Trade in a Bottle: Identifying Import Bottlenecks in International Trade

World of Extreme Bottlenecks

For 2001, the table below shows, for each importing country in the database, the number of identified import bottlenecks - HS product codes where a single source country accounts for >= 80% of total imports and the import value is >= 10,000,000 USD. Counts are provided separately for 6-digit, 4-digit, and 2-digit HS codes.

CountryBottlenecks (6-digit HS)Bottlenecks (4-digit HS)Bottlenecks (2-digit HS)
Albania223
Argentina58315
Armenia2(2)[1]2(2)[1]1(1)
Australia91331
Austria78242
Azerbaijan3(1)3(1)2
Belarus43(43)[5]41(41)[3]13(13)
Belgium110[2]28[1]0
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)433
Brazil73271
Brunei Darussalam532
Bulgaria12(5)8(5)2(1)
Cameroon4[1]1[1]0
Canada803[5]295[1]23
Chile34[2]21[1]4
China94(8)30(4)0
Colombia33140
Croatia1790
Cyprus211
Czechia50(4)141
Denmark55(2)[1]17[1]0
Ecuador1272
Egypt25(2)20(3)6
Estonia16(10)[1]9(6)[1]2(1)
Ethiopia632
European Union301(10)[1]471
Finland46(11)[1]23(6)[1]1
France120[1]190
Georgia3(1)[1]2(1)[1]1
Germany128(3)[1]32(1)[1]0
Greece2961
Greenland3[1]3[1]3
Hungary38(2)[1]9(1)[1]0
Iceland111
India37(3)[3]18(1)[2]3
Indonesia41(1)141
Iran34(10)18(8)2
Ireland94[3]36[2]3
Israel23[2]14[2]3
Italy85(1)152
Jamaica17165
Japan340(2)865
Kazakhstan23(18)[2]20(17)[2]7(6)
Kuwait5(1)4(1)0
Latvia1(1)[1]2(2)[1]0
Lithuania9(7)[3]8(6)[2]1(1)
Luxembourg2992
Malaysia72[3]24[2]0
Mexico600(1)[2]23621
Mongolia2(1)[1]2(1)[1]1(1)
Morocco18121
Netherlands127[1]291
New Zealand25172
Nigeria1490
Norway28(5)11(2)1
Oman17(11)11(9)2(2)
Other Asia, nes98(1)301
Paraguay5[1]6[2]1
Peru15101
Philippines16(1)30
Poland43(6)[2]11(3)[1]1
Portugal47[2]222
Qatar440
Rep. of Korea169613
Rep. of Moldova2(2)[1]2(2)[1]0
Romania25(1)[1]11(1)[1]2
Russian Federation84(31)[2]35(9)[2]3
Saudi Arabia39(6)60
Senegal6[1]7[1]3
Singapore93(2)243
Slovakia24(3)[2]12(3)[2]1(1)
Slovenia15(1)[1]52
South Africa22(1)12(1)1
Spain83(2)210
Sweden56[1]160
Switzerland62(1)130
Tunisia14[2]10[1]0
Türkiye35(2)15(1)0
Ukraine31(20)19(14)0
United Arab Emirates116(1)0
United Kingdom112(2)201
Uruguay96[1]3
USA370(1)[2]90[1]2
Venezuela27130

Legend:

This icon indicates that at least one HS chapter group (HS 0-9) has no records in the Results Database for the given country and year. It is very likely that not all import flows have been included yet, so the bottleneck count shown in the table may be underestimated.

(n)

The number in red parentheses indicates how many of the bottlenecks originate from countries flagged in the Danger Zone.

[n]

The number in lime square brackets indicates how many of the bottlenecks involve HS codes flagged in Critical Goods.