Extreme Import Bottlenecks
The tables below show European Union'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.
European Union
68 bottlenecks| # | Partner | HS Code | HS Description | Year | Share (%) | Value (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United Kingdom | 1503 | Lard stearin, lard oil, oleostearin, oleo-oil and tallow oil; not emulsified or mixed or otherwise prepared | 2025 | 99.97% | 14,446,365 |
| 2 | United Kingdom | 0104 | Sheep and goats; live | 2025 | 99.92% | 70,025,605 |
| 3 | Norway | 8902 | Fishing vessels, factory ships and other vessels; for processing or preserving fishery products | 2025 | 98.37% | 80,601,450 |
| 4 | Türkiye | 2528 | Natural borates and concentrates thereof (whether or not calcined), but not including borates separated from natural brine; natural boric acid containing not more than 85 % of H3BO3 calculated on the dry weight | 2025 | 97.92% | 38,587,919 |
| 5 | Switzerland | 9101 | Wrist-watches, pocket-watches, stop-watches and other watches; with case of precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal | 2025 | 97.57% | 2,621,469,213 |
| 6 | China | 8715 | Baby carriages and parts thereof | 2025 | 97.29% | 478,240,466 |
| 7 | China | 6702 | Flowers, foliage and fruit, artificial, and parts thereof; articles made of artificial flowers, foliage or fruit | 2025 | 96.84% | 831,575,822 |
| 8 | United Kingdom | 0105 | Poultry; live, fowls of the species Gallus domesticus, ducks, geese, turkeys and guinea fowls | 2025 | 95.74% | 181,515,207 |
| 9 | United Kingdom | 0401 | Milk and cream; not concentrated, not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter | 2025 | 95.48% | 595,212,605 |
| 10 | USA | 1007 | Grain sorghum | 2025 | 94.90% | 93,210,189 |
| 11 | USA | 3803 | Tall oil, whether or not refined | 2025 | 94.87% | 177,856,069 |
| 12 | USA | 3807 | Wood tar; wood tar oils; wood creosote; wood naphtha; vegetable pitch; brewers' pitch and similar preparations based on rosin, resin acids or on vegetable pitch | 2025 | 94.74% | 35,759,198 |
| 13 | China | 9617 | Vacuum flasks and other vacuum vessels, complete with cases; parts thereof other than glass inners | 2025 | 93.64% | 555,694,356 |
| 14 | USA | 3705 | Photographic plates and film; exposed and developed, other than cinematographic film | 2025 | 92.92% | 589,574,730 |
| 15 | China | 3604 | Fireworks, signalling flares, rain rockets, fog signals and other pyrotechnic articles | 2025 | 92.04% | 440,615,514 |
| 16 | Ukraine | 1512 | Sun-flower seed, safflower or cotton-seed oil and their fractions; whether or not refined, but not chemically modified | 2025 | 91.96% | 2,825,874,886 |
| 17 | China | 9615 | Combs, hair-slides and similar; hairpins, curling pins, curling grips and hair curlers and the like, other than those of heading no. 8516 and parts thereof | 2025 | 91.65% | 286,303,704 |
| 18 | Norway | 4701 | Wood pulp, mechanical wood pulp | 2025 | 91.57% | 19,819,500 |
| 19 | China | 2404 | Products containing tobacco, reconstituted tobacco, nicotine, or tobacco or nicotine substitutes, intended for inhalation without combustion; other nicotine containing products intended for the intake of nicotine into the human body | 2025 | 91.29% | 1,510,459,613 |
| 20 | India | 7206 | Iron and non-alloy steel in ingots or other primary forms (excluding iron of heading no. 7203) | 2025 | 91.25% | 184,569,623 |
| 21 | China | 6601 | Umbrellas; sun umbrellas (including walking stick umbrellas, garden umbrellas and similar umbrellas) | 2025 | 90.92% | 592,868,300 |
| 22 | China | 8111 | Manganese; articles thereof, including waste and scrap | 2025 | 90.52% | 204,418,303 |
| 23 | China | 4414 | Wooden frames; for paintings, photographs, mirrors or similar objects | 2025 | 90.51% | 172,078,408 |
| 24 | United Kingdom | 0102 | Bovine animals; live | 2025 | 90.42% | 13,104,189 |
| 25 | United Kingdom | 7804 | Lead; plates, sheets, strip and foil, lead powders and flakes | 2025 | 90.34% | 34,286,789 |
| 26 | United Kingdom | 5904 | Linoleum, whether or not cut to shape; floor coverings consisting of a coating or covering applied on a textile backing, whether or not cut to shape | 2025 | 90.33% | 29,934,980 |
| 27 | China | 5005 | Yarn spun from silk waste, not put up for retail sale | 2025 | 90.10% | 39,000,650 |
| 28 | USA | 4416 | Casks, barrels, vats, tubs and other coopers' products and parts thereof, of wood, including staves | 2025 | 89.88% | 73,029,188 |
| 29 | China | 5002 | Raw silk (not thrown) | 2025 | 89.85% | 96,703,174 |
| 30 | China | 9505 | Festive, carnival or other entertainment articles, including conjuring tricks and novelty jokes | 2025 | 89.55% | 1,260,922,326 |
| 31 | Türkiye | 2617 | Ores and concentrates; n.e.c. in heading no. 2601 | 2025 | 89.48% | 35,761,636 |
| 32 | China | 8210 | Tools; hand-operated mechanical appliances, weighing 10kg or less, used in the preparation, conditioning or serving of food or drink | 2025 | 89.16% | 98,084,176 |
| 33 | 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 | 2025 | 89.01% | 440,264,473 |
| 34 | China | 8509 | Electro-mechanical domestic appliances; with self-contained electric motor, other than vacuum cleaners of heading 85.08. | 2025 | 88.67% | 2,930,073,162 |
| 35 | Russian Federation | 7501 | Nickel mattes; nickel oxide sinters and other intermediate products of nickel metallurgy | 2025 | 88.59% | 724,923,895 |
| 36 | China | 8104 | Magnesium; articles thereof, including waste and scrap | 2025 | 88.13% | 357,085,438 |
| 37 | China | 0502 | Pigs', hogs' or boars' bristles and hair; and waste thereof | 2025 | 88.12% | 12,951,790 |
| 38 | China | 5003 | Silk waste (including cocoons unsuitable for reeling, yarn waste and garnetted stock) | 2025 | 87.70% | 25,939,070 |
| 39 | China | 7615 | Aluminium; table, kitchen or other household articles and parts thereof, pot scourers and scouring or polishing pads, gloves and the like, sanitary ware and parts thereof | 2025 | 87.51% | 857,598,513 |
| 40 | China | 9610 | Slates and boards, with writing or drawing surfaces, whether or not framed | 2025 | 87.27% | 67,987,239 |
| 41 | Peru | 7905 | Zinc; plates, sheets, strip and foil | 2025 | 87.22% | 27,090,339 |
| 42 | USA | 1210 | Hop cones, fresh or dried, whether or not ground, powdered or in the form of pellets; lupulin | 2025 | 85.99% | 64,870,888 |
| 43 | China | 7418 | Copper; table, kitchen or other household articles and parts thereof; pot scourers, scouring, polishing pads, gloves and the like; sanitary ware and parts thereof | 2025 | 85.98% | 113,955,492 |
| 44 | China | 8507 | Electric accumulators, including separators therefor; whether or not rectangular (including square) | 2025 | 84.77% | 30,411,346,675 |
| 45 | China | 8304 | Office equipment; filing cabinets, card-index cabinets, paper trays and rests, pen trays, office-stamp stands and the like, of base metal, other than office furniture of heading no. 9403 | 2025 | 84.75% | 29,498,642 |
| 46 | Serbia | 6905 | Roofing tiles, chimney-pots, cowls, chimney liners, architectural ornaments and other ceramic constructional goods | 2025 | 84.61% | 50,156,201 |
| 47 | 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 | 2025 | 84.48% | 7,606,924,104 |
| 48 | China | 9616 | Scent sprays and similar toilet sprays and mounts and heads therefor; powder-puffs and pads for the application of cosmetics or toilet preparations | 2025 | 84.12% | 183,389,819 |
| 49 | China | 5901 | Textile fabrics, gum or amylaceous substance coated, used for outer book covers and like; tracing cloth, prepared painting canvas; buckram and similar stiffened textile fabrics used for hat foundation | 2025 | 83.94% | 59,106,269 |
| 50 | China | 4903 | Children's picture, drawing or colouring books | 2025 | 83.82% | 255,689,177 |
| 51 | China | 4304 | Artificial fur and articles thereof | 2025 | 83.70% | 23,902,145 |
| 52 | Special Categories | 9999 | Commodities not specified according to kind | 2025 | 83.08% | 49,264,282,253 |
| 53 | China | 9605 | Travel sets; for personal toilet, sewing, shoe or clothes cleaning | 2025 | 83.07% | 37,726,035 |
| 54 | China | 8605 | Railway or tramway coaches; passenger coaches, luggage vans, post office coaches and other special purpose railway or tramway coaches, not self-propelled (excluding those of heading no. 8604) | 2025 | 83.02% | 95,880,013 |
| 55 | China | 8508 | Vacuum cleaners | 2025 | 82.98% | 4,477,797,697 |
| 56 | China | 6913 | Statuettes and other ornamental ceramic articles | 2025 | 82.90% | 394,573,189 |
| 57 | 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 | 2025 | 82.84% | 1,966,130,575 |
| 58 | Switzerland | 9108 | Watch movements; complete and assembled | 2025 | 82.67% | 69,155,323 |
| 59 | China | 6603 | Trimmings, parts and accessories of articles of heading no. 6601 or 6602 | 2025 | 82.49% | 62,231,174 |
| 60 | Rep. of Korea | 9301 | Military weapons; other than revolvers, pistols and arms of heading no. 9307 | 2025 | 82.47% | 1,071,727,543 |
| 61 | China | 2003 | Mushrooms and truffles, prepared or preserved other than by vinegar or acetic acid | 2025 | 81.94% | 15,007,467 |
| 62 | Madagascar | 0905 | Vanilla | 2025 | 81.93% | 90,236,822 |
| 63 | Indonesia | 2702 | Lignite; whether or not agglomerated, excluding jet | 2025 | 81.55% | 26,908,431 |
| 64 | Türkiye | 3605 | Matches; other than pyrotechnic articles of heading no. 3604 | 2025 | 81.19% | 47,335,345 |
| 65 | China | 9105 | Clocks, other, n.e.c. | 2025 | 81.15% | 146,567,366 |
| 66 | Türkiye | 7413 | Copper; stranded wire, cables, plaited bands and the like, not electrically insulated | 2025 | 81.11% | 479,628,548 |
| 67 | China | 9620 | Monopods, bipods, tripods and similar articles | 2025 | 81.03% | 143,165,413 |
| 68 | Türkiye | 2840 | Borates; peroxoborates (perborates) | 2025 | 80.20% | 133,103,568 |
China: 37 occurrences
United Kingdom: 7 occurrences
USA: 6 occurrences
Türkiye: 5 occurrences
Norway: 2 occurrences
Switzerland: 2 occurrences
India: 1 occurrence
Indonesia: 1 occurrence
Madagascar: 1 occurrence
Peru: 1 occurrence
Rep. of Korea: 1 occurrence
Russian Federation: 1 occurrence
Serbia: 1 occurrence
Special Categories: 1 occurrence
Ukraine: 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.