Extreme Import Bottlenecks
The tables below show Belgium'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.
Belgium
36 bottlenecks| # | Partner | HS Code | HS Description | Year | Share (%) | Value (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | France | 8601 | Rail locomotives; powered from an external source of electricity or by electric accumulators | 2025 | 100.00% | 48,921,401 |
| 2 | Germany | 2708 | Pitch and pitch coke; obtained from coal tar or from other mineral tars | 2025 | 100.00% | 45,502,516 |
| 3 | Netherlands | 2709 | Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals; crude | 2025 | 98.96% | 19,091,165,224 |
| 4 | Sweden | 2617 | Ores and concentrates; n.e.c. in heading no. 2601 | 2025 | 98.86% | 182,261,226 |
| 5 | Netherlands | 7015 | Clock, watch and similar glasses, glasses for non-corrective or corrective spectacles, curved, bent, hallowed etc, not optically worked; hollow glass spheres and their segments for manufacture | 2025 | 97.94% | 10,196,816 |
| 6 | Finland | 2822 | Cobalt oxides and hydroxides; commercial cobalt oxides | 2025 | 97.69% | 96,337,766 |
| 7 | Netherlands | 3703 | Photographic paper, paperboard and textiles; sensitised, unexposed | 2025 | 95.59% | 21,161,809 |
| 8 | Netherlands | 0603 | Flowers; cut flowers and flower buds of a kind suitable for bouquets or for ornamental purposes, fresh, dried, dyed, bleached, impregnated or otherwise prepared | 2025 | 95.42% | 113,511,826 |
| 9 | Netherlands | 7115 | Articles of precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal | 2025 | 95.07% | 163,573,022 |
| 10 | France | 3603 | Safety fuses; detonating cords; percussion or detonating caps; igniters; electric detonators | 2025 | 94.49% | 27,957,777 |
| 11 | Germany | 7401 | Copper mattes; cement copper (precipitated copper) | 2025 | 93.69% | 750,616,149 |
| 12 | Germany | 2808 | Nitric acid; sulphonitric acids | 2025 | 92.32% | 43,096,903 |
| 13 | Netherlands | 0601 | Bulbs, tubers, tuberous roots, corms, crowns and rhizomes; dormant, in growth or in flower; chicory plants and roots other than roots of heading no. 1212 | 2025 | 91.72% | 45,274,945 |
| 14 | Sweden | 3001 | Glands and other organs (extracts, secretions thereof) for organo-therapeutic uses, dried, powdered or not; heparin and its salts; other human or animal substances for therapeutic or prophylactic uses n.e.c. | 2025 | 91.16% | 102,437,432 |
| 15 | France | 5301 | Flax, raw or processed but not spun; flax tow and waste (including yarn waste and garnetted stock) | 2025 | 90.90% | 240,923,656 |
| 16 | Netherlands | 2801 | Fluorine, chlorine, bromine and iodine | 2025 | 90.55% | 232,942,048 |
| 17 | Netherlands | 1507 | Soya-bean oil and its fractions; whether or not refined, but not chemically modified | 2025 | 90.02% | 192,154,290 |
| 18 | USA | 7505 | Nickel; bars, rods, profiles and wire | 2025 | 89.88% | 38,965,406 |
| 19 | USA | 2850 | Hydrides, nitrides, azides, silicides and borides, whether or not chemically defined, other than compounds which are also carbides of heading no. 2849 | 2025 | 87.77% | 15,798,032 |
| 20 | Ireland | 3003 | Medicaments; (not goods of heading no. 3002, 3005 or 3006) of two or more constituents mixed together for therapeutic or prophylactic use not in measured doses or in forms or packings for retail sale | 2025 | 87.30% | 3,327,970,161 |
| 21 | Sweden | 8707 | Bodies; (including cabs) for the motor vehicles of heading no. 8701 to 8705 | 2025 | 87.26% | 314,916,208 |
| 22 | Russian Federation | 7207 | Iron or non-alloy steel; semi-finished products thereof | 2025 | 86.63% | 564,900,733 |
| 23 | France | 1206 | Sunflower seeds; whether or not broken | 2025 | 86.60% | 71,135,447 |
| 24 | Germany | 7110 | Platinum; unwrought or in semi-manufactured forms, or in powder form | 2025 | 85.61% | 706,733,568 |
| 25 | USA | 8802 | Aircraft n.e.c. in heading no. 8801, except unmanned aircraft of heading 8806, (e.g. helicopters, aeroplanes); spacecraft (including satellites) and suborbital and spacecraft launch vehicles | 2025 | 84.76% | 174,115,851 |
| 26 | Germany | 8602 | Rail locomotives; (other than those of heading no. 8601), locomotive tenders | 2025 | 84.36% | 22,839,028 |
| 27 | Netherlands | 0102 | Bovine animals; live | 2025 | 83.94% | 292,465,587 |
| 28 | Sweden | 8408 | Compression-ignition internal combustion piston engines (diesel or semi-diesel engines) | 2025 | 83.35% | 881,869,587 |
| 29 | Italy | 2939 | Alkaloids; natural or reproduced by synthesis, and their salts, ethers, esters and other derivatives | 2025 | 83.21% | 34,540,927 |
| 30 | Czechia | 7016 | Glass; paving blocks, slabs, bricks, tiles etc, of pressed, moulded glass, whether or not wired, glass smallwares for decorative purposes leaded lights and the like; multicellular or foam glass | 2025 | 82.65% | 12,425,445 |
| 31 | Morocco | 3103 | Fertilizers; mineral or chemical, phosphatic | 2025 | 82.56% | 13,957,506 |
| 32 | Switzerland | 9101 | Wrist-watches, pocket-watches, stop-watches and other watches; with case of precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal | 2025 | 81.82% | 47,960,572 |
| 33 | Netherlands | 3101 | Fertilizers; animal or vegetable, whether or not mixed together or chemically treated; fertilizers produced by the mixing or chemical treatment of animal or vegetable products | 2025 | 81.39% | 15,619,329 |
| 34 | Germany | 0506 | Bones and horn-cores, unworked, defatted, simply prepared (but not cut to shape), treated with acid or degelatinised; powder and waste of these products | 2025 | 81.15% | 21,185,560 |
| 35 | Netherlands | 2505 | Sands of all kinds; natural, whether or not coloured, other than metal-bearing sands of chapter 26 | 2025 | 80.88% | 126,566,384 |
| 36 | India | 7104 | Stones; synthetic or reconstructed precious or semi-precious, whether or not worked or graded but not strung, mounted or set; ungraded synthetic or reconstructed precious or semi-precious stones, temporarily strung for convenience of transport | 2025 | 80.54% | 31,185,054 |
Netherlands: 11 occurrences
Germany: 6 occurrences
France: 4 occurrences
Sweden: 4 occurrences
USA: 3 occurrences
Czechia: 1 occurrence
Finland: 1 occurrence
India: 1 occurrence
Ireland: 1 occurrence
Italy: 1 occurrence
Morocco: 1 occurrence
Russian Federation: 1 occurrence
Switzerland: 1 occurrence
Legend:
Highlight - the row matches a Danger Zone country and/or a Critical Goods HS code.
ABCBold red partner name - the import source country is flagged in the Danger Zone.
1234Bold lime HS code - the product code is flagged in Critical Goods.