Trade in a Bottle: Identifying Import Bottlenecks in International Trade

World of Extreme Bottlenecks

For 2020, 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)
Albania20132
Angola25113(1)
Argentina107(1)[1]51[1]6
Armenia18(10)[2]13(8)[1]5(4)
Australia211[3]562
Austria104(1)[2]25(1)[1]0
Azerbaijan44(22)[1]29(15)[1]2(2)
Bahrain43(10)[1]20(6)[1]5(1)
Belarus112(88)[3]60(48)[2]4(4)
Belgium152(3)[3]38(3)[1]0
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)19(1)13(1)5
Bosnia Herzegovina13(2)[1]71
Botswana4361[1]35
Brazil220(3)[2]753
Brunei Darussalam961
Bulgaria38(7)[2]13(4)1
Cambodia62433
Cameroon9(1)41
Canada533[6]165[1]6
Chile135[4]602
China218(10)48(1)0
China, Hong Kong SAR318(1)[2]111[1]5
China, Macao SAR25208
Colombia120(2)[3]47[2]6
Costa Rica45(2)[3]27(1)[2]5
Côte d'Ivoire30[2]13[2]1
Croatia23(2)[2]9[1]0
Cuba1481
Curaçao110
Cyprus10(1)[1]3(1)0
Czechia75(6)13(2)0
Dem. Rep. of the Congo16142
Denmark87(3)[1]22(1)0
Dominican Rep.76[3]47[1]4
Ecuador41[2]23[1]3
Egypt121(7)[1]57(4)3
El Salvador49(1)[4]25[2]3
Estonia22(9)[3]12(7)[2]1
Ethiopia64(1)4710
European Union379(14)[2]61(3)3
Finland68(8)[2]24(1)1(1)
France138(1)[1]220
Georgia16(6)[1]14(6)[1]2(1)
Germany142(1)[3]22[1]1
Greece40(2)17(1)1
Guatemala39[2]22[1]2
Honduras39(1)[3]21[2]3
Hungary66(3)[1]20(1)0
Iceland7[1]30
India213(6)57(1)3
Indonesia230(3)80(1)3
Iran72(17)29(3)5(1)
Ireland119[2]38[1]1
Israel70[4]23[1]2
Italy107(4)23(1)1
Jamaica21[4]16[1]4
Japan368(2)771
Jordan44(10)[1]20(6)[1]1
Kazakhstan216(188)[1]153(139)[1]23(23)
Kenya39(1)30(1)3
Kuwait67(23)26(10)2
Latvia27(9)[3]10(2)[1]1
Lebanon13(2)5(1)1
Lithuania44(7)[3]18(4)0
Luxembourg40(1)[1]160
Malaysia188(3)[1]532
Mali21(1)163
Malta940
Mexico488(1)[7]161[2]11
Mongolia35(8)[2]24(6)[1]9(2)
Montenegro532
Morocco83(6)[1]24(1)3
Mozambique29(2)22(2)4(1)
Myanmar80(1)[2]42(1)8
Nepal91(2)[3]73(1)[2]21
Netherlands125(2)170
New Zealand67[1]210
Nicaragua19(1)[3]13[2]3
Nigeria176(1)79(2)8
North Macedonia22(1)[1]136
Norway66(2)251
Oman73(54)[1]42(36)5(5)
Other Asia, nes181(2)541
Pakistan131(4)75(1)10
Panama35[1]212
Papua New Guinea13[1]11[1]1
Paraguay40[1]254
Peru128(1)[3]54[1]5
Philippines159533
Poland120(11)[2]27(3)1
Portugal128(2)[2]52(2)2
Qatar48(3)[1]26(1)[1]4
Rep. of Korea362(5)[3]913
Rep. of Moldova12(5)[1]7(3)2(1)
Romania54(5)[1]10(1)0
Russian Federation228(10)55(2)2
Saudi Arabia138(18)42(7)1
Senegal18[1]12[1]1
Serbia35(7)9(5)0
Singapore132(4)[3]353
Slovakia44(6)[2]15(3)[2]1
Slovenia45[1]151
South Africa110(2)[1]451
Spain113(4)[1]221
Sri Lanka50(2)[1]20(2)[1]5
State of Palestine40[3]28[2]5
Sweden116[1]321
Switzerland68(1)[1]140
Thailand227(2)[2]57(1)2
Tunisia31(1)[2]17(1)[2]3
Türkiye121(11)32(2)3
Uganda25161
Ukraine81(13)28(5)0
United Arab Emirates130(18)[3]39(4)[2]2
United Kingdom149(1)[1]262
United Rep. of Tanzania22(1)[1]102
Uruguay24[1]16[1]1
USA423(2)[6]85[1]1
Uzbekistan84(26)[1]47(17)[1]7(2)
Viet Nam250(4)[2]82(2)[1]4
Zambia25(4)[1]20(3)[1]6
Zimbabwe26[4]26[1]6

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.