Extreme Import Bottlenecks
The tables below show Brazil'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.
Brazil
94 bottlenecks| # | Partner | HS Code | HS Description | Year | Share (%) | Value (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 8603 | Railway or tramway coaches, vans and trucks; self-propelled tenders, other than those of heading no. 8604 | 2025 | 99.99% | 190,440,315 |
| 2 | Spain | 2521 | Limestone flux; limestone and other calcareous stone, of a kind used for the manufacture of lime or cement | 2025 | 99.60% | 16,147,615 |
| 3 | Chile | 0302 | Fish; fresh or chilled, excluding fish fillets and other fish meat of heading 0304 | 2025 | 99.56% | 800,215,636 |
| 4 | Paraguay | 2716 | Electrical energy | 2025 | 98.87% | 900,340,135 |
| 5 | Switzerland | 9101 | Wrist-watches, pocket-watches, stop-watches and other watches; with case of precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal | 2025 | 98.86% | 17,890,038 |
| 6 | China | 6702 | Flowers, foliage and fruit, artificial, and parts thereof; articles made of artificial flowers, foliage or fruit | 2025 | 98.57% | 40,495,772 |
| 7 | China | 6001 | Fabrics; pile fabrics, including long pile fabrics and terry fabrics, knitted or crocheted | 2025 | 98.16% | 202,760,776 |
| 8 | Paraguay | 1507 | Soya-bean oil and its fractions; whether or not refined, but not chemically modified | 2025 | 97.68% | 109,964,486 |
| 9 | China | 5516 | Woven fabrics of artificial staple fibres | 2025 | 97.65% | 199,187,515 |
| 10 | China | 5606 | Yarn and strip and the like of heading no. 5404 or 5405, gimped (other than those of heading no. 5606 and gimped horsehair yarn); chenille yarn (including flock chenille yarn); loop wale-yarn | 2025 | 97.56% | 16,105,305 |
| 11 | Paraguay | 1007 | Grain sorghum | 2025 | 97.50% | 30,682,476 |
| 12 | Paraguay | 1005 | Maize (corn) | 2025 | 97.37% | 329,791,274 |
| 13 | China | 6601 | Umbrellas; sun umbrellas (including walking stick umbrellas, garden umbrellas and similar umbrellas) | 2025 | 97.11% | 44,171,448 |
| 14 | 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 | 2025 | 96.80% | 25,150,947 |
| 15 | China | 3827 | Mixtures containing halogenated derivatives of methane, ethane or propane, not elsewhere specified or included | 2025 | 96.33% | 44,038,945 |
| 16 | Paraguay | 1201 | Soya beans, whether or not broken | 2025 | 95.95% | 345,354,641 |
| 17 | China | 8111 | Manganese; articles thereof, including waste and scrap | 2025 | 95.93% | 92,186,335 |
| 18 | China | 8715 | Baby carriages and parts thereof | 2025 | 95.79% | 22,920,588 |
| 19 | China | 5804 | Tulles and other net fabrics; not including woven, knitted or crocheted fabrics; lace in the piece, in strips or in motifs, (other than fabrics of headings 60.02 to 60.06) | 2025 | 94.83% | 13,694,375 |
| 20 | China | 4419 | Tableware and kitchenware, of wood | 2025 | 94.78% | 27,218,923 |
| 21 | China | 9505 | Festive, carnival or other entertainment articles, including conjuring tricks and novelty jokes | 2025 | 94.72% | 85,824,197 |
| 22 | China | 9617 | Vacuum flasks and other vacuum vessels, complete with cases; parts thereof other than glass inners | 2025 | 94.67% | 163,949,587 |
| 23 | China | 8806 | Unmanned aircraft | 2025 | 94.50% | 80,584,807 |
| 24 | China | 8508 | Vacuum cleaners | 2025 | 94.44% | 109,406,447 |
| 25 | China | 8711 | Motorcycles (including mopeds) and cycles; fitted with an auxiliary motor, with or without side-cars; side-cars | 2025 | 94.15% | 273,230,264 |
| 26 | China | 6704 | Wigs, false beards, eyebrows and eyelashes, switches and the like, of human or animal hair or of textile materials; articles of human hair, n.e.c. or included | 2025 | 93.35% | 16,115,136 |
| 27 | China | 7615 | Aluminium; table, kitchen or other household articles and parts thereof, pot scourers and scouring or polishing pads, gloves and the like, sanitary ware and parts thereof | 2025 | 93.30% | 118,775,870 |
| 28 | China | 5810 | Embroidery; in the piece, in strips or in motifs | 2025 | 93.24% | 24,690,549 |
| 29 | China | 9202 | Musical instruments; string, n.e.c. in heading no. 9201, (e.g. guitars, violins, harps) | 2025 | 93.08% | 21,700,675 |
| 30 | China | 4820 | Registers, account books, diaries and similar; albums for samples or collections, of paper or paperboard | 2025 | 93.02% | 29,739,678 |
| 31 | China | 2828 | Hypochlorites; commercial calcium hypochlorite; chlorites; hypobromites | 2025 | 92.95% | 15,678,123 |
| 32 | USA | 7506 | Nickel; plates, sheets, strip and foil | 2025 | 92.03% | 89,862,495 |
| 33 | Peru | 3205 | Colour lakes; preparations based on colour lakes as specified in note 3 to this chapter | 2025 | 91.58% | 21,163,698 |
| 34 | China | 5514 | Woven fabrics of synthetic staple fibres, containing less than 85% by weight of such fibres, mixed mainly or solely with cotton, of a weight exceeding 170g/m2 | 2025 | 91.30% | 11,798,338 |
| 35 | Argentina | 1103 | Cereal groats; meal and pellets | 2025 | 91.29% | 13,056,855 |
| 36 | China | 6810 | Cement, concrete or artificial stone; whether or not reinforced, articles thereof | 2025 | 90.73% | 62,693,566 |
| 37 | Peru | 1804 | Cocoa; butter, fat and oil | 2025 | 90.63% | 17,355,992 |
| 38 | China | 4903 | Children's picture, drawing or colouring books | 2025 | 90.32% | 43,928,808 |
| 39 | China | 6910 | Ceramic sinks, wash basins, wash basin pedestals, baths, bidets, water closet pans, flushing cisterns, urinals and similar sanitary fixtures | 2025 | 90.23% | 49,629,541 |
| 40 | 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 | 2025 | 89.87% | 1,932,902,216 |
| 41 | Spain | 2520 | Gypsum; anhydrite; plasters (consisting of calcined gypsum or calcium sulphate), coloured or not, with or without small quantities of accelerators or retarders | 2025 | 89.55% | 14,895,875 |
| 42 | China | 2823 | Titanium oxides | 2025 | 89.53% | 28,520,956 |
| 43 | China | 9404 | Mattress supports; articles of bedding (e.g. mattresses, quilts, eiderdowns, cushions pouffes and pillows), fitted with springs or stuffed, whether or not covered | 2025 | 89.40% | 122,340,783 |
| 44 | China | 8214 | Cutlery; other articles, (e.g. hair clippers, butchers' or kitchen cleavers, choppers and mincing knives, paper knives), manicure or pedicure sets and instruments (including nail files) | 2025 | 89.37% | 13,710,066 |
| 45 | China | 8215 | Cutlery; spoons, forks, ladles, skimmers, cake-servers, fish-knives, butter knives, sugar tongs and similar kitchen or tableware | 2025 | 89.24% | 43,435,704 |
| 46 | USA | 8602 | Rail locomotives; (other than those of heading no. 8601), locomotive tenders | 2025 | 89.23% | 51,446,247 |
| 47 | Argentina | 1003 | Barley | 2025 | 88.89% | 240,889,669 |
| 48 | China | 8713 | Carriages for disabled persons; whether or not motorised or otherwise mechanically propelled | 2025 | 88.89% | 29,991,744 |
| 49 | China | 8705 | Special purpose motor vehicles; not those for the transport of persons or goods (e.g. breakdown lorries, road sweeper lorries, spraying lorries, mobile workshops, mobile radiological units etc) | 2025 | 88.75% | 270,094,181 |
| 50 | China | 4013 | Inner tubes, of rubber | 2025 | 88.68% | 64,405,019 |
| 51 | USA | 2815 | Sodium hydroxide (caustic soda); potassium hydroxide (caustic potash) peroxides of sodium or potassium | 2025 | 88.51% | 785,891,702 |
| 52 | Chile | 2501 | Salt (including table salt and denatured salt); pure sodium chloride whether or not in aqueous solution; sea water | 2025 | 88.00% | 66,673,808 |
| 53 | USA | 2507 | Kaolin and other kaolinic clays; whether or not calcined | 2025 | 87.95% | 21,758,323 |
| 54 | Switzerland | 2928 | Organic derivatives of hydrazine or of hydroxylamine | 2025 | 87.25% | 285,621,876 |
| 55 | China | 8516 | Electric water, space, soil heaters; electro-thermic hair-dressing apparatus; hand dryers, irons; electro-thermic appliances for domestic purposes; electro heating resistors, not of heading no. 8545 | 2025 | 87.10% | 730,827,116 |
| 56 | China | 5309 | Woven fabrics of flax | 2025 | 86.94% | 18,510,066 |
| 57 | China | 5407 | Woven fabrics of synthetic filament yarn, including woven fabrics obtained from materials of heading no. 5404 | 2025 | 86.84% | 620,272,265 |
| 58 | China | 6212 | Brassieres, girdles, corsets, braces, suspenders, garters and similar articles and parts thereof; whether or not knitted or crocheted | 2025 | 86.71% | 38,003,347 |
| 59 | China | 7324 | Sanitary ware and parts thereof, of iron or steel | 2025 | 86.61% | 19,314,666 |
| 60 | Chile | 2801 | Fluorine, chlorine, bromine and iodine | 2025 | 86.57% | 54,267,984 |
| 61 | Chile | 2613 | Molybdenum ores and concentrates | 2025 | 86.47% | 257,257,428 |
| 62 | 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 | 2025 | 86.22% | 275,890,814 |
| 63 | China | 8509 | Electro-mechanical domestic appliances; with self-contained electric motor, other than vacuum cleaners of heading 85.08. | 2025 | 86.07% | 110,182,685 |
| 64 | 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 | 2025 | 85.69% | 15,495,538 |
| 65 | China | 5515 | Woven fabrics of synthetic staple fibres, n.e.c. in chapter 55 | 2025 | 85.65% | 28,697,980 |
| 66 | China | 8213 | Scissors; tailors' shears and similar shears, and blades therefore | 2025 | 85.51% | 12,789,519 |
| 67 | USA | 0407 | Birds' eggs, in shell; fresh, preserved or cooked | 2025 | 85.22% | 96,903,553 |
| 68 | China | 3922 | Sanitary ware; baths, shower-baths, sinks, wash-basins, bidets, lavatory pans, seats and covers, flushing cisterns and sanitary ware, of plastics | 2025 | 85.16% | 23,088,236 |
| 69 | Argentina | 1101 | Wheat or meslin flour | 2025 | 85.00% | 103,083,925 |
| 70 | China | 9405 | Luminaires and light fittings; including searchlights, spotlights and parts thereof, n.e.c.; illuminated signs, name-plates and the like, having permanently fixed light source and parts thereof n.e.c. or included | 2025 | 84.98% | 352,710,192 |
| 71 | China | 6005 | Fabrics; warp knit (including those made on galloon knitting machines), other than those of headings 60.01 to 60.04 | 2025 | 84.93% | 46,598,605 |
| 72 | Indonesia | 1513 | Coconut (copra), palm kernel or babassu oil and their fractions; whether or not refined but not chemically modified | 2025 | 84.61% | 453,060,775 |
| 73 | China | 5907 | Textile fabrics; otherwise impregnated, coated or covered; painted canvas being theatrical scenery, studio back-cloths or the like | 2025 | 84.60% | 12,324,947 |
| 74 | China | 6006 | Fabrics; knitted or crocheted fabrics, other than those of headings 60.01 to 60.04 | 2025 | 84.59% | 133,231,968 |
| 75 | China | 5408 | Woven fabrics of artificial filament yarn including woven fabrics obtained from materials of heading no. 5404 | 2025 | 84.49% | 11,966,470 |
| 76 | China | 8211 | Knives; with cutting blades, serrated or not (including pruning knives), other than knives of heading no. 8208, and blades therefore | 2025 | 84.47% | 33,052,859 |
| 77 | China | 6406 | Footwear; parts of footwear; removable in-soles, heel cushions and similar articles; gaiters, le.g.ings and similar articles, and parts thereof | 2025 | 84.27% | 42,795,452 |
| 78 | China | 6306 | Tarpaulins, awnings and sunblinds; tents (including temporary canopies and similar articles); sails for boats, sailboards or landcraft; camping goods | 2025 | 84.09% | 25,665,660 |
| 79 | Argentina | 1512 | Sun-flower seed, safflower or cotton-seed oil and their fractions; whether or not refined, but not chemically modified | 2025 | 83.67% | 42,928,503 |
| 80 | China | 7018 | Glass beads, imitation pearls, precious or semi-precious stones and similar glass smallwares, statuettes and other ornaments of worked glass; glass microspheres not exceeding 1mm in diameter | 2025 | 83.37% | 15,778,942 |
| 81 | China | 6108 | Slips, petticoats, briefs, panties, nightdresses, pyjamas, negligees, bathrobes, dressing gowns and similar articles; women's or girls', knitted or crocheted | 2025 | 83.08% | 49,636,070 |
| 82 | China | 8540 | Thermionic, cold cathode or photo-cathode valves and tubes (e.g. vacuum, vapour, gas filled valves and tubes, mercury arc rectifying valves and tubes, cathode-ray and television camera tubes) | 2025 | 82.80% | 27,074,612 |
| 83 | China | 9607 | Slide fasteners and parts thereof | 2025 | 82.71% | 33,656,508 |
| 84 | Chile | 7403 | Copper; refined and copper alloys, unwrought | 2025 | 82.66% | 2,050,664,261 |
| 85 | Argentina | 0406 | Cheese and curd | 2025 | 82.60% | 211,839,674 |
| 86 | China | 7227 | Steel, alloy; bars and rods, hot-rolled, in irregularly wound coils | 2025 | 82.51% | 32,045,033 |
| 87 | Finland | 8402 | Boilers; steam or other vapour generating (other than central heating hot water boilers, capable also of producing low pressure steam), super heated water boilers | 2025 | 81.94% | 164,099,510 |
| 88 | China | 7323 | Table, kitchen, other household articles and parts, of iron or steel; iron or steel wool; pot scourers and scouring or polishing pads, gloves and the like, of iron or steel | 2025 | 81.85% | 89,926,064 |
| 89 | China | 8716 | Trailers and semi-trailers; other vehicles, not mechanically propelled; parts thereof | 2025 | 81.18% | 102,500,035 |
| 90 | China | 3924 | Tableware, kitchenware, other household articles and hygienic or toilet articles, of plastics | 2025 | 80.96% | 146,696,414 |
| 91 | Austria | 9302 | Revolvers and pistols; other than those of heading no. 9303 or 9304 | 2025 | 80.47% | 20,853,073 |
| 92 | China | 9616 | Scent sprays and similar toilet sprays and mounts and heads therefor; powder-puffs and pads for the application of cosmetics or toilet preparations | 2025 | 80.42% | 11,915,628 |
| 93 | USA | 2901 | Acyclic hydrocarbons | 2025 | 80.25% | 100,101,168 |
| 94 | Germany | 7409 | Copper plates, sheets and strip; of a thickness exceeding 0.15mm | 2025 | 80.06% | 18,290,929 |
China: 63 occurrences
USA: 6 occurrences
Argentina: 5 occurrences
Chile: 5 occurrences
Paraguay: 5 occurrences
Peru: 2 occurrences
Spain: 2 occurrences
Switzerland: 2 occurrences
Austria: 1 occurrence
Finland: 1 occurrence
Germany: 1 occurrence
Indonesia: 1 occurrence
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