Extreme Import Bottlenecks
The tables below show United Arab Emirates's import sources for HS product codes where a single source country accounts for >= 80% of total imports and the import value is >= 10,000,000 USD. Only data for the most recent available year is displayed. If you want more data, visit the Country Matrix.
United Arab Emirates
41 bottlenecks| # | Partner | HS Code | HS Description | Year | Share (%) | Value (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Areas, nes | 9999 | Commodities not specified according to kind | 2023 | 99.99% | 78,701,814,618 |
| 2 | USA | 8602 | Rail locomotives; (other than those of heading no. 8601), locomotive tenders | 2023 | 99.99% | 48,602,756 |
| 3 | Guinea | 2606 | Aluminium ores and concentrates | 2023 | 99.94% | 674,239,719 |
| 4 | China | 8606 | Railway or tramway goods vans and wagons; not self-propelled | 2023 | 99.57% | 39,375,987 |
| 5 | Rep. of Korea | 8401 | Nuclear reactors; fuel elements (cartridges), non-irradiated, for nuclear reactors, machinery and apparatus for isotopic separation | 2023 | 99.57% | 60,118,834 |
| 6 | Oman | 7214 | Iron or non-alloy steel; bars and rods, not further worked than forged, hot-rolled, hot drawn or hot-extruded, but including those twisted after rolling | 2023 | 96.89% | 358,058,781 |
| 7 | Côte d'Ivoire | 1801 | Cocoa beans; whole or broken, raw or roasted | 2023 | 96.34% | 16,731,371 |
| 8 | China | 8541 | Semiconductor devices (e.g. diodes, transistors, semiconductor based transducers); including photovoltaic cells assembled or not in modules or panels, light-emitting diodes (LED) assembled with other LEDs or not, mounted piezo-electric crystals | 2023 | 95.89% | 504,025,967 |
| 9 | China | 9504 | Video game consoles and machines, articles for funfair, table or parlour games, including pintables, billiards, special tables for casino games and automatic bowling alley equipment | 2023 | 94.81% | 1,003,455,315 |
| 10 | Qatar | 2815 | Sodium hydroxide (caustic soda); potassium hydroxide (caustic potash) peroxides of sodium or potassium | 2023 | 94.33% | 151,910,874 |
| 11 | China | 2942 | Organic compounds; n.e.c. in chapter 29 | 2023 | 94.02% | 484,538,484 |
| 12 | China | 8715 | Baby carriages and parts thereof | 2023 | 93.99% | 42,899,355 |
| 13 | China | 9605 | Travel sets; for personal toilet, sewing, shoe or clothes cleaning | 2023 | 93.29% | 79,192,946 |
| 14 | Oman | 2521 | Limestone flux; limestone and other calcareous stone, of a kind used for the manufacture of lime or cement | 2023 | 93.23% | 16,899,901 |
| 15 | India | 7215 | Iron or non-alloy steel; bars and rods, n.e.c. in chapter 72 | 2023 | 92.46% | 47,898,984 |
| 16 | China | 8806 | Unmanned aircraft | 2023 | 92.11% | 119,593,605 |
| 17 | Switzerland | 9101 | Wrist-watches, pocket-watches, stop-watches and other watches; with case of precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal | 2023 | 92.05% | 1,335,737,874 |
| 18 | China | 1206 | Sunflower seeds; whether or not broken | 2023 | 90.08% | 20,638,586 |
| 19 | China | 6001 | Fabrics; pile fabrics, including long pile fabrics and terry fabrics, knitted or crocheted | 2023 | 89.82% | 20,023,700 |
| 20 | China | 6702 | Flowers, foliage and fruit, artificial, and parts thereof; articles made of artificial flowers, foliage or fruit | 2023 | 89.19% | 27,959,093 |
| 21 | China | 7607 | Aluminium foil (whether or not printed or backed with paper, paperboard, plastics or similar backing materials) of a thickness (excluding any backing) not exceeding 0.2mm | 2023 | 89.13% | 240,830,480 |
| 22 | China | 9617 | Vacuum flasks and other vacuum vessels, complete with cases; parts thereof other than glass inners | 2023 | 88.98% | 31,405,378 |
| 23 | Australia | 1103 | Cereal groats; meal and pellets | 2023 | 88.72% | 34,310,030 |
| 24 | China | 8104 | Magnesium; articles thereof, including waste and scrap | 2023 | 87.71% | 23,831,198 |
| 25 | China | 8513 | Lamps; portable, electric, designed to function by their own source of energy (e.g. dry batteries, accumulators, magnetos), excluding lighting equipment of heading no. 8512 | 2023 | 86.24% | 32,005,541 |
| 26 | USA | 5403 | Artificial filament yarn (other than sewing thread), not put up for retail sale, including artificial monofilament of less than 67 decitex | 2023 | 85.28% | 47,786,676 |
| 27 | Switzerland | 9102 | Wrist-watches, pocket-watches, stop-watches and other watches, other than those of heading no. 9101 | 2023 | 84.03% | 1,008,461,000 |
| 28 | China | 9615 | Combs, hair-slides and similar; hairpins, curling pins, curling grips and hair curlers and the like, other than those of heading no. 8516 and parts thereof | 2023 | 83.53% | 21,397,536 |
| 29 | Oman | 7211 | Iron or non-alloy steel; flat-rolled products, width less than 600mm, not clad, plated or coated | 2023 | 83.42% | 52,120,464 |
| 30 | Tajikistan | 2805 | Alkali or alkaline-earth metals; rare-earth metals, scandium and yttrium, whether or not intermixed or interalloyed; mercury | 2023 | 83.05% | 10,794,923 |
| 31 | Portugal | 4413 | Densified wood, in blocks, plates, strips or profile shapes | 2023 | 82.49% | 15,498,032 |
| 32 | Chile | 2834 | Nitrites; nitrates | 2023 | 82.46% | 41,565,811 |
| 33 | China | 2708 | Pitch and pitch coke; obtained from coal tar or from other mineral tars | 2023 | 81.88% | 178,322,812 |
| 34 | China | 6210 | Garments made up of fabrics of heading no. 5602, 5603, 5903, 5906 or 5907 (not knitted or crocheted) | 2023 | 81.70% | 231,701,266 |
| 35 | China | 8521 | Video recording or reproducing apparatus | 2023 | 81.61% | 103,679,519 |
| 36 | China | 2918 | Acids; carboxylic acid with additional oxygen function and their anhydrides, halides, peroxides, peroxyacids; their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives | 2023 | 81.11% | 130,687,263 |
| 37 | Germany | 7611 | Aluminium; reservoirs, tanks, vats and the like for material (not compressed or liquefied gas) of capacity over 300l, whether or not lined, heat-insulated, not fitted with mechanical, thermal equipment | 2023 | 81.00% | 25,419,478 |
| 38 | Germany | 5404 | Synthetic monofilament of 67 decitex or more, of which no cross-sectional dimension exceeds 1mm; strip and the like (e.g. artificial straw) of synthetic textile materials of an apparent width not exceeding 5mm | 2023 | 80.88% | 11,642,569 |
| 39 | Saudi Arabia | 7413 | Copper; stranded wire, cables, plaited bands and the like, not electrically insulated | 2023 | 80.87% | 24,095,619 |
| 40 | Australia | 1205 | Rape or colza seeds; whether or not broken | 2023 | 80.74% | 498,823,434 |
| 41 | China | 8519 | Sound recording or reproducing apparatus | 2023 | 80.31% | 30,062,184 |
China: 20 occurrences
Oman: 3 occurrences
Australia: 2 occurrences
Germany: 2 occurrences
Switzerland: 2 occurrences
USA: 2 occurrences
Areas, nes: 1 occurrence
Chile: 1 occurrence
Côte d'Ivoire: 1 occurrence
Guinea: 1 occurrence
India: 1 occurrence
Portugal: 1 occurrence
Qatar: 1 occurrence
Rep. of Korea: 1 occurrence
Saudi Arabia: 1 occurrence
Tajikistan: 1 occurrence
Legend:
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