Country Matrix
For 2025, 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: 2025(67 in Danger Zone)[5 Critical Goods]| Value \ Share | >= 30% | >= 40% | >= 50% | >= 60% | >= 70% | >= 80% | >= 90% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| >= 10 mln USD | 597(67)[5] | 482(52)[5] | 390(44)[5] | 308(36)[4] | 237(23)[3] | 171(17)[3] | 101(5)[1] |
| >= 50 mln USD | 155(26)[5] | 131(21)[5] | 113(19)[5] | 98(16)[4] | 77(11)[3] | 55(9)[3] | 32(2)[1] |
| >= 100 mln USD | 74(17)[5] | 68(15)[5] | 58(13)[5] | 48(10)[4] | 37(6)[3] | 28(5)[3] | 17(1)[1] |
| >= 200 mln USD | 39(11)[5] | 35(10)[5] | 31(10)[5] | 28(8)[4] | 21(4)[3] | 16(3)[3] | 9[1] |
| >= 500 mln USD | 13(5)[5] | 13(5)[5] | 12(5)[5] | 10(3)[4] | 8(3)[3] | 5(2)[3] | 2[1] |
Danger Zone Bottlenecks (67 records, >= 30% share, >= 10 mln USD)
| # | Partner | HS Code | HS Description | Year | Share (%) | Value (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saudi Arabia | 180610 | Cocoa; powder, containing added sugar or other sweetening matter | 2025 | 99.21% | 13,588,061 |
| 2 | United Arab Emirates | 740710 | Copper; bars, rods and profiles, of refined copper | 2025 | 96.69% | 54,257,619 |
| 3 | Russian Federation | 270111 | Coal; anthracite, whether or not pulverised, but not agglomerated | 2025 | 95.14% | 24,000,359 |
| 4 | Saudi Arabia | 290250 | Cyclic hydrocarbons; styrene | 2025 | 93.12% | 32,433,789 |
| 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 | 2025 | 91.05% | 102,510,447 |
| 6 | Saudi Arabia | 270900 | Oils; petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, crude | 2025 | 88.80% | 1,335,700,000 |
| 7 | Saudi Arabia | 291532 | Acids; saturated acyclic monocarboxylic acids; vinyl acetate | 2025 | 88.16% | 24,887,329 |
| 8 | Saudi Arabia | 080410 | Fruit, edible; dates, fresh or dried | 2025 | 85.69% | 38,773,800 |
| 9 | Russian Federation | 730900 | Reservoirs, tanks, vats and similar containers; for any material (excluding compressed or liquefied gas), of iron or steel, capacity exceeding 300l, whether or not lined or heat insulated | 2025 | 85.67% | 89,070,257 |
| 10 | Saudi Arabia | 760410 | Aluminium; (not alloyed), bars, rods and profiles | 2025 | 85.58% | 71,982,563 |
| 11 | United Arab Emirates | 630900 | Clothing; worn, and other worn articles | 2025 | 85.37% | 29,009,567 |
| 12 | 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 | 2025 | 84.79% | 1,524,958,010 |
| 13 | United Arab Emirates | 740811 | Copper; wire, of refined copper, of which the maximum cross-sectional dimension exceeds 6mm | 2025 | 84.45% | 409,853,098 |
| 14 | Saudi Arabia | 290531 | Alcohols; acyclic, diols; ethylene glycol (ethanediol) | 2025 | 83.99% | 122,909,925 |
| 15 | Saudi Arabia | 252310 | Cement clinkers (whether or not coloured) | 2025 | 82.50% | 15,728,506 |
| 16 | United Arab Emirates | 730300 | Cast iron; tubes, pipes and hollow profiles | 2025 | 81.93% | 49,831,367 |
| 17 | Saudi Arabia | 481920 | Paper and paperboard; folding cartons, boxes and cases, of non-corrugated paper or paperboard | 2025 | 81.91% | 77,231,145 |
| 18 | United Arab Emirates | 710812 | Metals; gold, non-monetary, unwrought (but not powder) | 2025 | 79.27% | 789,597,828 |
| 19 | 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 | 2025 | 78.46% | 49,418,357 |
| 20 | Russian Federation | 720890 | Iron or non-alloy steel; flat-rolled, hot-rolled, of a width 600mm or more, n.e.c. in heading no. 7208 | 2025 | 74.16% | 44,440,926 |
| 21 | Russian Federation | 720110 | Iron; non-alloy pig iron containing by weight 0.5% or less of phosphorus, in pigs, blocks or other primary forms | 2025 | 73.88% | 21,896,092 |
| 22 | 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 | 2025 | 73.05% | 28,752,338 |
| 23 | United Arab Emirates | 710691 | Metals; silver, unwrought, (but not powder) | 2025 | 73.00% | 62,363,268 |
| 24 | Russian Federation | 310230 | Fertilizers, mineral or chemical; nitrogenous, ammonium nitrate, whether or not in aqueous solution | 2025 | 69.90% | 11,860,084 |
| 25 | Saudi Arabia | 760692 | Aluminium; plates, sheets and strip, thickness exceeding 0.2mm, alloys, (not rectangular or square) | 2025 | 69.49% | 11,827,310 |
| 26 | Russian Federation | 720310 | Ferrous products; obtained by direct reduction of iron ore, in lumps, pellets or similar forms | 2025 | 68.79% | 38,489,552 |
| 27 | Saudi Arabia | 390210 | Propylene, other olefin polymers; polypropylene in primary forms | 2025 | 68.51% | 483,419,967 |
| 28 | Russian Federation | 852349 | Optical media; recorded, excluding products of Chapter 37 | 2025 | 67.48% | 46,670,967 |
| 29 | Russian Federation | 491199 | Printed matter; n.e.c. in heading no. 4911 | 2025 | 66.37% | 22,582,203 |
| 30 | Saudi Arabia | 760612 | Aluminium; plates, sheets and strip, thickness exceeding 0.2mm, alloys, rectangular (including square) | 2025 | 65.26% | 39,364,920 |
| 31 | Russian Federation | 730890 | Iron or steel; structures and parts thereof, n.e.c. in heading 7308 | 2025 | 63.87% | 353,973,979 |
| 32 | Russian Federation | 720711 | Iron or non-alloy steel; semi-finished products of iron or non-alloy steel; containing by weight less than 0.25% of carbon, of rectangular (including square) cross-section, width less than twice thickness | 2025 | 63.43% | 20,685,644 |
| 33 | Saudi Arabia | 390120 | Ethylene polymers; in primary forms, polyethylene having a specific gravity of 0.94 or more | 2025 | 63.35% | 315,592,516 |
| 34 | 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 | 2025 | 62.68% | 474,841,268 |
| 35 | Saudi Arabia | 630533 | Sacks and bags; of a kind used for the packing of goods, of man-made textile materials, of polyethylene or polypropylene strip or the like, not flexible intermediate bulk containers | 2025 | 61.09% | 11,996,345 |
| 36 | Saudi Arabia | 760110 | Aluminium; unwrought, (not alloyed) | 2025 | 60.58% | 53,250,343 |
| 37 | Bahrain | 760511 | Aluminium; (not alloyed), wire, maximum cross-sectional dimension exceeds 7mm | 2025 | 59.46% | 40,806,166 |
| 38 | Russian Federation | 100119 | Cereals; wheat and meslin, durum wheat, other than seed | 2025 | 59.32% | 2,205,425,677 |
| 39 | Russian Federation | 730810 | Iron or steel; structures and parts thereof, bridges and bridge-sections | 2025 | 55.45% | 21,175,120 |
| 40 | Russian Federation | 720810 | Iron or non-alloy steel; in coils, flat-rolled, of a width 600mm or more, hot-rolled, with patterns in relief | 2025 | 55.41% | 16,079,010 |
| 41 | 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 | 2025 | 55.23% | 4,185,108,494 |
| 42 | Saudi Arabia | 390110 | Ethylene polymers; in primary forms, polyethylene having a specific gravity of less than 0.94 | 2025 | 54.33% | 178,010,103 |
| 43 | Russian Federation | 151219 | Vegetable oils; sunflower seed or safflower oil and their fractions, other than crude, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified | 2025 | 54.25% | 21,578,572 |
| 44 | Saudi Arabia | 390130 | Ethylene polymers; in primary forms, ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymers | 2025 | 52.41% | 18,195,642 |
| 45 | Saudi Arabia | 760719 | Aluminium; foil, (not backed), of a thickness not exceeding 0.2mm, not rolled | 2025 | 49.52% | 38,149,952 |
| 46 | Ukraine | 230400 | Oil-cake and other solid residues; whether or not ground or in the form of pellets, resulting from the extraction of soya-bean oil | 2025 | 47.67% | 26,050,108 |
| 47 | 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 | 2025 | 45.34% | 110,493,072 |
| 48 | Saudi Arabia | 700529 | Glass; float glass and surface ground or polished glass, in sheets, non-wired, (other than coloured throughout the mass (body tinted), opacified, flashed or merely surface ground) | 2025 | 44.17% | 13,069,713 |
| 49 | Ukraine | 151219 | Vegetable oils; sunflower seed or safflower oil and their fractions, other than crude, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified | 2025 | 43.46% | 17,286,840 |
| 50 | Ukraine | 151211 | Vegetable oils; sunflower seed or safflower oil and their fractions, crude, not chemically modified | 2025 | 43.39% | 190,609,650 |
| 51 | Russian Federation | 283526 | Phosphates; of calcium n.e.c. in item no. 2835.25, whether or not chemically defined | 2025 | 41.60% | 22,178,913 |
| 52 | 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 | 2025 | 41.51% | 39,760,832 |
| 53 | Russian Federation | 740311 | Copper; refined, unwrought, cathodes and sections of cathodes | 2025 | 38.08% | 464,354,036 |
| 54 | Saudi Arabia | 390740 | Polycarbonates; in primary forms | 2025 | 36.84% | 14,488,991 |
| 55 | Russian Federation | 151211 | Vegetable oils; sunflower seed or safflower oil and their fractions, crude, not chemically modified | 2025 | 36.65% | 161,034,209 |
| 56 | Lebanon | 720429 | Ferrous waste and scrap; of alloy steel (excluding stainless) | 2025 | 35.81% | 32,724,806 |
| 57 | 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 | 2025 | 35.54% | 83,932,871 |
| 58 | Russian Federation | 720918 | Iron or non-alloy steel; in coils, flat-rolled, width 600mm or more, cold-rolled, of a thickness of less than 0.5mm | 2025 | 33.75% | 13,600,965 |
| 59 | United Arab Emirates | 721633 | Iron or non-alloy steel; H sections, hot-rolled, hot-drawn or extruded, of a height of 80mm or more | 2025 | 33.62% | 20,900,398 |
| 60 | United Arab Emirates | 760511 | Aluminium; (not alloyed), wire, maximum cross-sectional dimension exceeds 7mm | 2025 | 33.60% | 23,059,586 |
| 61 | 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 | 2025 | 32.98% | 30,087,732 |
| 62 | Saudi Arabia | 390791 | Polyesters; n.e.c. in heading no. 3907, unsaturated, in primary forms | 2025 | 32.95% | 10,540,468 |
| 63 | 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) | 2025 | 32.78% | 26,811,210 |
| 64 | United Arab Emirates | 290122 | Acyclic hydrocarbons; unsaturated, propene (propylene) | 2025 | 32.68% | 23,907,067 |
| 65 | Saudi Arabia | 850720 | Electric accumulators; lead-acid, (other than for starting piston engines), including separators, whether or not rectangular (including square) | 2025 | 32.48% | 11,368,927 |
| 66 | United Arab Emirates | 390230 | Propylene, other olefin polymers; propylene copolymers in primary forms | 2025 | 31.49% | 50,344,385 |
| 67 | 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 | 2025 | 30.20% | 54,059,377 |
Partner frequency summary:
Saudi Arabia: 25 occurrences
Russian Federation: 23 occurrences
United Arab Emirates: 13 occurrences
Ukraine: 4 occurrences
Bahrain: 1 occurrence
Lebanon: 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.