Extreme Import Bottlenecks
The tables below show Japan'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.
Japan
88 bottlenecks| # | Partner | HS Code | HS Description | Year | Share (%) | Value (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New Zealand | 0808 | Apples, pears and quinces; fresh | 2025 | 100.00% | 29,219,569 |
| 2 | Chile | 7402 | Copper; unrefined, copper anodes for electrolytic refining | 2025 | 99.93% | 102,362,808 |
| 3 | USA | 0701 | Potatoes; fresh or chilled | 2025 | 99.91% | 37,194,495 |
| 4 | USA | 3803 | Tall oil, whether or not refined | 2025 | 99.76% | 30,305,218 |
| 5 | China | 8715 | Baby carriages and parts thereof | 2025 | 99.64% | 59,544,359 |
| 6 | France | 8401 | Nuclear reactors; fuel elements (cartridges), non-irradiated, for nuclear reactors, machinery and apparatus for isotopic separation | 2025 | 99.58% | 311,319,134 |
| 7 | China | 2816 | Hydroxide and peroxide of magnesium; oxides, hydroxides and peroxides of strontium or barium | 2025 | 99.57% | 13,546,990 |
| 8 | Malaysia | 2521 | Limestone flux; limestone and other calcareous stone, of a kind used for the manufacture of lime or cement | 2025 | 98.89% | 31,272,036 |
| 9 | China | 9110 | Watch or clock movements, complete, unassembled or partly assembled (movement sets); incomplete watch or clock movements, assembled; rough watch or clock movements | 2025 | 97.87% | 19,823,963 |
| 10 | Rep. of Korea | 2808 | Nitric acid; sulphonitric acids | 2025 | 97.83% | 23,590,406 |
| 11 | China | 6702 | Flowers, foliage and fruit, artificial, and parts thereof; articles made of artificial flowers, foliage or fruit | 2025 | 97.61% | 66,269,260 |
| 12 | China | 4601 | Plaits and similar products of plaiting materials, assembled into strips or not; plaiting materials, plaits and the like bound together in parallel strands or woven in sheet form, finished articles or not | 2025 | 97.50% | 59,174,314 |
| 13 | China | 3103 | Fertilizers; mineral or chemical, phosphatic | 2025 | 97.19% | 25,279,558 |
| 14 | USA | 1005 | Maize (corn) | 2025 | 97.06% | 3,732,865,138 |
| 15 | USA | 1007 | Grain sorghum | 2025 | 96.75% | 17,504,848 |
| 16 | China | 5705 | Carpets and other textile floor coverings; n.e.c. in chapter 57, whether or not made up | 2025 | 95.84% | 127,786,053 |
| 17 | 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 | 95.65% | 10,711,678 |
| 18 | China | 4817 | Envelopes, letter cards, plain postcards and correspondence cards, of paper, paperboard; boxes, pouches, wallets and writing compendiums, of paper or paperboard containing assortment of paper stationery | 2025 | 95.23% | 55,627,377 |
| 19 | China | 0812 | Fruit and nuts provisionally preserved, but unsuitable in that state for immediate consumption | 2025 | 95.21% | 28,852,283 |
| 20 | China | 5306 | Flax yarn | 2025 | 94.85% | 11,030,237 |
| 21 | Switzerland | 9101 | Wrist-watches, pocket-watches, stop-watches and other watches; with case of precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal | 2025 | 94.82% | 762,478,046 |
| 22 | China | 9504 | Video game consoles and machines, articles for funfair, table or parlour games, including pintables, billiards, special tables for casino games and automatic bowling alley equipment | 2025 | 93.70% | 2,756,151,056 |
| 23 | China | 6401 | Footwear; waterproof, with outer soles and uppers of rubber or plastics, (uppers not fixed to the sole nor assembled by stitch, rivet, nail, screw, plug or similar) | 2025 | 93.31% | 90,812,783 |
| 24 | China | 6802 | Monumental or building stone, worked (except slate) and articles thereof (not of heading no. 6801) mosaic cubes etc., of natural stone including slate; artificially coloured granules of natural stone | 2025 | 93.22% | 255,888,477 |
| 25 | China | 0706 | Carrots, turnips, salad beetroot, salsify, celeriac, radishes and similar edible roots; fresh or chilled | 2025 | 93.14% | 71,332,140 |
| 26 | China | 7224 | Alloy steel in ingots or other primary forms, semi-finished products of other alloy steel | 2025 | 91.94% | 58,644,948 |
| 27 | China | 9610 | Slates and boards, with writing or drawing surfaces, whether or not framed | 2025 | 91.86% | 19,415,910 |
| 28 | Brazil | 0510 | Ambergris, castoreum, civet and musk; cantharides; bile, dried or not glands, other animal products used in preparation of pharmaceutical products, fresh chilled, frozen or otherwise provisionally preserved | 2025 | 91.07% | 30,956,691 |
| 29 | USA | 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 | 2025 | 90.96% | 565,231,784 |
| 30 | China | 8712 | Bicycles and other cycles; including delivery tricycles, not motorised | 2025 | 90.85% | 391,711,784 |
| 31 | Germany | 8901 | Cruise ships, excursion boats, ferry-boats, cargo ships, barges and similar vessels for the transport of persons or goods | 2025 | 90.12% | 426,157,704 |
| 32 | Switzerland | 9102 | Wrist-watches, pocket-watches, stop-watches and other watches, other than those of heading no. 9101 | 2025 | 90.08% | 1,920,658,834 |
| 33 | China | 2621 | Slag and ash n.e.c. in chapter 26; including seaweed ash (kelp) and ash and residues from the incineration of municipal waste | 2025 | 89.78% | 19,602,193 |
| 34 | China | 2704 | Coke and semi-coke; of coal, lignite or peat, whether or not agglomerated; retort carbon | 2025 | 89.54% | 221,176,486 |
| 35 | China | 0703 | Onions, shallots, garlic, leeks and other alliaceous vegetables; fresh or chilled | 2025 | 89.25% | 234,521,732 |
| 36 | New Caledonia | 2604 | Nickel ores and concentrates | 2025 | 88.30% | 47,422,809 |
| 37 | 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 | 2025 | 88.10% | 68,777,732 |
| 38 | China | 8450 | Household or laundry-type washing machines; including machines which both wash and dry | 2025 | 87.90% | 920,447,016 |
| 39 | China | 0711 | Vegetables provisionally preserved, but unsuitable in that state for immediate consumption | 2025 | 87.30% | 48,656,610 |
| 40 | China | 2809 | Diphosphorus pentaoxide; phosphoric acid; polyphosphoric acids, whether or not chemically defined | 2025 | 87.17% | 30,330,762 |
| 41 | Finland | 8710 | Tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles; motorised, whether or not fitted with weapons, and parts of such vehicles | 2025 | 87.16% | 71,441,001 |
| 42 | 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 | 87.09% | 139,985,788 |
| 43 | China | 9105 | Clocks, other, n.e.c. | 2025 | 86.92% | 85,759,885 |
| 44 | Malaysia | 1511 | Palm oil and its fractions; whether or not refined, but not chemically modified | 2025 | 86.76% | 621,751,533 |
| 45 | China | 0704 | Cabbages, cauliflowers, kohlrabi, kale and similar edible brassicas; fresh or chilled | 2025 | 86.62% | 35,659,161 |
| 46 | China | 4903 | Children's picture, drawing or colouring books | 2025 | 86.61% | 21,264,023 |
| 47 | Australia | 1701 | Cane or beet sugar and chemically pure sucrose, in solid form | 2025 | 86.36% | 511,451,481 |
| 48 | USA | 0809 | Apricots, cherries, peaches (including nectarines), plums and sloes, fresh | 2025 | 86.23% | 37,728,614 |
| 49 | China | 2003 | Mushrooms and truffles, prepared or preserved other than by vinegar or acetic acid | 2025 | 85.91% | 49,425,310 |
| 50 | China | 2519 | Natural magnesium carbonate (magnesite); fused magnesia; dead-burned (sintered) magnesia, whether or not containing small quantities of other oxides added before sintering; magnesium oxide, pure or not | 2025 | 85.58% | 117,649,658 |
| 51 | Rep. of Korea | 7207 | Iron or non-alloy steel; semi-finished products thereof | 2025 | 85.56% | 83,631,588 |
| 52 | Rep. of Korea | 6807 | Asphalt or similar material; articles (e.g. petroleum bitumen or coal tar pitch) | 2025 | 85.55% | 19,274,089 |
| 53 | China | 8524 | Flat panel display modules, whether or not incorporating touch-sensitive screens | 2025 | 85.34% | 1,361,459,981 |
| 54 | China | 7907 | Zinc; articles n.e.c. in chapter 79 | 2025 | 85.18% | 65,312,571 |
| 55 | China | 6306 | Tarpaulins, awnings and sunblinds; tents (including temporary canopies and similar articles); sails for boats, sailboards or landcraft; camping goods | 2025 | 84.88% | 101,012,685 |
| 56 | China | 9618 | Tailors' dummies and other lay figures; automata and other animated displays used for shop window dressing | 2025 | 84.75% | 38,389,499 |
| 57 | China | 4419 | Tableware and kitchenware, of wood | 2025 | 84.71% | 214,806,226 |
| 58 | China | 9505 | Festive, carnival or other entertainment articles, including conjuring tricks and novelty jokes | 2025 | 84.25% | 44,310,155 |
| 59 | China | 8213 | Scissors; tailors' shears and similar shears, and blades therefore | 2025 | 84.16% | 34,871,050 |
| 60 | USA | 5501 | Synthetic filament tow | 2025 | 84.09% | 46,528,621 |
| 61 | China | 5105 | Wool and fine or coarse animal hair; carded or combed (including combed wool in fragments) | 2025 | 83.95% | 34,570,844 |
| 62 | China | 8210 | Tools; hand-operated mechanical appliances, weighing 10kg or less, used in the preparation, conditioning or serving of food or drink | 2025 | 83.89% | 10,472,755 |
| 63 | USA | 2909 | Ethers, ether-alcohols, ether-phenols, ether-alcohol-phenols, alcohol peroxides, ether peroxides, acetal and hemiacetal peroxides, ketone peroxides (chemically defined or not), and their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives | 2025 | 83.62% | 1,318,334,635 |
| 64 | China | 7607 | Aluminium foil (whether or not printed or backed with paper, paperboard, plastics or similar backing materials) of a thickness (excluding any backing) not exceeding 0.2mm | 2025 | 83.46% | 343,950,318 |
| 65 | China | 2938 | Glycosides, natural or reproduced by synthesis, and their salts, ethers, esters and other derivatives | 2025 | 83.34% | 44,389,360 |
| 66 | USA | 3705 | Photographic plates and film; exposed and developed, other than cinematographic film | 2025 | 82.95% | 92,037,032 |
| 67 | USA | 9305 | Firearms; parts and accessories of articles of heading no. 9301 to 9304 | 2025 | 82.74% | 177,523,680 |
| 68 | China | 4806 | Vegetable parchment, greaseproof papers, tracing papers, glassine and other glazed transparent or translucent papers, in rolls or sheets | 2025 | 82.66% | 12,308,711 |
| 69 | China | 8713 | Carriages for disabled persons; whether or not motorised or otherwise mechanically propelled | 2025 | 82.61% | 62,533,147 |
| 70 | 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 | 82.51% | 349,987,277 |
| 71 | China | 0714 | Manioc, arrowroot, salep, Jerusalem artichokes, sweet potatoes and similar roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content; fresh, chilled, frozen or dried, whether or not sliced or in the form of pellets; sago pith | 2025 | 82.48% | 67,312,019 |
| 72 | Australia | 2505 | Sands of all kinds; natural, whether or not coloured, other than metal-bearing sands of chapter 26 | 2025 | 82.04% | 55,300,081 |
| 73 | China | 9620 | Monopods, bipods, tripods and similar articles | 2025 | 81.97% | 38,324,278 |
| 74 | USA | 0802 | Nuts (excluding coconuts, Brazils and cashew nuts); fresh or dried, whether or not shelled or peeled | 2025 | 81.78% | 403,132,959 |
| 75 | Rep. of Korea | 7301 | Iron or steel sheet piling, whether or not drilled, punched or made from assembled elements; welded angles, shapes and sections, of iron or steel | 2025 | 81.68% | 28,250,474 |
| 76 | China | 2504 | Graphite; natural | 2025 | 81.60% | 41,739,325 |
| 77 | New Zealand | 0810 | Fruit, fresh; n.e.c. in chapter 08 | 2025 | 81.55% | 388,378,117 |
| 78 | China | 8104 | Magnesium; articles thereof, including waste and scrap | 2025 | 80.85% | 72,303,198 |
| 79 | China | 1211 | Plants and parts of plants (including seeds and fruits), of a kind used primarily in perfumery, in pharmacy or for insecticidal, fungicidal or similar purposes, fresh, chilled, frozen or dried, whether or not cut, crushed or powdered | 2025 | 80.78% | 264,979,497 |
| 80 | China | 9003 | Frames and mountings; for spectacles, goggles or the like, and parts | 2025 | 80.70% | 226,932,202 |
| 81 | China | 9613 | Cigarette lighters and other lighters, whether or not mechanical or electrical and parts thereof other than flints and wicks | 2025 | 80.66% | 30,057,076 |
| 82 | Brazil | 2207 | Ethyl alcohol, undenatured; of an alcoholic strength by volume of 80% vol. or higher; ethyl alcohol and other spirits, denatured, of any strength | 2025 | 80.53% | 394,658,330 |
| 83 | China | 0712 | Vegetables, dried; whole, cut, sliced, broken or in powder, but not further prepared | 2025 | 80.51% | 265,624,748 |
| 84 | China | 9503 | Tricycles, scooters, pedal cars and similar wheeled toys; dolls' carriages; dolls; other toys; reduced-size (scale) models and similar recreational models, working or not; puzzles of all kinds | 2025 | 80.51% | 2,452,685,176 |
| 85 | China | 9404 | Mattress supports; articles of bedding (e.g. mattresses, quilts, eiderdowns, cushions pouffes and pillows), fitted with springs or stuffed, whether or not covered | 2025 | 80.33% | 978,690,814 |
| 86 | China | 8519 | Sound recording or reproducing apparatus | 2025 | 80.26% | 78,947,311 |
| 87 | China | 6304 | Furnishing articles; excluding those of heading no. 9404 | 2025 | 80.07% | 71,646,862 |
| 88 | China | 7216 | Iron or non-alloy steel, angles, shapes and sections | 2025 | 80.00% | 70,000,396 |
China: 58 occurrences
USA: 11 occurrences
Rep. of Korea: 4 occurrences
Australia: 2 occurrences
Brazil: 2 occurrences
Malaysia: 2 occurrences
New Zealand: 2 occurrences
Switzerland: 2 occurrences
Chile: 1 occurrence
Finland: 1 occurrence
France: 1 occurrence
Germany: 1 occurrence
New Caledonia: 1 occurrence
Legend:
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