Trade in a Bottle: Identifying Import Bottlenecks in International Trade

World of Extreme Bottlenecks

For 2009, 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)
Albania18(1)[1]11(1)2
Argentina106[2]407
Armenia13(6)[1]13(6)[1]2(2)
Australia187[2]58[1]4
Austria132(2)[1]34[1]2
Azerbaijan30(10)14(5)1(1)
Belarus67(53)[6]41(34)[3]4(4)
Belgium157(3)[3]28[1]0
Bosnia Herzegovina15(2)[2]8(1)[1]0
Brazil179(1)[2]524
Bulgaria32(5)[2]19(5)[2]2
Canada670[5]241[1]11
Chile99[3]665
China157(4)46(1)0
Croatia40(3)[2]18(2)[2]0
Cyprus10(1)3(1)0
Czechia60(4)18(1)1
Denmark59(1)[1]17[1]0
Egypt54(4)[1]27(1)[1]2
Estonia15(4)[1]11(4)[1]2
Ethiopia25155
European Union373(16)[1]53(1)2
Finland57(8)[3]19(2)[1]0
France143(2)[1]21(1)0
Georgia9(4)[1]6(3)[1]1(1)
Germany140(2)[3]25[1]0
Greece37(2)[1]11(1)1
Greenland4[1]6[1]14
Hungary61(5)[2]22(2)[1]0
Iceland000
India123(4)39(3)4
Indonesia83(2)251
Ireland96[2]29[1]1
Israel40[6]15[1]0
Italy113(1)122
Japan469(1)1198
Kazakhstan79(54)[2]39(33)[2]2(2)
Latvia12(7)[2]5(2)[1]1
Lithuania20(4)[2]12(5)[2]2(1)
Luxembourg29[2]15[1]0
Malaysia109[4]343
Mexico454(1)[3]17011
Montenegro13(1)[1]12(1)4
Morocco48(2)[3]20(1)2
Netherlands146(1)25(1)2
New Zealand66352
Nigeria69221
Norway52(3)17(1)0
Other Asia, nes145(1)321
Pakistan54(8)26(4)5(2)
Philippines46180
Poland102(9)[1]27(4)[1]2(1)
Portugal108[1]451
Rep. of Korea264(1)[1]752
Romania46(2)[1]15(1)[1]0
Russian Federation143(23)[2]49(4)[2]6
Serbia31(6)[2]18(5)[2]2
Singapore104(3)22(1)0
Slovakia60(6)[2]23(3)[2]1
Slovenia30(1)16(1)1
South Africa86(3)[1]42(1)[1]2
Spain100(2)250
Sweden77(1)[2]251
Switzerland94(1)17(1)0
Thailand112[1]27[1]2
Türkiye94(4)282
Ukraine81(44)[2]41(23)[1]1(1)
United Arab Emirates126(2)3
United Kingdom116(2)261
USA401[1]101[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.

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

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