Extreme Import Bottlenecks
The tables below show Canada'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.
Canada
137 bottlenecks| # | Partner | HS Code | HS Description | Year | Share (%) | Value (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | USA | 2716 | Electrical energy | 2025 | 100.00% | 1,061,771,269 |
| 2 | USA | 4406 | Railway or tramway sleepers (cross-ties) of wood | 2025 | 100.00% | 134,710,954 |
| 3 | USA | 0102 | Bovine animals; live | 2025 | 99.99% | 837,375,874 |
| 4 | USA | 0701 | Potatoes; fresh or chilled | 2025 | 99.99% | 79,746,674 |
| 5 | USA | 2607 | Lead ores and concentrates | 2025 | 99.99% | 319,032,015 |
| 6 | USA | 3826 | Biodiesel and mixtures thereof; not containing or containing less than 70% by weight of petroleum oils or oils obtained from bituminous minerals | 2025 | 99.97% | 255,473,010 |
| 7 | USA | 2619 | Slag, dross; (other than granulated slag), scalings and other waste from the manufacture of iron or steel | 2025 | 99.96% | 14,575,993 |
| 8 | USA | 1003 | Barley | 2025 | 99.94% | 27,350,894 |
| 9 | USA | 2706 | Tar distilled from coal, from lignite, peat and other mineral tars, whether or not dehydrated or partially distilled; including reconstituted tars | 2025 | 99.92% | 60,630,728 |
| 10 | USA | 4403 | Wood in the rough, whether or not stripped of bark or sapwood, or roughly squared | 2025 | 99.92% | 281,138,280 |
| 11 | USA | 1005 | Maize (corn) | 2025 | 99.61% | 507,085,110 |
| 12 | USA | 2518 | Dolomite, whether or not calcined or sintered, including dolomite roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape | 2025 | 99.46% | 14,679,905 |
| 13 | USA | 8401 | Nuclear reactors; fuel elements (cartridges), non-irradiated, for nuclear reactors, machinery and apparatus for isotopic separation | 2025 | 99.42% | 18,096,086 |
| 14 | USA | 1001 | Wheat and meslin | 2025 | 99.39% | 28,686,671 |
| 15 | USA | 4707 | Waste and scrap of paper and paperboard | 2025 | 99.39% | 130,857,770 |
| 16 | USA | 2704 | Coke and semi-coke; of coal, lignite or peat, whether or not agglomerated; retort carbon | 2025 | 99.34% | 299,421,679 |
| 17 | USA | 2207 | Ethyl alcohol, undenatured; of an alcoholic strength by volume of 80% vol. or higher; ethyl alcohol and other spirits, denatured, of any strength | 2025 | 99.24% | 1,655,666,865 |
| 18 | USA | 6809 | Plaster or compositions based on plaster; articles thereof | 2025 | 99.06% | 188,056,122 |
| 19 | USA | 1502 | Fats of bovine animals, sheep or goats, other than those of heading 1503 | 2025 | 99.04% | 15,077,847 |
| 20 | Madagascar | 2614 | Titanium ores and concentrates | 2025 | 98.55% | 35,856,018 |
| 21 | USA | 0105 | Poultry; live, fowls of the species Gallus domesticus, ducks, geese, turkeys and guinea fowls | 2025 | 98.45% | 88,972,940 |
| 22 | USA | 4401 | Fuel wood, in logs, billets, twigs, faggots or similar forms; wood in chip or particles; sawdust and wood waste and scrap, whether or not agglomerated in logs, briquettes, pellets or similar forms | 2025 | 98.36% | 131,466,201 |
| 23 | USA | 2707 | Oils and other products of the distillation of high temperature coal tar; similar products in which the weight of the aromatic constituents exceeds that of the non-aromatic constituents | 2025 | 98.20% | 53,934,988 |
| 24 | USA | 2837 | Cyanides, cyanide oxides and complex cyanides | 2025 | 98.18% | 97,958,054 |
| 25 | USA | 0407 | Birds' eggs, in shell; fresh, preserved or cooked | 2025 | 98.04% | 301,863,776 |
| 26 | USA | 2302 | Bran, sharps and other residues; whether or not in the form of pellets derived from the sifting, milling or other working of cereals or of leguminous plants | 2025 | 97.94% | 56,052,468 |
| 27 | USA | 8706 | Chassis; fitted with engines, for the motor vehicles of heading no. 8701 to 8705 | 2025 | 97.85% | 71,985,799 |
| 28 | USA | 8602 | Rail locomotives; (other than those of heading no. 8601), locomotive tenders | 2025 | 97.50% | 166,466,531 |
| 29 | USA | 7404 | Copper; waste and scrap | 2025 | 97.49% | 853,421,319 |
| 30 | USA | 0401 | Milk and cream; not concentrated, not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter | 2025 | 97.44% | 67,878,946 |
| 31 | USA | 2303 | Residues of starch manufacture, similar residues; beet-pulp, bagasse and other waste of sugar manufacture, brewing or distilling dregs and waste, whether or not in the form of pellets | 2025 | 97.37% | 184,878,061 |
| 32 | USA | 2505 | Sands of all kinds; natural, whether or not coloured, other than metal-bearing sands of chapter 26 | 2025 | 97.35% | 189,839,995 |
| 33 | USA | 7204 | Ferrous waste and scrap; remelting scrap ingots of iron or steel | 2025 | 97.34% | 197,263,822 |
| 34 | USA | 6807 | Asphalt or similar material; articles (e.g. petroleum bitumen or coal tar pitch) | 2025 | 97.30% | 373,836,104 |
| 35 | USA | 4706 | Pulps of fibres derived from recovered (waste and scrap) paper or paperboard or of other fibrous cellulosic material | 2025 | 97.06% | 20,628,016 |
| 36 | USA | 7413 | Copper; stranded wire, cables, plaited bands and the like, not electrically insulated | 2025 | 96.96% | 137,537,403 |
| 37 | USA | 3820 | Anti-freezing preparations and prepared de-icing fluids | 2025 | 96.66% | 87,001,408 |
| 38 | USA | 7602 | Aluminium; waste and scrap | 2025 | 96.32% | 200,971,673 |
| 39 | USA | 2521 | Limestone flux; limestone and other calcareous stone, of a kind used for the manufacture of lime or cement | 2025 | 96.17% | 12,550,173 |
| 40 | USA | 1214 | Swedes, mangolds, fodder roots, hay, lucerne (alfalfa), clover, sainfoin, forage kale, lupines, vetches and similar forage products, whether or not in the form of pellets | 2025 | 96.16% | 21,167,283 |
| 41 | China | 9617 | Vacuum flasks and other vacuum vessels, complete with cases; parts thereof other than glass inners | 2025 | 96.08% | 211,802,066 |
| 42 | USA | 2517 | Pebbles, gravel, crushed stone for concrete aggregates for road or railway ballast, shingle or flint; macadam of slag, dross etc tarred granules, chippings, powder of stones of heading no. 2515 and 2516 | 2025 | 95.98% | 43,574,214 |
| 43 | USA | 1501 | Pig fat (including lard) and poultry fat, other than that of heading 0209 or 1503 | 2025 | 95.83% | 11,363,853 |
| 44 | Bulgaria | 2502 | Iron pyrites; unroasted | 2025 | 95.65% | 11,972,134 |
| 45 | USA | 8702 | Vehicles; public transport passenger type | 2025 | 95.64% | 1,063,824,768 |
| 46 | USA | 8905 | Light-vessels, fire-floats, dredgers, floating cranes, other vessels; the navigability of which is subsidiary to main function; floating docks, floating, submersible drilling, production platforms | 2025 | 95.64% | 17,750,456 |
| 47 | USA | 1208 | Flours and meals of oil seeds or oleaginous fruits; other than those of mustard | 2025 | 95.60% | 127,351,765 |
| 48 | USA | 2901 | Acyclic hydrocarbons | 2025 | 95.59% | 732,917,633 |
| 49 | USA | 8109 | Zirconium; articles thereof, including waste and scrap | 2025 | 95.55% | 64,682,915 |
| 50 | USA | 7406 | Copper; powders and flakes | 2025 | 95.13% | 19,948,844 |
| 51 | USA | 2512 | Siliceous fossil meals (e.g. kieselguhr, tripolite and diatomite) and similar siliceous earths; whether or not calcined, of an apparent specific gravity of 1 or less | 2025 | 94.99% | 10,425,634 |
| 52 | USA | 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 | 2025 | 94.80% | 369,501,108 |
| 53 | USA | 2522 | Quicklime, slaked lime and hydraulic lime; other than calcium oxide and hydroxide of heading no. 2825 | 2025 | 94.71% | 44,846,404 |
| 54 | USA | 7211 | Iron or non-alloy steel; flat-rolled products, width less than 600mm, not clad, plated or coated | 2025 | 94.70% | 191,890,996 |
| 55 | USA | 6811 | Asbestos-cement, of cellulose fibre-cement or the like | 2025 | 94.69% | 181,825,820 |
| 56 | USA | 4805 | Uncoated paper and paperboard n.e.c., in rolls or sheets | 2025 | 94.50% | 626,726,611 |
| 57 | USA | 4808 | Paper and paperboard, corrugated (with or without glued flat surface sheets), creped, crinkled, embossed or perforated, in rolls or sheets other than paper of the kind described in heading 4803 | 2025 | 94.26% | 262,076,026 |
| 58 | USA | 3811 | Anti-knock preparations, oxidation and gum inhibitors, viscosity improvers, anti-corrosive preparations and the like, for mineral oils (including gasoline) or other liquids used for the same purposes | 2025 | 93.76% | 414,255,766 |
| 59 | China | 6702 | Flowers, foliage and fruit, artificial, and parts thereof; articles made of artificial flowers, foliage or fruit | 2025 | 93.75% | 81,495,684 |
| 60 | USA | 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 | 2025 | 93.51% | 14,527,378 |
| 61 | USA | 2601 | Iron ores and concentrates; including roasted iron pyrites | 2025 | 93.46% | 403,917,024 |
| 62 | USA | 7612 | Aluminium casks, drums, cans, boxes etc (including rigid, collapsible tubular containers), for materials other than compressed, liquefied gas, 300l capacity or less, lined, heat-insulated or not | 2025 | 92.98% | 584,115,163 |
| 63 | USA | 4005 | Compounded rubber, unvulcanised, in primary forms or in plates, sheets or strip | 2025 | 92.83% | 185,799,895 |
| 64 | USA | 3902 | Polymers of propylene or of other olefins, in primary forms | 2025 | 92.65% | 794,364,615 |
| 65 | USA | 3901 | Polymers of ethylene, in primary forms | 2025 | 92.57% | 1,230,073,231 |
| 66 | China | 8715 | Baby carriages and parts thereof | 2025 | 92.36% | 41,653,139 |
| 67 | USA | 1518 | Animal, vegetable or microbial fats, oils and their fractions; boiled, oxidised, dehydrated or otherwise chemically modified, excluding those of heading no. 1516, inedible mixtures or preparations of fats, oils or their fractions, n.e.c. in chapter 15 | 2025 | 92.21% | 23,264,690 |
| 68 | China | 8104 | Magnesium; articles thereof, including waste and scrap | 2025 | 92.07% | 167,969,197 |
| 69 | USA | 3403 | Lubricating preparations and those used in oil or grease treatment of textile and similar materials; excluding preparations containing 70% or more (by weight) of petroleum or bituminous mineral oils | 2025 | 91.96% | 547,362,844 |
| 70 | USA | 8407 | Reciprocating or rotary internal combustion piston engines | 2025 | 91.85% | 4,564,493,902 |
| 71 | USA | 2806 | Hydrogen chloride (hydrochloric acid); chlorosulphuric acid | 2025 | 91.75% | 12,086,289 |
| 72 | USA | 3209 | Paints and varnishes (including enamels and lacquers) based on synthetic or chemically modified natural polymers, dispersed or dissolved in an aqueous medium | 2025 | 91.64% | 595,200,677 |
| 73 | USA | 2526 | Natural steatite; whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape; talc | 2025 | 90.96% | 13,911,473 |
| 74 | USA | 3904 | Polymers of vinyl chloride or of other halogenated olefins, in primary forms | 2025 | 90.65% | 711,942,023 |
| 75 | Argentina | 1507 | Soya-bean oil and its fractions; whether or not refined, but not chemically modified | 2025 | 90.56% | 703,674,452 |
| 76 | USA | 3809 | Finishing agents, dye carriers to accelerate the dyeing, fixing of dyestuffs, other products and preparations, of a kind used in the textile, paper, leather or like industries, n.e.c. or included | 2025 | 90.04% | 151,809,730 |
| 77 | USA | 7408 | Copper wire | 2025 | 90.03% | 239,448,847 |
| 78 | USA | 2803 | Carbon; carbon blacks and other forms of carbon n.e.c. | 2025 | 89.93% | 83,194,902 |
| 79 | USA | 7218 | Stainless steel in ingots or other primary forms; semi-finished products of stainless steel | 2025 | 89.91% | 20,119,822 |
| 80 | USA | 3502 | Albumins (including concentrates of two or more whey proteins, containing by weight more than 80% whey proteins, calculated on the dry matter), albuminates and other albumin derivatives | 2025 | 89.85% | 150,227,376 |
| 81 | USA | 0705 | Lettuce (lactuca sativa) and chicory (cichorium spp.) fresh or chilled | 2025 | 89.27% | 457,301,856 |
| 82 | USA | 7503 | Nickel; waste and scrap | 2025 | 89.22% | 71,963,771 |
| 83 | China | 6601 | Umbrellas; sun umbrellas (including walking stick umbrellas, garden umbrellas and similar umbrellas) | 2025 | 88.57% | 57,949,103 |
| 84 | Switzerland | 9101 | Wrist-watches, pocket-watches, stop-watches and other watches; with case of precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal | 2025 | 88.55% | 154,833,804 |
| 85 | Brazil | 7207 | Iron or non-alloy steel; semi-finished products thereof | 2025 | 88.41% | 49,273,352 |
| 86 | USA | 1205 | Rape or colza seeds; whether or not broken | 2025 | 88.15% | 126,534,915 |
| 87 | USA | 2715 | Bituminous mixtures based on natural asphalt; on natural bitumen, on petroleum bitumen, on mineral tar or on mineral tar pitch (e.g. bituminous mastics, cut-backs) | 2025 | 88.15% | 31,821,475 |
| 88 | USA | 2603 | Copper ores and concentrates | 2025 | 88.12% | 749,133,797 |
| 89 | USA | 1103 | Cereal groats; meal and pellets | 2025 | 88.03% | 28,663,937 |
| 90 | USA | 8608 | Railway or tramway track fixtures and fittings; mechanical (including electro-mechanical) signalling, safety or traffic control equipment for railways, tramways, roads, inland waterways, parking facilities, port installations or airfields; parts thereof | 2025 | 87.95% | 55,647,766 |
| 91 | USA | 3208 | Paints, varnishes; (enamels and lacquers) based on synthetic polymers or chemically modified natural polymers, dispersed or dissolved in a non-aqueous medium | 2025 | 87.94% | 566,234,177 |
| 92 | USA | 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. | 2025 | 87.36% | 583,280,567 |
| 93 | USA | 4804 | Uncoated kraft paper and paperboard, in rolls or sheets, other than that of heading no. 4802 or 4803 | 2025 | 87.36% | 591,809,974 |
| 94 | USA | 8605 | Railway or tramway coaches; passenger coaches, luggage vans, post office coaches and other special purpose railway or tramway coaches, not self-propelled (excluding those of heading no. 8604) | 2025 | 86.89% | 160,397,853 |
| 95 | China | 9505 | Festive, carnival or other entertainment articles, including conjuring tricks and novelty jokes | 2025 | 86.82% | 364,330,367 |
| 96 | USA | 2621 | Slag and ash n.e.c. in chapter 26; including seaweed ash (kelp) and ash and residues from the incineration of municipal waste | 2025 | 86.78% | 18,542,608 |
| 97 | USA | 1202 | Ground-nuts; not roasted or otherwise cooked, whether or not shelled or broken | 2025 | 86.05% | 156,721,059 |
| 98 | USA | 4902 | Newspapers, journals and periodicals, whether or not illustrated or containing advertising material | 2025 | 86.01% | 187,717,438 |
| 99 | USA | 3814 | Organic composite solvents and thinners, not elsewhere specified or included; prepared paint or varnish removers | 2025 | 85.96% | 48,753,719 |
| 100 | USA | 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 | 2025 | 85.84% | 1,614,990,908 |
| 101 | USA | 2711 | Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons | 2025 | 85.70% | 2,826,565,928 |
| 102 | Norway | 8906 | Vessels; other, including warships and lifeboats, other than rowing boats | 2025 | 85.50% | 132,422,935 |
| 103 | USA | 1601 | Sausages and similar products, of meat, meat offal, blood or insects; food preparations based on these products | 2025 | 85.40% | 260,042,692 |
| 104 | USA | 2902 | Cyclic hydrocarbons | 2025 | 85.02% | 105,532,147 |
| 105 | USA | 7226 | Alloy steel flat-rolled products, of a width of less than 600mm | 2025 | 85.00% | 256,994,746 |
| 106 | USA | 3806 | Rosin and resin acids and derivatives thereof; rosin spirit and rosin oils; run gums | 2025 | 84.84% | 57,330,056 |
| 107 | USA | 7005 | Glass; float glass and surface ground or polished glass, in sheets, whether or not having an absorbent, reflecting or non-reflecting layer, but not otherwise worked | 2025 | 84.69% | 278,697,850 |
| 108 | USA | 3816 | Refractory cements, mortars, concretes and similar compositions, including dolomite ramming mix, other than products of heading 38.01 | 2025 | 84.60% | 118,202,468 |
| 109 | USA | 2613 | Molybdenum ores and concentrates | 2025 | 84.50% | 19,114,321 |
| 110 | USA | 8549 | Electrical and electronic waste and scrap | 2025 | 84.44% | 184,493,153 |
| 111 | USA | 2309 | Preparations of a kind used in animal feeding | 2025 | 84.11% | 1,484,307,252 |
| 112 | USA | 2839 | Silicates; commercial alkali metal silicates | 2025 | 83.87% | 43,183,211 |
| 113 | USA | 3214 | Glaziers' putty, grafting putty, resin cements, caulking compounds and other mastics; painters' fillings; non-refractory surfacing preparations for facades, indoor walls, floors, ceilings or the like | 2025 | 83.56% | 376,732,744 |
| 114 | Germany | 7118 | Coin | 2025 | 83.47% | 29,429,811 |
| 115 | USA | 2929 | Nitrogen-function compounds, n.e.c. in chapter 29 | 2025 | 83.14% | 74,275,222 |
| 116 | Madagascar | 0905 | Vanilla | 2025 | 82.93% | 13,396,687 |
| 117 | USA | 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 | 2025 | 82.63% | 575,486,399 |
| 118 | USA | 7112 | Waste and scrap of precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal; other waste and scrap containing precious metal compounds, of a kind uses principally for the recovery of precious metal other than goods of heading 85.49 | 2025 | 82.59% | 2,865,315,390 |
| 119 | USA | 6904 | Ceramic building bricks, floor blocks, support or filler tiles and the like | 2025 | 82.54% | 29,034,071 |
| 120 | USA | 4004 | Waste, parings and scrap of rubber (other than hard rubber) and powders and granules obtained therefrom | 2025 | 82.50% | 11,119,968 |
| 121 | USA | 7310 | Tanks, casks, drums, cans, boxes and similar containers, for any material (excluding compressed or liquefied gas), of iron or steel, capacity not exceeding 300l, whether or not lined or heat-insulated | 2025 | 82.50% | 316,093,360 |
| 122 | USA | 8408 | Compression-ignition internal combustion piston engines (diesel or semi-diesel engines) | 2025 | 82.50% | 972,313,763 |
| 123 | USA | 1602 | Prepared or preserved meat, meat offal, blood or insects | 2025 | 81.56% | 631,058,452 |
| 124 | USA | 0207 | Meat and edible offal of poultry; of the poultry of heading no. 0105, (i.e. fowls of the species Gallus domesticus), fresh, chilled or frozen | 2025 | 81.40% | 470,460,133 |
| 125 | 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 | 81.31% | 41,330,309 |
| 126 | USA | 8475 | Machines; for assembling electric or electronic lamps, tubes, valves, flashbulbs, in glass envelopes, machines for manufacturing or hot working glass or glassware | 2025 | 81.29% | 33,478,837 |
| 127 | USA | 8707 | Bodies; (including cabs) for the motor vehicles of heading no. 8701 to 8705 | 2025 | 81.15% | 103,298,849 |
| 128 | USA | 9999 | Commodities not specified according to kind | 2025 | 81.08% | 9,348,082,411 |
| 129 | Switzerland | 9102 | Wrist-watches, pocket-watches, stop-watches and other watches, other than those of heading no. 9101 | 2025 | 81.00% | 406,878,132 |
| 130 | USA | 4410 | Particle board, oriented strand board (OSB) and similar board (e.g. waferboard) of wood or other ligneous materials, whether or not agglomerated with resins or other organic binding substances | 2025 | 80.99% | 132,261,797 |
| 131 | USA | 3506 | Prepared glues and other prepared adhesives, n.e.c. or included; products suitable for use as glues or adhesives, put up for retail sale as glues or adhesives, not exceeding 1kg net weight | 2025 | 80.80% | 416,648,201 |
| 132 | USA | 3302 | Odoriferous substances and mixtures (including alcoholic solutions) with a basis of one or more of these substances, of a kind used as raw materials in industry; other preparations based on odoriferous substances, of a kind used for beverage manufacture | 2025 | 80.71% | 802,158,435 |
| 133 | USA | 2853 | Phosphides, chemically defined or not, not ferrophosphorus; other inorganic compounds n.e.c. (including distilled, conductivity water and water of like purity); liquid air, rare gases removed or not; compressed air; amalgams, not precious metal amalgams | 2025 | 80.56% | 16,464,052 |
| 134 | USA | 3104 | Fertilizers; mineral or chemical, potassic | 2025 | 80.54% | 48,155,060 |
| 135 | USA | 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. | 2025 | 80.26% | 690,505,070 |
| 136 | USA | 3210 | Paints and varnishes (including enamels, lacquers and distempers), excluding those of heading no. 3209, prepared water pigments of a kind used for finishing leather | 2025 | 80.17% | 17,112,204 |
| 137 | USA | 4821 | Paper or paperboard labels of all kinds, whether or not printed | 2025 | 80.16% | 167,980,609 |
USA: 121 occurrences
China: 7 occurrences
Madagascar: 2 occurrences
Switzerland: 2 occurrences
Argentina: 1 occurrence
Brazil: 1 occurrence
Bulgaria: 1 occurrence
Germany: 1 occurrence
Norway: 1 occurrence
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