Country Matrix
For 2023, 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: 2023(59 in Danger Zone)[6 Critical Goods]| Value \ Share | >= 30% | >= 40% | >= 50% | >= 60% | >= 70% | >= 80% | >= 90% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| >= 10 mln USD | 532(59)[6] | 435(41)[5] | 332(34)[3] | 259(30)[3] | 202(25)[3] | 146(17)[2] | 90(8)[1] |
| >= 50 mln USD | 135(29)[6] | 109(20)[5] | 82(17)[3] | 73(16)[3] | 62(12)[3] | 46(7)[2] | 29(4)[1] |
| >= 100 mln USD | 76(19)[6] | 62(15)[5] | 48(12)[3] | 44(11)[3] | 38(7)[3] | 29(4)[2] | 22(3)[1] |
| >= 200 mln USD | 38(14)[6] | 29(11)[5] | 22(8)[3] | 21(8)[3] | 15(4)[3] | 10(3)[2] | 9(2)[1] |
| >= 500 mln USD | 16(6)[5] | 12(4)[4] | 6(1)[2] | 6(1)[2] | 4[2] | 2[1] | 2[1] |
Danger Zone Bottlenecks (59 records, >= 30% share, >= 10 mln USD)
| # | Partner | HS Code | HS Description | Year | Share (%) | Value (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ukraine | 100390 | Cereals; barley, other than seed | 2023 | 100.00% | 10,830,874 |
| 2 | Saudi Arabia | 180610 | Cocoa; powder, containing added sugar or other sweetening matter | 2023 | 99.28% | 14,498,791 |
| 3 | Russian Federation | 270111 | Coal; anthracite, whether or not pulverised, but not agglomerated | 2023 | 97.25% | 40,197,494 |
| 4 | Russian Federation | 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 | 2023 | 95.13% | 48,258,489 |
| 5 | 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 | 2023 | 94.03% | 200,649,780 |
| 6 | Russian Federation | 852349 | Optical media; recorded, excluding products of Chapter 37 | 2023 | 93.65% | 60,099,273 |
| 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 | 2023 | 92.59% | 110,757,768 |
| 8 | United Arab Emirates | 740811 | Copper; wire, of refined copper, of which the maximum cross-sectional dimension exceeds 6mm | 2023 | 90.33% | 240,734,946 |
| 9 | 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 | 2023 | 84.94% | 17,140,601 |
| 10 | 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 | 2023 | 84.30% | 238,339,000 |
| 11 | 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 | 2023 | 84.23% | 43,234,333 |
| 12 | Saudi Arabia | 390290 | Propylene, other olefin polymers; n.e.c. in heading no. 3902, in primary forms | 2023 | 82.08% | 12,998,396 |
| 13 | United Arab Emirates | 190532 | Food preparations; waffles and wafers, whether or not containing cocoa | 2023 | 81.98% | 13,636,188 |
| 14 | Russian Federation | 491199 | Printed matter; n.e.c. in heading no. 4911 | 2023 | 81.71% | 61,527,823 |
| 15 | United Arab Emirates | 740710 | Copper; bars, rods and profiles, of refined copper | 2023 | 81.67% | 29,810,968 |
| 16 | United Arab Emirates | 630900 | Clothing; worn, and other worn articles | 2023 | 81.00% | 14,711,873 |
| 17 | Saudi Arabia | 760692 | Aluminium; plates, sheets and strip, thickness exceeding 0.2mm, alloys, (not rectangular or square) | 2023 | 80.03% | 55,844,796 |
| 18 | Saudi Arabia | 481920 | Paper and paperboard; folding cartons, boxes and cases, of non-corrugated paper or paperboard | 2023 | 78.70% | 54,760,215 |
| 19 | Saudi Arabia | 290250 | Cyclic hydrocarbons; styrene | 2023 | 77.01% | 29,355,578 |
| 20 | Saudi Arabia | 290531 | Alcohols; acyclic, diols; ethylene glycol (ethanediol) | 2023 | 75.03% | 149,261,184 |
| 21 | Saudi Arabia | 390210 | Propylene, other olefin polymers; polypropylene in primary forms | 2023 | 74.03% | 388,149,659 |
| 22 | Russian Federation | 071310 | Vegetables, leguminous; peas (pisum sativum), shelled, whether or not skinned or split, dried | 2023 | 72.64% | 13,138,141 |
| 23 | Bahrain | 760511 | Aluminium; (not alloyed), wire, maximum cross-sectional dimension exceeds 7mm | 2023 | 71.83% | 116,698,046 |
| 24 | United Arab Emirates | 710812 | Metals; gold, non-monetary, unwrought (but not powder) | 2023 | 71.77% | 99,865,241 |
| 25 | Russian Federation | 290410 | Derivatives of hydrocarbons; containing only sulpho groups, their salts and ethyl esters, whether or not halogenated | 2023 | 71.39% | 19,157,489 |
| 26 | 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 | 2023 | 69.02% | 317,937,948 |
| 27 | Russian Federation | 100119 | Cereals; wheat and meslin, durum wheat, other than seed | 2023 | 68.67% | 2,536,350,393 |
| 28 | Saudi Arabia | 291532 | Acids; saturated acyclic monocarboxylic acids; vinyl acetate | 2023 | 65.81% | 20,632,476 |
| 29 | Russian Federation | 151211 | Vegetable oils; sunflower seed or safflower oil and their fractions, crude, not chemically modified | 2023 | 64.52% | 418,615,146 |
| 30 | Saudi Arabia | 390120 | Ethylene polymers; in primary forms, polyethylene having a specific gravity of 0.94 or more | 2023 | 60.29% | 494,634,096 |
| 31 | Saudi Arabia | 760612 | Aluminium; plates, sheets and strip, thickness exceeding 0.2mm, alloys, rectangular (including square) | 2023 | 58.71% | 35,143,210 |
| 32 | 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 | 2023 | 57.57% | 10,861,878 |
| 33 | United Arab Emirates | 721633 | Iron or non-alloy steel; H sections, hot-rolled, hot-drawn or extruded, of a height of 80mm or more | 2023 | 53.58% | 32,450,483 |
| 34 | Saudi Arabia | 390110 | Ethylene polymers; in primary forms, polyethylene having a specific gravity of less than 0.94 | 2023 | 52.01% | 171,551,872 |
| 35 | Kuwait | 270900 | Oils; petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, crude | 2023 | 49.59% | 861,238,000 |
| 36 | Russian Federation | 071320 | Vegetables, leguminous; chickpeas (garbanzos), shelled, whether or not skinned or split, dried | 2023 | 45.44% | 20,073,916 |
| 37 | United Arab Emirates | 760410 | Aluminium; (not alloyed), bars, rods and profiles | 2023 | 43.46% | 27,061,398 |
| 38 | 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 | 2023 | 43.02% | 27,312,988 |
| 39 | Saudi Arabia | 390311 | Styrene polymers; expansible polystyrene, in primary forms | 2023 | 42.93% | 20,927,771 |
| 40 | Saudi Arabia | 270900 | Oils; petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, crude | 2023 | 40.41% | 701,856,110 |
| 41 | Ukraine | 100590 | Cereals; maize (corn), other than seed | 2023 | 40.15% | 989,932,366 |
| 42 | United Arab Emirates | 480256 | Uncoated paper and paperboard (not 4801 or 4803); printing, writing or graphic, 10% or less by weight of mechanical or chemi-mechanical processed fibre, weight 40-150g/m2, in sheets 435mm or less by 297mm or less (unfolded) | 2023 | 39.50% | 38,781,977 |
| 43 | United Arab Emirates | 170199 | Sugars; sucrose, chemically pure, in solid form, not containing added flavouring or colouring matter | 2023 | 38.89% | 21,584,329 |
| 44 | Russian Federation | 310260 | Fertilizers, mineral or chemical; nitrogenous, double salts and mixtures of calcium nitrate and ammonium nitrate | 2023 | 38.33% | 11,669,921 |
| 45 | Ukraine | 120190 | Soya beans; other than seed, whether or not broken | 2023 | 38.15% | 648,066,864 |
| 46 | Saudi Arabia | 390791 | Polyesters; n.e.c. in heading no. 3907, unsaturated, in primary forms | 2023 | 38.14% | 13,623,304 |
| 47 | Saudi Arabia | 281820 | Aluminium oxide; other than artificial corundum | 2023 | 37.81% | 65,092,807 |
| 48 | Russian Federation | 100111 | Cereals; wheat and meslin, durum wheat, seed | 2023 | 36.96% | 23,277,348 |
| 49 | Russian Federation | 150710 | Vegetable oils; soya-bean oil and its fractions, crude, whether or not degummed, not chemically modified | 2023 | 36.49% | 123,794,257 |
| 50 | Kuwait | 271312 | Petroleum coke; calcined, obtained from bituminous minerals | 2023 | 35.82% | 50,709,619 |
| 51 | Saudi Arabia | 830990 | Stoppers; caps and lids, of base metal | 2023 | 35.81% | 31,298,537 |
| 52 | United Arab Emirates | 480255 | Uncoated paper and paperboard (not 4801 or 4803); printing, writing or graphic, 10% or less by weight of mechanical or chemi-mechanical processed fibre, weighing 40g/m2 to 150g/m2, in rolls | 2023 | 34.60% | 71,339,860 |
| 53 | United Arab Emirates | 731100 | Containers for compressed or liquefied gas, of iron or steel | 2023 | 34.12% | 11,130,647 |
| 54 | Saudi Arabia | 390230 | Propylene, other olefin polymers; propylene copolymers in primary forms | 2023 | 34.09% | 61,846,708 |
| 55 | Lebanon | 720429 | Ferrous waste and scrap; of alloy steel (excluding stainless) | 2023 | 34.01% | 24,225,351 |
| 56 | 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 | 2023 | 33.53% | 27,750,436 |
| 57 | 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 | 2023 | 33.30% | 2,082,084,000 |
| 58 | United Arab Emirates | 390120 | Ethylene polymers; in primary forms, polyethylene having a specific gravity of 0.94 or more | 2023 | 31.74% | 260,380,743 |
| 59 | Lebanon | 080810 | Fruit, edible; apples, fresh | 2023 | 31.67% | 70,777,004 |
Partner frequency summary:
Saudi Arabia: 20 occurrences
Russian Federation: 17 occurrences
United Arab Emirates: 13 occurrences
Ukraine: 4 occurrences
Kuwait: 2 occurrences
Lebanon: 2 occurrences
Bahrain: 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...
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.