Country Matrix
For 2023, 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: 2023(99 in Danger Zone)[8 Critical Goods]| Value \ Share | >= 30% | >= 40% | >= 50% | >= 60% | >= 70% | >= 80% | >= 90% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| >= 10 mln USD | 3466(99)[8] | 2397(66)[5] | 1677(41)[4] | 1137(25)[3] | 739(15)[3] | 443(9)[1] | 188(6) |
| >= 50 mln USD | 1894(56)[7] | 1358(34)[4] | 964(24)[3] | 661(15)[2] | 422(8)[2] | 256(5)[1] | 96(3) |
| >= 100 mln USD | 1291(42)[7] | 926(26)[4] | 673(19)[3] | 460(13)[2] | 296(7)[2] | 178(4)[1] | 66(2) |
| >= 200 mln USD | 784(25)[6] | 566(17)[4] | 407(16)[3] | 276(11)[2] | 179(6)[2] | 106(3)[1] | 37(2) |
| >= 500 mln USD | 337(10)[6] | 257(8)[4] | 188(8)[3] | 133(6)[2] | 84(4)[2] | 46(2)[1] | 16(2) |
Danger Zone Bottlenecks (99 records, >= 30% share, >= 10 mln USD)
| # | Partner | HS Code | HS Description | Year | Share (%) | Value (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Russian Federation | 750110 | Nickel; nickel mattes | 2023 | 100.00% | 1,204,717,898 |
| 2 | Russian Federation | 310229 | Fertilizers, mineral or chemical; nitrogenous, other than ammonium sulphate | 2023 | 97.52% | 14,265,901 |
| 3 | Russian Federation | 860692 | Railway or tramway goods vans and wagons; open, with non-removable sides of a height exceeding 60cm, not self-propelled | 2023 | 94.49% | 15,834,060 |
| 4 | Ukraine | 151211 | Vegetable oils; sunflower seed or safflower oil and their fractions, crude, not chemically modified | 2023 | 93.23% | 1,642,694,128 |
| 5 | Ukraine | 110430 | Cereal; germ of cereals, whole, rolled, flaked or ground | 2023 | 91.92% | 10,019,895 |
| 6 | Iran | 091020 | Spices; saffron | 2023 | 90.27% | 54,294,272 |
| 7 | Russian Federation | 261900 | Slag, dross; (other than granulated slag), scalings and other waste from the manufacture of iron or steel | 2023 | 87.70% | 107,058,335 |
| 8 | Ukraine | 020712 | Meat and edible offal; of fowls of the species Gallus domesticus, not cut in pieces, frozen | 2023 | 81.64% | 25,540,035 |
| 9 | Russian Federation | 071310 | Vegetables, leguminous; peas (pisum sativum), shelled, whether or not skinned or split, dried | 2023 | 80.76% | 264,892,428 |
| 10 | Russian Federation | 840130 | Fuel elements (cartridges); non-irradiated | 2023 | 79.23% | 686,049,987 |
| 11 | Russian Federation | 271119 | Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons; liquefied, n.e.c. in heading no. 2711 | 2023 | 79.05% | 540,618,524 |
| 12 | Ukraine | 270600 | Tar; distilled from coal, lignite or peat, and other mineral tars, whether or not dehydrated or partially distilled, including reconstituted tars | 2023 | 77.67% | 32,303,152 |
| 13 | Saudi Arabia | 290211 | Cyclic hydrocarbons; cyclohexane | 2023 | 75.25% | 227,797,072 |
| 14 | Russian Federation | 100290 | Cereals; rye, other than seed | 2023 | 72.98% | 26,566,059 |
| 15 | Ukraine | 150190 | Poultry fat; other than that of heading 0209 or 1503 | 2023 | 72.93% | 19,735,870 |
| 16 | Ukraine | 151219 | Vegetable oils; sunflower seed or safflower oil and their fractions, other than crude, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified | 2023 | 69.04% | 265,058,885 |
| 17 | Ukraine | 020713 | Meat and edible offal; of fowls of the species Gallus domesticus, cuts and offal, fresh or chilled | 2023 | 67.82% | 182,157,490 |
| 18 | Ukraine | 440132 | Wood; for fuel, sawdust and wood waste and scrap, agglomerated in wood briquettes | 2023 | 67.56% | 37,784,175 |
| 19 | Saudi Arabia | 292121 | Amine-function compounds; acyclic polyamines and their derivatives, ethylenediamine and its salts | 2023 | 66.80% | 19,916,460 |
| 20 | United Arab Emirates | 151491 | Vegetable oils; excluding low erucic acid rape or colza oil and its fractions, crude | 2023 | 66.17% | 12,694,845 |
| 21 | Ukraine | 040721 | Birds' eggs, in shell; fresh, not for incubation, of fowls of the species Gallus domesticus (domestic hens) | 2023 | 63.58% | 56,901,322 |
| 22 | Ukraine | 120590 | Oil seeds; rape or colza seeds, other than low erucic, whether or not broken | 2023 | 63.24% | 220,372,312 |
| 23 | Ukraine | 100590 | Cereals; maize (corn), other than seed | 2023 | 62.90% | 3,508,115,760 |
| 24 | Ukraine | 100199 | Cereals; wheat and meslin, other than durum wheat, other than seed | 2023 | 61.63% | 1,640,763,535 |
| 25 | Ukraine | 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 | 2023 | 61.33% | 496,169,201 |
| 26 | Iran | 070956 | Vegetables; truffles (Tuber spp.), fresh or chilled | 2023 | 59.58% | 14,202,086 |
| 27 | Ukraine | 100829 | Cereals; millet, other than seed | 2023 | 57.85% | 13,679,124 |
| 28 | Russian Federation | 310559 | Fertilizers, mineral or chemical; containing the two fertilizing elements nitrogen and phosphorus, other than nitrates and phosphates | 2023 | 57.70% | 87,529,206 |
| 29 | Russian Federation | 120400 | Oil seeds; linseed, whether or not broken | 2023 | 56.49% | 213,174,274 |
| 30 | Russian Federation | 811221 | Chromium and articles thereof; unwrought chromium, powders | 2023 | 56.04% | 62,809,362 |
| 31 | Saudi Arabia | 292215 | Amino-alcohols, other than those containing more than one kind of oxygen function; their ethers and esters; salts thereof, triethanolamine | 2023 | 56.04% | 21,727,744 |
| 32 | United Arab Emirates | 730810 | Iron or steel; structures and parts thereof, bridges and bridge-sections | 2023 | 55.81% | 45,395,416 |
| 33 | Russian Federation | 030363 | Fish; frozen, cod (Gadus morhua, Gadus ogac, Gadus macrocephalus), excluding fillets, fish meat of 0304, and edible fish offal of subheadings 0303.91 to 0303.99 | 2023 | 55.72% | 299,041,703 |
| 34 | Russian Federation | 720110 | Iron; non-alloy pig iron containing by weight 0.5% or less of phosphorus, in pigs, blocks or other primary forms | 2023 | 55.66% | 613,347,402 |
| 35 | Saudi Arabia | 290941 | Ether-alcohols and their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives; 2,2-oxydiethanol (diethylene glycol, digol) | 2023 | 53.96% | 84,201,576 |
| 36 | United Arab Emirates | 710811 | Metals; gold, non-monetary, powder | 2023 | 53.50% | 11,194,374 |
| 37 | Ukraine | 440890 | Wood; n.e.c. in heading no. 4408, sheets for veneer or plywood, other wood sawn lengthwise, sliced or peeled, whether or not planed, sanded or end-jointed, not exceeding 6mm in thickness | 2023 | 52.34% | 186,128,683 |
| 38 | Russian Federation | 720712 | 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 (other than square) cross-section | 2023 | 52.26% | 1,766,571,643 |
| 39 | Russian Federation | 720310 | Ferrous products; obtained by direct reduction of iron ore, in lumps, pellets or similar forms | 2023 | 52.24% | 453,680,041 |
| 40 | Russian Federation | 230649 | Oil-cake and other solid residues; whether or not ground or in the form of pellets, resulting from the extraction of rape seed oils (other than low erucic acid rape or colza) | 2023 | 51.09% | 21,618,505 |
| 41 | Ukraine | 440111 | Wood; for fuel, in logs, in billets, in twigs, in faggots or similar forms, whether or not agglomerated, coniferous | 2023 | 50.87% | 13,314,643 |
| 42 | Russian Federation | 282530 | Vanadium oxides and hydroxides | 2023 | 48.35% | 46,054,909 |
| 43 | Russian Federation | 230641 | Oil-cake and other solid residues; whether or not ground or in the form of pellets, resulting from the extraction of low erucic acid rape or colza seed oils | 2023 | 48.17% | 135,726,524 |
| 44 | Ukraine | 440795 | Wood; ash (Fraxinus spp.), sawn or chipped lengthwise, sliced or peeled, whether or not planed, sanded or finger-jointed, thicker than 6mm | 2023 | 48.10% | 18,504,644 |
| 45 | Russian Federation | 720291 | Ferro-alloys; ferro-titanium and ferro-silico-titanium | 2023 | 48.05% | 37,164,150 |
| 46 | Saudi Arabia | 290711 | Monophenols; phenol (hydroxybenzene) and its salts | 2023 | 48.02% | 67,383,675 |
| 47 | Russian Federation | 284610 | Cerium compounds | 2023 | 47.81% | 18,040,832 |
| 48 | Ukraine | 150710 | Vegetable oils; soya-bean oil and its fractions, crude, whether or not degummed, not chemically modified | 2023 | 47.45% | 209,165,189 |
| 49 | Russian Federation | 760310 | Aluminium; powders of non-lamellar structure | 2023 | 47.03% | 29,164,905 |
| 50 | Bahrain | 761490 | Aluminium; stranded wire, cables, plaited bands and the like, (not electrically insulated), other than steel core | 2023 | 46.93% | 29,241,571 |
| 51 | Ukraine | 440711 | Wood; coniferous species, of pine (Pinus spp.), sawn or chipped lengthwise, sliced or peeled, whether or not planed, sanded or finger-jointed, of a thickness exceeding 6mm | 2023 | 46.71% | 148,409,146 |
| 52 | Ukraine | 040891 | Eggs; birds' eggs (not in shell, excluding yolks only), dried, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter | 2023 | 46.62% | 29,760,068 |
| 53 | Ukraine | 020714 | Meat and edible offal; of fowls of the species Gallus domesticus, cuts and offal, frozen | 2023 | 45.33% | 195,078,355 |
| 54 | Saudi Arabia | 290531 | Alcohols; acyclic, diols; ethylene glycol (ethanediol) | 2023 | 43.52% | 133,934,645 |
| 55 | United Arab Emirates | 540490 | Filament, synthetic; strip and the like (e.g.. artificial straw), of synthetic textile materials of an apparent width not exceeding 5mm | 2023 | 43.47% | 44,415,923 |
| 56 | Ukraine | 200979 | Juice; apple, of a Brix value exceeding 20, unfermented, not containing added spirit, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter | 2023 | 43.26% | 77,618,373 |
| 57 | Russian Federation | 251010 | Natural calcium phosphates, natural aluminium calcium phosphates and phosphatic chalk; unground | 2023 | 42.45% | 105,674,394 |
| 58 | Ukraine | 441520 | Wood; pallets, box pallets and other load boards; pallet collars | 2023 | 42.25% | 154,944,208 |
| 59 | Russian Federation | 281610 | Hydroxide and peroxide of magnesium | 2023 | 42.05% | 18,116,017 |
| 60 | Russian Federation | 400231 | Rubber; synthetic, isobutene-isoprene (butyl) rubber (IIR), in primary forms or in plates, sheets or strip | 2023 | 41.58% | 13,113,402 |
| 61 | Ukraine | 440410 | Wood; coniferous, split poles, piles, pickets, stakes, pointed but not sawn lengthwise; sticks for umbrellas, tool handles etc, roughly trimmed but not turned or bent; chipwood etc, hoopwood | 2023 | 41.37% | 11,011,011 |
| 62 | Russian Federation | 030364 | Fish; frozen, haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus), excluding fillets, fish meat of 0304, and edible fish offal of subheadings 0303.91 to 0303.99 | 2023 | 41.07% | 11,171,699 |
| 63 | Russian Federation | 740610 | Copper; powders of non-lamellar structure | 2023 | 41.01% | 34,735,296 |
| 64 | Lebanon | 850433 | Transformers; n.e.c. in item no. 8504.2, having a power handling capacity exceeding 16kVA but not exceeding 500kVA | 2023 | 40.59% | 43,524,681 |
| 65 | Ukraine | 950611 | Skis; for snow | 2023 | 40.54% | 57,869,742 |
| 66 | Ukraine | 230649 | Oil-cake and other solid residues; whether or not ground or in the form of pellets, resulting from the extraction of rape seed oils (other than low erucic acid rape or colza) | 2023 | 40.06% | 16,949,871 |
| 67 | Ukraine | 110710 | Malt; not roasted | 2023 | 39.72% | 10,739,441 |
| 68 | Ukraine | 100510 | Cereals; maize (corn), seed | 2023 | 38.96% | 106,400,167 |
| 69 | Russian Federation | 400260 | Rubber; synthetic, isoprene rubber (IR), in primary forms or in plates, sheets or strip | 2023 | 38.59% | 51,450,246 |
| 70 | 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 | 2023 | 38.49% | 327,853,075 |
| 71 | Saudi Arabia | 292211 | Amino-alcohols, other than those containing more than one kind of oxygen function; their ethers and esters; salts thereof, monoethanolamine and its salts | 2023 | 38.14% | 20,801,804 |
| 72 | Iran | 130212 | Vegetable saps and extracts; of liquorice | 2023 | 38.05% | 11,658,811 |
| 73 | Russian Federation | 310240 | Fertilizers, mineral or chemical; ammonium nitrate with calcium carbonate or other inorganic non-fertilizing substances, mixtures thereof | 2023 | 37.62% | 73,841,957 |
| 74 | Ukraine | 020727 | Meat and edible offal; of turkeys, cuts and offal, frozen | 2023 | 37.62% | 18,639,797 |
| 75 | Saudi Arabia | 290243 | Cyclic hydrocarbons; p-xylene | 2023 | 37.51% | 114,362,923 |
| 76 | Saudi Arabia | 291614 | Acids; unsaturated acyclic monocarboxylic acids; esters of methacrylic acid | 2023 | 36.90% | 161,075,765 |
| 77 | Ukraine | 440791 | Wood; oak (Quercus spp.), sawn or chipped lengthwise, sliced or peeled, whether or not planed, sanded or finger-jointed, thicker than 6mm | 2023 | 36.37% | 103,175,585 |
| 78 | Ukraine | 170199 | Sugars; sucrose, chemically pure, in solid form, not containing added flavouring or colouring matter | 2023 | 36.19% | 421,078,741 |
| 79 | Russian Federation | 070953 | Vegetables; mushrooms of the genus Cantharellus, fresh or chilled | 2023 | 36.08% | 21,473,162 |
| 80 | Saudi Arabia | 390210 | Propylene, other olefin polymers; polypropylene in primary forms | 2023 | 35.66% | 586,272,728 |
| 81 | Russian Federation | 310540 | Fertilizers, mineral or chemical; ammonium dihydrogenorthophosphate (monoammonium phosphate) and mixtures thereof with diammonium hydrogenorthophosphate (diammonium phosphate) | 2023 | 35.28% | 94,996,961 |
| 82 | Ukraine | 721710 | Iron or non-alloy steel; wire, (not plated or coated), whether or not polished | 2023 | 35.26% | 67,040,468 |
| 83 | Ukraine | 151411 | Vegetable oils; low erucic acid rape or colza oil and its fractions, crude | 2023 | 34.91% | 102,204,954 |
| 84 | Ukraine | 120600 | Oil seeds; sunflower seeds, whether or not broken | 2023 | 34.77% | 293,336,798 |
| 85 | Russian Federation | 121490 | Forage products including swedes, mangolds, fodder roots, hay, sainfoin, clover, forage kale, lupines, vetches etc., pelletised or otherwise | 2023 | 34.44% | 13,205,475 |
| 86 | United Arab Emirates | 890190 | Vessels; n.e.c. in heading no. 8901, for the transport of goods and other vessels for the transport of both persons and goods | 2023 | 33.66% | 2,339,568,231 |
| 87 | Russian Federation | 310520 | Fertilizers, mineral or chemical; containing the three fertilizing elements nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium | 2023 | 33.54% | 235,502,895 |
| 88 | Ukraine | 250830 | Clays (excluding expanded clays of heading no. 6806); fireclay, whether or not calcined | 2023 | 33.53% | 21,354,955 |
| 89 | Russian Federation | 280300 | Carbon; carbon blacks and other forms of carbon n.e.c. | 2023 | 32.01% | 265,683,958 |
| 90 | Ukraine | 730449 | Steel, stainless; (excluding cold-drawn or cold-rolled), tubes pipes and hollow profiles of circular cross-section | 2023 | 31.87% | 42,911,846 |
| 91 | Ukraine | 100390 | Cereals; barley, other than seed | 2023 | 31.50% | 159,068,726 |
| 92 | United Arab Emirates | 730423 | Iron or steel (excluding cast iron or stainless steel); seamless, drill pipe, of a kind used in drilling for oil or gas | 2023 | 31.26% | 14,736,985 |
| 93 | Qatar | 290129 | Acyclic hydrocarbons; unsaturated, n.e.c. in heading no. 2901 | 2023 | 30.98% | 197,640,716 |
| 94 | Syria | 150940 | Vegetable oils; olive oil and its fractions, virgin olive oils n.e.c. in heading 1509, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified | 2023 | 30.93% | 51,661,291 |
| 95 | Russian Federation | 310551 | Fertilizers, mineral or chemical; containing nitrates and phosphates | 2023 | 30.75% | 13,460,756 |
| 96 | Qatar | 293361 | Heterocyclic compounds; containing an unfused triazine ring (whether or not hydrogenated) in the structure, melamine | 2023 | 30.57% | 59,369,997 |
| 97 | Saudi Arabia | 290250 | Cyclic hydrocarbons; styrene | 2023 | 30.52% | 259,442,043 |
| 98 | Ukraine | 440112 | Wood; for fuel, in logs, in billets, in twigs, in faggots or similar forms, whether or not agglomerated, non-coniferous | 2023 | 30.11% | 31,542,071 |
| 99 | Russian Federation | 030471 | Fish fillets; frozen, cod (Gadus morhua, Gadus ogac, Gadus macrocephalus) | 2023 | 30.05% | 181,578,471 |
Partner frequency summary:
Ukraine: 39 occurrences
Russian Federation: 35 occurrences
Saudi Arabia: 11 occurrences
United Arab Emirates: 6 occurrences
Iran: 3 occurrences
Qatar: 2 occurrences
Bahrain: 1 occurrence
Lebanon: 1 occurrence
Syria: 1 occurrence
Critical Goods in table:
271119 - 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.