Country Matrix
For 2025, 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: 2025(54 in Danger Zone)[1 Critical Good]| Value \ Share | >= 30% | >= 40% | >= 50% | >= 60% | >= 70% | >= 80% | >= 90% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| >= 10 mln USD | 219(54)[1] | 155(37)[1] | 112(32)[1] | 76(25) | 50(18) | 34(14) | 20(8) |
| >= 50 mln USD | 73(19)[1] | 59(16)[1] | 47(16)[1] | 35(14) | 23(9) | 17(7) | 10(4) |
| >= 100 mln USD | 30(9) | 26(9) | 21(9) | 17(9) | 12(5) | 8(3) | 4(1) |
| >= 200 mln USD | 16(3) | 14(3) | 10(3) | 7(3) | 4(1) | 3(1) | 3(1) |
| >= 500 mln USD | 5(2) | 4(2) | 4(2) | 3(2) | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Danger Zone Bottlenecks (54 records, >= 30% share, >= 10 mln USD)
| # | Partner | HS Code | HS Description | Year | Share (%) | Value (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saudi Arabia | 7213 | Iron or non-alloy steel; bars and rods, hot-rolled, in irregularly wound coils | 2025 | 99.48% | 36,918,577 |
| 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 | 2025 | 98.00% | 226,218,794 |
| 3 | Saudi Arabia | 6807 | Asphalt or similar material; articles (e.g. petroleum bitumen or coal tar pitch) | 2025 | 96.21% | 24,222,245 |
| 4 | United Arab Emirates | 2521 | Limestone flux; limestone and other calcareous stone, of a kind used for the manufacture of lime or cement | 2025 | 96.02% | 29,687,828 |
| 5 | United Arab Emirates | 7212 | Iron or non-alloy steel; flat-rolled products, width less than 600mm, clad, plated or coated | 2025 | 95.99% | 71,329,397 |
| 6 | Iran | 7207 | Iron or non-alloy steel; semi-finished products thereof | 2025 | 95.41% | 93,627,114 |
| 7 | United Arab Emirates | 7408 | Copper wire | 2025 | 93.67% | 50,403,178 |
| 8 | Bahrain | 7614 | Aluminium; stranded wire, cables, plaited bands and the like, (not electrically insulated) | 2025 | 90.78% | 25,623,022 |
| 9 | United Arab Emirates | 4803 | Tissue, towel, napkin stock or similar; for household or sanitary uses, cellulose wadding, webs of cellulose fibres, in rolls over 36cm in width or rectangular sheets with one side exceeding 36cm when unfolded | 2025 | 89.11% | 46,805,268 |
| 10 | 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. | 2025 | 88.79% | 131,879,547 |
| 11 | United Arab Emirates | 7106 | Silver (including silver plated with gold or platinum); unwrought or in semi-manufactured forms, or in powder form | 2025 | 88.00% | 112,107,441 |
| 12 | 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 | 2025 | 86.29% | 22,251,268 |
| 13 | Saudi Arabia | 0401 | Milk and cream; not concentrated, not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter | 2025 | 83.14% | 60,414,333 |
| 14 | Saudi Arabia | 3505 | Dextrins and other modified starches (e.g. pregelatinised or esterified starches); glues based on starches or on dextrins or other modified starches | 2025 | 81.59% | 24,980,791 |
| 15 | United Arab Emirates | 2104 | Soups and broths and preparations therefor; homogenised composite food preparations | 2025 | 78.62% | 18,806,351 |
| 16 | Qatar | 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 | 2025 | 76.08% | 163,500,983 |
| 17 | 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 | 2025 | 73.58% | 46,695,261 |
| 18 | United Arab Emirates | 1602 | Prepared or preserved meat, meat offal, blood or insects | 2025 | 72.28% | 116,916,728 |
| 19 | United Arab Emirates | 7108 | Gold (including gold plated with platinum) unwrought or in semi-manufactured forms, or in powder form | 2025 | 69.07% | 1,184,404,878 |
| 20 | United Arab Emirates | 6114 | Garments; knitted or crocheted, n.e.c. in chapter 61 | 2025 | 69.07% | 121,721,182 |
| 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 | 2025 | 66.41% | 176,897,837 |
| 22 | Iran | 0104 | Sheep and goats; live | 2025 | 64.40% | 87,871,274 |
| 23 | Bahrain | 7601 | Aluminium; unwrought | 2025 | 63.58% | 16,824,481 |
| 24 | United Arab Emirates | 7113 | Jewellery articles and parts thereof, of precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal | 2025 | 62.54% | 877,333,314 |
| 25 | United Arab Emirates | 0713 | Vegetables, leguminous; shelled, whether or not skinned or split, dried | 2025 | 60.16% | 20,157,462 |
| 26 | Saudi Arabia | 6810 | Cement, concrete or artificial stone; whether or not reinforced, articles thereof | 2025 | 59.99% | 10,964,806 |
| 27 | United Arab Emirates | 3808 | Insecticides, rodenticides, fungicides, herbicides, anti-sprouting products, plant growth regulators, disinfectants and the like, put up in forms or packings for retail sale or as preparations or articles | 2025 | 59.33% | 14,977,883 |
| 28 | 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 | 2025 | 59.19% | 23,438,754 |
| 29 | 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 | 2025 | 58.52% | 92,117,224 |
| 30 | United Arab Emirates | 7303 | Tubes, pipes and hollow profiles, of cast iron | 2025 | 58.09% | 57,244,964 |
| 31 | 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 | 2025 | 56.08% | 22,340,536 |
| 32 | United Arab Emirates | 3214 | Glaziers' putty, grafting putty, resin cements, caulking compounds and other mastics; painters' fillings; non-refractory surfacing preparations for facades, indoor walls, floors, ceilings or the like | 2025 | 53.49% | 19,324,702 |
| 33 | Saudi Arabia | 3003 | Medicaments; (not goods of heading no. 3002, 3005 or 3006) of two or more constituents mixed together for therapeutic or prophylactic use not in measured doses or in forms or packings for retail sale | 2025 | 48.17% | 19,457,690 |
| 34 | United Arab Emirates | 0902 | Tea | 2025 | 46.41% | 30,064,327 |
| 35 | 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 | 2025 | 43.44% | 43,012,596 |
| 36 | United Arab Emirates | 2101 | Extracts, essences, concentrates of coffee, tea or mate; preparations with a basis of these products or with a basis of coffee, tea or mate; roasted chicory and other roasted coffee substitutes and extracts, essences and concentrates thereof | 2025 | 41.89% | 23,142,075 |
| 37 | Iraq | 1214 | Swedes, mangolds, fodder roots, hay, lucerne (alfalfa), clover, sainfoin, forage kale, lupines, vetches and similar forage products, whether or not in the form of pellets | 2025 | 41.24% | 12,664,849 |
| 38 | 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 | 2025 | 37.69% | 19,636,974 |
| 39 | United Arab Emirates | 3901 | Polymers of ethylene, in primary forms | 2025 | 37.68% | 17,025,747 |
| 40 | Saudi Arabia | 1511 | Palm oil and its fractions; whether or not refined, but not chemically modified | 2025 | 36.95% | 26,504,900 |
| 41 | United Arab Emirates | 3919 | Self-adhesive plates, sheets, film, foil, tape, strip and other flat shapes, of plastics, whether or not in rolls | 2025 | 36.06% | 18,263,580 |
| 42 | Syria | 1509 | Olive oil and its fractions; whether or not refined, but not chemically modified | 2025 | 35.98% | 11,882,408 |
| 43 | Saudi Arabia | 1701 | Cane or beet sugar and chemically pure sucrose, in solid form | 2025 | 35.97% | 23,816,062 |
| 44 | United Arab Emirates | 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 | 2025 | 35.53% | 15,769,142 |
| 45 | 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 | 2025 | 35.36% | 49,152,104 |
| 46 | 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 | 2025 | 33.63% | 46,748,200 |
| 47 | Saudi Arabia | 3901 | Polymers of ethylene, in primary forms | 2025 | 32.79% | 14,817,743 |
| 48 | Saudi Arabia | 3920 | Plastics; plates, sheets, film, foil and strip (not self-adhesive); non-cellular and not reinforced, laminated, supported or similarly combined with other materials, n.e.c. in chapter 39 | 2025 | 31.84% | 22,141,702 |
| 49 | Saudi Arabia | 0804 | Dates, figs, pineapples, avocados, guavas, mangoes and mangosteens; fresh or dried | 2025 | 31.06% | 29,246,873 |
| 50 | United Arab Emirates | 6107 | Underpants, briefs, nightshirts, pyjamas, bathrobes, dressing gowns and similar articles; men's or boys', knitted or crocheted | 2025 | 30.61% | 13,132,509 |
| 51 | Saudi Arabia | 0406 | Cheese and curd | 2025 | 30.58% | 72,231,537 |
| 52 | Saudi Arabia | 1905 | Bread, pastry, cakes, biscuits, other bakers' wares, whether or not containing cocoa; communion wafers, empty cachets suitable for pharmaceutical use, sealing wafers, rice paper and similar products | 2025 | 30.47% | 88,110,627 |
| 53 | Iran | 1213 | Cereal straw and husks, unprepared; whether or not chopped, ground, pressed or in the form of pellets | 2025 | 30.36% | 10,078,734 |
| 54 | Saudi Arabia | 0402 | Milk and cream; concentrated or containing added sugar or other sweetening matter | 2025 | 30.15% | 81,650,970 |
Partner frequency summary:
United Arab Emirates: 25 occurrences
Saudi Arabia: 20 occurrences
Iran: 4 occurrences
Bahrain: 2 occurrences
Qatar: 1 occurrence
Iraq: 1 occurrence
Syria: 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.