Country Matrix
For 2018, 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: 2018(44 in Danger Zone)[2 Critical Goods]| Value \ Share | >= 30% | >= 40% | >= 50% | >= 60% | >= 70% | >= 80% | >= 90% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| >= 10 mln USD | 904(44)[2] | 577(25) | 374(15) | 237(8) | 140(4) | 71(2) | 18 |
| >= 50 mln USD | 683(36)[2] | 434(19) | 291(12) | 183(7) | 109(3) | 53(2) | 10 |
| >= 100 mln USD | 551(31)[2] | 358(17) | 240(10) | 147(6) | 87(3) | 43(2) | 9 |
| >= 200 mln USD | 424(26)[2] | 286(15) | 192(9) | 119(6) | 71(3) | 34(2) | 8 |
| >= 500 mln USD | 247(19)[2] | 169(11) | 116(6) | 73(4) | 39(1) | 18(1) | 4 |
Danger Zone Bottlenecks (44 records, >= 30% share, >= 10 mln USD)
| # | Partner | HS Code | HS Description | Year | Share (%) | Value (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Russian Federation | 2619 | Slag, dross; (other than granulated slag), scalings and other waste from the manufacture of iron or steel | 2018 | 88.92% | 221,941,743 |
| 2 | Ukraine | 1512 | Sun-flower seed, safflower or cotton-seed oil and their fractions; whether or not refined, but not chemically modified | 2018 | 86.29% | 1,018,710,011 |
| 3 | Russian Federation | 1002 | Rye | 2018 | 74.96% | 31,948,989 |
| 4 | Russian Federation | 7305 | Iron or steel (excluding cast iron); tubes and pipes (e.g. welded, riveted or similarly closed), having circular cross-sections, external diameter of which exceeds 406.4mm, not seamless | 2018 | 70.40% | 397,597,975 |
| 5 | Russian Federation | 6807 | Asphalt or similar material; articles (e.g. petroleum bitumen or coal tar pitch) | 2018 | 65.80% | 97,191,851 |
| 6 | Russian Federation | 2803 | Carbon; carbon blacks and other forms of carbon n.e.c. | 2018 | 63.45% | 543,308,562 |
| 7 | 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 | 2018 | 63.31% | 555,817,036 |
| 8 | Russian Federation | 7501 | Nickel mattes; nickel oxide sinters and other intermediate products of nickel metallurgy | 2018 | 62.44% | 863,022,090 |
| 9 | Russian Federation | 7224 | Alloy steel in ingots or other primary forms, semi-finished products of other alloy steel | 2018 | 59.93% | 191,037,997 |
| 10 | Russian Federation | 8401 | Nuclear reactors; fuel elements (cartridges), non-irradiated, for nuclear reactors, machinery and apparatus for isotopic separation | 2018 | 59.67% | 320,754,487 |
| 11 | Russian Federation | 7406 | Copper; powders and flakes | 2018 | 57.74% | 50,134,015 |
| 12 | Russian Federation | 2503 | Sulphur of all kinds; other than sublimed, precipitated and colloidal sulphur | 2018 | 57.23% | 36,577,021 |
| 13 | Ukraine | 0408 | Birds' eggs, not in shell; egg yolks, fresh, dried, cooked by steaming or boiling in water, moulded, frozen or otherwise preserved, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter | 2018 | 51.42% | 12,107,435 |
| 14 | Ukraine | 1005 | Maize (corn) | 2018 | 51.13% | 2,222,131,091 |
| 15 | Russian Federation | 7201 | Pig iron and spiegeleisen in pigs, blocks or other primary forms | 2018 | 51.11% | 601,092,799 |
| 16 | Ukraine | 1003 | Barley | 2018 | 48.72% | 25,868,794 |
| 17 | Russian Federation | 2844 | Radioactive chemical elements and radioactive isotopes (including the fissile or fertile chemical elements and isotopes); and their compounds; mixtures and residues containing these products | 2018 | 46.44% | 628,697,576 |
| 18 | Russian Federation | 8606 | Railway or tramway goods vans and wagons; not self-propelled | 2018 | 46.07% | 32,982,942 |
| 19 | Russian Federation | 7603 | Aluminium; powders and flakes | 2018 | 45.79% | 30,942,548 |
| 20 | Russian Federation | 4403 | Wood in the rough, whether or not stripped of bark or sapwood, or roughly squared | 2018 | 43.76% | 371,294,722 |
| 21 | Russian Federation | 2707 | Oils and other products of the distillation of high temperature coal tar; similar products in which the weight of the aromatic constituents exceeds that of the non-aromatic constituents | 2018 | 43.45% | 1,369,850,436 |
| 22 | Russian Federation | 7207 | Iron or non-alloy steel; semi-finished products thereof | 2018 | 43.13% | 2,224,057,119 |
| 23 | Ukraine | 1205 | Rape or colza seeds; whether or not broken | 2018 | 42.08% | 785,267,250 |
| 24 | 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 | 2018 | 41.78% | 795,592,799 |
| 25 | Russian Federation | 1204 | Oil seeds; linseed, whether or not broken | 2018 | 41.48% | 119,187,541 |
| 26 | 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 | 2018 | 39.88% | 500,160,239 |
| 27 | Russian Federation | 2510 | Natural calcium phosphates; natural aluminium calcium phosphates and phosphatic chalk | 2018 | 39.49% | 226,743,298 |
| 28 | Ukraine | 0207 | Meat and edible offal of poultry; of the poultry of heading no. 0105, (i.e. fowls of the species Gallus domesticus), fresh, chilled or frozen | 2018 | 39.42% | 239,726,996 |
| 29 | Ukraine | 1514 | Rape, colza or mustard oil and their fractions; whether or not refined, but not chemically modified | 2018 | 39.10% | 64,319,013 |
| 30 | 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 | 2018 | 38.60% | 31,532,204,613 |
| 31 | Russian Federation | 2617 | Ores and concentrates; n.e.c. in heading no. 2601 | 2018 | 37.19% | 39,031,832 |
| 32 | Russian Federation | 2701 | Coal; briquettes, ovoids and similar solid fuels manufactured from coal | 2018 | 37.13% | 7,370,370,014 |
| 33 | Ukraine | 3501 | Casein, caseinates and other casein derivatives; casein glues | 2018 | 36.51% | 39,284,409 |
| 34 | Russian Federation | 7403 | Copper; refined and copper alloys, unwrought | 2018 | 36.21% | 2,498,766,342 |
| 35 | Ukraine | 2508 | Clays; (not including expanded clays of heading no. 6806), andalusite kyanite and sillimanite, whether or not calcined; mullite; chamotte or dinas earth | 2018 | 34.67% | 154,160,204 |
| 36 | Russian Federation | 2303 | Residues of starch manufacture, similar residues; beet-pulp, bagasse and other waste of sugar manufacture, brewing or distilling dregs and waste, whether or not in the form of pellets | 2018 | 34.15% | 187,652,896 |
| 37 | 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 | 2018 | 34.03% | 62,313,768 |
| 38 | Russian Federation | 7502 | Nickel; unwrought | 2018 | 33.82% | 1,046,616,695 |
| 39 | Russian Federation | 2814 | Ammonia; anhydrous or in aqueous solution | 2018 | 33.72% | 282,407,472 |
| 40 | Russian Federation | 8112 | Beryllium, chromium, hafnium, rhenium, thallium, cadmium, germanium, vanadium, gallium, indium and niobium (columbium), articles of these metals, including waste and scrap | 2018 | 33.44% | 110,735,314 |
| 41 | Russian Federation | 1514 | Rape, colza or mustard oil and their fractions; whether or not refined, but not chemically modified | 2018 | 32.09% | 52,780,571 |
| 42 | Ukraine | 7207 | Iron or non-alloy steel; semi-finished products thereof | 2018 | 31.71% | 1,635,189,931 |
| 43 | Russian Federation | 4412 | Plywood, veneered panels and similar laminated wood | 2018 | 31.26% | 665,313,293 |
| 44 | Saudi Arabia | 3901 | Polymers of ethylene, in primary forms | 2018 | 30.33% | 1,610,616,060 |
Partner frequency summary:
Russian Federation: 31 occurrences
Ukraine: 11 occurrences
United Arab Emirates: 1 occurrence
Saudi Arabia: 1 occurrence
Critical Goods in table:
2710 - 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.