Extreme Import Bottlenecks
The tables below show Ecuador'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.
Ecuador
43 bottlenecks| # | Partner | HS Code | HS Description | Year | Share (%) | Value (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Colombia | 2716 | Electrical energy | 2025 | 100.00% | 83,314,191 |
| 2 | USA | 2711 | Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons | 2025 | 99.76% | 806,066,063 |
| 3 | Spain | 8902 | Fishing vessels, factory ships and other vessels; for processing or preserving fishery products | 2025 | 99.73% | 19,580,450 |
| 4 | Peru | 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 | 99.19% | 17,238,677 |
| 5 | Peru | 7901 | Zinc; unwrought | 2025 | 97.76% | 14,659,309 |
| 6 | China | 0703 | Onions, shallots, garlic, leeks and other alliaceous vegetables; fresh or chilled | 2025 | 97.33% | 23,648,211 |
| 7 | 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 | 97.09% | 28,784,078 |
| 8 | China | 9505 | Festive, carnival or other entertainment articles, including conjuring tricks and novelty jokes | 2025 | 96.93% | 17,102,278 |
| 9 | Peru | 7403 | Copper; refined and copper alloys, unwrought | 2025 | 96.02% | 11,140,073 |
| 10 | China | 7210 | Iron or non-alloy steel; flat-rolled products, width 600mm or more, clad, plated or coated | 2025 | 95.03% | 277,652,198 |
| 11 | Chile | 1104 | Cereal grains otherwise worked (e.g. hulled, rolled, flaked, pearled, sliced or kibbled) except rice of heading no. 1006; germ of cereals whole, rolled, flaked or ground | 2025 | 93.98% | 12,948,420 |
| 12 | Peru | 7214 | Iron or non-alloy steel; bars and rods, not further worked than forged, hot-rolled, hot drawn or hot-extruded, but including those twisted after rolling | 2025 | 93.76% | 13,149,463 |
| 13 | 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 | 92.75% | 31,844,735 |
| 14 | China | 7225 | Alloy steel flat-rolled products, of a width 600mm or more | 2025 | 92.41% | 21,319,034 |
| 15 | Sri Lanka | 0906 | Cinnamon and cinnamon-tree flowers | 2025 | 91.82% | 10,035,411 |
| 16 | China | 7219 | Stainless steel; flat-rolled products of width of 600mm or more | 2025 | 90.30% | 30,122,498 |
| 17 | Colombia | 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 | 2025 | 90.23% | 10,779,973 |
| 18 | China | 6001 | Fabrics; pile fabrics, including long pile fabrics and terry fabrics, knitted or crocheted | 2025 | 90.22% | 20,273,211 |
| 19 | China | 5516 | Woven fabrics of artificial staple fibres | 2025 | 90.16% | 19,538,153 |
| 20 | Colombia | 6004 | Fabrics; knitted or crocheted fabrics of a width exceeding 30 cm, other than those of heading 60.01, containing by weight 5% or more of elastomeric yarn or rubber thread | 2025 | 89.67% | 24,155,202 |
| 21 | Canada | 0713 | Vegetables, leguminous; shelled, whether or not skinned or split, dried | 2025 | 89.51% | 30,590,116 |
| 22 | China | 7606 | Aluminium; plates, sheets and strip, thickness exceeding 0.2mm | 2025 | 89.18% | 15,587,067 |
| 23 | Peru | 7408 | Copper wire | 2025 | 89.02% | 53,946,259 |
| 24 | China | 5211 | Woven fabrics of cotton, containing less than 85% by weight of cotton, mixed mainly or solely with man-made fibres, weighing more than 200g/m2 | 2025 | 88.79% | 12,695,730 |
| 25 | China | 7306 | Iron or steel (excluding cast iron); tubes, pipes and hollow profiles (not seamless), n.e.c. in chapter 73 | 2025 | 88.24% | 16,753,663 |
| 26 | China | 8539 | Lamps; electric filament or discharge lamps, including sealed beam lamp units and ultra-violet or infra-red lamps, arc lamps, light-emitting diode (LED) light sources | 2025 | 87.31% | 25,413,836 |
| 27 | USA | 2710 | Petroleum oils and oils from bituminous minerals, not crude; preparations n.e.c, containing by weight 70% or more of petroleum oils or oils from bituminous minerals; these being the basic constituents of the preparations; waste oils | 2025 | 87.26% | 3,406,048,102 |
| 28 | China | 3918 | Floor coverings of plastics, self-adhesive or not, in rolls or tiles; wall or ceiling coverings of plastics, in rolls of a width not less than 45cm | 2025 | 86.19% | 21,474,513 |
| 29 | China | 8702 | Vehicles; public transport passenger type | 2025 | 85.13% | 81,239,062 |
| 30 | China | 9405 | Luminaires and light fittings; including searchlights, spotlights and parts thereof, n.e.c.; illuminated signs, name-plates and the like, having permanently fixed light source and parts thereof n.e.c. or included | 2025 | 85.05% | 41,141,902 |
| 31 | China | 8901 | Cruise ships, excursion boats, ferry-boats, cargo ships, barges and similar vessels for the transport of persons or goods | 2025 | 84.60% | 16,551,601 |
| 32 | USA | 4703 | Chemical wood pulp, soda or sulphate, other than dissolving grades | 2025 | 84.56% | 16,430,618 |
| 33 | China | 2906 | Alcohols; cyclic, and their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives | 2025 | 84.41% | 45,301,806 |
| 34 | China | 7209 | Iron or non-alloy steel; flat-rolled products, width 600mm or more, cold-rolled (cold-reduced), not clad, plated or coated | 2025 | 84.25% | 17,676,313 |
| 35 | China | 3925 | Plastics; builders' wares n.e.c. or included | 2025 | 84.16% | 38,701,316 |
| 36 | China | 4202 | Trunks; suit, camera, jewellery, cutlery cases; travel, tool, similar bags; wholly or mainly covered by leather, composition leather, plastic sheeting, textile materials, vulcanised fibre, paperboard | 2025 | 84.11% | 43,823,765 |
| 37 | 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 | 84.07% | 72,690,721 |
| 38 | China | 5402 | Synthetic filament yarn (other than sewing thread), not put up for retail sale, including synthetic monofilament of less than 67 decitex | 2025 | 82.47% | 19,370,168 |
| 39 | Peru | 3602 | Prepared explosives, other than propellent powders | 2025 | 82.19% | 23,590,671 |
| 40 | Australia | 1003 | Barley | 2025 | 82.09% | 10,216,868 |
| 41 | China | 5903 | Textile fabrics impregnated, coated, covered or laminated with plastics, other than those of heading no. 5902 | 2025 | 82.09% | 15,208,182 |
| 42 | China | 2936 | Provitamins, vitamins; natural or reproduced by synthesis (including natural concentrates) derivatives thereof used as vitamins, and intermixtures of the fore-going, whether or not in any solvent | 2025 | 81.80% | 43,991,779 |
| 43 | Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | 1507 | Soya-bean oil and its fractions; whether or not refined, but not chemically modified | 2025 | 80.35% | 114,743,069 |
China: 24 occurrences
Peru: 6 occurrences
USA: 4 occurrences
Colombia: 3 occurrences
Australia: 1 occurrence
Bolivia (Plurinational State of): 1 occurrence
Canada: 1 occurrence
Chile: 1 occurrence
Spain: 1 occurrence
Sri Lanka: 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.