Trade in a Bottle: Identifying Import Bottlenecks in International Trade

World of Extreme Bottlenecks

For 2014, 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)
Albania16133
Algeria73(2)[3]28(2)4
Argentina132[2]509
Armenia14(8)[2]10(7)[1]2(1)
Australia202522
Austria129(1)[1]33(1)[1]2
Azerbaijan31(8)18(8)2
Belarus93(74)[6]49(41)[2]4(3)
Belgium135(6)[5]28(3)[1]1
Bosnia Herzegovina24(4)[3]11(1)[1]0
Brazil248(3)[2]693
Bulgaria33(4)[3]21(4)[2]1
Canada676[6]213[1]7
Chile155(1)[2]855
China200(6)[2]45(2)0
China, Hong Kong SAR404(3)[2]134(2)[1]6
Colombia134(1)[1]36[1]5
Croatia28(2)14(2)0
Cyprus850
Czechia95(4)19(1)0
Denmark85(1)23(1)0
Egypt91(7)[1]39(3)[1]2
Estonia35(6)[2]17(5)[2]2
Ethiopia72(2)[1]43(1)[1]8
European Union420(10)[1]71(1)2
Finland76(9)[2]29(3)[1]0
France157(1)[2]22(1)0
Georgia19(6)[1]14(5)[1]1(1)
Germany141(1)[2]24[1]0
Greece40(1)[1]130
Hungary56(8)[1]19(5)[1]2
Iceland7[1]40
India202(6)[1]54(2)4
Indonesia151(1)343
Iran73(12)25(6)0
Ireland114[4]37[2]2
Israel53[3]18[1]2
Italy126(4)[2]19(1)1
Japan467(2)1033
Kazakhstan130(84)[3]65(48)[1]2(2)
Latvia26(12)[4]9(4)[2]0
Lithuania51(10)[4]13(5)[2]2
Luxembourg39(1)180
Malaysia167(1)[1]471
Mexico589(1)[7]200[2]12
Montenegro552
Morocco63(4)[2]24(2)0
Netherlands183(1)38(1)1
New Zealand67291
Nigeria79(2)46(1)6
Norway35[1]15[1]1
Other Asia, nes201(1)451
Pakistan112(5)62(1)6
Philippines66240
Poland116(7)[2]25(5)[1]3(2)
Portugal103[3]441
Qatar54(24)26(13)2(1)
Rep. of Korea323(8)[1]663
Romania50(7)[3]15(3)0
Russian Federation235(24)[3]59(5)[1]6
Saudi Arabia145(22)33(4)2
Serbia28(6)[3]12(2)[1]0
Singapore136(3)[2]37(1)3
Slovakia44(7)[2]13(3)[2]1
Slovenia31150
South Africa119(5)[1]48(2)[1]0
Spain111(2)[2]220
Sweden109(2)[1]26(1)1
Switzerland88(1)18(1)0
Thailand167(5)[2]39(2)1
Türkiye145(15)412
Ukraine100(47)[2]41(24)[1]1(1)
United Arab Emirates123(19)31(2)2
United Kingdom143(3)[1]241
USA447[5]88[1]2
Viet Nam153(4)[1]53(2)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.

[n]

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