Trade in a Bottle: Identifying Import Bottlenecks in International Trade

World of Extreme Bottlenecks

For 2005, 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
Algeria27150
Argentina84[1]40[1]6
Armenia3(1)[1]3(1)[1]1
Australia159[1]544
Austria128(1)[1]36[1]0
Azerbaijan12(5)[2]10(5)[1]1(1)
Bangladesh34(2)[1]18(1)2
Belarus61(52)[7]43(38)[3]9(9)
Belgium132(3)[1]300
Brazil107[2]333
Bulgaria20(3)11(1)3
Canada723[4]248[1]15
Chile65(1)[4]37[1]5
China118(8)34(1)0
Colombia57[1]24[1]3
Croatia27(3)[1]15(2)[1]1
Cyprus5(1)2(1)0
Czechia52(3)13(1)0
Denmark73(1)[1]18(1)[1]0
Dominican Rep.39[4]27[3]6
Egypt18(2)[2]13(1)[2]5
Estonia17(10)[2]10(6)[1]1
European Union363(22)[1]521
Finland65(12)[2]19(5)[1]0
France132(1)[1]180
Georgia7(3)[1]7(3)[1]2(1)
Germany131[1]25[1]1
Greece32(1)[1]111
Hungary47(5)[1]13(3)[1]0
Iceland410
India75(4)[3]25[2]2
Indonesia61(1)[1]161
Iran41(15)16(6)1(1)
Ireland113[3]35[1]0
Israel31[3]9[2]2
Italy101(1)[1]151
Jamaica26[1]18[1]5
Japan424(1)1088
Kazakhstan58(43)[2]34(29)[2]4(2)
Latvia6(3)[2]3(1)[1]0
Lithuania13(5)[2]11(6)[2]4(2)
Luxembourg34(2)[1]13(2)1
Malaysia80[1]181
Malta7[1]41
Mexico499[3]190[1]12
Morocco33[1]131
Netherlands146(2)302
New Zealand53332
Norway53(2)15(1)1
Oman21(9)[1]15(8)2(2)
Other Asia, nes143(3)504
Pakistan27(8)11(2)4(2)
Peru28[2]19[1]4
Philippines38130
Poland62(4)[1]15(1)[1]2
Portugal88[2]334
Qatar15(6)6(4)0
Rep. of Korea247(4)89(1)3
Rep. of Moldova4(4)3(3)2(2)
Romania49(7)[1]23(3)[1]1
Russian Federation119(45)[2]42(13)[2]4(1)
Saudi Arabia64(10)16(3)0
Singapore99(1)291
Slovakia40(5)[2]13(3)[2]1
Slovenia24(1)[1]120
South Africa52(1)29(1)0
Spain107(1)260
Sweden79[4]181
Switzerland84[1]160
Thailand113(1)[1]34(1)[1]1
Tunisia27(1)[2]12(1)[1]1
Türkiye77(6)21(2)1
Ukraine87(55)[1]43(29)[1]1
United Arab Emirates74(14)23(2)1
United Kingdom135(2)[2]250
USA391(1)[1]892
Venezuela52202
Viet Nam38(1)[3]21(1)[1]3

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.