Extreme Import Bottlenecks
The tables below show North Macedonia'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.
North Macedonia
29 bottlenecks| # | Partner | HS Code | HS Description | Year | Share (%) | Value (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United Kingdom | 284390 | Inorganic or organic compounds of precious metals, n.e.c.; amalgams | 2024 | 99.97% | 173,267,113 |
| 2 | United Kingdom | 711021 | Metals; palladium, unwrought or in powder form | 2024 | 99.74% | 566,393,106 |
| 3 | Albania | 270112 | Coal; bituminous, whether or not pulverised, but not agglomerated | 2024 | 99.71% | 11,672,908 |
| 4 | Greece | 270210 | Lignite; whether or not pulverised, but not agglomerated, excluding jet | 2024 | 99.34% | 41,753,422 |
| 5 | China | 390761 | Poly(ethylene terephthalate); in primary forms, having a viscosity of 78ml/g or higher | 2024 | 98.93% | 13,769,951 |
| 6 | United Kingdom | 711011 | Metals; platinum, unwrought or in powder form | 2024 | 98.64% | 469,890,071 |
| 7 | China | 854143 | Electrical apparatus; photosensitive semiconductor devices, photovoltaic cells assembled in modules or made up into panels | 2024 | 98.53% | 47,065,837 |
| 8 | Bulgaria | 780110 | Lead; unwrought, refined | 2024 | 98.29% | 10,293,865 |
| 9 | Thailand | 021099 | Meat and edible meat offal; salted, in brine, dried or smoked, and edible flours and meals of meat or meat offal, other than of primates, whales, dolphins, porpoises, manatees, dugongs, seals, sea lions, walruses, reptiles (including snakes and turtles) | 2024 | 96.13% | 14,301,039 |
| 10 | Serbia | 100199 | Cereals; wheat and meslin, other than durum wheat, other than seed | 2024 | 94.93% | 12,597,440 |
| 11 | Türkiye | 720916 | Iron or non-alloy steel; in coils, flat-rolled, width 600mm or more, cold-rolled, of a thickness exceeding 1mm but less than 3mm | 2024 | 94.83% | 11,448,179 |
| 12 | Germany | 842199 | Machinery; parts for filtering or purifying liquids or gases | 2024 | 93.25% | 27,985,588 |
| 13 | Serbia | 100590 | Cereals; maize (corn), other than seed | 2024 | 92.47% | 10,516,218 |
| 14 | Italy | 720712 | Iron or non-alloy steel; semi-finished products of iron or non-alloy steel; containing by weight less than 0.25% of carbon, of rectangular (other than square) cross-section | 2024 | 92.45% | 12,281,657 |
| 15 | 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 | 92.37% | 27,300,069 |
| 16 | India | 294190 | Antibiotics; n.e.c. in heading no. 2941 | 2024 | 92.11% | 12,852,992 |
| 17 | Türkiye | 720918 | Iron or non-alloy steel; in coils, flat-rolled, width 600mm or more, cold-rolled, of a thickness of less than 0.5mm | 2024 | 92.09% | 37,030,275 |
| 18 | Serbia | 151219 | Vegetable oils; sunflower seed or safflower oil and their fractions, other than crude, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified | 2024 | 92.03% | 14,986,658 |
| 19 | Argentina | 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 | 2024 | 91.99% | 14,166,699 |
| 20 | Greece | 271320 | Petroleum bitumen; obtained from bituminous minerals | 2024 | 91.70% | 22,961,792 |
| 21 | Greece | 720711 | Iron or non-alloy steel; semi-finished products of iron or non-alloy steel; containing by weight less than 0.25% of carbon, of rectangular (including square) cross-section, width less than twice thickness | 2024 | 90.25% | 45,636,442 |
| 22 | Türkiye | 720917 | Iron or non-alloy steel; in coils, flat-rolled, width 600mm or more, cold-rolled, of a thickness of 0.5mm or more but not exceeding 1mm | 2024 | 88.40% | 11,744,418 |
| 23 | China | 841510 | Air conditioning machines; comprising a motor-driven fan and elements for changing the temperature and humidity, of a kind designed to be fixed to a window, wall, ceiling or floor, self-contained or 'split-system' | 2024 | 88.05% | 31,493,357 |
| 24 | Serbia | 200520 | Vegetable preparations; potatoes, prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, not frozen | 2024 | 86.78% | 12,475,530 |
| 25 | China | 853400 | Circuits; printed | 2024 | 85.29% | 53,225,738 |
| 26 | Serbia | 110100 | Wheat or meslin flour | 2024 | 85.27% | 17,527,540 |
| 27 | Greece | 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 | 2024 | 81.01% | 596,194,165 |
| 28 | Serbia | 240220 | Cigarettes; containing tobacco | 2024 | 80.95% | 22,227,065 |
| 29 | Indonesia | 151190 | Vegetable oils; palm oil and its fractions, other than crude, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified | 2024 | 80.52% | 11,930,614 |
Serbia: 6 occurrences
China: 5 occurrences
Greece: 4 occurrences
Türkiye: 3 occurrences
United Kingdom: 3 occurrences
Albania: 1 occurrence
Argentina: 1 occurrence
Bulgaria: 1 occurrence
Germany: 1 occurrence
India: 1 occurrence
Indonesia: 1 occurrence
Italy: 1 occurrence
Thailand: 1 occurrence
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1234Bold lime HS code - the product code is flagged in Critical Goods.