Country Matrix
For 2018, the matrix below shows Egypt's number of import bottlenecks for different combinations of minimum import share (%) and minimum import value (USD). Red parentheses show bottlenecks from Danger Zone countries, and lime square brackets show bottlenecks involving Critical Goods.
Egypt
Year: 2018(72 in Danger Zone)[7 Critical Goods]| Value \ Share | >= 30% | >= 40% | >= 50% | >= 60% | >= 70% | >= 80% | >= 90% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| >= 10 mln USD | 455(72)[7] | 357(59)[5] | 284(48)[3] | 214(37)[2] | 157(27)[2] | 111(17)[1] | 62(9)[1] |
| >= 50 mln USD | 117(25)[7] | 91(19)[5] | 79(16)[3] | 58(12)[2] | 51(10)[2] | 34(5)[1] | 21(2)[1] |
| >= 100 mln USD | 59(19)[7] | 52(14)[5] | 46(11)[3] | 36(9)[2] | 33(7)[2] | 20(3)[1] | 11(1)[1] |
| >= 200 mln USD | 31(14)[6] | 25(10)[4] | 23(8)[2] | 18(6)[1] | 16(4)[1] | 6 | 4 |
| >= 500 mln USD | 12(7)[4] | 9(4)[2] | 9(4)[2] | 5(2)[1] | 5(2)[1] | 2 | 1 |
Danger Zone Bottlenecks (72 records, >= 30% share, >= 10 mln USD)
| # | Partner | HS Code | HS Description | Year | Share (%) | Value (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saudi Arabia | 710813 | Metals; gold, semi-manufactured | 2018 | 99.87% | 11,965,165 |
| 2 | Russian Federation | 852349 | Optical media; recorded, excluding products of Chapter 37 | 2018 | 97.59% | 51,449,120 |
| 3 | Russian Federation | 852610 | Radar apparatus | 2018 | 96.71% | 16,781,415 |
| 4 | Saudi Arabia | 721420 | Iron or non-alloy steel; bars and rods, hot-rolled, hot-drawn or hot-extruded, containing indentations, ribs, grooves or other deformations produced during the rolling process or twisted after rolling | 2018 | 95.75% | 126,690,319 |
| 5 | Iran | 290511 | Alcohols; saturated monohydric, methanol (methyl alcohol) | 2018 | 95.36% | 10,625,912 |
| 6 | Bahrain | 730810 | Iron or steel; structures and parts thereof, bridges and bridge-sections | 2018 | 95.18% | 25,559,148 |
| 7 | Saudi Arabia | 560391 | Nonwovens; whether or not impregnated, coated, covered or laminated, not of man-made filaments, (weighing not more than 25g/m2) | 2018 | 93.64% | 10,025,600 |
| 8 | Bahrain | 760529 | Aluminium; alloys, wire, maximum cross-sectional dimension is 7mm or less | 2018 | 92.06% | 18,262,340 |
| 9 | Russian Federation | 852380 | Media n.e.c. in heading 8523, whether or not recorded, excluding products of Chapter 37 | 2018 | 91.00% | 11,007,916 |
| 10 | United Arab Emirates | 030617 | Crustaceans; frozen, shrimps and prawns, excluding cold-water varieties, in shell or not, smoked, cooked or not before or during smoking; in shell, cooked by steaming or by boiling in water | 2018 | 89.84% | 121,882,066 |
| 11 | Russian Federation | 930690 | Ammunition; n.e.c. in chapter 93 | 2018 | 89.67% | 12,785,555 |
| 12 | Ukraine | 270820 | Pitch coke; obtained from coal tar or from other mineral tars | 2018 | 89.15% | 21,732,483 |
| 13 | Bahrain | 761410 | Aluminium; stranded wire, cables, plaited bands and the like, (not electrically insulated), with steel core | 2018 | 87.73% | 45,443,802 |
| 14 | Russian Federation | 491199 | Printed matter; n.e.c. in heading no. 4911 | 2018 | 85.52% | 62,973,185 |
| 15 | Russian Federation | 722790 | Steel, alloy; bars and rods, hot-rolled, in irregularly wound coils, n.e.c. in heading no. 7227 | 2018 | 84.29% | 12,937,747 |
| 16 | Ukraine | 230630 | Oil-cake and other solid residues; whether or not ground or in the form of pellets, resulting from the extraction of sunflower seed oils | 2018 | 83.57% | 30,057,728 |
| 17 | Russian Federation | 441231 | Plywood; consisting only of sheets of wood (not bamboo), each ply 6mm or thinner, with at least one outer ply of tropical wood | 2018 | 82.26% | 170,889,646 |
| 18 | United Arab Emirates | 710812 | Metals; gold, non-monetary, unwrought (but not powder) | 2018 | 75.28% | 246,313,050 |
| 19 | Russian Federation | 720150 | Iron; alloy pig iron; spiegeleisen, in pigs, blocks or other primary forms | 2018 | 75.27% | 13,073,375 |
| 20 | Russian Federation | 100119 | Cereals; wheat and meslin, durum wheat, other than seed | 2018 | 73.66% | 2,052,433,959 |
| 21 | Ukraine | 720110 | Iron; non-alloy pig iron containing by weight 0.5% or less of phosphorus, in pigs, blocks or other primary forms | 2018 | 73.53% | 17,870,695 |
| 22 | Saudi Arabia | 390210 | Propylene, other olefin polymers; polypropylene in primary forms | 2018 | 73.03% | 346,531,109 |
| 23 | Saudi Arabia | 760612 | Aluminium; plates, sheets and strip, thickness exceeding 0.2mm, alloys, rectangular (including square) | 2018 | 72.98% | 66,186,801 |
| 24 | Russian Federation | 290410 | Derivatives of hydrocarbons; containing only sulpho groups, their salts and ethyl esters, whether or not halogenated | 2018 | 72.44% | 10,300,495 |
| 25 | Saudi Arabia | 290531 | Alcohols; acyclic, diols; ethylene glycol (ethanediol) | 2018 | 72.31% | 12,595,975 |
| 26 | Saudi Arabia | 271113 | Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons; liquefied, butanes | 2018 | 72.29% | 927,251,263 |
| 27 | Saudi Arabia | 291612 | Acids; unsaturated acyclic monocarboxylic acids; esters of acrylic acid | 2018 | 72.21% | 12,180,569 |
| 28 | Russian Federation | 151211 | Vegetable oils; sunflower seed or safflower oil and their fractions, crude, not chemically modified | 2018 | 69.07% | 267,341,667 |
| 29 | Bahrain | 761490 | Aluminium; stranded wire, cables, plaited bands and the like, (not electrically insulated), other than steel core | 2018 | 68.42% | 15,511,331 |
| 30 | Saudi Arabia | 290250 | Cyclic hydrocarbons; styrene | 2018 | 67.22% | 13,958,139 |
| 31 | Russian Federation | 270111 | Coal; anthracite, whether or not pulverised, but not agglomerated | 2018 | 64.75% | 17,123,807 |
| 32 | Bahrain | 760110 | Aluminium; unwrought, (not alloyed) | 2018 | 64.07% | 24,155,190 |
| 33 | United Arab Emirates | 180620 | Chocolate & other food preparations containing cocoa; in blocks, slabs or bars weighing more than 2kg or in liquid, paste, powder, granular or other bulk form in containers or immediate packings, content exceeding 2kg | 2018 | 62.96% | 12,020,516 |
| 34 | Ukraine | 121299 | Vegetable products; fit for human consumption, n.e.c. in heading no. 1212, fresh, chilled, frozen or dried, whether or not ground | 2018 | 61.00% | 12,714,908 |
| 35 | Bahrain | 760410 | Aluminium; (not alloyed), bars, rods and profiles | 2018 | 60.55% | 17,933,719 |
| 36 | Saudi Arabia | 390110 | Ethylene polymers; in primary forms, polyethylene having a specific gravity of less than 0.94 | 2018 | 60.44% | 234,381,828 |
| 37 | Bahrain | 760511 | Aluminium; (not alloyed), wire, maximum cross-sectional dimension exceeds 7mm | 2018 | 60.08% | 34,056,589 |
| 38 | Saudi Arabia | 481920 | Paper and paperboard; folding cartons, boxes and cases, of non-corrugated paper or paperboard | 2018 | 57.84% | 65,918,159 |
| 39 | Saudi Arabia | 392020 | Plastics; of polymers of propylene, plates, sheets, film, foil and strip (not self-adhesive), non-cellular and not reinforced, laminated, supported or similarly combined with other materials | 2018 | 57.60% | 45,227,738 |
| 40 | Russian Federation | 720917 | Iron or non-alloy steel; in coils, flat-rolled, width 600mm or more, cold-rolled, of a thickness of 0.5mm or more but not exceeding 1mm | 2018 | 57.27% | 11,106,497 |
| 41 | Russian Federation | 720916 | Iron or non-alloy steel; in coils, flat-rolled, width 600mm or more, cold-rolled, of a thickness exceeding 1mm but less than 3mm | 2018 | 55.98% | 23,330,793 |
| 42 | Saudi Arabia | 830990 | Stoppers; caps and lids, of base metal | 2018 | 54.23% | 36,755,152 |
| 43 | Bahrain | 760429 | Aluminium; alloys, bars, rods and profiles, other than hollow | 2018 | 54.07% | 15,498,819 |
| 44 | Ukraine | 240399 | Tobacco; other than homogenised or reconstituted or smoking | 2018 | 53.49% | 78,516,268 |
| 45 | Ukraine | 720719 | Iron or non-alloy steel; semi-finished products of iron or non-alloy steel, containing by weight less than 0.25% of carbon, other than rectangular or square cross-section | 2018 | 52.19% | 845,488,999 |
| 46 | Saudi Arabia | 291614 | Acids; unsaturated acyclic monocarboxylic acids; esters of methacrylic acid | 2018 | 51.51% | 12,823,391 |
| 47 | Ukraine | 720230 | Ferro-alloys; ferro-silico-manganese | 2018 | 51.50% | 25,995,776 |
| 48 | Kuwait | 270900 | Oils; petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, crude | 2018 | 50.53% | 1,790,755,587 |
| 49 | Russian Federation | 291735 | Acids; aromatic polycarboxylic acids; phthalic anhydride | 2018 | 47.74% | 10,844,970 |
| 50 | United Arab Emirates | 721633 | Iron or non-alloy steel; H sections, hot-rolled, hot-drawn or extruded, of a height of 80mm or more | 2018 | 47.00% | 19,308,901 |
| 51 | Saudi Arabia | 291532 | Acids; saturated acyclic monocarboxylic acids; vinyl acetate | 2018 | 47.00% | 14,638,408 |
| 52 | Saudi Arabia | 291531 | Acids; saturated acyclic monocarboxylic acids; ethyl acetate | 2018 | 44.57% | 11,085,522 |
| 53 | Russian Federation | 271019 | Petroleum oils and oils from bituminous minerals, not containing biodiesel, not crude, not waste oils; preparations n.e.c, containing by weight 70% or more of petroleum oils or oils from bituminous minerals; not light oils and preparations | 2018 | 43.57% | 356,140,259 |
| 54 | Saudi Arabia | 390120 | Ethylene polymers; in primary forms, polyethylene having a specific gravity of 0.94 or more | 2018 | 42.88% | 127,538,675 |
| 55 | United Arab Emirates | 847180 | Units of automatic data processing machines; n.e.c. in item no. 8471.50, 8471.60 or 8471.70 | 2018 | 41.63% | 24,285,666 |
| 56 | Russian Federation | 283311 | Sodium sulphates; disodium sulphate | 2018 | 41.29% | 10,107,317 |
| 57 | Qatar | 271111 | Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons; liquefied, natural gas | 2018 | 41.02% | 461,624,927 |
| 58 | Saudi Arabia | 560311 | Nonwovens; whether or not impregnated, coated, covered or laminated, of man-made filaments, (weighing not more than 25g/m2) | 2018 | 40.48% | 16,404,732 |
| 59 | Russian Federation | 730439 | Iron or non-alloy steel (excluding cast iron); seamless, (excluding cold-drawn or cold-rolled), tubes, pipes and hollow profiles of circular cross-section | 2018 | 40.26% | 13,399,201 |
| 60 | Saudi Arabia | 271012 | Petroleum oils and oils from bituminous minerals, not containing biodiesel, not crude, not waste oils; preparations n.e.c, containing by weight 70% or more of petroleum oils or oils from bituminous minerals; light oils and preparations | 2018 | 38.48% | 2,354,042,602 |
| 61 | Russian Federation | 730419 | Iron or steel (excluding cast iron or stainless steel); seamless, line pipe of a kind used for oil or gas pipelines | 2018 | 37.93% | 23,622,494 |
| 62 | Syria | 090931 | Spices; cumin seeds, neither crushed nor ground | 2018 | 37.88% | 11,168,584 |
| 63 | Russian Federation | 441239 | Plywood; consisting only of sheets of wood (not bamboo), each ply 6mm or thinner, with both outer plies of coniferous wood | 2018 | 37.50% | 10,832,371 |
| 64 | Russian Federation | 720719 | Iron or non-alloy steel; semi-finished products of iron or non-alloy steel, containing by weight less than 0.25% of carbon, other than rectangular or square cross-section | 2018 | 37.45% | 606,668,111 |
| 65 | United Arab Emirates | 390120 | Ethylene polymers; in primary forms, polyethylene having a specific gravity of 0.94 or more | 2018 | 35.20% | 104,703,051 |
| 66 | Russian Federation | 440710 | -Coniferous | 2018 | 34.88% | 311,845,967 |
| 67 | Iraq | 270900 | Oils; petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, crude | 2018 | 34.04% | 1,206,567,155 |
| 68 | Russian Federation | 720839 | Iron or non-alloy steel; in coils, without patterns in relief, flat-rolled, of a width 600mm or more, hot-rolled, of a thickness of less than 3mm | 2018 | 33.59% | 86,590,832 |
| 69 | United Arab Emirates | 850490 | Electrical transformers, static converters and inductors; parts thereof | 2018 | 33.47% | 13,844,126 |
| 70 | Saudi Arabia | 390311 | Styrene polymers; expansible polystyrene, in primary forms | 2018 | 31.50% | 18,086,982 |
| 71 | United Arab Emirates | 340120 | Soap; in forms n.e.c. in item no. 3401.11 | 2018 | 30.93% | 12,588,946 |
| 72 | Saudi Arabia | 290122 | Acyclic hydrocarbons; unsaturated, propene (propylene) | 2018 | 30.87% | 23,374,495 |
Partner frequency summary:
Russian Federation: 23 occurrences
Saudi Arabia: 21 occurrences
Bahrain: 8 occurrences
United Arab Emirates: 8 occurrences
Ukraine: 7 occurrences
Iran: 1 occurrence
Kuwait: 1 occurrence
Qatar: 1 occurrence
Syria: 1 occurrence
Iraq: 1 occurrence
Critical Goods in table:
270900 - Oils; petroleum oils and oils obtained from bi...
271012 - Petroleum oils and oils from bituminous minera...
271019 - Petroleum oils and oils from bituminous minera...
271111 - Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons...
271113 - Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons...
Legend:
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The number in red parentheses indicates bottlenecks from countries flagged in the Danger Zone.
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The number in lime square brackets indicates bottlenecks involving HS codes flagged in Critical Goods.