Extreme Import Bottlenecks
The tables below show Botswana'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.
Botswana
59 bottlenecks| # | Partner | HS Code | HS Description | Year | Share (%) | Value (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | South Africa | 0401 | Milk and cream; not concentrated, not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter | 2023 | 100.00% | 20,487,165 |
| 2 | South Africa | 2206 | Fermented beverages, n.e.c. in chapter 22; (e.g. cider, perry, mead, sake) | 2023 | 99.99% | 38,782,228 |
| 3 | South Africa | 2203 | Beer made from malt | 2023 | 99.97% | 49,224,109 |
| 4 | South Africa | 1901 | Malt extract; flour/groats/meal/starch/malt extract products, no cocoa (or less than 40% by weight) and food preparations of goods of headings 04.01 to 04.04, no cocoa (or less than 5% by weight), weights calculated on a totally defatted basis, n.e.c. | 2023 | 99.94% | 19,097,307 |
| 5 | South Africa | 3102 | Fertilizers; mineral or chemical, nitrogenous | 2023 | 99.91% | 25,804,528 |
| 6 | South Africa | 2711 | Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons | 2023 | 99.90% | 22,579,030 |
| 7 | South Africa | 7208 | Iron or non-alloy steel; flat-rolled products of a width of 600mm or more, hot-rolled, not clad, plated or coated | 2023 | 99.89% | 46,833,744 |
| 8 | South Africa | 4818 | Toilet paper, width 36cm or less or cut to size/shape; handkerchiefs, tissues, towels, serviettes, bed sheets and similar household or hospital articles, apparel and clothing accessories of paper pulp, paper, cellulose wadding or webs of cellulose fibres | 2023 | 99.78% | 17,503,439 |
| 9 | South Africa | 2202 | Waters, including mineral and aerated waters, containing added sugar or sweetening matter, flavoured; other non-alcoholic beverages, not including fruit, nut or vegetable juices of heading no. 2009 | 2023 | 99.59% | 158,297,916 |
| 10 | South Africa | 2005 | Vegetables preparations n.e.c.; prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, not frozen, other than products of heading no. 2006 | 2023 | 99.53% | 17,268,048 |
| 11 | South Africa | 0910 | Ginger, saffron, tumeric (curcuma), thyme, bay leaves, curry and other spices | 2023 | 99.45% | 15,431,182 |
| 12 | South Africa | 3401 | Soap; organic surface-active preparations used as soap, skin washing, in bars, cakes, moulded pieces, shapes, liquid or cream, containing soap or not; for retail, paper, wadding, felt and nonwovens, impregnated, coated or covered with soap or detergent | 2023 | 99.37% | 43,428,430 |
| 13 | South Africa | 2103 | Sauces and preparations therefor; mixed condiments and mixed seasonings, mustard flour and meal and prepared mustard | 2023 | 99.36% | 33,627,201 |
| 14 | South Africa | 1005 | Maize (corn) | 2023 | 99.26% | 61,988,311 |
| 15 | South Africa | 2204 | Wine of fresh grapes, including fortified wines; grape must other than that of heading no. 2009 | 2023 | 99.04% | 14,516,264 |
| 16 | South Africa | 9619 | Sanitary towels (pads) and tampons, napkins (diapers), napkin liners and similar articles, of any material | 2023 | 98.77% | 20,382,642 |
| 17 | South Africa | 3208 | Paints, varnishes; (enamels and lacquers) based on synthetic polymers or chemically modified natural polymers, dispersed or dissolved in a non-aqueous medium | 2023 | 98.68% | 14,618,889 |
| 18 | South Africa | 3808 | Insecticides, rodenticides, fungicides, herbicides, anti-sprouting products, plant growth regulators, disinfectants and the like, put up in forms or packings for retail sale or as preparations or articles | 2023 | 98.43% | 17,891,038 |
| 19 | Zambia | 7408 | Copper wire | 2023 | 98.01% | 17,604,051 |
| 20 | South Africa | 3307 | Perfumery, cosmetic or toilet preparations; pre-shave, shaving, after-shave, bath preparations; personal deodorants and depilatories; room deodorisers, perfumed or not with disinfectant properties or not | 2023 | 97.95% | 14,911,125 |
| 21 | South Africa | 3402 | Organic surface-active agents (not soap); surface-active, washing (including auxiliary washing) and cleaning preparations, containing soap or not, excluding those of heading no. 3401 | 2023 | 97.92% | 29,036,089 |
| 22 | South Africa | 1704 | Sugar confectionery (including white chocolate), not containing cocoa | 2023 | 97.81% | 18,418,028 |
| 23 | South Africa | 6812 | Fabricated asbestos fibres; mixtures with a basis of asbestos or of asbestos and magnesium carbonate; articles of such mixtures or of asbestos (e.g. thread, woven fabric, clothing, footwear), whether or not reinforced, not goods of heading 6811 or 6813 | 2023 | 97.78% | 14,235,623 |
| 24 | South Africa | 2009 | Fruit or nut juices (including grape must and coconut water) and vegetable juices, unfermented, not containing added spirit, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter | 2023 | 97.73% | 37,967,406 |
| 25 | South Africa | 1512 | Sun-flower seed, safflower or cotton-seed oil and their fractions; whether or not refined, but not chemically modified | 2023 | 97.71% | 37,915,938 |
| 26 | South Africa | 9404 | Mattress supports; articles of bedding (e.g. mattresses, quilts, eiderdowns, cushions pouffes and pillows), fitted with springs or stuffed, whether or not covered | 2023 | 97.71% | 11,476,428 |
| 27 | South Africa | 1006 | Rice | 2023 | 97.45% | 36,785,928 |
| 28 | South Africa | 2309 | Preparations of a kind used in animal feeding | 2023 | 97.02% | 23,064,163 |
| 29 | South Africa | 3304 | Cosmetic and toilet preparations; beauty, make-up and skin care preparations (excluding medicaments, including sunscreen or sun tan preparations), manicure or pedicure preparations | 2023 | 96.79% | 30,942,408 |
| 30 | South Africa | 1904 | Prepared foods obtained by swelling or roasting cereals or cereal products (e.g. corn flakes); cereals (other than maize (corn)) in grain form or in the form of flakes or other worked grains (not flour and meal), pre-cooked or otherwise prepared, n.e.c. | 2023 | 96.61% | 22,127,429 |
| 31 | South Africa | 6405 | Footwear; other footwear n.e.c. in chapter 64 | 2023 | 95.58% | 14,218,260 |
| 32 | South Africa | 7314 | Cloth (including endless bands), grill, netting and fencing, of iron or steel wire; expanded metal of iron or steel | 2023 | 94.92% | 10,425,562 |
| 33 | South Africa | 3924 | Tableware, kitchenware, other household articles and hygienic or toilet articles, of plastics | 2023 | 94.64% | 10,141,323 |
| 34 | South Africa | 4819 | Cartons, boxes, cases, bags and the like, of paper, paperboard, cellulose wadding or fibres; box files, letter trays and the like, of paper or paperboard, of a kind used in offices, shops or the like | 2023 | 94.22% | 14,420,884 |
| 35 | South Africa | 8716 | Trailers and semi-trailers; other vehicles, not mechanically propelled; parts thereof | 2023 | 93.55% | 15,449,962 |
| 36 | South Africa | 1905 | Bread, pastry, cakes, biscuits, other bakers' wares, whether or not containing cocoa; communion wafers, empty cachets suitable for pharmaceutical use, sealing wafers, rice paper and similar products | 2023 | 93.53% | 12,110,048 |
| 37 | South Africa | 2106 | Food preparations not elsewhere specified or included | 2023 | 93.45% | 14,342,192 |
| 38 | South Africa | 0403 | Yogurt; buttermilk, curdled milk and cream, kephir and other fermented or acidified milk and cream, whether or not concentrated or containing added sugar or other sweetening matter or flavoured or containing added fruit, nuts or cocoa. | 2023 | 92.91% | 11,699,078 |
| 39 | South Africa | 7210 | Iron or non-alloy steel; flat-rolled products, width 600mm or more, clad, plated or coated | 2023 | 92.12% | 10,051,938 |
| 40 | South Africa | 8418 | Refrigerators, freezers and other refrigerating or freezing equipment, electric or other; heat pumps other than air conditioning machines of heading no. 8415 | 2023 | 91.17% | 20,202,009 |
| 41 | South Africa | 3904 | Polymers of vinyl chloride or of other halogenated olefins, in primary forms | 2023 | 90.45% | 14,769,142 |
| 42 | South Africa | 7308 | Structures of iron or steel and parts thereof; plates, rods, angles, shapes, sections, tubes and the like, prepared for use in structures | 2023 | 90.15% | 24,596,691 |
| 43 | South Africa | 1001 | Wheat and meslin | 2023 | 89.95% | 44,984,950 |
| 44 | South Africa | 2304 | Oil-cake and other solid residues; whether or not ground or in the form of pellets, resulting from the extraction of soya-bean oil | 2023 | 89.70% | 19,848,207 |
| 45 | South Africa | 4403 | Wood in the rough, whether or not stripped of bark or sapwood, or roughly squared | 2023 | 89.65% | 11,894,240 |
| 46 | South Africa | 3917 | Tubes, pipes and hoses and fittings thereof (for example, joints, elbows, flanges), of plastics | 2023 | 89.05% | 20,346,557 |
| 47 | South Africa | 8708 | Motor vehicles; parts and accessories, of heading no. 8701 to 8705 | 2023 | 88.15% | 61,689,450 |
| 48 | South Africa | 1902 | Pasta; whether or not cooked or stuffed with meat or other substance, or otherwise prepared, egg spaghetti, macaroni, noodles, lasagne, gnocchi, ravioli, cannelloni; couscous, whether or not prepared | 2023 | 87.22% | 17,521,835 |
| 49 | South Africa | 8701 | Tractors; (other than tractors of heading no 8709) | 2023 | 86.08% | 25,715,948 |
| 50 | South Africa | 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 | 2023 | 85.24% | 24,389,001 |
| 51 | South Africa | 4407 | Wood sawn or chipped lengthwise, sliced or peeled, whether or not planed, sanded or finger-jointed, of a thickness exceeding 6mm | 2023 | 84.97% | 17,718,453 |
| 52 | South Africa | 8704 | Vehicles; for the transport of goods | 2023 | 84.29% | 118,359,286 |
| 53 | South Africa | 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 | 2023 | 83.88% | 10,700,802 |
| 54 | USA | 2924 | Carboxyamide-function compounds; amide-function compounds of carbonic acid | 2023 | 81.94% | 11,595,570 |
| 55 | South Africa | 2208 | Ethyl alcohol, undenatured; of an alcoholic strength by volume of less than 80% volume; spirits, liqueurs and other spirituous beverages | 2023 | 81.04% | 13,515,773 |
| 56 | South Africa | 2523 | Portland cement, aluminous cement (ciment fondu), slag cement, supersulphate cement and similar hydraulic cements, whether or not coloured or in the form of clinkers | 2023 | 81.04% | 45,449,031 |
| 57 | South Africa | 8443 | Printing machinery; used for printing by means of plates, cylinders and other printing components of heading 84.42; other printers, copying machines and facsimile machines, whether or not combined; parts and accessories thereof | 2023 | 81.01% | 15,592,102 |
| 58 | South Africa | 8431 | Machinery parts; used solely or principally with the machinery of heading no. 8425 to 8430 | 2023 | 80.76% | 81,387,250 |
| 59 | South Africa | 9401 | Seats (not those of heading no. 9402), whether or not convertible into beds and parts thereof | 2023 | 80.37% | 10,302,075 |
South Africa: 57 occurrences
USA: 1 occurrence
Zambia: 1 occurrence
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