Extreme Import Bottlenecks
The tables below show India'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.
India
98 bottlenecks| # | Partner | HS Code | HS Description | Year | Share (%) | Value (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Uzbekistan | 2612 | Uranium or thorium ores and concentrates | 2024 | 100.00% | 46,773,531 |
| 2 | Morocco | 3103 | Fertilizers; mineral or chemical, phosphatic | 2024 | 99.92% | 172,791,300 |
| 3 | China | 6603 | Trimmings, parts and accessories of articles of heading no. 6601 or 6602 | 2024 | 99.78% | 29,789,250 |
| 4 | Bangladesh | 5303 | Jute and other textile bast fibres (not flax, true hemp and ramie), raw or processed but not spun; tow and waste of these fibres, including yarn waste and garnetted stock | 2024 | 99.71% | 87,184,981 |
| 5 | Brazil | 1701 | Cane or beet sugar and chemically pure sucrose, in solid form | 2024 | 99.01% | 1,751,901,609 |
| 6 | China | 8715 | Baby carriages and parts thereof | 2024 | 98.57% | 11,726,719 |
| 7 | 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 | 2024 | 98.50% | 34,086,433 |
| 8 | China | 9617 | Vacuum flasks and other vacuum vessels, complete with cases; parts thereof other than glass inners | 2024 | 97.99% | 61,666,426 |
| 9 | China | 8104 | Magnesium; articles thereof, including waste and scrap | 2024 | 97.68% | 105,843,992 |
| 10 | China | 3818 | Chemical elements doped for use in electronics, in the form of discs, wafers or similar forms; chemical compounds doped for use in electronics | 2024 | 97.47% | 185,015,593 |
| 11 | China | 2913 | Aldehydes; halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives of products of heading no. 2912 | 2024 | 97.24% | 20,544,285 |
| 12 | Bangladesh | 5307 | Yarn of jute or of other textile bast fibres of heading no. 5305 | 2024 | 96.72% | 55,627,415 |
| 13 | China | 5606 | Yarn and strip and the like of heading no. 5404 or 5405, gimped (other than those of heading no. 5606 and gimped horsehair yarn); chenille yarn (including flock chenille yarn); loop wale-yarn | 2024 | 96.70% | 55,059,915 |
| 14 | Indonesia | 1804 | Cocoa; butter, fat and oil | 2024 | 96.64% | 264,430,725 |
| 15 | Rep. of Korea | 2808 | Nitric acid; sulphonitric acids | 2024 | 96.50% | 23,928,911 |
| 16 | Indonesia | 7218 | Stainless steel in ingots or other primary forms; semi-finished products of stainless steel | 2024 | 96.36% | 1,110,747,421 |
| 17 | China | 6702 | Flowers, foliage and fruit, artificial, and parts thereof; articles made of artificial flowers, foliage or fruit | 2024 | 96.12% | 29,079,347 |
| 18 | China | 9111 | Watch cases and parts thereof | 2024 | 95.60% | 24,153,910 |
| 19 | 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 | 2024 | 95.32% | 29,092,322 |
| 20 | China | 2828 | Hypochlorites; commercial calcium hypochlorite; chlorites; hypobromites | 2024 | 94.97% | 18,312,413 |
| 21 | China | 9107 | Time switches; with clock, watch movement or synchronous motor | 2024 | 94.83% | 13,221,272 |
| 22 | China | 8522 | Sound or video recording apparatus; parts and accessories suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of heading 8519 or 8521 | 2024 | 94.34% | 48,782,476 |
| 23 | China | 8111 | Manganese; articles thereof, including waste and scrap | 2024 | 94.28% | 102,957,931 |
| 24 | China | 9505 | Festive, carnival or other entertainment articles, including conjuring tricks and novelty jokes | 2024 | 94.25% | 16,828,242 |
| 25 | China | 8713 | Carriages for disabled persons; whether or not motorised or otherwise mechanically propelled | 2024 | 94.19% | 13,888,922 |
| 26 | Bangladesh | 5202 | Cotton waste (including yarn waste and garnetted stock) | 2024 | 94.00% | 15,068,941 |
| 27 | China | 6301 | Blankets and travelling rugs | 2024 | 93.54% | 21,519,087 |
| 28 | China | 6304 | Furnishing articles; excluding those of heading no. 9404 | 2024 | 93.13% | 67,822,872 |
| 29 | China | 7317 | Nails, tacks, drawing pins, corrugated nails, staples (not those of heading no. 8305) and the like, of iron or steel, with heads of other material or not, but excluding articles with heads of copper | 2024 | 92.77% | 22,443,918 |
| 30 | China | 6001 | Fabrics; pile fabrics, including long pile fabrics and terry fabrics, knitted or crocheted | 2024 | 92.51% | 154,196,317 |
| 31 | China | 8432 | Agricultural, horticultural or forestry machinery for soil preparation or cultivation; lawn or sports-ground rollers | 2024 | 92.27% | 89,982,923 |
| 32 | China | 6005 | Fabrics; warp knit (including those made on galloon knitting machines), other than those of headings 60.01 to 60.04 | 2024 | 91.72% | 100,846,869 |
| 33 | Bangladesh | 1515 | Fixed vegetable or microbial fats and oils n.e.c. in chapter 15 (including jojoba oil) and their fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified | 2024 | 91.59% | 110,534,206 |
| 34 | China | 5515 | Woven fabrics of synthetic staple fibres, n.e.c. in chapter 55 | 2024 | 91.25% | 52,294,023 |
| 35 | China | 7105 | Dust and powder of natural or synthetic precious or semi-precious stone | 2024 | 91.25% | 28,868,904 |
| 36 | Netherlands | 7611 | Aluminium; reservoirs, tanks, vats and the like for material (not compressed or liquefied gas) of capacity over 300l, whether or not lined, heat-insulated, not fitted with mechanical, thermal equipment | 2024 | 91.02% | 14,944,505 |
| 37 | China | 9613 | Cigarette lighters and other lighters, whether or not mechanical or electrical and parts thereof other than flints and wicks | 2024 | 90.90% | 12,299,868 |
| 38 | China | 7007 | Safety glass, consisting of toughened (tempered) or laminated glass | 2024 | 90.71% | 513,449,307 |
| 39 | China | 9620 | Monopods, bipods, tripods and similar articles | 2024 | 90.64% | 24,624,931 |
| 40 | South Africa | 2610 | Chromium ores and concentrates | 2024 | 90.63% | 72,879,556 |
| 41 | China | 8214 | Cutlery; other articles, (e.g. hair clippers, butchers' or kitchen cleavers, choppers and mincing knives, paper knives), manicure or pedicure sets and instruments (including nail files) | 2024 | 90.51% | 12,873,340 |
| 42 | China | 1401 | Vegetable materials of a kind used primarily for plaiting; (e.g. bamboos, rattans, reeds, rushes, osier, raffia, cleaned, bleached or dyed cereal straw and lime bark) | 2024 | 90.49% | 65,063,950 |
| 43 | China | 4419 | Tableware and kitchenware, of wood | 2024 | 90.39% | 20,645,209 |
| 44 | Bangladesh | 0302 | Fish; fresh or chilled, excluding fish fillets and other fish meat of heading 0304 | 2024 | 90.33% | 75,108,748 |
| 45 | China | 4421 | Wooden articles n.e.c. in heading no. 4414 to 4420 | 2024 | 89.78% | 22,817,526 |
| 46 | USA | 2207 | Ethyl alcohol, undenatured; of an alcoholic strength by volume of 80% vol. or higher; ethyl alcohol and other spirits, denatured, of any strength | 2024 | 89.77% | 432,812,375 |
| 47 | China | 8213 | Scissors; tailors' shears and similar shears, and blades therefore | 2024 | 89.20% | 10,899,385 |
| 48 | China | 9113 | Watch straps, watch bands, watch bracelets and parts thereof | 2024 | 88.76% | 30,969,367 |
| 49 | China | 8509 | Electro-mechanical domestic appliances; with self-contained electric motor, other than vacuum cleaners of heading 85.08. | 2024 | 88.73% | 48,470,462 |
| 50 | China | 2908 | Phenols or phenol-alcohols; halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives | 2024 | 88.69% | 19,060,455 |
| 51 | China | 2941 | Antibiotics | 2024 | 88.67% | 1,719,175,109 |
| 52 | China | 8303 | Safes; armoured or reinforced, strong-boxes, doors and safe deposit lockers for strong-rooms, cash or deed boxes and the like, of base metal | 2024 | 88.39% | 12,005,197 |
| 53 | China | 6601 | Umbrellas; sun umbrellas (including walking stick umbrellas, garden umbrellas and similar umbrellas) | 2024 | 88.14% | 17,823,034 |
| 54 | China | 2927 | Diazo-, azo- or azoxy-compounds | 2024 | 88.06% | 36,004,264 |
| 55 | China | 5907 | Textile fabrics; otherwise impregnated, coated or covered; painted canvas being theatrical scenery, studio back-cloths or the like | 2024 | 87.93% | 16,858,409 |
| 56 | China | 1109 | Wheat gluten; whether or not dried | 2024 | 87.64% | 16,700,461 |
| 57 | Sri Lanka | 1106 | Flour, meal and powder; of the dried leguminous vegetables of heading no. 0713, of sago or of roots or tubers of heading no. 0714 or of the products of chapter 8 | 2024 | 87.63% | 11,470,921 |
| 58 | China | 5403 | Artificial filament yarn (other than sewing thread), not put up for retail sale, including artificial monofilament of less than 67 decitex | 2024 | 87.49% | 343,462,892 |
| 59 | Bhutan | 2517 | Pebbles, gravel, crushed stone for concrete aggregates for road or railway ballast, shingle or flint; macadam of slag, dross etc tarred granules, chippings, powder of stones of heading no. 2515 and 2516 | 2024 | 87.37% | 14,562,635 |
| 60 | Switzerland | 9101 | Wrist-watches, pocket-watches, stop-watches and other watches; with case of precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal | 2024 | 87.29% | 86,643,384 |
| 61 | China | 7206 | Iron and non-alloy steel in ingots or other primary forms (excluding iron of heading no. 7203) | 2024 | 87.11% | 10,191,865 |
| 62 | Japan | 2843 | Colloidal precious metals; inorganic or organic compounds of precious metals, whether or not chemically defined; amalgams of precious metals | 2024 | 87.10% | 1,967,579,550 |
| 63 | Austria | 5504 | Artificial staple fibres, not carded, combed or otherwise processed for spinning | 2024 | 86.79% | 126,145,809 |
| 64 | China | 8402 | Boilers; steam or other vapour generating (other than central heating hot water boilers, capable also of producing low pressure steam), super heated water boilers | 2024 | 86.67% | 59,484,360 |
| 65 | 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) | 2024 | 86.50% | 18,106,364 |
| 66 | China | 5516 | Woven fabrics of artificial staple fibres | 2024 | 86.45% | 18,708,344 |
| 67 | China | 8201 | Tools, hand; spades, shovels, mattocks, picks, hoes, forks, rakes; axes, bill hooks etc; secateurs and pruners of any kind; scythes, sickles, hay knives, hedge shears, timber wedges and other tools used in agriculture, horticulture, forestry | 2024 | 86.15% | 11,748,963 |
| 68 | Australia | 1001 | Wheat and meslin | 2024 | 86.00% | 34,235,529 |
| 69 | China | 9114 | Clock or watch parts; n.e.c. in chapter 91 | 2024 | 85.82% | 24,429,426 |
| 70 | China | 7321 | Stoves, ranges, grates, cookers (those with subsidiary boilers for central heating), barbecues, braziers, gas-rings, plate warmers and similar non-electric domestic appliances and parts, of iron or steel | 2024 | 85.76% | 33,202,728 |
| 71 | China | 7016 | Glass; paving blocks, slabs, bricks, tiles etc, of pressed, moulded glass, whether or not wired, glass smallwares for decorative purposes leaded lights and the like; multicellular or foam glass | 2024 | 85.53% | 44,902,462 |
| 72 | Viet Nam | 5004 | Silk; yarn (other than yarn spun from silk waste), not put up for retail sale | 2024 | 85.44% | 12,007,370 |
| 73 | China | 9003 | Frames and mountings; for spectacles, goggles or the like, and parts | 2024 | 85.41% | 116,542,675 |
| 74 | Viet Nam | 0906 | Cinnamon and cinnamon-tree flowers | 2024 | 85.37% | 81,712,726 |
| 75 | Spain | 1509 | Olive oil and its fractions; whether or not refined, but not chemically modified | 2024 | 84.64% | 43,343,726 |
| 76 | 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 | 2024 | 84.45% | 46,816,161 |
| 77 | China | 7610 | Aluminium; structures (excluding prefabricated buildings of heading no. 9406) and parts (e.g. bridges and sections, towers, lattice masts, etc) plates, rods, profiles and tubes for structures | 2024 | 84.38% | 315,690,625 |
| 78 | China | 3827 | Mixtures containing halogenated derivatives of methane, ethane or propane, not elsewhere specified or included | 2024 | 84.19% | 13,444,453 |
| 79 | China | 5309 | Woven fabrics of flax | 2024 | 83.03% | 54,380,288 |
| 80 | 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 | 2024 | 82.87% | 150,700,774 |
| 81 | China | 2924 | Carboxyamide-function compounds; amide-function compounds of carbonic acid | 2024 | 82.58% | 256,850,028 |
| 82 | China | 8507 | Electric accumulators, including separators therefor; whether or not rectangular (including square) | 2024 | 82.49% | 2,889,419,905 |
| 83 | China | 5810 | Embroidery; in the piece, in strips or in motifs | 2024 | 82.40% | 12,374,829 |
| 84 | China | 8447 | Knitting machines, stitch-bonding machines and machines for making gimped yarn, tulle, lace, embroidery, trimmings, braid or net and machines for tufting | 2024 | 82.40% | 421,128,459 |
| 85 | Afghanistan | 0703 | Onions, shallots, garlic, leeks and other alliaceous vegetables; fresh or chilled | 2024 | 82.20% | 18,004,809 |
| 86 | China | 5801 | Fabrics; woven pile and chenille fabrics, other than fabrics of heading no. 5802 or 5806 | 2024 | 82.09% | 17,519,972 |
| 87 | China | 6117 | Clothing accessories; made up, knitted or crocheted, knitted or crocheted parts of garments or of clothing accessories | 2024 | 82.02% | 10,106,489 |
| 88 | China | 8426 | Derricks, cranes, including cable cranes, mobile lifting frames, straddle carriers and works trucks fitted with a crane | 2024 | 81.60% | 740,141,361 |
| 89 | Rep. of Korea | 8901 | Cruise ships, excursion boats, ferry-boats, cargo ships, barges and similar vessels for the transport of persons or goods | 2024 | 81.49% | 1,182,929,488 |
| 90 | China | 2920 | Esters of other inorganic acids of non-metals (other than of hydrogen halides) and their salts, their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives | 2024 | 81.47% | 75,824,389 |
| 91 | China | 2942 | Organic compounds; n.e.c. in chapter 29 | 2024 | 81.12% | 301,258,727 |
| 92 | China | 3916 | Monofilament of which any cross-sectional dimension exceeds 1mm, rods, sticks and profile shapes, whether or not surface-worked but not otherwise worked, of plastics | 2024 | 81.00% | 109,428,279 |
| 93 | Israel | 9306 | Bombs, grenades, torpedoes, mines, missiles and similar munitions of war and parts thereof; cartridges and other ammunition, projectiles and parts thereof, including shot and cartridge wads | 2024 | 80.96% | 128,213,741 |
| 94 | China | 7410 | Copper foil (whether or not printed or backed with paper, paperboard, plastics or similar backing materials) of a thickness (excluding any backing) not exceeding 0.15mm | 2024 | 80.71% | 79,599,248 |
| 95 | Bangladesh | 2847 | Hydrogen peroxide; whether or not solidified with urea | 2024 | 80.54% | 12,702,298 |
| 96 | China | 6116 | Gloves, mittens and mitts; knitted or crocheted | 2024 | 80.11% | 24,180,126 |
| 97 | Netherlands | 3703 | Photographic paper, paperboard and textiles; sensitised, unexposed | 2024 | 80.11% | 13,942,969 |
| 98 | China | 5007 | Woven fabrics of silk or of silk waste | 2024 | 80.02% | 28,275,733 |
China: 68 occurrences
Bangladesh: 6 occurrences
Indonesia: 2 occurrences
Netherlands: 2 occurrences
Rep. of Korea: 2 occurrences
Viet Nam: 2 occurrences
Afghanistan: 1 occurrence
Australia: 1 occurrence
Austria: 1 occurrence
Bhutan: 1 occurrence
Brazil: 1 occurrence
Israel: 1 occurrence
Japan: 1 occurrence
Morocco: 1 occurrence
Russian Federation: 1 occurrence
South Africa: 1 occurrence
Spain: 1 occurrence
Sri Lanka: 1 occurrence
Switzerland: 1 occurrence
Türkiye: 1 occurrence
USA: 1 occurrence
Uzbekistan: 1 occurrence
Legend:
Highlight - the row matches a Danger Zone country and/or a Critical Goods HS code.
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