Trade in a Bottle: Identifying Import Bottlenecks in International Trade

World of Extreme Bottlenecks

For 2004, 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)
Albania8[1]72
Argentina75[1]42[1]8
Armenia5(1)[1]5(1)[1]1
Australia144(1)[1]484
Austria128[1]35[1]1
Azerbaijan13(3)[2]8(3)[1]1(1)
Belarus106(98)[5]78(73)[3]14(14)
Belgium146(1)[1]340
Brazil93[2]340
Bulgaria23(6)12(2)1
Cameroon741
Canada722[5]256[1]15
Chile66[4]37[1]6
China113(5)280
Colombia54192
Croatia21(1)[1]16(1)[1]1
Cyprus200
Czechia65(3)[1]14(1)[1]1
Denmark74(2)[1]21(2)[1]1
Egypt16(1)[1]11[1]4
Estonia9(6)[1]6(4)[1]1
Ethiopia14(1)[1]11(1)[1]5(1)
European Union335(19)481
Finland57(11)[1]25(6)[1]2
France125[1]160
Georgia5(1)[1]4(1)[1]1
Germany136(1)[1]29[1]0
Greece38(1)11(1)1
Greenland2[1]4[1]15
Hungary48(7)[2]15(4)[1]0
Iceland541
India49(1)[3]22[2]2
Indonesia53181
Iran44(14)19(10)1(1)
Ireland109[4]33[1]1
Israel31[3]19[2]1
Italy107(1)151
Japan386(2)1007
Kazakhstan40(31)[3]21(19)[2]1
Kuwait16(5)10(3)1
Latvia8(4)[2]5(2)[1]1
Lithuania15(11)[3]12(9)[2]2(1)
Luxembourg41[2]17[1]2
Malaysia82[1]310
Mexico519[3]195[1]15
Morocco29[1]131
Netherlands134(2)253
New Zealand52304
Norway43(3)16(3)2
Other Asia, nes140471
Pakistan18(5)11(1)4(1)
Philippines19110
Poland63(8)[1]19(2)[1]1
Portugal79(1)[2]303
Qatar4(2)11(4)2
Rep. of Korea257(1)844
Romania41(4)17(1)1
Russian Federation110(36)[2]47(12)[2]3(1)
Singapore103(1)261
Slovakia39(6)[2]17(2)[1]1
Slovenia19(2)50
South Africa42(2)20(2)0
Spain109(2)230
Sweden81(1)[3]180
Switzerland73(1)150
Türkiye77(4)22(1)2
Ukraine60(42)[1]39(31)[1]2(1)
United Arab Emirates128(4)1
United Kingdom140(3)[2]210
USA400(1)[3]91[1]3
Venezuela46223

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.