Extreme Import Bottlenecks
The tables below show Dem. Rep. of the Congo'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.
Dem. Rep. of the Congo
32 bottlenecks| # | Partner | HS Code | HS Description | Year | Share (%) | Value (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 9306 | Bombs, grenades, torpedoes, mines, missiles and similar munitions of war and parts thereof; cartridges and other ammunition, projectiles and parts thereof, including shot and cartridge wads | 2025 | 100.00% | 12,621,363 |
| 2 | Zambia | 2716 | Electrical energy | 2025 | 100.00% | 277,067,007 |
| 3 | China | 2830 | Sulphides; polysulphides whether or not chemically defined | 2025 | 99.66% | 80,847,821 |
| 4 | China | 2837 | Cyanides, cyanide oxides and complex cyanides | 2025 | 99.00% | 10,957,756 |
| 5 | Zimbabwe | 2704 | Coke and semi-coke; of coal, lignite or peat, whether or not agglomerated; retort carbon | 2025 | 97.72% | 20,531,576 |
| 6 | 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 | 96.96% | 88,715,144 |
| 7 | China | 8417 | Furnaces and ovens; industrial or laboratory, including incinerators, non-electric | 2025 | 96.50% | 16,934,818 |
| 8 | China | 7219 | Stainless steel; flat-rolled products of width of 600mm or more | 2025 | 95.82% | 33,932,868 |
| 9 | China | 2930 | Organo-sulphur compounds | 2025 | 95.54% | 83,305,925 |
| 10 | China | 8543 | Electrical machines and apparatus; having individual functions, not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter | 2025 | 95.42% | 42,529,072 |
| 11 | Norway | 0305 | Fish, dried, salted or in brine; smoked fish, whether or not cooked before, or during the smoking process | 2025 | 93.18% | 10,585,132 |
| 12 | China | 2002 | Tomatoes; prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid | 2025 | 92.81% | 12,312,510 |
| 13 | China | 2832 | Sulphites; thiosulphates | 2025 | 92.00% | 57,276,441 |
| 14 | Belgium | 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 | 91.91% | 56,399,908 |
| 15 | China | 6902 | Refractory bricks, blocks, tiles and similar refractory ceramic constructional goods; other than those of siliceous fossil meals or similar siliceous earths | 2025 | 91.40% | 11,644,298 |
| 16 | China | 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 | 91.27% | 28,811,642 |
| 17 | China | 7806 | Lead; articles n.e.c. in chapter 78 | 2025 | 90.99% | 11,029,677 |
| 18 | China | 8503 | Electric motors and generators; parts suitable for use solely or principally with the machines of heading no. 8501 or 8502 | 2025 | 89.66% | 18,171,458 |
| 19 | Türkiye | 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 | 2025 | 89.57% | 10,855,039 |
| 20 | South Africa | 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 | 89.22% | 22,103,370 |
| 21 | China | 8507 | Electric accumulators, including separators therefor; whether or not rectangular (including square) | 2025 | 88.28% | 108,005,235 |
| 22 | China | 7210 | Iron or non-alloy steel; flat-rolled products, width 600mm or more, clad, plated or coated | 2025 | 87.36% | 28,154,616 |
| 23 | China | 9032 | Regulating or controlling instruments and apparatus; automatic type | 2025 | 86.65% | 18,667,897 |
| 24 | China | 7208 | Iron or non-alloy steel; flat-rolled products of a width of 600mm or more, hot-rolled, not clad, plated or coated | 2025 | 83.92% | 23,958,811 |
| 25 | China | 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 | 83.91% | 12,970,592 |
| 26 | China | 3907 | Polyacetals, other polyethers and epoxide resins, in primary forms; polycarbonates, alkyd resins, polyallyl esters and other polyesters, in primary forms | 2025 | 82.43% | 44,683,435 |
| 27 | China | 8504 | Electric transformers, static converters (e.g. rectifiers) and inductors | 2025 | 81.13% | 164,547,821 |
| 28 | China | 8419 | Machinery, plant (not domestic), or laboratory equipment; electrically heated or not, (excluding items in 85.14) for the treatment of materials by a process involving change of temperature; including instantaneous or non electric storage water heaters | 2025 | 81.10% | 57,642,742 |
| 29 | China | 8428 | Lifting, handling, loading or unloading machinery; n.e.c. in heading no. 8425, 8426 or 8427 (e.g. lifts, escalators, conveyors, teleferics) | 2025 | 80.60% | 31,291,263 |
| 30 | Angola | 7207 | Iron or non-alloy steel; semi-finished products thereof | 2025 | 80.57% | 14,439,412 |
| 31 | China | 8415 | Air conditioning machines; comprising a motor driven fan and elements for changing the temperature and humidity, including those machines in which the humidity cannot be separately regulated | 2025 | 80.10% | 14,938,236 |
| 32 | China | 8437 | Machines for cleaning, sorting, grading seed, grain, dried leguminous vegetables; machinery used in the milling industry for the working of cereals or dried leguminous vegetables, not farm type machinery | 2025 | 80.05% | 12,210,014 |
China: 25 occurrences
Angola: 1 occurrence
Belgium: 1 occurrence
Norway: 1 occurrence
South Africa: 1 occurrence
Türkiye: 1 occurrence
Zambia: 1 occurrence
Zimbabwe: 1 occurrence
Legend:
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1234Bold lime HS code - the product code is flagged in Critical Goods.