Country Matrix
For 2013, the matrix below shows European Union'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.
European Union
Year: 2013(42 in Danger Zone)[3 Critical Goods]| Value \ Share | >= 30% | >= 40% | >= 50% | >= 60% | >= 70% | >= 80% | >= 90% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| >= 10 mln USD | 898(42)[3] | 573(24)[1] | 372(14) | 242(4) | 132(2) | 71(1) | 18(1) |
| >= 50 mln USD | 668(38)[3] | 421(21)[1] | 277(12) | 175(3) | 92(1) | 48 | 11 |
| >= 100 mln USD | 537(33)[3] | 351(19)[1] | 231(10) | 145(3) | 79(1) | 44 | 11 |
| >= 200 mln USD | 403(26)[3] | 264(13)[1] | 173(7) | 111(2) | 55(1) | 32 | 7 |
| >= 500 mln USD | 217(19)[3] | 148(10)[1] | 99(5) | 57(2) | 25(1) | 15 | 3 |
Danger Zone Bottlenecks (42 records, >= 30% share, >= 10 mln USD)
| # | Partner | HS Code | HS Description | Year | Share (%) | Value (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Russian Federation | 2605 | Cobalt ores and concentrates | 2013 | 92.49% | 20,245,631 |
| 2 | Russian Federation | 8401 | Nuclear reactors; fuel elements (cartridges), non-irradiated, for nuclear reactors, machinery and apparatus for isotopic separation | 2013 | 77.60% | 558,567,722 |
| 3 | Russian Federation | 2843 | Colloidal precious metals; inorganic or organic compounds of precious metals, whether or not chemically defined; amalgams of precious metals | 2013 | 63.78% | 956,531,463 |
| 4 | Russian Federation | 1514 | Rape, colza or mustard oil and their fractions; whether or not refined, but not chemically modified | 2013 | 63.48% | 194,886,052 |
| 5 | Russian Federation | 7406 | Copper; powders and flakes | 2013 | 59.49% | 56,130,939 |
| 6 | Ukraine | 8606 | Railway or tramway goods vans and wagons; not self-propelled | 2013 | 58.02% | 103,940,824 |
| 7 | Russian Federation | 2803 | Carbon; carbon blacks and other forms of carbon n.e.c. | 2013 | 57.01% | 491,811,418 |
| 8 | Ukraine | 1005 | Maize (corn) | 2013 | 56.79% | 1,931,453,804 |
| 9 | Russian Federation | 6807 | Asphalt or similar material; articles (e.g. petroleum bitumen or coal tar pitch) | 2013 | 55.80% | 57,202,486 |
| 10 | Russian Federation | 7408 | Copper wire | 2013 | 54.01% | 486,929,409 |
| 11 | Russian Federation | 7603 | Aluminium; powders and flakes | 2013 | 53.32% | 40,753,054 |
| 12 | Russian Federation | 8902 | Fishing vessels, factory ships and other vessels; for processing or preserving fishery products | 2013 | 52.58% | 105,795,398 |
| 13 | Ukraine | 7207 | Iron or non-alloy steel; semi-finished products thereof | 2013 | 52.52% | 2,027,650,823 |
| 14 | Russian Federation | 2814 | Ammonia; anhydrous or in aqueous solution | 2013 | 50.93% | 584,107,359 |
| 15 | Russian Federation | 7203 | Ferrous products obtained by direct reduction of iron ore and other spongy ferrous products, in lumps, pellets or the like; iron having a minimum purity of 99.94%, in lumps, pellets or similar forms | 2013 | 49.27% | 352,585,868 |
| 16 | Ukraine | 1512 | Sun-flower seed, safflower or cotton-seed oil and their fractions; whether or not refined, but not chemically modified | 2013 | 49.22% | 530,835,573 |
| 17 | Russian Federation | 7215 | Iron or non-alloy steel; bars and rods, n.e.c. in chapter 72 | 2013 | 49.05% | 133,546,531 |
| 18 | Russian Federation | 7224 | Alloy steel in ingots or other primary forms, semi-finished products of other alloy steel | 2013 | 48.85% | 101,977,303 |
| 19 | United Arab Emirates | 8905 | Light-vessels, fire-floats, dredgers, floating cranes, other vessels; the navigability of which is subsidiary to main function; floating docks, floating, submersible drilling, production platforms | 2013 | 45.95% | 763,748,512 |
| 20 | Russian Federation | 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 | 2013 | 44.62% | 980,106,016 |
| 21 | Russian Federation | 1204 | Oil seeds; linseed, whether or not broken | 2013 | 43.93% | 155,833,050 |
| 22 | Russian Federation | 2710 | Petroleum oils and oils from bituminous minerals, not crude; preparations n.e.c, containing by weight 70% or more of petroleum oils or oils from bituminous minerals; these being the basic constituents of the preparations; waste oils | 2013 | 43.32% | 48,736,147,823 |
| 23 | Russian Federation | 7201 | Pig iron and spiegeleisen in pigs, blocks or other primary forms | 2013 | 42.59% | 500,047,589 |
| 24 | Ukraine | 1007 | Grain sorghum | 2013 | 42.28% | 42,905,157 |
| 25 | Ukraine | 1205 | Rape or colza seeds; whether or not broken | 2013 | 39.29% | 906,590,558 |
| 26 | Ukraine | 1404 | Vegetable products not elsewhere specified or included | 2013 | 38.44% | 79,671,563 |
| 27 | Saudi Arabia | 3901 | Polymers of ethylene, in primary forms | 2013 | 38.31% | 2,110,822,545 |
| 28 | Russian Federation | 7226 | Alloy steel flat-rolled products, of a width of less than 600mm | 2013 | 37.39% | 54,592,844 |
| 29 | Russian Federation | 7209 | Iron or non-alloy steel; flat-rolled products, width 600mm or more, cold-rolled (cold-reduced), not clad, plated or coated | 2013 | 36.17% | 434,383,752 |
| 30 | Russian Federation | 4403 | Wood in the rough, whether or not stripped of bark or sapwood, or roughly squared | 2013 | 34.90% | 400,825,733 |
| 31 | Russian Federation | 7211 | Iron or non-alloy steel; flat-rolled products, width less than 600mm, not clad, plated or coated | 2013 | 34.80% | 69,406,024 |
| 32 | Russian Federation | 4301 | Raw furskins (including heads, tails, paws, other pieces or cuttings, suitable for furriers' use), excluding raw hides and skins of heading no. 4101, 4102 or 4103 | 2013 | 34.42% | 127,221,822 |
| 33 | Saudi Arabia | 3902 | Polymers of propylene or of other olefins, in primary forms | 2013 | 34.25% | 639,575,845 |
| 34 | Russian Federation | 2510 | Natural calcium phosphates; natural aluminium calcium phosphates and phosphatic chalk | 2013 | 33.99% | 271,430,644 |
| 35 | Russian Federation | 4002 | Synthetic rubber and factice derived from oils, in primary forms or in plates, sheets or strip; mixtures of heading no. 4001 and 4002, in primary forms or in plates, sheets or strip | 2013 | 33.93% | 959,401,090 |
| 36 | Russian Federation | 7207 | Iron or non-alloy steel; semi-finished products thereof | 2013 | 33.53% | 1,294,287,422 |
| 37 | Ukraine | 7201 | Pig iron and spiegeleisen in pigs, blocks or other primary forms | 2013 | 32.96% | 386,939,034 |
| 38 | Russian Federation | 2709 | Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals; crude | 2013 | 32.91% | 132,262,045,933 |
| 39 | Russian Federation | 7502 | Nickel; unwrought | 2013 | 32.62% | 992,800,527 |
| 40 | United Arab Emirates | 5404 | Synthetic monofilament of 67 decitex or more, of which no cross-sectional dimension exceeds 1mm; strip and the like (e.g. artificial straw) of synthetic textile materials of an apparent width not exceeding 5mm | 2013 | 32.60% | 46,600,864 |
| 41 | Ukraine | 2306 | Oil-cake and other solid residues; whether or not ground or in the form of pellets, resulting from the extraction of vegetable or microbial fats or oils, other than those of heading no. 2304 or 2305 | 2013 | 32.19% | 529,953,183 |
| 42 | Russian Federation | 2711 | Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons | 2013 | 30.05% | 25,387,944,889 |
Partner frequency summary:
Russian Federation: 29 occurrences
Ukraine: 9 occurrences
United Arab Emirates: 2 occurrences
Saudi Arabia: 2 occurrences
Critical Goods in table:
2709 - Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bitumino...
2710 - Petroleum oils and oils from bituminous minera...
2711 - 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.