Extreme Import Bottlenecks
The tables below show Lao People's Dem. Rep.'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.
Lao People's Dem. Rep.
31 bottlenecks| # | Partner | HS Code | HS Description | Year | Share (%) | Value (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 8603 | Railway or tramway coaches, vans and trucks; self-propelled tenders, other than those of heading no. 8604 | 2023 | 100.00% | 13,234,000 |
| 2 | China | 8605 | Railway or tramway coaches; passenger coaches, luggage vans, post office coaches and other special purpose railway or tramway coaches, not self-propelled (excluding those of heading no. 8604) | 2023 | 100.00% | 34,950,000 |
| 3 | China | 8606 | Railway or tramway goods vans and wagons; not self-propelled | 2023 | 99.96% | 36,854,000 |
| 4 | China | 7305 | Iron or steel (excluding cast iron); tubes and pipes (e.g. welded, riveted or similarly closed), having circular cross-sections, external diameter of which exceeds 406.4mm, not seamless | 2023 | 96.61% | 76,493,978 |
| 5 | Thailand | 2202 | Waters, including mineral and aerated waters, containing added sugar or sweetening matter, flavoured; other non-alcoholic beverages, not including fruit, nut or vegetable juices of heading no. 2009 | 2023 | 94.11% | 194,896,185 |
| 6 | Thailand | 1108 | Starches; inulin | 2023 | 91.91% | 19,258,279 |
| 7 | Thailand | 4401 | Fuel wood, in logs, billets, twigs, faggots or similar forms; wood in chip or particles; sawdust and wood waste and scrap, whether or not agglomerated in logs, briquettes, pellets or similar forms | 2023 | 91.88% | 70,234,516 |
| 8 | Thailand | 0810 | Fruit, fresh; n.e.c. in chapter 08 | 2023 | 91.47% | 14,773,518 |
| 9 | Thailand | 1901 | Malt extract; flour/groats/meal/starch/malt extract products, no cocoa (or less than 40% by weight) and food preparations of goods of headings 04.01 to 04.04, no cocoa (or less than 5% by weight), weights calculated on a totally defatted basis, n.e.c. | 2023 | 91.02% | 17,867,373 |
| 10 | Thailand | 3305 | Hair preparations; for use on the hair | 2023 | 90.94% | 10,065,064 |
| 11 | Thailand | 1701 | Cane or beet sugar and chemically pure sucrose, in solid form | 2023 | 90.72% | 177,582,716 |
| 12 | Thailand | 3907 | Polyacetals, other polyethers and epoxide resins, in primary forms; polycarbonates, alkyd resins, polyallyl esters and other polyesters, in primary forms | 2023 | 90.43% | 10,198,157 |
| 13 | Singapore | 3302 | Odoriferous substances and mixtures (including alcoholic solutions) with a basis of one or more of these substances, of a kind used as raw materials in industry; other preparations based on odoriferous substances, of a kind used for beverage manufacture | 2023 | 89.71% | 11,761,170 |
| 14 | China | 7208 | Iron or non-alloy steel; flat-rolled products of a width of 600mm or more, hot-rolled, not clad, plated or coated | 2023 | 89.04% | 16,293,712 |
| 15 | Thailand | 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 | 2023 | 89.01% | 14,852,286 |
| 16 | Thailand | 8529 | Transmission apparatus; parts suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of heading no. 8524 to 8528 | 2023 | 88.30% | 73,513,676 |
| 17 | Thailand | 4107 | Leather further prepared after tanning or crusting, including parchment-dressed leather, of bovine (including buffalo) or equine animals, without hair on, whether or not split, other than leather of heading 41.14 | 2023 | 88.08% | 15,247,676 |
| 18 | Thailand | 9619 | Sanitary towels (pads) and tampons, napkins (diapers), napkin liners and similar articles, of any material | 2023 | 87.18% | 12,455,419 |
| 19 | China | 7325 | Iron or steel; cast articles | 2023 | 86.99% | 16,455,252 |
| 20 | Thailand | 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 | 2023 | 86.39% | 1,087,512,234 |
| 21 | China | 8430 | Moving, grading, levelling, scraping, excavating, tamping, compacting, extracting or boring machinery, for earth, minerals, or ores; pile drivers and extractors; snow ploughs and snow blowers | 2023 | 85.76% | 24,161,803 |
| 22 | Thailand | 6811 | Asbestos-cement, of cellulose fibre-cement or the like | 2023 | 85.63% | 12,299,432 |
| 23 | Thailand | 2711 | Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons | 2023 | 85.45% | 13,608,952 |
| 24 | China | 8716 | Trailers and semi-trailers; other vehicles, not mechanically propelled; parts thereof | 2023 | 85.14% | 15,145,558 |
| 25 | Thailand | 2807 | Sulphuric acid; oleum | 2023 | 84.10% | 18,504,335 |
| 26 | Japan | 8702 | Vehicles; public transport passenger type | 2023 | 82.14% | 16,503,885 |
| 27 | China | 7210 | Iron or non-alloy steel; flat-rolled products, width 600mm or more, clad, plated or coated | 2023 | 81.99% | 33,967,540 |
| 28 | Belgium | 7102 | Diamonds, whether or not worked, but not mounted or set | 2023 | 81.84% | 14,598,240 |
| 29 | China | 1107 | Malt; whether or not roasted | 2023 | 81.78% | 23,971,626 |
| 30 | Thailand | 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 | 2023 | 81.62% | 28,314,423 |
| 31 | Singapore | 2402 | Cigars, cheroots, cigarillos and cigarettes; of tobacco or of tobacco substitutes | 2023 | 80.83% | 15,312,413 |
Thailand: 17 occurrences
China: 10 occurrences
Singapore: 2 occurrences
Belgium: 1 occurrence
Japan: 1 occurrence
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