Extreme Import Bottlenecks
The tables below show China'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.
China
55 bottlenecks| # | Partner | HS Code | HS Description | Year | Share (%) | Value (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New Zealand | 0208 | Meat and edible meat offal, n.e.c. in chapter 2; fresh, chilled or frozen | 2024 | 100.00% | 16,797,779 |
| 2 | Sudan | 2305 | Oil-cake and other solid residues; whether or not ground or in the form of pellets, resulting from the extraction of ground-nut oil | 2024 | 100.00% | 18,282,351 |
| 3 | Switzerland | 8603 | Railway or tramway coaches, vans and trucks; self-propelled tenders, other than those of heading no. 8604 | 2024 | 100.00% | 77,905,404 |
| 4 | Japan | 5405 | Artificial monofilament of 67 decitex or more, no cross-sectional dimension exceeds 1mm; strip and the like (e.g. artificial straw), of artificial textile materials of a width not exceeding 5mm | 2024 | 99.94% | 14,982,494 |
| 5 | Bangladesh | 5307 | Yarn of jute or of other textile bast fibres of heading no. 5305 | 2024 | 99.91% | 87,835,844 |
| 6 | Spain | 0210 | Meat and edible meat offal; salted, in brine, dried or smoked; edible flours and meals of meat or meat offal | 2024 | 99.69% | 33,750,001 |
| 7 | Bangladesh | 5303 | Jute and other textile bast fibres (not flax, true hemp and ramie), raw or processed but not spun; tow and waste of these fibres, including yarn waste and garnetted stock | 2024 | 99.67% | 17,928,100 |
| 8 | Australia | 0102 | Bovine animals; live | 2024 | 99.47% | 85,128,552 |
| 9 | Indonesia | 7201 | Pig iron and spiegeleisen in pigs, blocks or other primary forms | 2024 | 99.31% | 437,880,416 |
| 10 | Japan | 8702 | Vehicles; public transport passenger type | 2024 | 98.57% | 34,806,856 |
| 11 | Italy | 2002 | Tomatoes; prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid | 2024 | 98.21% | 12,760,109 |
| 12 | Russian Federation | 2524 | Asbestos | 2024 | 98.07% | 45,715,230 |
| 13 | India | 0909 | Seeds of anise, badian, fennel, coriander, cumin, caraway or juniper | 2024 | 97.15% | 179,396,850 |
| 14 | Indonesia | 0908 | Nutmeg, mace and cardamoms | 2024 | 96.98% | 95,098,521 |
| 15 | Indonesia | 8111 | Manganese; articles thereof, including waste and scrap | 2024 | 96.56% | 72,660,000 |
| 16 | Chile | 0809 | Apricots, cherries, peaches (including nectarines), plums and sloes, fresh | 2024 | 96.22% | 3,962,274,291 |
| 17 | China, Hong Kong SAR | 4707 | Waste and scrap of paper and paperboard | 2024 | 96.02% | 109,415,317 |
| 18 | Canada | 1205 | Rape or colza seeds; whether or not broken | 2024 | 95.80% | 3,294,156,686 |
| 19 | Finland | 4301 | Raw furskins (including heads, tails, paws, other pieces or cuttings, suitable for furriers' use), excluding raw hides and skins of heading no. 4101, 4102 or 4103 | 2024 | 95.51% | 39,497,787 |
| 20 | Japan | 7111 | Base metals, silver or gold, clad with platinum; not further worked than semi-manufactured | 2024 | 95.28% | 10,531,169 |
| 21 | Switzerland | 9101 | Wrist-watches, pocket-watches, stop-watches and other watches; with case of precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal | 2024 | 94.92% | 866,678,114 |
| 22 | Dem. Rep. of the Congo | 8105 | Cobalt; mattes and other intermediate products of cobalt metallurgy, cobalt and articles thereof, including waste and scrap | 2024 | 93.98% | 3,019,487,639 |
| 23 | Thailand | 1102 | Cereal flours; other than of wheat or meslin | 2024 | 93.78% | 33,013,511 |
| 24 | Indonesia | 7218 | Stainless steel in ingots or other primary forms; semi-finished products of stainless steel | 2024 | 93.51% | 857,678,816 |
| 25 | Türkiye | 2528 | Natural borates and concentrates thereof (whether or not calcined), but not including borates separated from natural brine; natural boric acid containing not more than 85 % of H3BO3 calculated on the dry weight | 2024 | 93.17% | 146,191,087 |
| 26 | USA | 0105 | Poultry; live, fowls of the species Gallus domesticus, ducks, geese, turkeys and guinea fowls | 2024 | 92.75% | 48,940,063 |
| 27 | Rep. of Korea | 2842 | Salts of inorganic acids or peroxoacids, n.e.c. including aluminosilicates whether or not chemically defined, but excluding azides | 2024 | 92.09% | 2,061,076,303 |
| 28 | Mongolia | 5102 | Fine or coarse animal hair, not carded or combed | 2024 | 91.89% | 150,920,518 |
| 29 | Japan | 2828 | Hypochlorites; commercial calcium hypochlorite; chlorites; hypobromites | 2024 | 91.34% | 20,528,172 |
| 30 | Mongolia | 0205 | Meat; of horses, asses, mules or hinnies, fresh, chilled or frozen | 2024 | 91.25% | 56,987,660 |
| 31 | Dem. People's Rep. of Korea | 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 | 2024 | 91.01% | 187,772,505 |
| 32 | Indonesia | 2702 | Lignite; whether or not agglomerated, excluding jet | 2024 | 90.59% | 10,505,911,380 |
| 33 | Japan | 2206 | Fermented beverages, n.e.c. in chapter 22; (e.g. cider, perry, mead, sake) | 2024 | 89.89% | 72,202,204 |
| 34 | Rep. of Korea | 2808 | Nitric acid; sulphonitric acids | 2024 | 89.74% | 26,927,923 |
| 35 | Spain | 1509 | Olive oil and its fractions; whether or not refined, but not chemically modified | 2024 | 88.86% | 184,911,343 |
| 36 | Switzerland | 9102 | Wrist-watches, pocket-watches, stop-watches and other watches, other than those of heading no. 9101 | 2024 | 87.72% | 1,811,127,288 |
| 37 | Indonesia | 1516 | Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their fractions, partly or wholly hydrogenated, inter-esterified, re-esterified or elaidinised, whether or not refined, but not further prepared | 2024 | 87.10% | 965,631,772 |
| 38 | Brazil | 1701 | Cane or beet sugar and chemically pure sucrose, in solid form | 2024 | 86.18% | 2,059,061,203 |
| 39 | Germany | 4812 | Filter blocks, slabs and plates of paper pulp | 2024 | 85.89% | 10,383,334 |
| 40 | Russian Federation | 1008 | Buckwheat, millet and canary seeds; other cereals | 2024 | 85.34% | 76,239,344 |
| 41 | Indonesia | 7219 | Stainless steel; flat-rolled products of width of 600mm or more | 2024 | 85.18% | 1,800,155,513 |
| 42 | Spain | 1510 | Vegetable oils; oils and their fractions n.e.c. in chapter 15, obtained solely from olives, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified, including blends of these oils or fractions with oils or fractions of heading no. 1509 | 2024 | 85.14% | 13,706,238 |
| 43 | Denmark | 2937 | Hormones, prostaglandins, thromboxanes and leukotrienes, natural or reproduced by synthesis; derivatives and structural analogues thereof, including chain modified polypeptides, used primarily as hormones. | 2024 | 84.94% | 1,962,871,213 |
| 44 | India | 0904 | Pepper of the genus piper; dried or crushed or ground fruits of the genus capsicum or of the genus pimenta | 2024 | 84.41% | 467,735,386 |
| 45 | Malaysia | 3826 | Biodiesel and mixtures thereof; not containing or containing less than 70% by weight of petroleum oils or oils obtained from bituminous minerals | 2024 | 84.35% | 10,557,371 |
| 46 | Germany | 8604 | Railway or tramway maintenance or service vehicles; whether or not self-propelled (e.g. workshops, cranes, ballast tampers, trackliners, testing coaches and track inspection vehicles) | 2024 | 84.15% | 13,417,932 |
| 47 | Indonesia | 1517 | Margarine; edible mixtures or preparations of animal, vegetable or microbial fats or oils or of fractions of different fats or oils of this Chapter, other than edible fats and oils or their fractions of heading 15.16 | 2024 | 84.05% | 1,135,543,856 |
| 48 | Viet Nam | 5206 | Cotton yarn (other than sewing thread), containing less than 85% by weight of cotton, not put up for retail sale | 2024 | 84.04% | 283,407,266 |
| 49 | Russian Federation | 2816 | Hydroxide and peroxide of magnesium; oxides, hydroxides and peroxides of strontium or barium | 2024 | 83.34% | 27,270,854 |
| 50 | New Zealand | 0405 | Butter and other fats and oils derived from milk; dairy spreads | 2024 | 83.17% | 786,735,525 |
| 51 | Thailand | 0714 | Manioc, arrowroot, salep, Jerusalem artichokes, sweet potatoes and similar roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content; fresh, chilled, frozen or dried, whether or not sliced or in the form of pellets; sago pith | 2024 | 81.88% | 511,181,181 |
| 52 | Indonesia | 7501 | Nickel mattes; nickel oxide sinters and other intermediate products of nickel metallurgy | 2024 | 81.47% | 6,197,465,921 |
| 53 | Indonesia | 0907 | Cloves (whole fruit, cloves and stems) | 2024 | 80.97% | 28,273,675 |
| 54 | Portugal | 4504 | Agglomerated cork (with or without a binding substance) and articles of agglomerated cork | 2024 | 80.87% | 14,872,167 |
| 55 | 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 | 2024 | 80.31% | 138,817,622 |
Indonesia: 10 occurrences
Japan: 5 occurrences
Russian Federation: 3 occurrences
Spain: 3 occurrences
Switzerland: 3 occurrences
Bangladesh: 2 occurrences
Germany: 2 occurrences
India: 2 occurrences
Mongolia: 2 occurrences
New Zealand: 2 occurrences
Rep. of Korea: 2 occurrences
Thailand: 2 occurrences
Australia: 1 occurrence
Brazil: 1 occurrence
Canada: 1 occurrence
Chile: 1 occurrence
China, Hong Kong SAR: 1 occurrence
Dem. People's Rep. of Korea: 1 occurrence
Dem. Rep. of the Congo: 1 occurrence
Denmark: 1 occurrence
Finland: 1 occurrence
Italy: 1 occurrence
Malaysia: 1 occurrence
Netherlands: 1 occurrence
Portugal: 1 occurrence
Sudan: 1 occurrence
Türkiye: 1 occurrence
USA: 1 occurrence
Viet Nam: 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.