Extreme Import Bottlenecks
The tables below show Rep. of Korea'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.
Rep. of Korea
97 bottlenecks| # | Partner | HS Code | HS Description | Year | Share (%) | Value (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 8606 | Railway or tramway goods vans and wagons; not self-propelled | 2025 | 99.99% | 15,003,014 |
| 2 | China | 8706 | Chassis; fitted with engines, for the motor vehicles of heading no. 8701 to 8705 | 2025 | 99.57% | 13,273,810 |
| 3 | China | 2704 | Coke and semi-coke; of coal, lignite or peat, whether or not agglomerated; retort carbon | 2025 | 98.94% | 85,768,142 |
| 4 | China | 3827 | Mixtures containing halogenated derivatives of methane, ethane or propane, not elsewhere specified or included | 2025 | 98.78% | 76,705,573 |
| 5 | China | 4903 | Children's picture, drawing or colouring books | 2025 | 97.82% | 38,254,450 |
| 6 | China | 8104 | Magnesium; articles thereof, including waste and scrap | 2025 | 97.46% | 81,357,595 |
| 7 | China | 8603 | Railway or tramway coaches, vans and trucks; self-propelled tenders, other than those of heading no. 8604 | 2025 | 97.26% | 17,255,951 |
| 8 | China | 2511 | Natural barium sulphate (barytes); natural barium carbonate, (witherite) whether or not calcined, other than barium oxide of heading no. 2816 | 2025 | 97.23% | 10,401,073 |
| 9 | China | 5306 | Flax yarn | 2025 | 97.14% | 13,032,321 |
| 10 | Switzerland | 9101 | Wrist-watches, pocket-watches, stop-watches and other watches; with case of precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal | 2025 | 96.89% | 341,940,631 |
| 11 | China | 8476 | Automatic goods-vending machines (e.g. postage stamp, cigarette, food or beverage machines), including money-changing machines | 2025 | 96.78% | 14,921,834 |
| 12 | China | 6702 | Flowers, foliage and fruit, artificial, and parts thereof; articles made of artificial flowers, foliage or fruit | 2025 | 96.75% | 30,194,930 |
| 13 | China | 0706 | Carrots, turnips, salad beetroot, salsify, celeriac, radishes and similar edible roots; fresh or chilled | 2025 | 96.63% | 92,428,371 |
| 14 | China | 7209 | Iron or non-alloy steel; flat-rolled products, width 600mm or more, cold-rolled (cold-reduced), not clad, plated or coated | 2025 | 96.35% | 283,769,523 |
| 15 | New Caledonia | 2604 | Nickel ores and concentrates | 2025 | 96.34% | 197,941,969 |
| 16 | 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 | 95.63% | 26,394,989 |
| 17 | China | 8715 | Baby carriages and parts thereof | 2025 | 95.27% | 36,358,227 |
| 18 | Australia | 0204 | Meat of sheep or goats; fresh, chilled or frozen | 2025 | 94.77% | 251,979,398 |
| 19 | China | 9617 | Vacuum flasks and other vacuum vessels, complete with cases; parts thereof other than glass inners | 2025 | 94.75% | 191,903,458 |
| 20 | China | 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 | 2025 | 94.47% | 11,887,770 |
| 21 | USA | 3601 | Explosives; propellent powders | 2025 | 94.20% | 30,819,198 |
| 22 | China | 0703 | Onions, shallots, garlic, leeks and other alliaceous vegetables; fresh or chilled | 2025 | 93.82% | 47,892,094 |
| 23 | 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 | 93.57% | 31,693,264 |
| 24 | China | 3826 | Biodiesel and mixtures thereof; not containing or containing less than 70% by weight of petroleum oils or oils obtained from bituminous minerals | 2025 | 93.38% | 58,927,793 |
| 25 | China | 0704 | Cabbages, cauliflowers, kohlrabi, kale and similar edible brassicas; fresh or chilled | 2025 | 93.33% | 35,809,998 |
| 26 | Japan | 8007 | Tin; articles n.e.c. in chapter 80 | 2025 | 93.27% | 53,715,663 |
| 27 | China | 2504 | Graphite; natural | 2025 | 93.14% | 47,795,484 |
| 28 | China | 9505 | Festive, carnival or other entertainment articles, including conjuring tricks and novelty jokes | 2025 | 93.12% | 61,003,128 |
| 29 | China | 2841 | Salts of oxometallic or peroxometallic acids | 2025 | 93.09% | 1,417,763,923 |
| 30 | China | 6601 | Umbrellas; sun umbrellas (including walking stick umbrellas, garden umbrellas and similar umbrellas) | 2025 | 92.90% | 116,189,962 |
| 31 | China | 5007 | Woven fabrics of silk or of silk waste | 2025 | 92.72% | 16,662,033 |
| 32 | Norway | 0302 | Fish; fresh or chilled, excluding fish fillets and other fish meat of heading 0304 | 2025 | 92.67% | 238,408,748 |
| 33 | Canada | 4705 | Wood pulp obtained by a combination of mechanical and chemical pulping processes | 2025 | 92.65% | 113,774,108 |
| 34 | China | 8702 | Vehicles; public transport passenger type | 2025 | 92.62% | 124,361,127 |
| 35 | China | 6910 | Ceramic sinks, wash basins, wash basin pedestals, baths, bidets, water closet pans, flushing cisterns, urinals and similar sanitary fixtures | 2025 | 92.25% | 117,405,597 |
| 36 | China | 7003 | Glass; cast glass and rolled glass in sheets or profiles, whether or not having an absorbent, reflecting or non-reflecting layer, but not otherwise worked | 2025 | 92.13% | 10,918,666 |
| 37 | China | 5513 | Woven fabrics of synthetic staple fibres, containing less than 85% by weight of such fibres, mixed mainly or solely with cotton, of a weight not exceeding 170g/m2 | 2025 | 91.92% | 18,991,780 |
| 38 | China | 6304 | Furnishing articles; excluding those of heading no. 9404 | 2025 | 91.89% | 68,177,081 |
| 39 | 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 | 91.44% | 48,681,335 |
| 40 | Brazil | 2304 | Oil-cake and other solid residues; whether or not ground or in the form of pellets, resulting from the extraction of soya-bean oil | 2025 | 90.98% | 613,162,085 |
| 41 | China | 1208 | Flours and meals of oil seeds or oleaginous fruits; other than those of mustard | 2025 | 90.85% | 61,552,092 |
| 42 | Switzerland | 9102 | Wrist-watches, pocket-watches, stop-watches and other watches, other than those of heading no. 9101 | 2025 | 90.72% | 637,168,259 |
| 43 | China | 5105 | Wool and fine or coarse animal hair; carded or combed (including combed wool in fragments) | 2025 | 90.51% | 43,533,435 |
| 44 | China | 7907 | Zinc; articles n.e.c. in chapter 79 | 2025 | 90.48% | 33,830,362 |
| 45 | China | 8305 | Stationery; fittings for loose-leaf binders or files, letter clips, letter corners, paper clips, indexing tags and the like, staples in strips (for offices, upholstery, packaging), of base metal | 2025 | 89.96% | 10,745,817 |
| 46 | China | 0711 | Vegetables provisionally preserved, but unsuitable in that state for immediate consumption | 2025 | 89.78% | 14,884,845 |
| 47 | USA | 1601 | Sausages and similar products, of meat, meat offal, blood or insects; food preparations based on these products | 2025 | 89.60% | 36,463,138 |
| 48 | China | 8806 | Unmanned aircraft | 2025 | 89.51% | 102,186,332 |
| 49 | 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 | 88.32% | 322,134,836 |
| 50 | USA | 8109 | Zirconium; articles thereof, including waste and scrap | 2025 | 88.17% | 59,435,481 |
| 51 | Thailand | 4816 | Carbon paper, self-copy paper and other copying or transfer papers, (other than those of heading no. 4809), duplicator stencils and offset plates, of paper whether or not put up in boxes | 2025 | 88.03% | 71,778,954 |
| 52 | China | 7007 | Safety glass, consisting of toughened (tempered) or laminated glass | 2025 | 87.97% | 211,526,369 |
| 53 | USA | 0802 | Nuts (excluding coconuts, Brazils and cashew nuts); fresh or dried, whether or not shelled or peeled | 2025 | 87.93% | 327,141,616 |
| 54 | 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 | 87.86% | 124,406,965 |
| 55 | 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 | 87.65% | 29,889,597 |
| 56 | Netherlands | 0601 | Bulbs, tubers, tuberous roots, corms, crowns and rhizomes; dormant, in growth or in flower; chicory plants and roots other than roots of heading no. 1212 | 2025 | 87.08% | 10,828,483 |
| 57 | China | 5512 | Woven fabrics of synthetic staple fibres, containing 85% or more by weight of synthetic staple fibres | 2025 | 86.89% | 52,446,502 |
| 58 | China | 9105 | Clocks, other, n.e.c. | 2025 | 86.89% | 24,941,482 |
| 59 | China | 6301 | Blankets and travelling rugs | 2025 | 86.82% | 45,506,473 |
| 60 | China | 6001 | Fabrics; pile fabrics, including long pile fabrics and terry fabrics, knitted or crocheted | 2025 | 86.64% | 23,492,592 |
| 61 | China | 9620 | Monopods, bipods, tripods and similar articles | 2025 | 86.52% | 19,834,894 |
| 62 | Malaysia | 7614 | Aluminium; stranded wire, cables, plaited bands and the like, (not electrically insulated) | 2025 | 86.48% | 28,777,785 |
| 63 | China | 5705 | Carpets and other textile floor coverings; n.e.c. in chapter 57, whether or not made up | 2025 | 86.39% | 19,506,524 |
| 64 | Austria | 8604 | Railway or tramway maintenance or service vehicles; whether or not self-propelled (e.g. workshops, cranes, ballast tampers, trackliners, testing coaches and track inspection vehicles) | 2025 | 86.14% | 40,420,612 |
| 65 | China | 7308 | Structures of iron or steel and parts thereof; plates, rods, angles, shapes, sections, tubes and the like, prepared for use in structures | 2025 | 85.86% | 1,744,657,544 |
| 66 | China | 7210 | Iron or non-alloy steel; flat-rolled products, width 600mm or more, clad, plated or coated | 2025 | 85.80% | 1,033,592,484 |
| 67 | 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 | 85.38% | 531,799,821 |
| 68 | China | 2809 | Diphosphorus pentaoxide; phosphoric acid; polyphosphoric acids, whether or not chemically defined | 2025 | 85.07% | 64,155,126 |
| 69 | Canada | 8805 | Aircraft launching gear, deck-arrestor or similar gear, ground flying trainers; parts of the foregoing articles | 2025 | 84.81% | 36,921,751 |
| 70 | China | 8904 | Tugs and pusher craft | 2025 | 84.78% | 18,124,014 |
| 71 | China | 8521 | Video recording or reproducing apparatus | 2025 | 84.76% | 37,094,664 |
| 72 | 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 | 84.74% | 808,514,682 |
| 73 | China | 7114 | Articles of goldsmiths' or silversmiths' wares and parts thereof, of precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal | 2025 | 84.58% | 10,967,612 |
| 74 | China | 6303 | Curtains (including drapes) and interior blinds; curtain or bed valances | 2025 | 84.33% | 57,934,202 |
| 75 | 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 | 84.26% | 314,153,234 |
| 76 | Japan | 7004 | Glass; drawn glass and blown glass, in sheets, whether or not having an absorbent, reflecting or non-reflecting layer, but not otherwise worked | 2025 | 84.21% | 146,668,773 |
| 77 | China | 8470 | Calculating machines and pocket-size data recording, reproducing and displaying machines with calculating functions; accounting machines, postage-franking machines, ticket-issuing machines and similar, incorporating a calculating device; cash registers | 2025 | 83.98% | 65,931,043 |
| 78 | 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 | 83.96% | 36,563,683 |
| 79 | China | 0710 | Vegetables (uncooked or cooked by steaming or boiling in water); frozen | 2025 | 83.89% | 250,187,491 |
| 80 | China | 3922 | Sanitary ware; baths, shower-baths, sinks, wash-basins, bidets, lavatory pans, seats and covers, flushing cisterns and sanitary ware, of plastics | 2025 | 83.44% | 17,405,945 |
| 81 | India | 7801 | Lead; unwrought | 2025 | 83.27% | 292,806,676 |
| 82 | Australia | 7804 | Lead; plates, sheets, strip and foil, lead powders and flakes | 2025 | 83.15% | 12,550,997 |
| 83 | China | 8509 | Electro-mechanical domestic appliances; with self-contained electric motor, other than vacuum cleaners of heading 85.08. | 2025 | 83.11% | 369,061,759 |
| 84 | USA | 4101 | Raw hides and skins of bovine (including buffalo) or equine animals (fresh, salted, dried, limed, pickled, otherwise preserved but not tanned, parchment dressed or further prepared), whether or not dehaired or split | 2025 | 82.87% | 56,769,961 |
| 85 | China | 7105 | Dust and powder of natural or synthetic precious or semi-precious stone | 2025 | 82.77% | 54,676,674 |
| 86 | Japan | 2806 | Hydrogen chloride (hydrochloric acid); chlorosulphuric acid | 2025 | 82.69% | 14,563,606 |
| 87 | China | 8112 | Beryllium, chromium, hafnium, rhenium, thallium, cadmium, germanium, vanadium, gallium, indium and niobium (columbium), articles of these metals, including waste and scrap | 2025 | 82.55% | 110,407,546 |
| 88 | China | 7408 | Copper wire | 2025 | 81.82% | 192,877,059 |
| 89 | China | 8480 | Moulding boxes for metal foundry, moulding patterns, moulds for metals (excluding ingot moulds), metal carbides, glass, mineral materials, rubber or plastics | 2025 | 81.67% | 202,398,830 |
| 90 | 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 | 2025 | 81.21% | 11,675,545 |
| 91 | Viet Nam | 5206 | Cotton yarn (other than sewing thread), containing less than 85% by weight of cotton, not put up for retail sale | 2025 | 81.19% | 62,521,551 |
| 92 | China | 7324 | Sanitary ware and parts thereof, of iron or steel | 2025 | 81.08% | 47,257,906 |
| 93 | Canada | 3104 | Fertilizers; mineral or chemical, potassic | 2025 | 80.97% | 180,533,560 |
| 94 | Italy | 5111 | Woven fabrics of carded wool or of carded fine animal hair | 2025 | 80.31% | 24,792,380 |
| 95 | China | 7325 | Iron or steel; cast articles | 2025 | 80.09% | 69,798,401 |
| 96 | China | 6208 | Singlets and other vests, slips, petticoats, briefs, panties, nightdresses, pyjamas, negligees, bathrobes, dressing gowns and similar articles; women's or girls' (not knitted or crocheted) | 2025 | 80.00% | 89,317,675 |
| 97 | Ghana | 1801 | Cocoa beans; whole or broken, raw or roasted | 2025 | 80.00% | 46,980,710 |
China: 71 occurrences
USA: 5 occurrences
Canada: 3 occurrences
Japan: 3 occurrences
Australia: 2 occurrences
Switzerland: 2 occurrences
Austria: 1 occurrence
Brazil: 1 occurrence
Ghana: 1 occurrence
India: 1 occurrence
Italy: 1 occurrence
Malaysia: 1 occurrence
Netherlands: 1 occurrence
New Caledonia: 1 occurrence
Norway: 1 occurrence
Thailand: 1 occurrence
Viet Nam: 1 occurrence
Legend:
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