Country Matrix
For 2021, 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: 2021(53 in Danger Zone)[2 Critical Goods]| Value \ Share | >= 30% | >= 40% | >= 50% | >= 60% | >= 70% | >= 80% | >= 90% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| >= 10 mln USD | 897(53)[2] | 567(25) | 372(13) | 230(8) | 147(3) | 63(3) | 16(1) |
| >= 50 mln USD | 661(40)[2] | 429(20) | 276(10) | 163(7) | 107(2) | 43(2) | 10(1) |
| >= 100 mln USD | 537(34)[2] | 349(16) | 230(8) | 134(6) | 87(2) | 35(2) | 10(1) |
| >= 200 mln USD | 406(27)[2] | 270(13) | 179(7) | 102(5) | 62(2) | 25(2) | 9(1) |
| >= 500 mln USD | 249(19)[2] | 165(10) | 116(6) | 66(4) | 41(2) | 15(2) | 5(1) |
Danger Zone Bottlenecks (53 records, >= 30% share, >= 10 mln USD)
| # | Partner | HS Code | HS Description | Year | Share (%) | Value (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Russian Federation | 7501 | Nickel mattes; nickel oxide sinters and other intermediate products of nickel metallurgy | 2021 | 95.31% | 1,392,168,906 |
| 2 | Russian Federation | 2813 | Sulphides of non-metals; commercial phosphorus trisulphide | 2021 | 88.82% | 12,210,106 |
| 3 | Ukraine | 1512 | Sun-flower seed, safflower or cotton-seed oil and their fractions; whether or not refined, but not chemically modified | 2021 | 87.48% | 1,993,747,999 |
| 4 | Russian Federation | 2619 | Slag, dross; (other than granulated slag), scalings and other waste from the manufacture of iron or steel | 2021 | 68.75% | 99,246,834 |
| 5 | Russian Federation | 6807 | Asphalt or similar material; articles (e.g. petroleum bitumen or coal tar pitch) | 2021 | 67.50% | 124,821,066 |
| 6 | 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 | 2021 | 64.81% | 722,988,855 |
| 7 | Russian Federation | 2803 | Carbon; carbon blacks and other forms of carbon n.e.c. | 2021 | 62.92% | 528,372,940 |
| 8 | Russian Federation | 8401 | Nuclear reactors; fuel elements (cartridges), non-irradiated, for nuclear reactors, machinery and apparatus for isotopic separation | 2021 | 62.39% | 282,875,095 |
| 9 | Russian Federation | 7603 | Aluminium; powders and flakes | 2021 | 56.09% | 50,794,593 |
| 10 | Russian Federation | 2715 | Bituminous mixtures based on natural asphalt; on natural bitumen, on petroleum bitumen, on mineral tar or on mineral tar pitch (e.g. bituminous mastics, cut-backs) | 2021 | 53.88% | 32,153,164 |
| 11 | Ukraine | 1005 | Maize (corn) | 2021 | 50.71% | 1,931,237,994 |
| 12 | Russian Federation | 7207 | Iron or non-alloy steel; semi-finished products thereof | 2021 | 50.65% | 3,095,031,747 |
| 13 | Russian Federation | 1002 | Rye | 2021 | 50.65% | 19,979,872 |
| 14 | Russian Federation | 8902 | Fishing vessels, factory ships and other vessels; for processing or preserving fishery products | 2021 | 49.39% | 58,069,404 |
| 15 | Russian Federation | 7406 | Copper; powders and flakes | 2021 | 48.67% | 57,470,587 |
| 16 | Russian Federation | 2704 | Coke and semi-coke; of coal, lignite or peat, whether or not agglomerated; retort carbon | 2021 | 46.69% | 292,412,031 |
| 17 | Russian Federation | 2701 | Coal; briquettes, ovoids and similar solid fuels manufactured from coal | 2021 | 44.93% | 6,293,384,581 |
| 18 | Russian Federation | 7215 | Iron or non-alloy steel; bars and rods, n.e.c. in chapter 72 | 2021 | 44.28% | 131,613,939 |
| 19 | 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 | 2021 | 43.54% | 189,826,845 |
| 20 | Russian Federation | 7206 | Iron and non-alloy steel in ingots or other primary forms (excluding iron of heading no. 7203) | 2021 | 43.44% | 48,328,106 |
| 21 | 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 | 2021 | 41.31% | 1,103,844,443 |
| 22 | Ukraine | 7201 | Pig iron and spiegeleisen in pigs, blocks or other primary forms | 2021 | 41.15% | 544,393,094 |
| 23 | Russian Federation | 4412 | Plywood, veneered panels and similar laminated wood | 2021 | 40.96% | 789,214,839 |
| 24 | Russian Federation | 2510 | Natural calcium phosphates; natural aluminium calcium phosphates and phosphatic chalk | 2021 | 40.64% | 237,790,949 |
| 25 | 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 | 2021 | 40.63% | 23,773,363 |
| 26 | 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 | 2021 | 39.58% | 3,315,885,784 |
| 27 | 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 | 2021 | 39.43% | 26,679,165,735 |
| 28 | Russian Federation | 8606 | Railway or tramway goods vans and wagons; not self-propelled | 2021 | 39.22% | 60,423,162 |
| 29 | Ukraine | 1205 | Rape or colza seeds; whether or not broken | 2021 | 39.16% | 1,224,170,197 |
| 30 | 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 | 2021 | 38.36% | 183,193,843 |
| 31 | Russian Federation | 4804 | Uncoated kraft paper and paperboard, in rolls or sheets, other than that of heading no. 4802 or 4803 | 2021 | 38.17% | 295,814,868 |
| 32 | Ukraine | 4408 | Sheets for veneering (including those obtained by slicing laminated wood), for plywood or for similar laminated wood and other wood, sawn lengthwise, sliced or peeled, planed or not, sanded, spliced or end-jointed, of a thickness not exceeding 6 mm | 2021 | 37.65% | 245,768,227 |
| 33 | Russian Federation | 2703 | Peat; (including peat litter), whether or not agglomerated | 2021 | 37.47% | 18,220,662 |
| 34 | Russian Federation | 1204 | Oil seeds; linseed, whether or not broken | 2021 | 37.32% | 188,771,830 |
| 35 | Ukraine | 1002 | Rye | 2021 | 36.11% | 14,245,966 |
| 36 | Ukraine | 1507 | Soya-bean oil and its fractions; whether or not refined, but not chemically modified | 2021 | 35.89% | 227,390,790 |
| 37 | Ukraine | 2706 | Tar distilled from coal, from lignite, peat and other mineral tars, whether or not dehydrated or partially distilled; including reconstituted tars | 2021 | 35.88% | 12,730,134 |
| 38 | Russian Federation | 7403 | Copper; refined and copper alloys, unwrought | 2021 | 35.82% | 2,743,455,168 |
| 39 | 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 | 2021 | 35.16% | 34,576,919 |
| 40 | Russian Federation | 7224 | Alloy steel in ingots or other primary forms, semi-finished products of other alloy steel | 2021 | 34.50% | 98,513,374 |
| 41 | Russian Federation | 4407 | Wood sawn or chipped lengthwise, sliced or peeled, whether or not planed, sanded or finger-jointed, of a thickness exceeding 6mm | 2021 | 34.15% | 1,512,146,155 |
| 42 | Russian Federation | 7502 | Nickel; unwrought | 2021 | 34.12% | 1,086,955,551 |
| 43 | Ukraine | 2508 | Clays; (not including expanded clays of heading no. 6806), andalusite kyanite and sillimanite, whether or not calcined; mullite; chamotte or dinas earth | 2021 | 33.94% | 176,935,251 |
| 44 | Russian Federation | 4705 | Wood pulp obtained by a combination of mechanical and chemical pulping processes | 2021 | 33.92% | 42,501,451 |
| 45 | Ukraine | 7207 | Iron or non-alloy steel; semi-finished products thereof | 2021 | 33.35% | 2,037,963,811 |
| 46 | Russian Federation | 2711 | Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons | 2021 | 33.17% | 28,173,753,438 |
| 47 | Russian Federation | 2503 | Sulphur of all kinds; other than sublimed, precipitated and colloidal sulphur | 2021 | 32.08% | 47,397,337 |
| 48 | Russian Federation | 4401 | Fuel wood, in logs, billets, twigs, faggots or similar forms; wood in chip or particles; sawdust and wood waste and scrap, whether or not agglomerated in logs, briquettes, pellets or similar forms | 2021 | 31.17% | 503,255,378 |
| 49 | Russian Federation | 6808 | Panels, boards, tiles, blocks and the like; of vegetable fibre, of straw, shavings, chips, particles, sawdust or other waste, of wood, agglomerated with cement, plaster or other mineral binders | 2021 | 30.91% | 12,665,685 |
| 50 | Russian Federation | 4403 | Wood in the rough, whether or not stripped of bark or sapwood, or roughly squared | 2021 | 30.87% | 263,901,485 |
| 51 | Russian Federation | 2816 | Hydroxide and peroxide of magnesium; oxides, hydroxides and peroxides of strontium or barium | 2021 | 30.60% | 12,988,661 |
| 52 | Russian Federation | 2814 | Ammonia; anhydrous or in aqueous solution | 2021 | 30.29% | 486,958,116 |
| 53 | Ukraine | 4415 | Packing cases, boxes, crates, drums and similar packings, of wood; cable-drums of wood; pallets, box pallets and other load boards, of wood; pallet collars of wood | 2021 | 30.13% | 167,907,539 |
Partner frequency summary:
Russian Federation: 40 occurrences
Ukraine: 12 occurrences
United Arab Emirates: 1 occurrence
Critical Goods in table:
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.