Extreme Import Bottlenecks
The tables below show Nigeria'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.
Nigeria
73 bottlenecks| # | Partner | HS Code | HS Description | Year | Share (%) | Value (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Argentina | 1507 | Soya-bean oil and its fractions; whether or not refined, but not chemically modified | 2024 | 100.00% | 17,227,776 |
| 2 | Brazil | 1701 | Cane or beet sugar and chemically pure sucrose, in solid form | 2024 | 99.97% | 617,848,299 |
| 3 | China | 8707 | Bodies; (including cabs) for the motor vehicles of heading no. 8701 to 8705 | 2024 | 99.94% | 19,618,137 |
| 4 | China | 5514 | Woven fabrics of synthetic staple fibres, containing less than 85% by weight of such fibres, mixed mainly or solely with cotton, of a weight exceeding 170g/m2 | 2024 | 99.78% | 22,941,986 |
| 5 | China | 4408 | Sheets for veneering (including those obtained by slicing laminated wood), for plywood or for similar laminated wood and other wood, sawn lengthwise, sliced or peeled, planed or not, sanded, spliced or end-jointed, of a thickness not exceeding 6 mm | 2024 | 99.73% | 164,917,029 |
| 6 | China | 6002 | Fabrics; knitted or crocheted, other than those of heading 60.01, of a width not exceeding 30cm, containing by weight 5% or more of elastomeric yarn or rubber thread | 2024 | 99.71% | 18,739,073 |
| 7 | China | 8305 | Stationery; fittings for loose-leaf binders or files, letter clips, letter corners, paper clips, indexing tags and the like, staples in strips (for offices, upholstery, packaging), of base metal | 2024 | 99.47% | 18,936,166 |
| 8 | Azerbaijan | 9301 | Military weapons; other than revolvers, pistols and arms of heading no. 9307 | 2024 | 99.40% | 322,439,736 |
| 9 | China | 4406 | Railway or tramway sleepers (cross-ties) of wood | 2024 | 99.09% | 45,018,559 |
| 10 | Morocco | 3105 | Fertilizers; mineral or chemical, containing 2 or 3 of the elements nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium; other fertilisers; goods of chapter 31 in tablets or packages of gross weight not exceeding 10kg | 2024 | 99.01% | 74,155,723 |
| 11 | China | 5513 | Woven fabrics of synthetic staple fibres, containing less than 85% by weight of such fibres, mixed mainly or solely with cotton, of a weight not exceeding 170g/m2 | 2024 | 98.43% | 45,224,371 |
| 12 | China | 5208 | Woven fabrics of cotton, containing 85% or more by weight of cotton, weighing not more than 200 g/m2 | 2024 | 98.26% | 36,612,027 |
| 13 | China | 8513 | Lamps; portable, electric, designed to function by their own source of energy (e.g. dry batteries, accumulators, magnetos), excluding lighting equipment of heading no. 8512 | 2024 | 97.95% | 25,425,127 |
| 14 | China | 5407 | Woven fabrics of synthetic filament yarn, including woven fabrics obtained from materials of heading no. 5404 | 2024 | 97.70% | 31,436,252 |
| 15 | China | 4205 | Leather or composition leather articles n.e.c. in chapter 42 | 2024 | 97.61% | 28,367,513 |
| 16 | China | 7615 | Aluminium; table, kitchen or other household articles and parts thereof, pot scourers and scouring or polishing pads, gloves and the like, sanitary ware and parts thereof | 2024 | 97.38% | 15,532,996 |
| 17 | Indonesia | 7207 | Iron or non-alloy steel; semi-finished products thereof | 2024 | 97.32% | 11,886,309 |
| 18 | China | 4820 | Registers, account books, diaries and similar; albums for samples or collections, of paper or paperboard | 2024 | 97.28% | 129,929,174 |
| 19 | China | 6406 | Footwear; parts of footwear; removable in-soles, heel cushions and similar articles; gaiters, le.g.ings and similar articles, and parts thereof | 2024 | 97.19% | 12,692,237 |
| 20 | China | 7303 | Tubes, pipes and hollow profiles, of cast iron | 2024 | 96.93% | 12,661,776 |
| 21 | China | 7208 | Iron or non-alloy steel; flat-rolled products of a width of 600mm or more, hot-rolled, not clad, plated or coated | 2024 | 96.55% | 50,418,380 |
| 22 | China | 7324 | Sanitary ware and parts thereof, of iron or steel | 2024 | 96.51% | 12,372,728 |
| 23 | South Africa | 0808 | Apples, pears and quinces; fresh | 2024 | 96.09% | 27,425,468 |
| 24 | China | 4602 | Basketwork, wickerwork and other articles, made directly to shape from plaiting materials or made up from goods of heading no. 4601; articles of loofah | 2024 | 96.06% | 10,955,372 |
| 25 | China | 4407 | Wood sawn or chipped lengthwise, sliced or peeled, whether or not planed, sanded or finger-jointed, of a thickness exceeding 6mm | 2024 | 95.56% | 21,825,998 |
| 26 | Russian Federation | 3104 | Fertilizers; mineral or chemical, potassic | 2024 | 93.88% | 49,196,955 |
| 27 | China | 6910 | Ceramic sinks, wash basins, wash basin pedestals, baths, bidets, water closet pans, flushing cisterns, urinals and similar sanitary fixtures | 2024 | 93.83% | 59,022,844 |
| 28 | China | 8420 | Machines; calendering or other rolling machines, for other than metal or glass and cylinders therefor | 2024 | 93.45% | 24,255,093 |
| 29 | China | 2002 | Tomatoes; prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid | 2024 | 93.22% | 15,081,853 |
| 30 | 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 | 2024 | 92.89% | 45,405,958 |
| 31 | China | 9503 | Tricycles, scooters, pedal cars and similar wheeled toys; dolls' carriages; dolls; other toys; reduced-size (scale) models and similar recreational models, working or not; puzzles of all kinds | 2024 | 92.63% | 10,420,172 |
| 32 | China | 8539 | Lamps; electric filament or discharge lamps, including sealed beam lamp units and ultra-violet or infra-red lamps, arc lamps, light-emitting diode (LED) light sources | 2024 | 92.34% | 27,475,513 |
| 33 | China | 8701 | Tractors; (other than tractors of heading no 8709) | 2024 | 92.27% | 154,510,291 |
| 34 | China | 8518 | Microphones and their stands; loudspeakers, mounted or not in their enclosures; headphones and earphones, combined or not with a microphone, and sets of a microphone and one or more loudspeakers; audio-frequency and electric sound amplifiers and sets | 2024 | 91.36% | 34,431,803 |
| 35 | China | 8486 | Machines and apparatus of a kind used solely or principally for the manufacture of semiconductor boules or wafers, semiconductor devices, electronic integrated circuits or flat panel displays; machines & apparatus specified in note 11 (C) to this Chapter | 2024 | 90.60% | 52,444,929 |
| 36 | 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 | 2024 | 90.27% | 27,041,518 |
| 37 | China | 5603 | Nonwovens; whether or not impregnated, coated, covered or laminated | 2024 | 90.03% | 22,385,564 |
| 38 | China | 8302 | Base metal mountings, fittings and similar articles for furniture, doors, staircases, windows, trunks, chests etc, castors with mountings of base metal, automatic door closers of base metal | 2024 | 90.00% | 43,191,139 |
| 39 | China | 8547 | Insulating fittings; for electrical machines, appliances, equipment, excluding insulators of heading no. 8546, electrical conduit tubing and joints therefore | 2024 | 89.86% | 10,501,488 |
| 40 | China | 8452 | Sewing machines; other than book-sewing machines of heading no. 8440; furniture, bases and covers specially designed for sewing machines; sewing machine needles | 2024 | 89.57% | 27,335,296 |
| 41 | Denmark | 8307 | Tubing; flexible, with or without fittings, of base metal | 2024 | 89.18% | 56,404,867 |
| 42 | China | 8415 | Air conditioning machines; comprising a motor driven fan and elements for changing the temperature and humidity, including those machines in which the humidity cannot be separately regulated | 2024 | 88.62% | 188,260,658 |
| 43 | India | 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 | 2024 | 88.58% | 27,000,105 |
| 44 | China | 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 | 2024 | 88.44% | 268,589,365 |
| 45 | China | 2934 | Nucleic acids and their salts, whether or not chemically defined; other heterocyclic compounds | 2024 | 87.91% | 10,272,681 |
| 46 | Italy | 8478 | Machinery; for preparing or making up tobacco, n.e.c. in this chapter | 2024 | 87.80% | 11,134,280 |
| 47 | 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 | 2024 | 87.52% | 11,238,387 |
| 48 | China | 8541 | Semiconductor devices (e.g. diodes, transistors, semiconductor based transducers); including photovoltaic cells assembled or not in modules or panels, light-emitting diodes (LED) assembled with other LEDs or not, mounted piezo-electric crystals | 2024 | 87.32% | 267,315,664 |
| 49 | China | 3102 | Fertilizers; mineral or chemical, nitrogenous | 2024 | 87.29% | 102,347,338 |
| 50 | China | 7210 | Iron or non-alloy steel; flat-rolled products, width 600mm or more, clad, plated or coated | 2024 | 86.33% | 31,751,193 |
| 51 | China | 2912 | Aldehydes, whether or not with other oxygen function; cyclic polymers of aldehydes; paraformaldehyde | 2024 | 86.13% | 21,328,816 |
| 52 | China | 4011 | New pneumatic tyres, of rubber | 2024 | 85.59% | 191,336,487 |
| 53 | China | 8464 | Machine-tools; for working stone, ceramics, concrete, asbestos-cement or like mineral materials or for cold working glass | 2024 | 85.55% | 21,173,720 |
| 54 | China | 8716 | Trailers and semi-trailers; other vehicles, not mechanically propelled; parts thereof | 2024 | 84.97% | 51,420,202 |
| 55 | China | 6809 | Plaster or compositions based on plaster; articles thereof | 2024 | 84.68% | 11,064,873 |
| 56 | China | 8407 | Reciprocating or rotary internal combustion piston engines | 2024 | 84.42% | 57,187,101 |
| 57 | Italy | 3403 | Lubricating preparations and those used in oil or grease treatment of textile and similar materials; excluding preparations containing 70% or more (by weight) of petroleum or bituminous mineral oils | 2024 | 84.06% | 26,853,611 |
| 58 | China | 3207 | Pigments, prepared; opacifiers, colours, vitrifiable enamels, glazes, engobes (slips), liquid lustres etc as used in the ceramic enamelling or glass industry; glass frit and powder, granules or flakes | 2024 | 83.97% | 44,498,100 |
| 59 | China | 7216 | Iron or non-alloy steel, angles, shapes and sections | 2024 | 83.62% | 30,334,861 |
| 60 | Malaysia | 1511 | Palm oil and its fractions; whether or not refined, but not chemically modified | 2024 | 83.59% | 129,247,887 |
| 61 | China | 9002 | Lenses, prisms, mirrors and other optical elements, of any material, mounted, being parts or fittings for instruments or apparatus, other than such elements of glass not optically worked | 2024 | 83.50% | 89,059,564 |
| 62 | China | 8450 | Household or laundry-type washing machines; including machines which both wash and dry | 2024 | 83.35% | 21,260,946 |
| 63 | 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 | 2024 | 82.69% | 40,374,358 |
| 64 | France | 4907 | Unused postage, revenue or similar stamps of current or new issue in the country in which they have, or will have, a recognised face value; stamp-impressed paper; cheque forms; banknotes, stock, share or bond certificates and the like of similar title | 2024 | 82.38% | 79,484,610 |
| 65 | China | 8516 | Electric water, space, soil heaters; electro-thermic hair-dressing apparatus; hand dryers, irons; electro-thermic appliances for domestic purposes; electro heating resistors, not of heading no. 8545 | 2024 | 81.78% | 36,648,061 |
| 66 | China | 8509 | Electro-mechanical domestic appliances; with self-contained electric motor, other than vacuum cleaners of heading 85.08. | 2024 | 81.69% | 19,986,786 |
| 67 | Thailand | 1006 | Rice | 2024 | 81.19% | 27,919,760 |
| 68 | China | 3907 | Polyacetals, other polyethers and epoxide resins, in primary forms; polycarbonates, alkyd resins, polyallyl esters and other polyesters, in primary forms | 2024 | 81.08% | 234,544,983 |
| 69 | China | 9028 | Gas, liquid or electricity supply or production meters, including calibrating meters therefor | 2024 | 80.87% | 11,161,207 |
| 70 | Iceland | 0305 | Fish, dried, salted or in brine; smoked fish, whether or not cooked before, or during the smoking process | 2024 | 80.60% | 39,346,722 |
| 71 | USA | 2711 | Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons | 2024 | 80.34% | 520,065,250 |
| 72 | 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 | 2024 | 80.26% | 57,708,053 |
| 73 | China | 8406 | Turbines; steam and other vapour turbines | 2024 | 80.02% | 14,592,407 |
China: 56 occurrences
Indonesia: 2 occurrences
Italy: 2 occurrences
Argentina: 1 occurrence
Azerbaijan: 1 occurrence
Brazil: 1 occurrence
Denmark: 1 occurrence
France: 1 occurrence
Iceland: 1 occurrence
India: 1 occurrence
Malaysia: 1 occurrence
Morocco: 1 occurrence
Russian Federation: 1 occurrence
South Africa: 1 occurrence
Thailand: 1 occurrence
USA: 1 occurrence
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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.