Extreme Import Bottlenecks
The tables below show Kuwait'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.
Kuwait
75 bottlenecks| # | Partner | HS Code | HS Description | Year | Share (%) | Value (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Australia | 100111 | Cereals; wheat and meslin, durum wheat, seed | 2024 | 100.00% | 12,800,935 |
| 2 | Netherlands | 282570 | Molybdenum oxides and hydroxides | 2024 | 100.00% | 18,666,723 |
| 3 | Iran | 720719 | Iron or non-alloy steel; semi-finished products of iron or non-alloy steel, containing by weight less than 0.25% of carbon, other than rectangular or square cross-section | 2024 | 99.92% | 49,314,839 |
| 4 | China | 847930 | Machinery and mechanical appliances; presses for the manufacture of particle or fibre building board of wood or other ligneous materials and other machinery for treating wood or cork | 2024 | 99.46% | 10,487,681 |
| 5 | Saudi Arabia | 730611 | Steel; stainless; line pipe of a kind used for oil or gas pipelines n.e.c. in chapter 73, welded, (not seamless) | 2024 | 99.32% | 16,561,690 |
| 6 | Saudi Arabia | 020711 | Meat and edible offal; of fowls of the species Gallus domesticus, not cut in pieces, fresh or chilled | 2024 | 99.12% | 49,888,551 |
| 7 | Iran | 252310 | Cement clinkers (whether or not coloured) | 2024 | 98.99% | 76,960,362 |
| 8 | China | 847329 | Machinery; parts and accessories of the machines of item no. 8470.30. 8470.50 or 8470.90 (other than covers, carrying cases and the like) | 2024 | 98.76% | 28,212,156 |
| 9 | Saudi Arabia | 721310 | Iron or non-alloy steel; bars and rods, hot-rolled, in irregularly wound coils, containing indentations, ribs, grooves or other deformations produced during the rolling process | 2024 | 98.74% | 58,950,131 |
| 10 | Bahrain | 760120 | Aluminium; unwrought, alloys | 2024 | 98.67% | 19,575,204 |
| 11 | Japan | 730424 | Steel, stainless; seamless, casing and tubing, of a kind used in drilling for oil or gas | 2024 | 98.66% | 24,749,801 |
| 12 | United Arab Emirates | 251710 | Pebbles, gravel, broken or crushed stone; of a kind commonly used for concrete aggregates, for road metalling or for railway or other ballast, shingle and flint, whether or not heat-treated | 2024 | 98.61% | 153,624,435 |
| 13 | USA | 281820 | Aluminium oxide; other than artificial corundum | 2024 | 98.50% | 18,504,215 |
| 14 | Saudi Arabia | 680710 | Asphalt or similar material; articles (e.g. petroleum bitumen or coal tar pitch) in rolls | 2024 | 98.27% | 20,574,671 |
| 15 | China | 722530 | Steel, alloy; flat-rolled, width 600mm or more, hot-rolled, in coils | 2024 | 98.11% | 18,983,201 |
| 16 | Oman | 721420 | Iron or non-alloy steel; bars and rods, hot-rolled, hot-drawn or hot-extruded, containing indentations, ribs, grooves or other deformations produced during the rolling process or twisted after rolling | 2024 | 98.08% | 29,362,041 |
| 17 | United Arab Emirates | 252100 | Limestone flux; limestone and other calcareous stone, of a kind used for the manufacture of lime or cement | 2024 | 97.98% | 23,127,208 |
| 18 | China | 730419 | Iron or steel (excluding cast iron or stainless steel); seamless, line pipe of a kind used for oil or gas pipelines | 2024 | 97.90% | 86,326,229 |
| 19 | Türkiye | 030284 | Fish; fresh or chilled, seabass (Dicentrarchus spp.), excluding fillets, fish meat of 0304, and edible fish offal of subheadings 0302.91 to 0302.99 | 2024 | 97.80% | 28,551,136 |
| 20 | Switzerland | 910121 | Wrist-watches; (not electrically operated), automatic winding, whether or not incorporating a stop-watch facility, case of precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal | 2024 | 97.74% | 109,446,990 |
| 21 | Saudi Arabia | 681011 | Cement, concrete or artificial stone; building blocks or bricks, whether or not reinforced | 2024 | 97.50% | 12,033,399 |
| 22 | Germany | 854620 | Electrical insulators; of ceramics | 2024 | 97.40% | 13,798,004 |
| 23 | Saudi Arabia | 760692 | Aluminium; plates, sheets and strip, thickness exceeding 0.2mm, alloys, (not rectangular or square) | 2024 | 97.40% | 10,166,191 |
| 24 | Switzerland | 910129 | Wrist-watches; (not electrically operated), (not automatic winding), whether or not incorporating a stop-watch facility, case of precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal | 2024 | 97.09% | 18,324,636 |
| 25 | Saudi Arabia | 680300 | Slate, worked; and articles of slate or of agglomerated slate | 2024 | 96.90% | 12,077,575 |
| 26 | China | 070320 | Vegetables, alliaceous; garlic, fresh or chilled | 2024 | 96.31% | 19,024,528 |
| 27 | Germany | 842649 | Cranes; self-propelled derricks and cranes, not on tyres, n.e.c. in heading no. 8426 | 2024 | 96.29% | 11,798,515 |
| 28 | Japan | 730512 | Iron or steel (excluding cast iron); line pipe of a kind used for oil or gas pipelines (not seamless), longitudinally welded (not submerged arc welded), having circular cross-sections, external diameter exceeds 406.4mm | 2024 | 96.15% | 14,156,446 |
| 29 | Saudi Arabia | 850410 | Discharge lamps or tubes; ballasts therefor | 2024 | 95.56% | 18,760,919 |
| 30 | Saudi Arabia | 380991 | Finishing agents and dye carriers; to accelerate dyeing or fixing of dye-stuffs, other products and preparations, used in the textile industry (excluding those with a basis of amylaceous substances) | 2024 | 95.52% | 27,390,829 |
| 31 | Germany | 391722 | Plastics; tubes, pipes and hoses thereof, rigid, of polymers of propylene | 2024 | 95.50% | 10,499,286 |
| 32 | Morocco | 620620 | Blouses, shirts and shirt-blouses; women's or girls', of wool or fine animal hair (not knitted or crocheted) | 2024 | 95.39% | 13,211,932 |
| 33 | Saudi Arabia | 040320 | Dairy produce; yoghurt, whether or not concentrated or containing added sugar or other sweetening matter or flavoured or containing added fruit, nuts or cocoa | 2024 | 94.88% | 44,727,673 |
| 34 | Saudi Arabia | 040110 | Dairy produce; milk and cream, not concentrated, not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter, of a fat content, by weight, not exceeding 1% | 2024 | 94.85% | 23,539,829 |
| 35 | United Arab Emirates | 710691 | Metals; silver, unwrought, (but not powder) | 2024 | 93.09% | 12,505,960 |
| 36 | Switzerland | 910221 | Wrist-watches; whether or not incorporating a stop-watch facility, with automatic winding | 2024 | 92.90% | 75,527,784 |
| 37 | India | 100630 | Cereals; rice, semi-milled or wholly milled, whether or not polished or glazed | 2024 | 92.62% | 278,138,783 |
| 38 | China | 720852 | Iron or non-alloy steel; (not in coils), flat-rolled, of a width 600mm or more, hot-rolled, without patterns in relief, of a thickness of 4.75mm or more but not exceeding 10mm | 2024 | 92.37% | 19,980,330 |
| 39 | China | 843041 | Boring or sinking machinery; self-propelled, n.e.c. in heading no. 8430 | 2024 | 92.33% | 32,236,252 |
| 40 | Pakistan | 020110 | Meat; of bovine animals, carcasses and half-carcasses, fresh or chilled | 2024 | 91.91% | 64,543,645 |
| 41 | China | 441233 | Plywood; with sheets of wood only; not bamboo; each ply 6mm or less, with at least one outer ply of alder, ash, beech, birch, cherry, chestnut, elm, eucalyptus, hickory, horse chestnut, lime, maple, oak, plane, poplar, aspen, robinia, tulipwood or walnut | 2024 | 91.89% | 28,786,224 |
| 42 | Saudi Arabia | 350520 | Glues; based on starches, or on dextrins or other modified starches | 2024 | 91.84% | 19,047,196 |
| 43 | Switzerland | 910111 | Wrist-watches; electrically operated, with or without a stop-watch, with case of precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal, with mechanical display only | 2024 | 91.73% | 21,171,490 |
| 44 | China | 851679 | Electro-thermic appliances; n.e.c. in heading no. 8516, used for domestic purposes | 2024 | 91.57% | 12,710,910 |
| 45 | Australia | 020442 | Meat; of sheep (including lamb), cuts with bone in (excluding carcasses and half-carcasses), frozen | 2024 | 90.87% | 12,775,794 |
| 46 | United Arab Emirates | 480300 | Tissue, towel, napkin stock or similar; for household or sanitary use, cellulose, wadding webs of cellulose fibres, in rolls exceeding 36cm in width or rectangular sheets with one side more than 36cm in unfolded state | 2024 | 90.85% | 54,571,649 |
| 47 | United Arab Emirates | 381239 | Anti-oxidising preparations and other compound stabilisers; for rubber or plastics, other than mixtures of oligomers of 2,2,4-trimethyl-1,2-dihydroquinoline (TMQ) | 2024 | 90.84% | 13,932,881 |
| 48 | Netherlands | 852349 | Optical media; recorded, excluding products of Chapter 37 | 2024 | 90.54% | 20,667,343 |
| 49 | USA | 151529 | Vegetable oils; maize (corn) oil and its fractions, other than crude, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified | 2024 | 90.07% | 76,185,841 |
| 50 | Germany | 300431 | Medicaments; containing insulin, for therapeutic or prophylactic uses, packaged for retail sale | 2024 | 89.78% | 22,791,641 |
| 51 | China | 320611 | Colouring matter; pigments and preparations based on titanium dioxide, containing 80% or more by weight of titanium dioxide calculated on the dry matter | 2024 | 89.74% | 11,030,175 |
| 52 | Switzerland | 853530 | Electrical apparatus; isolating and make-and-break switches, for a voltage exceeding 1000 volts | 2024 | 89.55% | 31,262,198 |
| 53 | China | 851713 | Telephone sets; smartphones for cellular or other wireless networks | 2024 | 88.87% | 1,291,813,550 |
| 54 | China | 851714 | Telephone sets; other than smartphones, for cellular or other wireless networks | 2024 | 88.58% | 36,897,374 |
| 55 | China | 854340 | Electrical machines and apparatus; electronic cigarettes and similar personal electric vaporising devices | 2024 | 88.39% | 39,825,938 |
| 56 | Ireland | 330210 | Odoriferous substances and mixtures; of a kind used in the food or drink industries | 2024 | 86.94% | 17,545,707 |
| 57 | United Arab Emirates | 320890 | Paints and varnishes; based on polymers n.e.c. in heading no. 3208, dispersed or dissolved in a non-aqueous medium | 2024 | 86.59% | 45,807,873 |
| 58 | China | 630140 | Blankets (other than electric blankets) and travelling rugs; of synthetic fibres | 2024 | 85.84% | 10,173,264 |
| 59 | China | 961700 | Vacuum flasks and other vacuum vessels, complete with cases; parts thereof other than glass inners | 2024 | 85.49% | 13,815,920 |
| 60 | China | 720851 | Iron or non-alloy steel; (not in coils), flat-rolled, of a width 600mm or more, hot-rolled, without patterns in relief, of a thickness exceeding 10mm | 2024 | 85.48% | 20,065,017 |
| 61 | China | 852852 | Monitors; other than cathode-ray tube; capable of directly connecting to and designed for use with an automatic data processing machine of heading 84.71 | 2024 | 85.01% | 16,659,914 |
| 62 | Malaysia | 151319 | Vegetable oils; coconut (copra) oil and its fractions, other than crude, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified | 2024 | 84.71% | 11,933,440 |
| 63 | Saudi Arabia | 720890 | Iron or non-alloy steel; flat-rolled, hot-rolled, of a width 600mm or more, n.e.c. in heading no. 7208 | 2024 | 84.58% | 11,052,811 |
| 64 | Italy | 640420 | Footwear; outer soles of leather or composition leather, uppers of textile materials | 2024 | 84.16% | 21,403,091 |
| 65 | Japan | 840690 | Turbines; parts of steam and other vapour turbines | 2024 | 84.00% | 41,451,442 |
| 66 | Saudi Arabia | 080410 | Fruit, edible; dates, fresh or dried | 2024 | 83.79% | 25,960,359 |
| 67 | India | 690722 | Ceramic tiles; flags and paving, hearth or wall tiles other than those of subheadings 6907.30 and 6907.40, of a water absorption coefficient by weight over 0.5% but not over 10% | 2024 | 83.77% | 12,871,747 |
| 68 | Japan | 551512 | Fabrics, woven; of polyester staple fibres n.e.c. in chapter 55, mixed mainly or solely with man-made filaments | 2024 | 83.62% | 20,297,124 |
| 69 | Italy | 640359 | Footwear; n.e.c. in heading no. 6403, (not covering the ankle), outer soles and uppers of leather | 2024 | 83.21% | 22,925,150 |
| 70 | China | 940549 | Luminaires and light fittings; electric, designed for other than use solely with light-emitting diode (LED) light sources | 2024 | 83.11% | 10,493,928 |
| 71 | India | 854411 | Insulated electric conductors; winding wire, of copper | 2024 | 82.78% | 18,018,634 |
| 72 | China | 721633 | Iron or non-alloy steel; H sections, hot-rolled, hot-drawn or extruded, of a height of 80mm or more | 2024 | 82.67% | 11,051,080 |
| 73 | USA | 381512 | Catalysts, supported; reaction initiators, reaction accelerators and catalytic preparations, with precious metal or precious metal compounds as the active substance, n.e.c. or included | 2024 | 82.37% | 12,066,406 |
| 74 | USA | 080212 | Nuts, edible; almonds, fresh or dried, shelled | 2024 | 82.27% | 14,903,646 |
| 75 | China | 847130 | Automatic data processing machines; portable, weighing not more than 10kg, consisting of at least a central processing unit, a keyboard and a display | 2024 | 81.65% | 150,084,018 |
China: 20 occurrences
Saudi Arabia: 14 occurrences
United Arab Emirates: 6 occurrences
Switzerland: 5 occurrences
Germany: 4 occurrences
Japan: 4 occurrences
USA: 4 occurrences
India: 3 occurrences
Australia: 2 occurrences
Iran: 2 occurrences
Italy: 2 occurrences
Netherlands: 2 occurrences
Bahrain: 1 occurrence
Ireland: 1 occurrence
Malaysia: 1 occurrence
Morocco: 1 occurrence
Oman: 1 occurrence
Pakistan: 1 occurrence
Türkiye: 1 occurrence
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