Country Matrix
For 2022, 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: 2022(64 in Danger Zone)[8 Critical Goods]| Value \ Share | >= 30% | >= 40% | >= 50% | >= 60% | >= 70% | >= 80% | >= 90% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| >= 10 mln USD | 592(64)[8] | 471(47)[5] | 369(37)[3] | 292(24)[1] | 228(19)[1] | 168(11)[1] | 98(5)[1] |
| >= 50 mln USD | 153(27)[8] | 127(21)[5] | 101(17)[3] | 85(12)[1] | 68(10)[1] | 48(6)[1] | 20(2)[1] |
| >= 100 mln USD | 77(19)[8] | 63(16)[5] | 53(13)[3] | 43(9)[1] | 38(8)[1] | 25(5)[1] | 12(1)[1] |
| >= 200 mln USD | 37(12)[7] | 33(9)[5] | 27(7)[3] | 19(4)[1] | 16(3)[1] | 11(1)[1] | 6[1] |
| >= 500 mln USD | 16(6)[5] | 15(5)[4] | 11(4)[3] | 5(2)[1] | 4(1)[1] | 2[1] | 1[1] |
Danger Zone Bottlenecks (64 records, >= 30% share, >= 10 mln USD)
| # | Partner | HS Code | HS Description | Year | Share (%) | Value (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Russian Federation | 270111 | Coal; anthracite, whether or not pulverised, but not agglomerated | 2022 | 99.82% | 74,360,030 |
| 2 | Syria | 200791 | Jams, jellies, marmalades, purees and pastes; of citrus fruit, being cooked preparations (excluding homogenised), whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter | 2022 | 99.76% | 10,398,436 |
| 3 | Saudi Arabia | 180610 | Cocoa; powder, containing added sugar or other sweetening matter | 2022 | 99.13% | 14,550,742 |
| 4 | United Arab Emirates | 740710 | Copper; bars, rods and profiles, of refined copper | 2022 | 94.13% | 47,734,489 |
| 5 | Russian Federation | 491199 | Printed matter; n.e.c. in heading no. 4911 | 2022 | 91.61% | 121,696,257 |
| 6 | Russian Federation | 852349 | Optical media; recorded, excluding products of Chapter 37 | 2022 | 89.85% | 112,052,348 |
| 7 | 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 | 2022 | 88.87% | 144,215,769 |
| 8 | 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 | 2022 | 87.11% | 180,314,078 |
| 9 | Russian Federation | 151211 | Vegetable oils; sunflower seed or safflower oil and their fractions, crude, not chemically modified | 2022 | 86.75% | 287,869,245 |
| 10 | Saudi Arabia | 291532 | Acids; saturated acyclic monocarboxylic acids; vinyl acetate | 2022 | 81.00% | 43,252,368 |
| 11 | Saudi Arabia | 290250 | Cyclic hydrocarbons; styrene | 2022 | 80.77% | 31,312,017 |
| 12 | United Arab Emirates | 710812 | Metals; gold, non-monetary, unwrought (but not powder) | 2022 | 76.81% | 243,276,092 |
| 13 | Saudi Arabia | 481920 | Paper and paperboard; folding cartons, boxes and cases, of non-corrugated paper or paperboard | 2022 | 76.49% | 73,917,163 |
| 14 | United Arab Emirates | 480300 | Tissue, towel, napkin stock or similar; for household or sanitary use, cellulose, wadding webs of cellulose fibres, in rolls exceeding 36cm in width or rectangular sheets with one side more than 36cm in unfolded state | 2022 | 75.51% | 12,269,128 |
| 15 | Saudi Arabia | 290941 | Ether-alcohols and their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives; 2,2-oxydiethanol (diethylene glycol, digol) | 2022 | 75.47% | 11,935,673 |
| 16 | Russian Federation | 380400 | Lyes, residual; from the manufacture of wood pulp, whether or not concentrated, desugared or chemically treated, including lignin sulphonates but excluding tall oil of heading no. 3803 | 2022 | 75.26% | 20,342,243 |
| 17 | United Arab Emirates | 740811 | Copper; wire, of refined copper, of which the maximum cross-sectional dimension exceeds 6mm | 2022 | 75.24% | 195,481,787 |
| 18 | United Arab Emirates | 190532 | Food preparations; waffles and wafers, whether or not containing cocoa | 2022 | 73.76% | 13,420,733 |
| 19 | Saudi Arabia | 390210 | Propylene, other olefin polymers; polypropylene in primary forms | 2022 | 71.01% | 554,825,251 |
| 20 | Bahrain | 760511 | Aluminium; (not alloyed), wire, maximum cross-sectional dimension exceeds 7mm | 2022 | 69.55% | 53,061,664 |
| 21 | Bahrain | 760110 | Aluminium; unwrought, (not alloyed) | 2022 | 68.87% | 21,660,016 |
| 22 | Saudi Arabia | 390120 | Ethylene polymers; in primary forms, polyethylene having a specific gravity of 0.94 or more | 2022 | 63.44% | 637,235,690 |
| 23 | Saudi Arabia | 291614 | Acids; unsaturated acyclic monocarboxylic acids; esters of methacrylic acid | 2022 | 61.09% | 11,858,158 |
| 24 | Ukraine | 720810 | Iron or non-alloy steel; in coils, flat-rolled, of a width 600mm or more, hot-rolled, with patterns in relief | 2022 | 60.66% | 26,853,636 |
| 25 | Russian Federation | 441233 | Plywood; with sheets of wood only; not bamboo; each ply 6mm or less, with at least one outer ply of alder, ash, beech, birch, cherry, chestnut, elm, eucalyptus, hickory, horse chestnut, lime, maple, oak, plane, poplar, aspen, robinia, tulipwood or walnut | 2022 | 59.33% | 17,319,658 |
| 26 | Saudi Arabia | 290531 | Alcohols; acyclic, diols; ethylene glycol (ethanediol) | 2022 | 58.60% | 106,037,237 |
| 27 | Saudi Arabia | 390110 | Ethylene polymers; in primary forms, polyethylene having a specific gravity of less than 0.94 | 2022 | 58.56% | 281,013,564 |
| 28 | Bahrain | 721633 | Iron or non-alloy steel; H sections, hot-rolled, hot-drawn or extruded, of a height of 80mm or more | 2022 | 56.48% | 26,784,488 |
| 29 | Lebanon | 720429 | Ferrous waste and scrap; of alloy steel (excluding stainless) | 2022 | 52.75% | 16,507,499 |
| 30 | United Arab Emirates | 340120 | Soap; in forms n.e.c. in item no. 3401.11 | 2022 | 52.48% | 16,094,042 |
| 31 | Russian Federation | 290410 | Derivatives of hydrocarbons; containing only sulpho groups, their salts and ethyl esters, whether or not halogenated | 2022 | 52.29% | 14,426,811 |
| 32 | Russian Federation | 100119 | Cereals; wheat and meslin, durum wheat, other than seed | 2022 | 52.04% | 2,112,997,323 |
| 33 | 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 | 2022 | 51.33% | 21,632,771 |
| 34 | Saudi Arabia | 830990 | Stoppers; caps and lids, of base metal | 2022 | 50.74% | 54,915,466 |
| 35 | Bahrain | 760429 | Aluminium; alloys, bars, rods and profiles, other than hollow | 2022 | 50.68% | 17,165,021 |
| 36 | Saudi Arabia | 270900 | Oils; petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, crude | 2022 | 50.64% | 2,343,390,000 |
| 37 | Bahrain | 760120 | Aluminium; unwrought, alloys | 2022 | 50.51% | 28,629,835 |
| 38 | Saudi Arabia | 390791 | Polyesters; n.e.c. in heading no. 3907, unsaturated, in primary forms | 2022 | 47.80% | 36,378,915 |
| 39 | Russian Federation | 150710 | Vegetable oils; soya-bean oil and its fractions, crude, whether or not degummed, not chemically modified | 2022 | 47.41% | 155,278,625 |
| 40 | Kuwait | 270900 | Oils; petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, crude | 2022 | 46.31% | 2,143,290,000 |
| 41 | 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 | 2022 | 45.10% | 48,472,734 |
| 42 | Iraq | 080410 | Fruit, edible; dates, fresh or dried | 2022 | 44.77% | 10,677,149 |
| 43 | Saudi Arabia | 080410 | Fruit, edible; dates, fresh or dried | 2022 | 44.22% | 10,545,621 |
| 44 | United Arab Emirates | 850490 | Electrical transformers, static converters and inductors; parts thereof | 2022 | 44.13% | 22,844,506 |
| 45 | Saudi Arabia | 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 | 2022 | 43.33% | 256,543,203 |
| 46 | Saudi Arabia | 760612 | Aluminium; plates, sheets and strip, thickness exceeding 0.2mm, alloys, rectangular (including square) | 2022 | 42.20% | 55,332,660 |
| 47 | Ukraine | 720890 | Iron or non-alloy steel; flat-rolled, hot-rolled, of a width 600mm or more, n.e.c. in heading no. 7208 | 2022 | 40.97% | 37,680,080 |
| 48 | 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 | 2022 | 39.68% | 239,350,529 |
| 49 | Bahrain | 760410 | Aluminium; (not alloyed), bars, rods and profiles | 2022 | 39.41% | 47,132,789 |
| 50 | United Arab Emirates | 760410 | Aluminium; (not alloyed), bars, rods and profiles | 2022 | 38.18% | 45,662,968 |
| 51 | Saudi Arabia | 761090 | Aluminium; structures (excluding prefabricated buildings of heading no. 9406) and parts of structures, n.e.c. in heading no. 7610, plates, rods, profiles, tubes and the like | 2022 | 36.13% | 18,875,750 |
| 52 | Russian Federation | 721391 | Iron or non-alloy steel; bars and rods, hot-rolled, in irregularly wound coils, n.e.c. in heading no. 7213, of circular cross-section measuring less than 14mm in diameter | 2022 | 35.95% | 23,032,269 |
| 53 | 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 | 2022 | 35.21% | 1,834,912,368 |
| 54 | Saudi Arabia | 271113 | Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons; liquefied, butanes | 2022 | 34.47% | 459,500,000 |
| 55 | Russian Federation | 270400 | Coke and semi-coke; of coal, lignite or peat, whether or not agglomerated; retort carbon | 2022 | 33.59% | 85,203,203 |
| 56 | Saudi Arabia | 390230 | Propylene, other olefin polymers; propylene copolymers in primary forms | 2022 | 33.58% | 95,043,382 |
| 57 | Saudi Arabia | 760611 | Aluminium; plates, sheets and strip, thickness exceeding 0.2mm, (not alloyed), rectangular (including square) | 2022 | 33.46% | 11,793,602 |
| 58 | Saudi Arabia | 291531 | Acids; saturated acyclic monocarboxylic acids; ethyl acetate | 2022 | 31.79% | 11,147,102 |
| 59 | Ukraine | 720836 | Iron or non-alloy steel; in coils, without patterns in relief, flat-rolled, of a width 600mm or more, hot-rolled, of a thickness exceeding 10mm | 2022 | 31.62% | 10,295,483 |
| 60 | Kuwait | 290531 | Alcohols; acyclic, diols; ethylene glycol (ethanediol) | 2022 | 31.33% | 56,697,298 |
| 61 | Saudi Arabia | 760719 | Aluminium; foil, (not backed), of a thickness not exceeding 0.2mm, not rolled | 2022 | 30.99% | 22,151,692 |
| 62 | Saudi Arabia | 560311 | Nonwovens; whether or not impregnated, coated, covered or laminated, of man-made filaments, (weighing not more than 25g/m2) | 2022 | 30.96% | 10,485,825 |
| 63 | Saudi Arabia | 390740 | Polycarbonates; in primary forms | 2022 | 30.78% | 19,346,278 |
| 64 | Bahrain | 721632 | Iron or non-alloy steel; I sections, hot-rolled, hot-drawn or extruded, of a height of 80mm or more | 2022 | 30.36% | 19,787,280 |
Partner frequency summary:
Saudi Arabia: 26 occurrences
Russian Federation: 13 occurrences
United Arab Emirates: 9 occurrences
Bahrain: 7 occurrences
Ukraine: 4 occurrences
Kuwait: 2 occurrences
Syria: 1 occurrence
Lebanon: 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...
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.