Country Matrix
For 2022, 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: 2022(73 in Danger Zone)[1 Critical Good]| Value \ Share | >= 30% | >= 40% | >= 50% | >= 60% | >= 70% | >= 80% | >= 90% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| >= 10 mln USD | 263(73)[1] | 216(63)[1] | 174(55)[1] | 131(45)[1] | 103(38) | 69(27) | 40(19) |
| >= 50 mln USD | 56(14)[1] | 48(14)[1] | 42(12)[1] | 30(11)[1] | 26(9) | 18(5) | 13(4) |
| >= 100 mln USD | 26(8) | 23(8) | 22(8) | 19(8) | 18(7) | 13(4) | 10(3) |
| >= 200 mln USD | 12(4) | 10(4) | 10(4) | 8(4) | 7(3) | 5(2) | 4(1) |
| >= 500 mln USD | 3(2) | 2(2) | 2(2) | 2(2) | 1(1) | 1(1) | 0 |
Danger Zone Bottlenecks (73 records, >= 30% share, >= 10 mln USD)
| # | Partner | HS Code | HS Description | Year | Share (%) | Value (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United Arab Emirates | 721410 | Iron or non-alloy steel; bars and rods, forged, hot-rolled, hot-drawn or hot-extruded, but including those twisted after rolling | 2022 | 99.88% | 92,791,018 |
| 2 | United Arab Emirates | 760511 | Aluminium; (not alloyed), wire, maximum cross-sectional dimension exceeds 7mm | 2022 | 99.81% | 13,023,543 |
| 3 | Iran | 252310 | Cement clinkers (whether or not coloured) | 2022 | 99.77% | 163,660,309 |
| 4 | United Arab Emirates | 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 | 2022 | 99.40% | 48,028,414 |
| 5 | 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 | 2022 | 99.25% | 184,226,921 |
| 6 | Bahrain | 760120 | Aluminium; unwrought, alloys | 2022 | 99.12% | 23,194,412 |
| 7 | 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 | 2022 | 98.52% | 27,318,598 |
| 8 | Saudi Arabia | 680710 | Asphalt or similar material; articles (e.g. petroleum bitumen or coal tar pitch) in rolls | 2022 | 98.37% | 15,917,012 |
| 9 | Saudi Arabia | 020711 | Meat and edible offal; of fowls of the species Gallus domesticus, not cut in pieces, fresh or chilled | 2022 | 98.10% | 30,832,639 |
| 10 | 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% | 2022 | 98.06% | 25,829,899 |
| 11 | 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) | 2022 | 96.20% | 17,752,191 |
| 12 | Saudi Arabia | 760692 | Aluminium; plates, sheets and strip, thickness exceeding 0.2mm, alloys, (not rectangular or square) | 2022 | 96.17% | 25,470,407 |
| 13 | United Arab Emirates | 841582 | Air conditioning machines; containing a motor driven fan, other than window or wall types, incorporating a refrigerating unit | 2022 | 95.78% | 247,566,723 |
| 14 | United Arab Emirates | 721230 | Iron or non-alloy steel; flat-rolled, width less than 600mm, plated or coated with zinc (not electrolytically) | 2022 | 92.72% | 14,918,128 |
| 15 | Saudi Arabia | 680990 | Plaster articles or articles of compositions based on plaster; n.e.c. in heading no. 6809 | 2022 | 92.60% | 15,392,365 |
| 16 | Saudi Arabia | 730411 | Iron or steel (excluding cast iron); seamless, line pipe of a kind used for oil or gas pipelines, of stainless steel | 2022 | 92.55% | 17,450,649 |
| 17 | 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 | 2022 | 92.21% | 37,785,016 |
| 18 | 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 | 2022 | 91.34% | 24,630,465 |
| 19 | United Arab Emirates | 160290 | Meat preparations; of meat, meat offal or the blood of any animal, n.e.c. in heading no. 1602 | 2022 | 90.22% | 35,871,383 |
| 20 | 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 | 2022 | 88.73% | 14,615,078 |
| 21 | 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 | 2022 | 85.47% | 42,066,995 |
| 22 | Saudi Arabia | 080410 | Fruit, edible; dates, fresh or dried | 2022 | 85.26% | 27,154,831 |
| 23 | United Arab Emirates | 761290 | Aluminium; casks, drums, cans, boxes and the like for any material (not compressed or liquefied gas), 300l capacity or less, whether or not lined or heat-insulated, no mechanical or thermal equipment | 2022 | 84.99% | 10,436,398 |
| 24 | Saudi Arabia | 200990 | Juices; mixtures of fruits or vegetables (but not nut juice), unfermented, not containing added spirit, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter | 2022 | 81.24% | 33,538,214 |
| 25 | Saudi Arabia | 190219 | Food preparations; pasta, uncooked (excluding that containing eggs), not stuffed or otherwise prepared | 2022 | 80.37% | 21,804,116 |
| 26 | United Arab Emirates | 710812 | Metals; gold, non-monetary, unwrought (but not powder) | 2022 | 80.30% | 893,099,288 |
| 27 | Saudi Arabia | 681011 | Cement, concrete or artificial stone; building blocks or bricks, whether or not reinforced | 2022 | 80.25% | 10,616,732 |
| 28 | Saudi Arabia | 340250 | Washing and cleaning preparations; powders, flakes and granules, surface-active, whether or not containing soap (excluding those of heading no. 3401), put up for retail sale | 2022 | 79.81% | 168,915,579 |
| 29 | United Arab Emirates | 230400 | Oil-cake and other solid residues; whether or not ground or in the form of pellets, resulting from the extraction of soya-bean oil | 2022 | 78.00% | 51,212,431 |
| 30 | United Arab Emirates | 740811 | Copper; wire, of refined copper, of which the maximum cross-sectional dimension exceeds 6mm | 2022 | 77.93% | 108,447,724 |
| 31 | United Arab Emirates | 210410 | Soups and broths and preparations therefor | 2022 | 77.54% | 13,286,094 |
| 32 | Qatar | 720310 | Ferrous products; obtained by direct reduction of iron ore, in lumps, pellets or similar forms | 2022 | 76.53% | 206,001,386 |
| 33 | Saudi Arabia | 190540 | Food preparations; rusks, toasted bread and similar toasted products, whether or not containing cocoa | 2022 | 75.98% | 14,265,816 |
| 34 | Saudi Arabia | 481910 | Paper and paperboard; cartons, boxes and cases, of corrugated paper or paperboard | 2022 | 75.55% | 26,004,429 |
| 35 | United Arab Emirates | 380894 | Disinfectants; other than containing goods specified in Subheading Note 1 in this Chapter; put up in forms or packings for retail sale or as preparations or articles | 2022 | 73.20% | 12,729,861 |
| 36 | United Arab Emirates | 481920 | Paper and paperboard; folding cartons, boxes and cases, of non-corrugated paper or paperboard | 2022 | 71.10% | 18,607,352 |
| 37 | Saudi Arabia | 481820 | Paper articles; handkerchiefs, cleansing or facial tissues and towels | 2022 | 70.75% | 32,113,182 |
| 38 | United Arab Emirates | 090230 | Tea, black; (fermented) and partly fermented tea, in immediate packings of a content not exceeding 3kg | 2022 | 70.60% | 32,984,997 |
| 39 | Saudi Arabia | 040390 | Dairy produce; buttermilk, curdled milk or cream, kephir, fermented or acidified milk or cream, whether or not concentrated or containing added sweetening, flavouring, fruit, nuts or cocoa (excluding yoghurt) | 2022 | 68.00% | 42,005,134 |
| 40 | Saudi Arabia | 482390 | Paper pulp, paper, paperboard, cellulose wadding or webs of cellulose fibres; articles n.e.c. in heading no. 4823 | 2022 | 67.95% | 19,476,726 |
| 41 | United Arab Emirates | 711319 | Jewellery; of precious metal (excluding silver) whether or not plated or clad with precious metal, and parts thereof | 2022 | 64.92% | 824,838,648 |
| 42 | Saudi Arabia | 040291 | Dairy produce; milk and cream, concentrated, not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter, other than in powder, granules or other solid forms | 2022 | 64.09% | 40,759,107 |
| 43 | United Arab Emirates | 151620 | Vegetable fats and oils and their fractions; partly or wholly hydrogenated, inter-esterified, re-esterified or elaidinised, whether or not refined, but not further prepared | 2022 | 63.86% | 10,268,482 |
| 44 | United Arab Emirates | 271019 | Petroleum oils and oils from bituminous minerals, not containing biodiesel, not crude, not waste oils; preparations n.e.c, containing by weight 70% or more of petroleum oils or oils from bituminous minerals; not light oils and preparations | 2022 | 61.24% | 97,299,800 |
| 45 | United Arab Emirates | 700800 | Glass; multiple-walled insulating units of glass | 2022 | 61.15% | 10,542,544 |
| 46 | Saudi Arabia | 020713 | Meat and edible offal; of fowls of the species Gallus domesticus, cuts and offal, fresh or chilled | 2022 | 59.17% | 10,990,320 |
| 47 | Saudi Arabia | 392321 | Ethylene polymers; sacks and bags (including cones), for the conveyance or packing of goods | 2022 | 58.95% | 11,354,468 |
| 48 | Saudi Arabia | 392010 | Plastics; plates, sheets, film, foil and strip (not self-adhesive), of polymers of ethylene, non-cellular and not reinforced, laminated, supported or similarly combined with other materials | 2022 | 58.82% | 16,359,369 |
| 49 | United Arab Emirates | 160232 | Meat preparations; of the poultry of heading no. 0105, (i.e. of fowls of the species Gallus domesticus) | 2022 | 58.05% | 51,773,463 |
| 50 | Saudi Arabia | 390110 | Ethylene polymers; in primary forms, polyethylene having a specific gravity of less than 0.94 | 2022 | 57.57% | 14,636,705 |
| 51 | Saudi Arabia | 392329 | Plastics; sacks and bags (including cones), for the conveyance or packing of goods, of plastics other than ethylene polymers | 2022 | 56.86% | 10,556,621 |
| 52 | Saudi Arabia | 390319 | Styrene polymers; (other than expansible polystyrene), in primary forms | 2022 | 56.41% | 10,340,251 |
| 53 | Bahrain | 760429 | Aluminium; alloys, bars, rods and profiles, other than hollow | 2022 | 54.24% | 47,831,099 |
| 54 | Saudi Arabia | 850153 | Electric motors; AC motors, multi-phase, of an output exceeding 75kW | 2022 | 52.04% | 12,131,435 |
| 55 | United Arab Emirates | 210112 | Preparations with a basis of extracts, essences or concentrates or with a basis of coffee | 2022 | 50.83% | 16,685,521 |
| 56 | Iran | 252329 | Cement; portland, other than white, whether or not artificially coloured | 2022 | 47.96% | 26,221,399 |
| 57 | Saudi Arabia | 151219 | Vegetable oils; sunflower seed or safflower oil and their fractions, other than crude, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified | 2022 | 47.88% | 12,387,785 |
| 58 | Iran | 010410 | Sheep; live | 2022 | 47.81% | 69,453,823 |
| 59 | United Arab Emirates | 854420 | Insulated electric conductors; co-axial cable and other co-axial electric conductors | 2022 | 45.64% | 55,173,934 |
| 60 | United Arab Emirates | 721049 | Iron or non-alloy steel; flat-rolled, width 600mm or more, (not corrugated), plated or coated with zinc (not electrolytically) | 2022 | 45.07% | 43,755,007 |
| 61 | United Arab Emirates | 200599 | Vegetable preparations; vegetables and mixtures of vegetables n.e.c. in heading no. 2005, prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, not frozen | 2022 | 43.46% | 10,178,847 |
| 62 | Saudi Arabia | 040610 | Dairy produce; fresh cheese (including whey cheese), not fermented, and curd | 2022 | 43.18% | 16,484,259 |
| 63 | Saudi Arabia | 040620 | Dairy produce; cheese of all kinds, grated or powdered | 2022 | 41.95% | 12,288,477 |
| 64 | Bahrain | 040630 | Dairy produce; cheese, processed (not grated or powdered) | 2022 | 39.17% | 24,307,685 |
| 65 | United Arab Emirates | 760410 | Aluminium; (not alloyed), bars, rods and profiles | 2022 | 38.62% | 14,565,843 |
| 66 | United Arab Emirates | 321410 | Mastics; painters' fillings | 2022 | 38.60% | 11,507,703 |
| 67 | United Arab Emirates | 340130 | Organic surface-active products and preparations for washing the skin, in the form of liquid or cream and put up for retail sale, whether or not containing soap | 2022 | 38.17% | 12,314,456 |
| 68 | Saudi Arabia | 190590 | Food preparations; bakers' wares n.e.c. in heading no. 1605, whether or not containing cocoa; communion wafers, empty cachets suitable for pharmaceutical use, sealing wafers, rice papers and similar products | 2022 | 37.33% | 43,813,490 |
| 69 | Saudi Arabia | 961900 | Sanitary towels (pads) and tampons, napkins (diapers), napkin liners and similar articles, of any material | 2022 | 34.35% | 35,000,912 |
| 70 | United Arab Emirates | 730890 | Iron or steel; structures and parts thereof, n.e.c. in heading 7308 | 2022 | 34.06% | 28,617,304 |
| 71 | Saudi Arabia | 854460 | Insulated electric conductors; for a voltage exceeding 1000 volts | 2022 | 33.45% | 45,514,572 |
| 72 | United Arab Emirates | 330510 | Hair preparations; shampoos | 2022 | 33.13% | 17,874,767 |
| 73 | United Arab Emirates | 190532 | Food preparations; waffles and wafers, whether or not containing cocoa | 2022 | 30.56% | 11,832,028 |
Partner frequency summary:
Saudi Arabia: 34 occurrences
United Arab Emirates: 32 occurrences
Iran: 3 occurrences
Bahrain: 3 occurrences
Qatar: 1 occurrence
Critical Goods in table:
271019 - 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.