Extreme Import Bottlenecks
The tables below show Malaysia'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.
Malaysia
80 bottlenecks| # | Partner | HS Code | HS Description | Year | Share (%) | Value (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thailand | 2716 | Electrical energy | 2025 | 100.00% | 28,680,970 |
| 2 | Indonesia | 4702 | Chemical wood pulp, dissolving grades | 2025 | 99.98% | 163,090,374 |
| 3 | China | 8601 | Rail locomotives; powered from an external source of electricity or by electric accumulators | 2025 | 99.86% | 34,857,570 |
| 4 | Australia | 0104 | Sheep and goats; live | 2025 | 99.50% | 11,354,600 |
| 5 | China | 4413 | Densified wood, in blocks, plates, strips or profile shapes | 2025 | 99.11% | 70,375,203 |
| 6 | China | 7614 | Aluminium; stranded wire, cables, plaited bands and the like, (not electrically insulated) | 2025 | 99.08% | 13,406,991 |
| 7 | China | 7008 | Glass; multiple-walled insulating units of glass | 2025 | 99.07% | 15,912,676 |
| 8 | Japan | 7111 | Base metals, silver or gold, clad with platinum; not further worked than semi-manufactured | 2025 | 98.81% | 71,669,969 |
| 9 | Japan | 7107 | Base metals clad with silver; not further worked than semi-manufactured | 2025 | 98.41% | 16,687,730 |
| 10 | Australia | 2805 | Alkali or alkaline-earth metals; rare-earth metals, scandium and yttrium, whether or not intermixed or interalloyed; mercury | 2025 | 98.40% | 100,108,533 |
| 11 | Singapore | 9110 | Watch or clock movements, complete, unassembled or partly assembled (movement sets); incomplete watch or clock movements, assembled; rough watch or clock movements | 2025 | 97.51% | 16,675,365 |
| 12 | Singapore | 2715 | Bituminous mixtures based on natural asphalt; on natural bitumen, on petroleum bitumen, on mineral tar or on mineral tar pitch (e.g. bituminous mastics, cut-backs) | 2025 | 97.42% | 72,910,610 |
| 13 | Indonesia | 1511 | Palm oil and its fractions; whether or not refined, but not chemically modified | 2025 | 97.21% | 775,468,996 |
| 14 | China | 7321 | Stoves, ranges, grates, cookers (those with subsidiary boilers for central heating), barbecues, braziers, gas-rings, plate warmers and similar non-electric domestic appliances and parts, of iron or steel | 2025 | 97.15% | 116,977,133 |
| 15 | China | 3604 | Fireworks, signalling flares, rain rockets, fog signals and other pyrotechnic articles | 2025 | 97.05% | 40,837,098 |
| 16 | Argentina | 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 | 97.03% | 517,473,471 |
| 17 | Thailand | 2520 | Gypsum; anhydrite; plasters (consisting of calcined gypsum or calcium sulphate), coloured or not, with or without small quantities of accelerators or retarders | 2025 | 96.75% | 40,595,084 |
| 18 | Indonesia | 3823 | Industrial monocarboxylic fatty acids; acid oils from refining; industrial fatty alcohols | 2025 | 96.30% | 1,775,854,518 |
| 19 | China | 8715 | Baby carriages and parts thereof | 2025 | 96.19% | 18,710,207 |
| 20 | Indonesia | 1516 | Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their fractions, partly or wholly hydrogenated, inter-esterified, re-esterified or elaidinised, whether or not refined, but not further prepared | 2025 | 96.15% | 256,401,135 |
| 21 | China | 9406 | Buildings; prefabricated | 2025 | 96.12% | 252,618,296 |
| 22 | China | 7303 | Tubes, pipes and hollow profiles, of cast iron | 2025 | 95.72% | 11,405,436 |
| 23 | China | 8603 | Railway or tramway coaches, vans and trucks; self-propelled tenders, other than those of heading no. 8604 | 2025 | 95.64% | 148,104,920 |
| 24 | China | 6702 | Flowers, foliage and fruit, artificial, and parts thereof; articles made of artificial flowers, foliage or fruit | 2025 | 95.01% | 15,197,483 |
| 25 | China | 3827 | Mixtures containing halogenated derivatives of methane, ethane or propane, not elsewhere specified or included | 2025 | 94.14% | 15,910,642 |
| 26 | Indonesia | 5504 | Artificial staple fibres, not carded, combed or otherwise processed for spinning | 2025 | 93.80% | 28,458,659 |
| 27 | China | 3801 | Artificial graphite; colloidal or semi-colloidal graphite; preparations based on graphite or other carbon in the form of pastes, blocks, plates or other semi-manufactures | 2025 | 93.62% | 424,071,571 |
| 28 | Indonesia | 4402 | Wood charcoal (including shell or nut charcoal), whether or not agglomerated | 2025 | 93.41% | 17,177,934 |
| 29 | China | 4421 | Wooden articles n.e.c. in heading no. 4414 to 4420 | 2025 | 93.33% | 60,115,385 |
| 30 | China | 9615 | Combs, hair-slides and similar; hairpins, curling pins, curling grips and hair curlers and the like, other than those of heading no. 8516 and parts thereof | 2025 | 91.99% | 12,457,389 |
| 31 | China | 7322 | Radiators for central heating, not electrically heated and parts thereof, of iron or steel; air heaters, hot air distributors not electrically heated, with motor fan or blower | 2025 | 91.98% | 13,283,519 |
| 32 | China | 7302 | Railway or tramway track constructions of iron or steel; rails, check and track rails, switch blades, crossing frogs, point rods, sleepers, fish-plates, chair wedges, sole plates, bedplates, ties and the like | 2025 | 91.61% | 34,076,634 |
| 33 | China | 8713 | Carriages for disabled persons; whether or not motorised or otherwise mechanically propelled | 2025 | 90.68% | 11,931,821 |
| 34 | China | 0704 | Cabbages, cauliflowers, kohlrabi, kale and similar edible brassicas; fresh or chilled | 2025 | 90.61% | 160,330,315 |
| 35 | China | 6802 | Monumental or building stone, worked (except slate) and articles thereof (not of heading no. 6801) mosaic cubes etc., of natural stone including slate; artificially coloured granules of natural stone | 2025 | 90.39% | 45,679,817 |
| 36 | USA | 2604 | Nickel ores and concentrates | 2025 | 90.02% | 13,655,383 |
| 37 | Rep. of Korea | 2808 | Nitric acid; sulphonitric acids | 2025 | 89.88% | 21,871,488 |
| 38 | China | 6006 | Fabrics; knitted or crocheted fabrics, other than those of headings 60.01 to 60.04 | 2025 | 89.61% | 66,330,695 |
| 39 | China | 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 | 2025 | 89.59% | 164,849,151 |
| 40 | China | 9505 | Festive, carnival or other entertainment articles, including conjuring tricks and novelty jokes | 2025 | 89.32% | 19,994,205 |
| 41 | Thailand | 4410 | Particle board, oriented strand board (OSB) and similar board (e.g. waferboard) of wood or other ligneous materials, whether or not agglomerated with resins or other organic binding substances | 2025 | 88.80% | 106,331,617 |
| 42 | China | 6810 | Cement, concrete or artificial stone; whether or not reinforced, articles thereof | 2025 | 88.76% | 63,787,688 |
| 43 | China | 9617 | Vacuum flasks and other vacuum vessels, complete with cases; parts thereof other than glass inners | 2025 | 88.52% | 20,131,705 |
| 44 | Indonesia | 1520 | Glycerol, crude; glycerol waters and glycerol lyes | 2025 | 88.36% | 44,524,645 |
| 45 | China | 8712 | Bicycles and other cycles; including delivery tricycles, not motorised | 2025 | 88.35% | 32,763,824 |
| 46 | Singapore | 9114 | Clock or watch parts; n.e.c. in chapter 91 | 2025 | 88.25% | 65,001,015 |
| 47 | China | 7323 | Table, kitchen, other household articles and parts, of iron or steel; iron or steel wool; pot scourers and scouring or polishing pads, gloves and the like, of iron or steel | 2025 | 87.71% | 106,762,509 |
| 48 | China | 6004 | Fabrics; knitted or crocheted fabrics of a width exceeding 30 cm, other than those of heading 60.01, containing by weight 5% or more of elastomeric yarn or rubber thread | 2025 | 87.61% | 29,052,545 |
| 49 | China | 6907 | Ceramic flags and paving, hearth or wall tiles; ceramic mosaic cubes and the like, whether or not on a backing; finishing ceramics | 2025 | 86.62% | 180,170,795 |
| 50 | China | 6902 | Refractory bricks, blocks, tiles and similar refractory ceramic constructional goods; other than those of siliceous fossil meals or similar siliceous earths | 2025 | 86.60% | 72,363,852 |
| 51 | China | 9405 | Luminaires and light fittings; including searchlights, spotlights and parts thereof, n.e.c.; illuminated signs, name-plates and the like, having permanently fixed light source and parts thereof n.e.c. or included | 2025 | 85.87% | 178,321,497 |
| 52 | China | 7309 | Reservoirs, tanks, vats and similar containers; for any material (excluding compressed or liquefied gas), of iron or steel, capacity exceeding 300l, whether or not lined or heat insulated | 2025 | 85.43% | 29,161,844 |
| 53 | China | 7308 | Structures of iron or steel and parts thereof; plates, rods, angles, shapes, sections, tubes and the like, prepared for use in structures | 2025 | 84.92% | 498,799,211 |
| 54 | China | 2938 | Glycosides, natural or reproduced by synthesis, and their salts, ethers, esters and other derivatives | 2025 | 84.63% | 30,441,872 |
| 55 | Argentina | 1005 | Maize (corn) | 2025 | 84.47% | 904,148,390 |
| 56 | India | 0909 | Seeds of anise, badian, fennel, coriander, cumin, caraway or juniper | 2025 | 84.40% | 36,753,413 |
| 57 | China | 7314 | Cloth (including endless bands), grill, netting and fencing, of iron or steel wire; expanded metal of iron or steel | 2025 | 83.96% | 30,761,987 |
| 58 | China | 3918 | Floor coverings of plastics, self-adhesive or not, in rolls or tiles; wall or ceiling coverings of plastics, in rolls of a width not less than 45cm | 2025 | 83.86% | 73,029,229 |
| 59 | China | 9403 | Furniture and parts thereof, n.e.c. in chapter 94 | 2025 | 83.65% | 741,631,764 |
| 60 | China | 5601 | Wadding of textile materials and articles thereof; textile fibres, not exceeding 5 mm in length (flock), textile dust and mill neps | 2025 | 83.64% | 13,666,151 |
| 61 | China | 6910 | Ceramic sinks, wash basins, wash basin pedestals, baths, bidets, water closet pans, flushing cisterns, urinals and similar sanitary fixtures | 2025 | 83.49% | 35,347,199 |
| 62 | China | 8608 | Railway or tramway track fixtures and fittings; mechanical (including electro-mechanical) signalling, safety or traffic control equipment for railways, tramways, roads, inland waterways, parking facilities, port installations or airfields; parts thereof | 2025 | 83.39% | 14,813,896 |
| 63 | China | 9105 | Clocks, other, n.e.c. | 2025 | 83.03% | 10,151,042 |
| 64 | China | 4409 | Wood (including strips, friezes for parquet flooring, not assembled), continuously shaped (tongued, grooved, v-jointed, beaded or the like) along any edges, ends or faces, whether or not planed, sanded or end-jointed | 2025 | 82.76% | 30,883,031 |
| 65 | China | 8705 | Special purpose motor vehicles; not those for the transport of persons or goods (e.g. breakdown lorries, road sweeper lorries, spraying lorries, mobile workshops, mobile radiological units etc) | 2025 | 82.73% | 86,290,928 |
| 66 | China | 5705 | Carpets and other textile floor coverings; n.e.c. in chapter 57, whether or not made up | 2025 | 82.68% | 18,185,965 |
| 67 | China | 6001 | Fabrics; pile fabrics, including long pile fabrics and terry fabrics, knitted or crocheted | 2025 | 82.14% | 37,213,255 |
| 68 | China | 8402 | Boilers; steam or other vapour generating (other than central heating hot water boilers, capable also of producing low pressure steam), super heated water boilers | 2025 | 81.99% | 32,843,520 |
| 69 | China | 9609 | Pencils (not of heading no. 9608), crayons, pencil leads, pastels, drawing charcoals, writing or drawing chalks and tailors' chalks | 2025 | 81.96% | 16,127,508 |
| 70 | United Arab Emirates | 2613 | Molybdenum ores and concentrates | 2025 | 81.87% | 15,447,671 |
| 71 | China | 9404 | Mattress supports; articles of bedding (e.g. mattresses, quilts, eiderdowns, cushions pouffes and pillows), fitted with springs or stuffed, whether or not covered | 2025 | 81.84% | 120,104,901 |
| 72 | Rep. of Korea | 2841 | Salts of oxometallic or peroxometallic acids | 2025 | 81.43% | 156,851,329 |
| 73 | China | 8215 | Cutlery; spoons, forks, ladles, skimmers, cake-servers, fish-knives, butter knives, sugar tongs and similar kitchen or tableware | 2025 | 81.41% | 11,397,640 |
| 74 | China | 4820 | Registers, account books, diaries and similar; albums for samples or collections, of paper or paperboard | 2025 | 81.28% | 22,979,451 |
| 75 | Australia | 0204 | Meat of sheep or goats; fresh, chilled or frozen | 2025 | 81.18% | 220,852,004 |
| 76 | China | 8418 | Refrigerators, freezers and other refrigerating or freezing equipment, electric or other; heat pumps other than air conditioning machines of heading no. 8415 | 2025 | 81.16% | 518,632,713 |
| 77 | China | 5703 | Carpets and other textile floor coverings (including turf); tufted, whether or not made up | 2025 | 81.15% | 43,295,886 |
| 78 | China | 8468 | Machinery and apparatus for soldering, brazing, welding, whether or not capable of cutting, other than those of heading no. 8515; gas-operated surface tempering machines and appliances | 2025 | 80.94% | 14,404,580 |
| 79 | India | 0202 | Meat of bovine animals; frozen | 2025 | 80.91% | 653,286,505 |
| 80 | China | 8455 | Metal-rolling mills and rolls therefor | 2025 | 80.46% | 126,276,457 |
China: 54 occurrences
Indonesia: 7 occurrences
Australia: 3 occurrences
Singapore: 3 occurrences
Thailand: 3 occurrences
Argentina: 2 occurrences
India: 2 occurrences
Japan: 2 occurrences
Rep. of Korea: 2 occurrences
USA: 1 occurrence
United Arab Emirates: 1 occurrence
Legend:
Highlight - the row matches a Danger Zone country and/or a Critical Goods HS code.
ABCBold red partner name - the import source country is flagged in the Danger Zone.
1234Bold lime HS code - the product code is flagged in Critical Goods.