Extreme Import Bottlenecks
The tables below show United Rep. of Tanzania'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.
United Rep. of Tanzania
65 bottlenecks| # | Partner | HS Code | HS Description | Year | Share (%) | Value (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 860500 | Railway or tramway coaches; passenger coaches, luggage vans, post office coaches and other special purpose railway or tramway coaches, not self-propelled (excluding those of heading no. 8604) | 2025 | 100.00% | 20,460,444 |
| 2 | China | 870129 | Tractors; road tractors for semi-trailers, with other propulsion methods n.e.c. in item no 8701.2 | 2025 | 100.00% | 14,527,434 |
| 3 | Germany | 880211 | Helicopters, except unmanned; of an unladen weight not exceeding 2000kg | 2025 | 100.00% | 10,503,274 |
| 4 | South Africa | 080810 | Fruit, edible; apples, fresh | 2025 | 100.00% | 12,715,807 |
| 5 | China | 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 | 99.96% | 56,134,228 |
| 6 | China | 520942 | Fabrics, woven; containing 85% or more by weight of cotton, of yarns of different colours, weighing more than 200g/m2, denim | 2025 | 99.94% | 15,838,467 |
| 7 | Viet Nam | 890590 | Vessels; light, fire-floats, floating cranes and other vessels, the navigability of which is subsidiary to their main function, floating docks | 2025 | 99.93% | 119,408,632 |
| 8 | China | 381800 | Chemical elements; doped for use in electronics, in the form of discs, wafers or similar forms; chemical compounds doped for use in electronics | 2025 | 99.64% | 12,646,462 |
| 9 | China | 870290 | Vehicles; public transport type (carries 10 or more persons, including driver), n.e.c. in heading 8702, new or used | 2025 | 99.33% | 58,879,852 |
| 10 | China | 540754 | Fabrics, woven; containing 85% or more by weight of textured polyester filaments, printed | 2025 | 99.21% | 15,448,907 |
| 11 | China | 890190 | Vessels; n.e.c. in heading no. 8901, for the transport of goods and other vessels for the transport of both persons and goods | 2025 | 99.13% | 26,269,886 |
| 12 | China | 320740 | Glass; glass frit and other glass, in the form of powder, granules or flakes | 2025 | 98.80% | 49,978,693 |
| 13 | Kenya | 170410 | Sugar confectionery; chewing gum, whether or not sugar-coated, not containing cocoa | 2025 | 98.79% | 24,501,660 |
| 14 | China | 560311 | Nonwovens; whether or not impregnated, coated, covered or laminated, of man-made filaments, (weighing not more than 25g/m2) | 2025 | 98.60% | 11,840,172 |
| 15 | China | 320720 | Enamels and glazes; vitrifiable enamels and glazes, engobes (slips) and similar preparations | 2025 | 97.71% | 16,645,099 |
| 16 | China | 851771 | Communication apparatus; parts, aerials and aerial reflectors of all kinds, part suitable for use therewith | 2025 | 97.53% | 30,232,967 |
| 17 | China | 761410 | Aluminium; stranded wire, cables, plaited bands and the like, (not electrically insulated), with steel core | 2025 | 97.45% | 10,740,714 |
| 18 | China | 640299 | Footwear; n.e.c. in heading no. 6402, (other than just covering the ankle), with outer soles and uppers of rubber or plastics | 2025 | 97.33% | 31,632,714 |
| 19 | China | 730439 | Iron or non-alloy steel (excluding cast iron); seamless, (excluding cold-drawn or cold-rolled), tubes, pipes and hollow profiles of circular cross-section | 2025 | 96.77% | 11,171,191 |
| 20 | Belgium | 390931 | Amino-resins; n.e.c. in heading no. 3909, in primary forms, poly(methylene phenyl isocyanate) (Crude MDI, polymeric MDI) | 2025 | 96.41% | 22,247,678 |
| 21 | China | 902890 | Meters; parts and accessories of gas, liquid, electricity supply or production meters, including calibrating meters thereof | 2025 | 96.24% | 17,966,921 |
| 22 | USA | 491199 | Printed matter; n.e.c. in heading no. 4911 | 2025 | 95.76% | 50,670,091 |
| 23 | China | 851761 | Base stations | 2025 | 95.52% | 47,721,541 |
| 24 | China | 550390 | Fibres; synthetic staple fibres, of synthetic materials n.e.c. in heading no. 5503, not carded, combed or otherwise processed for spinning | 2025 | 95.45% | 25,281,342 |
| 25 | China | 721391 | Iron or non-alloy steel; bars and rods, hot-rolled, in irregularly wound coils, n.e.c. in heading no. 7213, of circular cross-section measuring less than 14mm in diameter | 2025 | 95.02% | 53,635,790 |
| 26 | China | 540769 | Fabrics, woven; containing less than 85% by weight of non-textured polyester filaments | 2025 | 94.95% | 45,404,821 |
| 27 | Türkiye | 250300 | Sulphur of all kinds; other than sublimed, precipitated and colloidal sulphur | 2025 | 94.28% | 12,580,156 |
| 28 | China | 401120 | Rubber; new pneumatic tyres, of a kind used on buses or lorries | 2025 | 94.07% | 104,795,455 |
| 29 | China | 851779 | Communication apparatus; parts, other than aerials and aerial reflectors of all kinds | 2025 | 93.47% | 61,186,152 |
| 30 | China | 854143 | Electrical apparatus; photosensitive semiconductor devices, photovoltaic cells assembled in modules or made up into panels | 2025 | 93.09% | 30,404,597 |
| 31 | South Africa | 721420 | Iron or non-alloy steel; bars and rods, hot-rolled, hot-drawn or hot-extruded, containing indentations, ribs, grooves or other deformations produced during the rolling process or twisted after rolling | 2025 | 93.02% | 23,975,548 |
| 32 | Indonesia | 291590 | Acids; saturated acyclic monocarboxylic acids; anhydrides, halides, peroxides, peroxyacids and halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives, n.e.c. in heading no. 2915 | 2025 | 92.96% | 10,305,903 |
| 33 | China | 730511 | Iron or steel (excluding cast iron); line pipe of a kind used for oil or gas pipelines (not seamless), longitudinally submerged arc welded, having circular cross-sections, external diameter exceeds 406.4mm | 2025 | 92.95% | 160,913,401 |
| 34 | China | 871631 | Tanker trailers and tanker semi-trailers | 2025 | 92.45% | 73,559,196 |
| 35 | United Arab Emirates | 870530 | Vehicles; fire fighting vehicles | 2025 | 91.67% | 46,585,796 |
| 36 | India | 845522 | Metal-rolling mills; cold | 2025 | 90.82% | 10,218,071 |
| 37 | China | 390761 | Poly(ethylene terephthalate); in primary forms, having a viscosity of 78ml/g or higher | 2025 | 90.24% | 127,102,454 |
| 38 | USA | 271119 | Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons; liquefied, n.e.c. in heading no. 2711 | 2025 | 89.66% | 22,798,083 |
| 39 | China | 871639 | Trailers and semi-trailers; (other than tanker type) | 2025 | 89.50% | 109,381,519 |
| 40 | Malaysia | 151190 | Vegetable oils; palm oil and its fractions, other than crude, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified | 2025 | 88.98% | 132,739,764 |
| 41 | India | 870321 | Vehicles; with only spark-ignition internal combustion piston engine, cylinder capacity not over 1000cc | 2025 | 88.57% | 22,372,090 |
| 42 | Japan | 870322 | Vehicles; with only spark-ignition internal combustion piston engine, cylinder capacity over 1000 but not over 1500cc | 2025 | 88.26% | 32,917,654 |
| 43 | China | 871499 | Cycles; parts thereof, n.e.c. in item no. 8714.9 | 2025 | 88.02% | 11,852,307 |
| 44 | China | 380893 | Herbicides, anti-sprouting products and plant-growth regulators; other than containing goods of Subheading Note 1 to this Chapter; put up in forms or packings for retail sale or as preparations or articles | 2025 | 87.99% | 70,087,554 |
| 45 | Japan | 870323 | Vehicles; with only spark-ignition internal combustion reciprocating piston engine, cylinder capacity over 1500 but not over 3000cc | 2025 | 87.99% | 153,588,798 |
| 46 | China | 721070 | Iron or non-alloy steel; flat-rolled, width 600mm or more, painted, varnished or coated with plastics | 2025 | 87.86% | 79,011,855 |
| 47 | Zambia | 100510 | Cereals; maize (corn), seed | 2025 | 86.76% | 46,206,308 |
| 48 | China | 841810 | Refrigerators and freezers; combined refrigerator-freezers, fitted with separate external doors, electric or other | 2025 | 86.74% | 10,496,867 |
| 49 | China | 850423 | Electrical transformers; liquid dielectric, having a power handling capacity exceeding 10,000kVA | 2025 | 86.42% | 103,822,043 |
| 50 | China | 720837 | Iron or non-alloy steel; in coils, without patterns in relief, flat-rolled, of a width 600mm or more, hot-rolled, of a thickness of 4.75mm or more but not exceeding 10mm | 2025 | 86.34% | 13,370,665 |
| 51 | China | 854460 | Insulated electric conductors; for a voltage exceeding 1000 volts | 2025 | 85.74% | 47,410,618 |
| 52 | China | 847480 | Machines; for agglomerating, shaping or moulding solid mineral fuels, ceramic paste, unhardened cements, plastering materials in powder or paste form, machines for forming foundry moulds of sand | 2025 | 85.50% | 11,941,186 |
| 53 | China | 390130 | Ethylene polymers; in primary forms, ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymers | 2025 | 85.36% | 16,125,792 |
| 54 | China | 871410 | Motorcycles (including mopeds); parts and accessories | 2025 | 85.34% | 10,379,019 |
| 55 | China | 730490 | Iron or steel (excluding cast iron); seamless, tubes, pipes and hollow profiles, seamless, n.e.c. in heading no. 7304 | 2025 | 84.72% | 16,291,118 |
| 56 | China | 761090 | Aluminium; structures (excluding prefabricated buildings of heading no. 9406) and parts of structures, n.e.c. in heading no. 7610, plates, rods, profiles, tubes and the like | 2025 | 84.71% | 17,611,525 |
| 57 | India | 480255 | Uncoated paper and paperboard (not 4801 or 4803); printing, writing or graphic, 10% or less by weight of mechanical or chemi-mechanical processed fibre, weighing 40g/m2 to 150g/m2, in rolls | 2025 | 84.09% | 14,032,798 |
| 58 | Uganda | 721041 | Iron or non-alloy steel; flat-rolled, width 600mm or more, corrugated, plated or coated with zinc (not electrolytically) | 2025 | 83.90% | 19,377,036 |
| 59 | China | 850421 | Electrical transformers; liquid dielectric, having a power handling capacity not exceeding 650kVA | 2025 | 83.79% | 19,093,376 |
| 60 | China | 283311 | Sodium sulphates; disodium sulphate | 2025 | 83.49% | 21,349,367 |
| 61 | China | 842720 | Fork-lift and other works trucks; fitted with lifting or handling equipment, self-propelled by other than electric motor | 2025 | 82.06% | 12,873,486 |
| 62 | China | 870423 | Vehicles; with only compression-ignition internal combustion piston engine (diesel or semi-diesel), for transport of goods, (of a g.v.w. exceeding 20 tonnes), n.e.c. in item no 8704.1 | 2025 | 81.70% | 43,863,213 |
| 63 | Saudi Arabia | 310530 | Fertilizers, mineral or chemical; diammonium hydrogenorthophosphate (diammonium phosphate) | 2025 | 81.33% | 64,160,424 |
| 64 | Uganda | 690723 | Ceramic tiles; flags and paving, hearth or wall tiles other than those of subheadings 6907.30 and 6907.40, of a water absorption coefficient by weight over 10% | 2025 | 80.94% | 15,584,698 |
| 65 | China | 381700 | Mixed alkylbenzenes and mixed alkylnaphthalenes, other than those of heading no. 2707 or 2902 | 2025 | 80.31% | 31,926,147 |
China: 44 occurrences
India: 3 occurrences
Japan: 2 occurrences
South Africa: 2 occurrences
USA: 2 occurrences
Uganda: 2 occurrences
Belgium: 1 occurrence
Germany: 1 occurrence
Indonesia: 1 occurrence
Kenya: 1 occurrence
Malaysia: 1 occurrence
Saudi Arabia: 1 occurrence
Türkiye: 1 occurrence
United Arab Emirates: 1 occurrence
Viet Nam: 1 occurrence
Zambia: 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.