Extreme Import Bottlenecks
The tables below show Germany'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.
Germany
27 bottlenecks| # | Partner | HS Code | HS Description | Year | Share (%) | Value (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 5003 | Silk waste (including cocoons unsuitable for reeling, yarn waste and garnetted stock) | 2025 | 99.21% | 10,024,337 |
| 2 | Areas, nes | 2711 | Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons | 2025 | 96.07% | 32,234,737,112 |
| 3 | Switzerland | 9101 | Wrist-watches, pocket-watches, stop-watches and other watches; with case of precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal | 2025 | 96.01% | 677,672,959 |
| 4 | France | 2805 | Alkali or alkaline-earth metals; rare-earth metals, scandium and yttrium, whether or not intermixed or interalloyed; mercury | 2025 | 94.04% | 293,078,100 |
| 5 | Finland | 2822 | Cobalt oxides and hydroxides; commercial cobalt oxides | 2025 | 94.03% | 22,663,717 |
| 6 | 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 | 2025 | 93.56% | 212,059,348 |
| 7 | Portugal | 4501 | Natural cork, raw or simply prepared; waste cork; crushed, granulated or ground cork | 2025 | 92.84% | 21,026,272 |
| 8 | Czechia | 7804 | Lead; plates, sheets, strip and foil, lead powders and flakes | 2025 | 91.09% | 66,282,709 |
| 9 | Czechia | 2702 | Lignite; whether or not agglomerated, excluding jet | 2025 | 90.16% | 15,768,274 |
| 10 | China | 6702 | Flowers, foliage and fruit, artificial, and parts thereof; articles made of artificial flowers, foliage or fruit | 2025 | 90.11% | 191,524,696 |
| 11 | Netherlands | 3703 | Photographic paper, paperboard and textiles; sensitised, unexposed | 2025 | 88.99% | 44,937,725 |
| 12 | China | 3604 | Fireworks, signalling flares, rain rockets, fog signals and other pyrotechnic articles | 2025 | 87.36% | 195,089,666 |
| 13 | Netherlands | 0603 | Flowers; cut flowers and flower buds of a kind suitable for bouquets or for ornamental purposes, fresh, dried, dyed, bleached, impregnated or otherwise prepared | 2025 | 87.08% | 1,442,677,732 |
| 14 | Lithuania | 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 | 86.00% | 11,044,909 |
| 15 | Switzerland | 9108 | Watch movements; complete and assembled | 2025 | 84.33% | 28,906,518 |
| 16 | China | 9617 | Vacuum flasks and other vacuum vessels, complete with cases; parts thereof other than glass inners | 2025 | 84.25% | 200,170,202 |
| 17 | Spain | 6803 | Slate, worked; and articles of slate or of agglomerated slate | 2025 | 84.14% | 42,631,048 |
| 18 | Switzerland | 9114 | Clock or watch parts; n.e.c. in chapter 91 | 2025 | 83.75% | 61,574,649 |
| 19 | Netherlands | 5904 | Linoleum, whether or not cut to shape; floor coverings consisting of a coating or covering applied on a textile backing, whether or not cut to shape | 2025 | 83.15% | 28,218,044 |
| 20 | China | 8806 | Unmanned aircraft | 2025 | 82.91% | 297,088,967 |
| 21 | Japan | 5502 | Artificial filament tow | 2025 | 82.27% | 102,239,012 |
| 22 | 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 | 81.82% | 96,274,651 |
| 23 | China | 8715 | Baby carriages and parts thereof | 2025 | 81.75% | 177,715,111 |
| 24 | Guinea | 2606 | Aluminium ores and concentrates | 2025 | 81.43% | 146,996,565 |
| 25 | Poland | 6905 | Roofing tiles, chimney-pots, cowls, chimney liners, architectural ornaments and other ceramic constructional goods | 2025 | 80.49% | 18,371,952 |
| 26 | Austria | 5504 | Artificial staple fibres, not carded, combed or otherwise processed for spinning | 2025 | 80.13% | 103,967,990 |
| 27 | Poland | 1002 | Rye | 2025 | 80.08% | 70,507,070 |
China: 7 occurrences
Netherlands: 4 occurrences
Switzerland: 3 occurrences
Czechia: 2 occurrences
Poland: 2 occurrences
Areas, nes: 1 occurrence
Austria: 1 occurrence
Finland: 1 occurrence
France: 1 occurrence
Guinea: 1 occurrence
Japan: 1 occurrence
Lithuania: 1 occurrence
Portugal: 1 occurrence
Spain: 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.