unwrought or in semi-manufactured forms, or in powder form | 2017 | 74.36% | 1,960,345,404 |
| 3 | Bahrain | 7605 | Aluminium wire | 2017 | 71.40% | 95,282,678 |
| 4 | United Arab Emirates | 2104 | Soups and broths and preparations therefor; homogenised composite food preparations | 2017 | 69.68% | 45,116,849 |
| 5 | Bahrain | 7614 | Aluminium; stranded wire, cables, plaited bands and the like, (not electrically insulated) | 2017 | 66.58% | 16,296,329 |
| 6 | Bahrain | 7601 | Aluminium; unwrought | 2017 | 65.82% | 116,952,339 |
| 7 | 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 | 2017 | 63.98% | 400,296,103 |
| 8 | Syria | 0909 | Seeds of anise, badian, fennel, coriander, cumin, caraway or juniper | 2017 | 62.28% | 18,105,947 |
| 9 | United Arab Emirates | 1602 | Prepared or preserved meat, meat offal, blood or insects | 2017 | 62.10% | 43,287,678 |
| 10 | Bahrain | 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 | 2017 | 59.05% | 124,675,706 |
| 11 | United Arab Emirates | 7408 | Copper wire | 2017 | 58.01% | 558,406,608 |
| 12 | United Arab Emirates | 2403 | Manufactured tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes n.e.c; homogenised or reconstituted tobacco; tobacco extracts and essences | 2017 | 56.49% | 32,775,169 |
| 13 | Bahrain | 7604 | Aluminium; bars, rods and profiles | 2017 | 54.98% | 109,675,171 |
| 14 | 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 | 2017 | 53.85% | 45,159,708 |
| 15 | United Arab Emirates | 0902 | Tea | 2017 | 53.78% | 138,132,326 |
| 16 | Lebanon | 1101 | Wheat or meslin flour | 2017 | 51.83% | 67,231,898 |
| 17 | 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 | 2017 | 51.26% | 23,341,175 |
| 18 | Russian Federation | 1512 | Sun-flower seed, safflower or cotton-seed oil and their fractions; whether or not refined, but not chemically modified | 2017 | 49.29% | 57,336,114 |
| 19 | United Arab Emirates | 0713 | Vegetables, leguminous; shelled, whether or not skinned or split, dried | 2017 | 46.11% | 72,655,385 |
| 20 | 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 | 2017 | 46.03% | 20,241,590 |
| 21 | Ukraine | 7207 | Iron or non-alloy steel; semi-finished products thereof | 2017 | 44.89% | 38,458,197 |
| 22 | Ukraine | 7201 | Pig iron and spiegeleisen in pigs, blocks or other primary forms | 2017 | 44.78% | 15,664,054 |
| 23 | United Arab Emirates | 7409 | Copper plates, sheets and strip; of a thickness exceeding 0.15mm | 2017 | 42.61% | 32,320,661 |
| 24 | 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 | 2017 | 39.17% | 54,302,249 |
| 25 | United Arab Emirates | 9406 | Buildings; prefabricated | 2017 | 38.48% | 58,653,361 |
| 26 | 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 | 2017 | 38.08% | 16,231,877 |
| 27 | United Arab Emirates | 5703 | Carpets and other textile floor coverings (including turf); tufted, whether or not made up | 2017 | 37.02% | 41,401,609 |
| 28 | United Arab Emirates | 1601 | Sausages and similar products, of meat, meat offal, blood or insects; food preparations based on these products | 2017 | 35.13% | 34,444,800 |
| 29 | United Arab Emirates | 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 | 2017 | 35.09% | 13,019,373 |
| 30 | United Arab Emirates | 7604 | Aluminium; bars, rods and profiles | 2017 | 34.79% | 69,393,689 |
| 31 | Kuwait | 1101 | Wheat or meslin flour | 2017 | 34.38% | 44,592,302 |
| 32 | Bahrain | 3812 | Prepared rubber accelerators; compound plasticisers for rubber or plastics, n.e.c. or included; anti-oxidising preparations and other compound stabilisers for rubber or plastics | 2017 | 34.11% | 25,700,148 |
| 33 | 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 | 2017 | 33.02% | 73,929,566 |
| 34 | Ukraine | 1512 | Sun-flower seed, safflower or cotton-seed oil and their fractions; whether or not refined, but not chemically modified | 2017 | 32.73% | 38,076,305 |
| 35 | United Arab Emirates | 2710 | Petroleum oils and oils from bituminous minerals, not crude; preparations n.e.c, containing by weight 70% or more of petroleum oils or oils from bituminous minerals; these being the basic constituents of the preparations; waste oils | 2017 | 32.70% | 901,154,480 |
| 36 | United Arab Emirates | 2105 | Ice cream and other edible ice; whether or not containing cocoa | 2017 | 32.55% | 29,011,604 |
| 37 | Russian Federation | 7408 | Copper wire | 2017 | 31.80% | 306,156,774 |
| 38 | United Arab Emirates | 1902 | Pasta; whether or not cooked or stuffed with meat or other substance, or otherwise prepared, egg spaghetti, macaroni, noodles, lasagne, gnocchi, ravioli, cannelloni; couscous, whether or not prepared | 2017 | 31.78% | 30,634,988 |
| 39 | Bahrain | 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 | 2017 | 31.77% | 14,465,213 |
| 40 | United Arab Emirates | 7303 | Tubes, pipes and hollow profiles, of cast iron | 2017 | 30.22% | 31,474,199 |
Partner frequency summary:
United Arab Emirates: 23 occurrences
Bahrain: 8 occurrences
Ukraine: 3 occurrences
Kuwait: 2 occurrences
Russian Federation: 2 occurrences
Syria: 1 occurrence
Lebanon: 1 occurrence
Critical Goods in table:
2710 - Petroleum oils and oils from bituminous minera...
Legend:
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The number in red parentheses indicates bottlenecks from countries flagged in the Danger Zone.
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The number in lime square brackets indicates bottlenecks involving HS codes flagged in Critical Goods.