Extreme Import Bottlenecks
The tables below show Uganda'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.
Uganda
38 bottlenecks| # | Partner | HS Code | HS Description | Year | Share (%) | Value (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | India | 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 | 100.00% | 10,446,330 |
| 2 | Kenya | 0702 | Tomatoes; fresh or chilled | 2025 | 100.00% | 19,181,306 |
| 3 | China | 7225 | Alloy steel flat-rolled products, of a width 600mm or more | 2025 | 99.98% | 39,155,835 |
| 4 | Kenya | 0706 | Carrots, turnips, salad beetroot, salsify, celeriac, radishes and similar edible roots; fresh or chilled | 2025 | 99.95% | 14,383,798 |
| 5 | China | 6406 | Footwear; parts of footwear; removable in-soles, heel cushions and similar articles; gaiters, le.g.ings and similar articles, and parts thereof | 2025 | 99.50% | 23,164,300 |
| 6 | China | 8201 | Tools, hand; spades, shovels, mattocks, picks, hoes, forks, rakes; axes, bill hooks etc; secateurs and pruners of any kind; scythes, sickles, hay knives, hedge shears, timber wedges and other tools used in agriculture, horticulture, forestry | 2025 | 99.45% | 14,547,331 |
| 7 | United Rep. of Tanzania | 1008 | Buckwheat, millet and canary seeds; other cereals | 2025 | 99.31% | 13,216,325 |
| 8 | United Rep. of Tanzania | 0710 | Vegetables (uncooked or cooked by steaming or boiling in water); frozen | 2025 | 99.00% | 15,744,238 |
| 9 | Kenya | 1517 | Margarine; edible mixtures or preparations of animal, vegetable or microbial fats or oils or of fractions of different fats or oils of this Chapter, other than edible fats and oils or their fractions of heading 15.16 | 2025 | 98.63% | 25,169,837 |
| 10 | United Rep. of Tanzania | 7305 | Iron or steel (excluding cast iron); tubes and pipes (e.g. welded, riveted or similarly closed), having circular cross-sections, external diameter of which exceeds 406.4mm, not seamless | 2025 | 98.14% | 163,664,011 |
| 11 | China | 7303 | Tubes, pipes and hollow profiles, of cast iron | 2025 | 97.55% | 11,161,385 |
| 12 | United Rep. of Tanzania | 1006 | Rice | 2025 | 97.27% | 213,795,398 |
| 13 | United Rep. of Tanzania | 2701 | Coal; briquettes, ovoids and similar solid fuels manufactured from coal | 2025 | 97.24% | 14,685,430 |
| 14 | United Rep. of Tanzania | 1202 | Ground-nuts; not roasted or otherwise cooked, whether or not shelled or broken | 2025 | 97.05% | 65,394,049 |
| 15 | China | 4202 | Trunks; suit, camera, jewellery, cutlery cases; travel, tool, similar bags; wholly or mainly covered by leather, composition leather, plastic sheeting, textile materials, vulcanised fibre, paperboard | 2025 | 96.59% | 17,811,862 |
| 16 | Kenya | 2501 | Salt (including table salt and denatured salt); pure sodium chloride whether or not in aqueous solution; sea water | 2025 | 96.45% | 28,662,725 |
| 17 | China | 9028 | Gas, liquid or electricity supply or production meters, including calibrating meters therefor | 2025 | 96.31% | 12,880,015 |
| 18 | China | 8541 | Semiconductor devices (e.g. diodes, transistors, semiconductor based transducers); including photovoltaic cells assembled or not in modules or panels, light-emitting diodes (LED) assembled with other LEDs or not, mounted piezo-electric crystals | 2025 | 95.57% | 44,276,363 |
| 19 | USA | 2711 | Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons | 2025 | 94.82% | 37,371,849 |
| 20 | Kenya | 0701 | Potatoes; fresh or chilled | 2025 | 93.32% | 91,185,622 |
| 21 | China | 5402 | Synthetic filament yarn (other than sewing thread), not put up for retail sale, including synthetic monofilament of less than 67 decitex | 2025 | 92.18% | 30,085,492 |
| 22 | China | 8518 | Microphones and their stands; loudspeakers, mounted or not in their enclosures; headphones and earphones, combined or not with a microphone, and sets of a microphone and one or more loudspeakers; audio-frequency and electric sound amplifiers and sets | 2025 | 90.81% | 11,085,444 |
| 23 | China | 8528 | Monitors and projectors, not incorporating television reception apparatus; reception apparatus for television, whether or not incorporating radio-broadcast receivers or sound or video recording or reproducing apparatus | 2025 | 90.32% | 33,037,930 |
| 24 | China | 8517 | Telephone sets, including smartphones and other telephones for cellular/wireless networks; other apparatus for the transmission or reception of voice, images or other data (including wired/wireless networks), excluding items of 8443, 8525, 8527, or 8528 | 2025 | 87.34% | 239,749,037 |
| 25 | United Rep. of Tanzania | 0713 | Vegetables, leguminous; shelled, whether or not skinned or split, dried | 2025 | 86.08% | 32,783,908 |
| 26 | India | 7601 | Aluminium; unwrought | 2025 | 86.05% | 17,136,176 |
| 27 | India | 2815 | Sodium hydroxide (caustic soda); potassium hydroxide (caustic potash) peroxides of sodium or potassium | 2025 | 85.78% | 16,252,492 |
| 28 | 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 | 84.33% | 27,869,955 |
| 29 | India | 7901 | Zinc; unwrought | 2025 | 84.21% | 11,811,201 |
| 30 | Italy | 8411 | Turbo-jets, turbo-propellers and other gas turbines | 2025 | 84.05% | 26,853,085 |
| 31 | Japan | 8703 | Motor cars and other motor vehicles; principally designed for the transport of persons (other than those of heading no. 8702), including station wagons and racing cars | 2025 | 83.58% | 292,535,392 |
| 32 | Kenya | 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 | 2025 | 83.33% | 42,706,237 |
| 33 | China | 3207 | Pigments, prepared; opacifiers, colours, vitrifiable enamels, glazes, engobes (slips), liquid lustres etc as used in the ceramic enamelling or glass industry; glass frit and powder, granules or flakes | 2025 | 82.63% | 10,145,419 |
| 34 | China | 8429 | Bulldozers, graders, levellers, scrapers, angledozers, mechanical shovels, excavators, shovel loaders, tamping machines and road rollers, self-propelled | 2025 | 81.56% | 97,337,112 |
| 35 | India | 1905 | Bread, pastry, cakes, biscuits, other bakers' wares, whether or not containing cocoa; communion wafers, empty cachets suitable for pharmaceutical use, sealing wafers, rice paper and similar products | 2025 | 81.46% | 26,427,798 |
| 36 | China | 3907 | Polyacetals, other polyethers and epoxide resins, in primary forms; polycarbonates, alkyd resins, polyallyl esters and other polyesters, in primary forms | 2025 | 81.40% | 140,636,597 |
| 37 | Oman | 2520 | Gypsum; anhydrite; plasters (consisting of calcined gypsum or calcium sulphate), coloured or not, with or without small quantities of accelerators or retarders | 2025 | 81.04% | 10,200,798 |
| 38 | China | 8428 | Lifting, handling, loading or unloading machinery; n.e.c. in heading no. 8425, 8426 or 8427 (e.g. lifts, escalators, conveyors, teleferics) | 2025 | 80.65% | 21,693,293 |
China: 16 occurrences
United Rep. of Tanzania: 7 occurrences
Kenya: 6 occurrences
India: 5 occurrences
Italy: 1 occurrence
Japan: 1 occurrence
Oman: 1 occurrence
USA: 1 occurrence
Legend:
Highlight - the row matches a Danger Zone country and/or a Critical Goods HS code.
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1234Bold lime HS code - the product code is flagged in Critical Goods.