Trade in a Bottle: Identifying Import Bottlenecks in International Trade

World of Extreme Bottlenecks

For 2022, 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)
Cabo Verde3[1]22
Canada583(1)[5]151[1]7
China282(15)[1]55(2)0
Congo15106
Cuba22(1)13(1)5
Czechia93(7)[1]19(3)1(1)
European Union477(11)[1]69(1)3
France172[1]260
Germany192(1)[3]23[1]1
India296(7)75(1)2
Italy135(1)19(1)0
Japan439(3)80(1)0
Mexico553[6]181[2]7
Nepal106(3)[3]88(1)[2]20
Netherlands170(3)[1]27(2)0
Other Asia, nes224(1)[1]622
Poland154(12)[2]28(4)1
Rep. of Korea435(7)[2]973
Rwanda21[1]205
Singapore190(6)[1]393
Slovakia43(4)[2]13(3)[2]0
Spain157(2)[2]321
Switzerland94[1]150
Tajikistan36(12)[5]26(7)[1]7(3)
United Arab Emirates162(16)47(2)3
United Kingdom211(1)[3]363
USA461(3)[7]80[1]1

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.