Extreme Import Bottlenecks
The tables below show Ethiopia'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.
Ethiopia
63 bottlenecks| # | Partner | HS Code | HS Description | Year | Share (%) | Value (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 5503 | Synthetic staple fibres, not carded, combed or otherwise processed for spinning | 2023 | 99.99% | 11,892,178 |
| 2 | South Africa | 2701 | Coal; briquettes, ovoids and similar solid fuels manufactured from coal | 2023 | 99.98% | 114,176,403 |
| 3 | China | 8410 | Turbines; hydraulic water wheels and regulators therefor | 2023 | 99.59% | 13,521,002 |
| 4 | China | 6402 | Footwear; with outer soles and uppers of rubber or plastics (excluding waterproof footwear) | 2023 | 98.74% | 113,220,878 |
| 5 | China | 7317 | Nails, tacks, drawing pins, corrugated nails, staples (not those of heading no. 8305) and the like, of iron or steel, with heads of other material or not, but excluding articles with heads of copper | 2023 | 98.70% | 10,729,519 |
| 6 | China | 8513 | Lamps; portable, electric, designed to function by their own source of energy (e.g. dry batteries, accumulators, magnetos), excluding lighting equipment of heading no. 8512 | 2023 | 98.56% | 24,215,372 |
| 7 | Thailand | 1604 | Prepared or preserved fish; caviar and caviar substitutes prepared from fish eggs | 2023 | 98.38% | 20,718,616 |
| 8 | China | 8503 | Electric motors and generators; parts suitable for use solely or principally with the machines of heading no. 8501 or 8502 | 2023 | 97.61% | 23,416,505 |
| 9 | Canada | 7412 | Copper; tube or pipe fittings (e.g. couplings, elbows, sleeves) | 2023 | 97.02% | 17,530,932 |
| 10 | China | 6001 | Fabrics; pile fabrics, including long pile fabrics and terry fabrics, knitted or crocheted | 2023 | 96.85% | 16,427,027 |
| 11 | Morocco | 3105 | Fertilizers; mineral or chemical, containing 2 or 3 of the elements nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium; other fertilisers; goods of chapter 31 in tablets or packages of gross weight not exceeding 10kg | 2023 | 96.63% | 674,192,788 |
| 12 | China | 5402 | Synthetic filament yarn (other than sewing thread), not put up for retail sale, including synthetic monofilament of less than 67 decitex | 2023 | 96.06% | 153,796,932 |
| 13 | United Kingdom | 8407 | Reciprocating or rotary internal combustion piston engines | 2023 | 95.68% | 24,128,695 |
| 14 | 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 | 2023 | 95.64% | 22,369,415 |
| 15 | China | 7005 | Glass; float glass and surface ground or polished glass, in sheets, whether or not having an absorbent, reflecting or non-reflecting layer, but not otherwise worked | 2023 | 94.38% | 19,188,007 |
| 16 | Türkiye | 1101 | Wheat or meslin flour | 2023 | 94.37% | 119,376,426 |
| 17 | China | 5603 | Nonwovens; whether or not impregnated, coated, covered or laminated | 2023 | 94.35% | 11,597,013 |
| 18 | China | 6406 | Footwear; parts of footwear; removable in-soles, heel cushions and similar articles; gaiters, le.g.ings and similar articles, and parts thereof | 2023 | 94.19% | 44,492,238 |
| 19 | China | 8301 | Padlocks and locks (key, combination, electrically operated) of base metal; clasps and frames with clasps incorporating locks, of base metal, keys for any or the foregoing articles, of base metal | 2023 | 93.95% | 26,806,052 |
| 20 | China | 5401 | Sewing thread of man-made filaments, whether or not put up for retail sale | 2023 | 93.75% | 11,156,539 |
| 21 | China | 8802 | Aircraft n.e.c. in heading no. 8801, except unmanned aircraft of heading 8806, (e.g. helicopters, aeroplanes); spacecraft (including satellites) and suborbital and spacecraft launch vehicles | 2023 | 93.51% | 11,559,513 |
| 22 | USA | 8412 | Engines and motors; n.e.c. (e.g. reaction engines, hydraulic power engines, pneumatic power engines) | 2023 | 92.94% | 30,863,925 |
| 23 | China | 8506 | Cells and batteries; primary | 2023 | 91.91% | 15,523,129 |
| 24 | China | 7208 | Iron or non-alloy steel; flat-rolled products of a width of 600mm or more, hot-rolled, not clad, plated or coated | 2023 | 91.56% | 150,219,732 |
| 25 | China | 8528 | Monitors and projectors, not incorporating television reception apparatus; reception apparatus for television, whether or not incorporating radio-broadcast receivers or sound or video recording or reproducing apparatus | 2023 | 90.24% | 85,486,681 |
| 26 | China | 8716 | Trailers and semi-trailers; other vehicles, not mechanically propelled; parts thereof | 2023 | 89.88% | 50,916,525 |
| 27 | China | 2912 | Aldehydes, whether or not with other oxygen function; cyclic polymers of aldehydes; paraformaldehyde | 2023 | 89.51% | 10,942,688 |
| 28 | China | 7604 | Aluminium; bars, rods and profiles | 2023 | 89.43% | 22,437,466 |
| 29 | China | 8311 | Wires, rods, tubes, plates, electrodes of base metal or metal carbides; of a kind used for soldering, brazing, welding; wires and rods for metal spraying | 2023 | 89.09% | 11,834,500 |
| 30 | China | 8518 | Microphones and their stands; loudspeakers, mounted or not in their enclosures; headphones and earphones, combined or not with a microphone, and sets of a microphone and one or more loudspeakers; audio-frequency and electric sound amplifiers and sets | 2023 | 89.07% | 26,136,423 |
| 31 | China | 7013 | Glassware of a kind used for table, kitchen, toilet, office, indoor decoration or similar purposes (other than of heading no. 7010 or 7018) | 2023 | 88.91% | 10,714,947 |
| 32 | 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 | 2023 | 88.82% | 11,084,893 |
| 33 | China | 7303 | Tubes, pipes and hollow profiles, of cast iron | 2023 | 88.69% | 17,411,654 |
| 34 | Austria | 4407 | Wood sawn or chipped lengthwise, sliced or peeled, whether or not planed, sanded or finger-jointed, of a thickness exceeding 6mm | 2023 | 88.59% | 14,924,575 |
| 35 | China | 7216 | Iron or non-alloy steel, angles, shapes and sections | 2023 | 88.01% | 12,950,430 |
| 36 | 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 | 2023 | 87.52% | 11,689,751 |
| 37 | China | 8447 | Knitting machines, stitch-bonding machines and machines for making gimped yarn, tulle, lace, embroidery, trimmings, braid or net and machines for tufting | 2023 | 87.36% | 14,300,006 |
| 38 | China | 5407 | Woven fabrics of synthetic filament yarn, including woven fabrics obtained from materials of heading no. 5404 | 2023 | 86.55% | 136,419,027 |
| 39 | USA | 1904 | Prepared foods obtained by swelling or roasting cereals or cereal products (e.g. corn flakes); cereals (other than maize (corn)) in grain form or in the form of flakes or other worked grains (not flour and meal), pre-cooked or otherwise prepared, n.e.c. | 2023 | 86.50% | 25,145,119 |
| 40 | United Kingdom | 2208 | Ethyl alcohol, undenatured; of an alcoholic strength by volume of less than 80% volume; spirits, liqueurs and other spirituous beverages | 2023 | 85.33% | 15,502,186 |
| 41 | China | 7323 | Table, kitchen, other household articles and parts, of iron or steel; iron or steel wool; pot scourers and scouring or polishing pads, gloves and the like, of iron or steel | 2023 | 84.93% | 21,441,652 |
| 42 | China | 7308 | Structures of iron or steel and parts thereof; plates, rods, angles, shapes, sections, tubes and the like, prepared for use in structures | 2023 | 84.52% | 104,297,641 |
| 43 | France | 3303 | Perfumes and toilet waters | 2023 | 84.29% | 10,697,363 |
| 44 | China | 8529 | Transmission apparatus; parts suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of heading no. 8524 to 8528 | 2023 | 84.16% | 13,731,394 |
| 45 | China | 8417 | Furnaces and ovens; industrial or laboratory, including incinerators, non-electric | 2023 | 84.01% | 13,498,149 |
| 46 | 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 | 2023 | 83.93% | 40,243,340 |
| 47 | China | 9028 | Gas, liquid or electricity supply or production meters, including calibrating meters therefor | 2023 | 83.81% | 12,506,778 |
| 48 | China | 4011 | New pneumatic tyres, of rubber | 2023 | 83.43% | 112,928,669 |
| 49 | China | 8517 | Telephone sets, including smartphones and other telephones for cellular/wireless networks; other apparatus for the transmission or reception of voice, images or other data (including wired/wireless networks), excluding items of 8443, 8525, 8527, or 8528 | 2023 | 83.32% | 290,403,637 |
| 50 | China | 8437 | Machines for cleaning, sorting, grading seed, grain, dried leguminous vegetables; machinery used in the milling industry for the working of cereals or dried leguminous vegetables, not farm type machinery | 2023 | 83.28% | 24,516,478 |
| 51 | China | 4015 | Articles of apparel and clothing accessories (including gloves, mittens and mitts), for all purposes, of vulcanised rubber other than hard rubber | 2023 | 83.21% | 16,828,185 |
| 52 | India | 8711 | Motorcycles (including mopeds) and cycles; fitted with an auxiliary motor, with or without side-cars; side-cars | 2023 | 83.16% | 64,614,259 |
| 53 | China | 8302 | Base metal mountings, fittings and similar articles for furniture, doors, staircases, windows, trunks, chests etc, castors with mountings of base metal, automatic door closers of base metal | 2023 | 82.61% | 23,327,858 |
| 54 | USA | 1516 | Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their fractions, partly or wholly hydrogenated, inter-esterified, re-esterified or elaidinised, whether or not refined, but not further prepared | 2023 | 82.49% | 44,962,278 |
| 55 | Türkiye | 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 | 2023 | 82.31% | 124,972,602 |
| 56 | India | 7202 | Ferro-alloys | 2023 | 82.03% | 10,292,078 |
| 57 | India | 1006 | Rice | 2023 | 81.66% | 184,723,544 |
| 58 | China | 8504 | Electric transformers, static converters (e.g. rectifiers) and inductors | 2023 | 81.56% | 110,783,066 |
| 59 | China | 7007 | Safety glass, consisting of toughened (tempered) or laminated glass | 2023 | 81.51% | 10,908,593 |
| 60 | Türkiye | 1512 | Sun-flower seed, safflower or cotton-seed oil and their fractions; whether or not refined, but not chemically modified | 2023 | 81.42% | 148,078,030 |
| 61 | China | 8477 | Machinery; for working rubber or plastics or for the manufacture of products from these materials, n.e.c. in this chapter | 2023 | 81.07% | 42,858,848 |
| 62 | China | 8452 | Sewing machines; other than book-sewing machines of heading no. 8440; furniture, bases and covers specially designed for sewing machines; sewing machine needles | 2023 | 81.05% | 19,028,535 |
| 63 | China | 6203 | Suits, ensembles, jackets, blazers, trousers, bib and brace overalls, breeches and shorts (other than swimwear); men's or boys' (not knitted or crocheted) | 2023 | 80.68% | 35,031,173 |
China: 46 occurrences
India: 3 occurrences
Türkiye: 3 occurrences
USA: 3 occurrences
United Kingdom: 2 occurrences
Austria: 1 occurrence
Canada: 1 occurrence
France: 1 occurrence
Morocco: 1 occurrence
South Africa: 1 occurrence
Thailand: 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.