Trade in a Bottle: Identifying Import Bottlenecks in International Trade

World of Extreme Bottlenecks

For 2002, 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
Argentina32217
Armenia3(2)[1]3(2)[1]2(1)
Australia101333
Austria71212
Azerbaijan5(2)3(1)1
Belarus52(49)[5]48(46)[3]11(11)
Belgium117[1]260
Brazil78(1)[1]270
Bulgaria14(5)8(4)1
Canada747(1)[6]275(1)[1]19
Chile34[3]20[1]3
China95(11)23(1)1
Croatia18(1)120
Cyprus222
Czechia50(4)20(1)0
Denmark58[1]19[1]0
Egypt20173
Estonia18(7)[2]14(7)[2]3(1)
Ethiopia331
European Union315(15)[1]41(2)1
Finland49(10)[1]26(5)[1]1
France120[1]190
Georgia2(2)[1]1(1)[1]0
Germany122(2)[1]26[1]0
Greece36(1)161
Hungary37(5)[2]6(2)[1]0
Iceland3(1)3(1)1
India28(4)[4]18(1)[2]3
Indonesia37151
Iran46(16)22(7)3(1)
Ireland89[5]37[3]1
Israel23(1)[3]14[1]0
Italy80(1)140
Japan336(1)855
Kazakhstan25(19)[2]19(14)[2]3(1)
Kuwait3(1)20
Latvia3(1)[1]2(1)[1]0
Lithuania13(7)[2]10(6)[2]2(1)
Luxembourg21[1]12[1]1
Malaysia66[2]222
Mexico580[4]223[1]20
Morocco14112
Netherlands125(2)[1]303
New Zealand28182
Nigeria19(1)90
Norway34(3)14(1)2
Other Asia, nes96(1)292
Philippines1980
Poland50(4)[2]17(2)[1]1
Portugal44[2]213
Qatar5(1)4(1)1
Rep. of Korea186(3)[1]61(2)6
Romania29(3)[1]13(2)[1]1
Russian Federation73(17)[2]33(5)[2]3
Singapore87(4)25(1)4
Slovakia26(5)[2]11(3)[2]1(1)
Slovenia15(1)70
South Africa25(1)17(1)0
Spain98(2)210
Sweden60(1)[1]150
Switzerland52(1)140
Thailand73(1)[1]20[1]0
Türkiye48(1)21(1)0
Ukraine32(21)[1]23(19)[1]3(3)
United Arab Emirates1112
United Kingdom111(1)[1]200
USA368[3]86[1]1
Venezuela31140

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.