Trade in a Bottle: Identifying Import Bottlenecks in International Trade

World of Extreme Bottlenecks

For 2021, 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)
Albania25[1]16[1]2
Argentina144(1)[1]628
Armenia25(12)[1]16(9)[1]4(3)
Australia254(1)[1]56[1]3
Austria112(1)[2]28(1)[1]0
Azerbaijan45(21)[2]28(14)[2]3(2)
Belarus106(87)52(47)3(2)
Belgium152(2)[3]40(1)[1]0
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)28182
Brazil264(4)[3]91(2)4
Brunei Darussalam1294
Bulgaria42(3)[2]18(2)1
Cambodia99(2)56(1)5
Cameroon17(1)[1]10[1]1
Canada537(3)[5]155[1]6
Chile197[4]785
China248(11)48(1)0
China, Hong Kong SAR355(1)[2]128[1]6
Colombia146(1)[1]477
Croatia26(1)[2]10[1]0
Cuba1782
Cyprus15(3)[1]7(2)1
Czechia78(9)[1]15(4)[1]2(1)
Denmark96(4)[2]29(1)[1]2
Dominican Rep.92(1)[4]51(1)[2]4
Ecuador55(1)[3]35[1]2
Egypt126(7)[1]53(4)4
Estonia29(12)[3]14(6)[2]1
Ethiopia62(2)4110
European Union433(13)[1]63(3)3
Finland74(7)[1]13(1)2(1)
France134(1)18(1)0
Georgia19(6)[1]13(4)1(1)
Germany144(1)[3]22[1]1
Greece51(3)22(1)0
Guatemala52[2]20[1]3
Hungary62(4)[1]15(1)1
Iceland9[1]21
India267(6)68(1)2
Indonesia272(2)[1]91(1)4
Iran88(23)34(10)4(1)
Iraq42(20)[1]35(21)[1]4(2)
Ireland111(1)[3]38[1]2
Israel89[4]30[1]2
Italy97(3)15(1)1
Jamaica24[3]17[1]5
Japan400(3)78(2)0
Jordan55(15)[2]27(10)[1]0
Kazakhstan258(224)[1]181(165)[1]24(23)
Kuwait73(24)30(13)2
Latvia36(17)[4]10(2)[1]1
Lithuania39(6)[1]12(3)0
Luxembourg50(1)[1]201
Malaysia222(2)[2]53(1)1
Mexico561(1)[6]192[2]7
Mongolia37(10)[3]24(10)[2]4(2)
Montenegro962
Morocco83(2)[1]252
Nepal120(2)[3]101(2)[2]19
Netherlands136(2)[1]210
New Zealand81(1)[2]32(1)[2]2
Nigeria149(1)[1]64(2)6
Norway80(5)231
Oman79(56)[1]44(34)[1]6(5)
Other Asia, nes218(1)501
Pakistan166(9)88(2)13
Papua New Guinea17[3]15[3]1
Paraguay60[1]347
Peru147(2)[4]69(1)[2]4
Philippines181(1)582
Poland120(9)[1]23(2)1
Portugal153(3)[2]57(2)2
Qatar58(2)31(1)4
Rep. of Korea425(8)[3]904
Rep. of Moldova11(7)[2]6(4)[1]0
Romania61(4)[1]13(1)0
Russian Federation267(8)[1]633
Saudi Arabia153(16)35(4)2
Senegal19[1]11[1]0
Serbia49(5)[1]16(4)[1]0
Singapore150(3)[2]304
Slovakia43(6)[2]14(3)[2]0
Slovenia43111
South Africa145(2)[2]511
Spain130(5)[2]28(1)1
Sweden118(3)[1]37(3)2
Switzerland80(1)[1]170
Thailand235(2)[2]69(1)3
Tunisia37(1)[2]24(1)[1]6
Türkiye150(12)49(4)2
Ukraine97(15)37(7)0
United Arab Emirates121(16)[1]35(2)2
United Kingdom185(3)[2]354
Uruguay37[1]21[1]3
USA443[6]83[1]1
Uzbekistan97(34)[1]42(21)[1]5(2)
Viet Nam317(5)[1]102(3)[1]4

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.