Country Matrix
For 2016, the matrix below shows Kuwait's number of import bottlenecks for different combinations of minimum import share (%) and minimum import value (USD). Red parentheses show bottlenecks from Danger Zone countries, and lime square brackets show bottlenecks involving Critical Goods.
Kuwait
Year: 2016(50 in Danger Zone)[1 Critical Good]| Value \ Share | >= 30% | >= 40% | >= 50% | >= 60% | >= 70% | >= 80% | >= 90% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| >= 10 mln USD | 182(50)[1] | 133(36)[1] | 88(30)[1] | 62(23)[1] | 44(15) | 27(11) | 11(5) |
| >= 50 mln USD | 47(14)[1] | 37(10)[1] | 27(8)[1] | 21(8)[1] | 13(4) | 9(3) | 3(1) |
| >= 100 mln USD | 17(6) | 14(4) | 12(4) | 11(4) | 7(2) | 6(2) | 3(1) |
| >= 200 mln USD | 8(2) | 8(2) | 6(2) | 5(2) | 2(1) | 2(1) | 1 |
| >= 500 mln USD | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Danger Zone Bottlenecks (50 records, >= 30% share, >= 10 mln USD)
| # | Partner | HS Code | HS Description | Year | Share (%) | Value (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United Arab Emirates | 2516 | Granite, porphyry, basalt, sandstone, other monumental and building stone, whether or not roughly trimmed, cut, by sawing etc, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape | 2016 | 98.24% | 44,321,926 |
| 2 | United Arab Emirates | 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 | 2016 | 97.35% | 130,752,197 |
| 3 | United Arab Emirates | 2521 | Limestone flux; limestone and other calcareous stone, of a kind used for the manufacture of lime or cement | 2016 | 95.58% | 38,002,869 |
| 4 | Iran | 2520 | Gypsum; anhydrite; plasters (consisting of calcined gypsum or calcium sulphate), coloured or not, with or without small quantities of accelerators or retarders | 2016 | 94.30% | 11,477,859 |
| 5 | United Arab Emirates | 6801 | Stone; setts, curbstones and flagstones, of natural stone (except slate) | 2016 | 90.83% | 24,205,321 |
| 6 | Saudi Arabia | 6807 | Asphalt or similar material; articles (e.g. petroleum bitumen or coal tar pitch) | 2016 | 89.15% | 24,236,606 |
| 7 | United Arab Emirates | 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 | 2016 | 89.04% | 24,272,428 |
| 8 | United Arab Emirates | 7108 | Gold (including gold plated with platinum) unwrought or in semi-manufactured forms, or in powder form | 2016 | 87.22% | 285,740,332 |
| 9 | Saudi Arabia | 3809 | Finishing agents, dye carriers to accelerate the dyeing, fixing of dyestuffs, other products and preparations, of a kind used in the textile, paper, leather or like industries, n.e.c. or included | 2016 | 86.05% | 15,473,943 |
| 10 | Saudi Arabia | 0401 | Milk and cream; not concentrated, not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter | 2016 | 85.64% | 43,500,887 |
| 11 | Saudi Arabia | 0403 | Yogurt; buttermilk, curdled milk and cream, kephir and other fermented or acidified milk and cream, whether or not concentrated or containing added sugar or other sweetening matter or flavoured or containing added fruit, nuts or cocoa. | 2016 | 83.59% | 84,032,283 |
| 12 | Russian Federation | 7408 | Copper wire | 2016 | 79.37% | 51,674,893 |
| 13 | United Arab Emirates | 3208 | Paints, varnishes; (enamels and lacquers) based on synthetic polymers or chemically modified natural polymers, dispersed or dissolved in a non-aqueous medium | 2016 | 73.75% | 45,401,550 |
| 14 | United Arab Emirates | 9033 | Machines and appliances, instruments or apparatus of chapter 90; parts and accessories n.e.c. in chapter 90 | 2016 | 72.13% | 14,220,013 |
| 15 | Bahrain | 6210 | Garments made up of fabrics of heading no. 5602, 5603, 5903, 5906 or 5907 (not knitted or crocheted) | 2016 | 70.33% | 26,805,717 |
| 16 | Saudi Arabia | 7605 | Aluminium wire | 2016 | 69.65% | 22,580,887 |
| 17 | Saudi Arabia | 4811 | Paper, paperboard, cellulose wadding and webs of cellulose fibres, coated, impregnated, covered, surface-coloured, decorated or printed, rolls or sheets, other than goods of heading no. 4803, 4809, or 4810 | 2016 | 67.91% | 29,577,915 |
| 18 | United Arab Emirates | 2710 | Petroleum oils and oils from bituminous minerals, not crude; preparations n.e.c, containing by weight 70% or more of petroleum oils or oils from bituminous minerals; these being the basic constituents of the preparations; waste oils | 2016 | 64.28% | 79,377,543 |
| 19 | United Arab Emirates | 0902 | Tea | 2016 | 63.76% | 35,630,878 |
| 20 | Saudi Arabia | 2009 | Fruit or nut juices (including grape must and coconut water) and vegetable juices, unfermented, not containing added spirit, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter | 2016 | 61.37% | 51,679,423 |
| 21 | Saudi Arabia | 3402 | Organic surface-active agents (not soap); surface-active, washing (including auxiliary washing) and cleaning preparations, containing soap or not, excluding those of heading no. 3401 | 2016 | 61.34% | 105,361,344 |
| 22 | Saudi Arabia | 4819 | Cartons, boxes, cases, bags and the like, of paper, paperboard, cellulose wadding or fibres; box files, letter trays and the like, of paper or paperboard, of a kind used in offices, shops or the like | 2016 | 60.50% | 34,496,258 |
| 23 | United Arab Emirates | 7113 | Jewellery articles and parts thereof, of precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal | 2016 | 60.08% | 422,774,652 |
| 24 | Saudi Arabia | 4818 | Toilet paper, width 36cm or less or cut to size/shape; handkerchiefs, tissues, towels, serviettes, bed sheets and similar household or hospital articles, apparel and clothing accessories of paper pulp, paper, cellulose wadding or webs of cellulose fibres | 2016 | 59.87% | 27,584,160 |
| 25 | United Arab Emirates | 7612 | Aluminium casks, drums, cans, boxes etc (including rigid, collapsible tubular containers), for materials other than compressed, liquefied gas, 300l capacity or less, lined, heat-insulated or not | 2016 | 57.13% | 10,650,801 |
| 26 | United Arab Emirates | 0713 | Vegetables, leguminous; shelled, whether or not skinned or split, dried | 2016 | 56.93% | 19,845,137 |
| 27 | Saudi Arabia | 7005 | Glass; float glass and surface ground or polished glass, in sheets, whether or not having an absorbent, reflecting or non-reflecting layer, but not otherwise worked | 2016 | 54.35% | 14,423,245 |
| 28 | United Arab Emirates | 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 | 2016 | 52.70% | 22,417,432 |
| 29 | United Arab Emirates | 6102 | Coats; women's or girls' overcoats, car-coats, capes, cloaks, anoraks, ski-jackets, wind-cheaters, wind-jackets and similar articles, knitted or crocheted, other than those of heading no. 6104 | 2016 | 51.59% | 12,581,525 |
| 30 | Saudi Arabia | 9619 | Sanitary towels (pads) and tampons, napkins (diapers), napkin liners and similar articles, of any material | 2016 | 50.29% | 36,042,415 |
| 31 | Saudi Arabia | 3904 | Polymers of vinyl chloride or of other halogenated olefins, in primary forms | 2016 | 48.34% | 14,409,498 |
| 32 | United Arab Emirates | 2523 | Portland cement, aluminous cement (ciment fondu), slag cement, supersulphate cement and similar hydraulic cements, whether or not coloured or in the form of clinkers | 2016 | 47.46% | 88,180,273 |
| 33 | Saudi Arabia | 1902 | Pasta; whether or not cooked or stuffed with meat or other substance, or otherwise prepared, egg spaghetti, macaroni, noodles, lasagne, gnocchi, ravioli, cannelloni; couscous, whether or not prepared | 2016 | 47.01% | 11,170,360 |
| 34 | Iran | 1213 | Cereal straw and husks, unprepared; whether or not chopped, ground, pressed or in the form of pellets | 2016 | 44.58% | 11,705,589 |
| 35 | United Arab Emirates | 7214 | Iron or non-alloy steel; bars and rods, not further worked than forged, hot-rolled, hot drawn or hot-extruded, but including those twisted after rolling | 2016 | 43.26% | 51,188,855 |
| 36 | Saudi Arabia | 3901 | Polymers of ethylene, in primary forms | 2016 | 41.39% | 20,314,029 |
| 37 | Iran | 2523 | Portland cement, aluminous cement (ciment fondu), slag cement, supersulphate cement and similar hydraulic cements, whether or not coloured or in the form of clinkers | 2016 | 39.07% | 72,587,907 |
| 38 | Saudi Arabia | 3903 | Polymers of styrene, in primary forms | 2016 | 37.21% | 12,127,024 |
| 39 | Saudi Arabia | 3401 | Soap; organic surface-active preparations used as soap, skin washing, in bars, cakes, moulded pieces, shapes, liquid or cream, containing soap or not; for retail, paper, wadding, felt and nonwovens, impregnated, coated or covered with soap or detergent | 2016 | 36.87% | 29,249,959 |
| 40 | Bahrain | 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 | 2016 | 36.51% | 35,735,945 |
| 41 | Bahrain | 7604 | Aluminium; bars, rods and profiles | 2016 | 35.96% | 16,163,776 |
| 42 | United Arab Emirates | 1701 | Cane or beet sugar and chemically pure sucrose, in solid form | 2016 | 35.08% | 24,936,369 |
| 43 | Lebanon | 0701 | Potatoes; fresh or chilled | 2016 | 34.82% | 11,291,666 |
| 44 | Saudi Arabia | 3305 | Hair preparations; for use on the hair | 2016 | 33.61% | 31,635,542 |
| 45 | United Arab Emirates | 1602 | Prepared or preserved meat, meat offal, blood or insects | 2016 | 33.53% | 24,036,147 |
| 46 | United Arab Emirates | 7308 | Structures of iron or steel and parts thereof; plates, rods, angles, shapes, sections, tubes and the like, prepared for use in structures | 2016 | 32.83% | 149,868,086 |
| 47 | United Arab Emirates | 3824 | Prepared binders for foundry moulds or cores; chemical products and preparations of the chemical or allied industries (including those consisting of mixtures of natural products), not elsewhere specified or included | 2016 | 32.70% | 28,976,026 |
| 48 | United Arab Emirates | 8544 | Insulated wire, cable and other electric conductors, connector fitted or not; optical fibre cables of individually sheathed fibres, whether or not assembled with electric conductors or fitted with connectors | 2016 | 31.70% | 168,426,713 |
| 49 | Saudi Arabia | 0406 | Cheese and curd | 2016 | 31.22% | 54,330,315 |
| 50 | Saudi Arabia | 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 | 2016 | 31.02% | 14,626,278 |
Partner frequency summary:
United Arab Emirates: 22 occurrences
Saudi Arabia: 20 occurrences
Iran: 3 occurrences
Bahrain: 3 occurrences
Russian Federation: 1 occurrence
Lebanon: 1 occurrence
Critical Goods in table:
2710 - Petroleum oils and oils from bituminous minera...
Legend:
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The number in red parentheses indicates bottlenecks from countries flagged in the Danger Zone.
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The number in lime square brackets indicates bottlenecks involving HS codes flagged in Critical Goods.