Extreme Import Bottlenecks
The tables below show Norway'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.
Norway
82 bottlenecks| # | Partner | HS Code | HS Description | Year | Share (%) | Value (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spain | 860310 | Railway or tramway coaches, vans and trucks; self-propelled, powered from an external source of electricity (excluding those of heading no. 8604) | 2025 | 100.00% | 28,949,531 |
| 2 | Sweden | 470321 | Wood pulp; chemical wood pulp, soda or sulphate, (other than dissolving grades), semi-bleached or bleached, of coniferous wood | 2025 | 99.56% | 34,421,958 |
| 3 | India | 230250 | Bran, sharps and other residues; of leguminous plants, whether or not in the form of pellets, derived from the sifting, milling or other workings thereof | 2025 | 99.50% | 164,076,663 |
| 4 | USA | 880230 | Aeroplanes and other aircraft, except unmanned; of an unladen weight exceeding 2000kg but not exceeding 15,000kg | 2025 | 99.48% | 565,039,246 |
| 5 | France | 220820 | Spirits obtained by distilling grape wine or grape marc | 2025 | 98.55% | 16,963,749 |
| 6 | Iceland | 030214 | Fish; fresh or chilled, Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) and Danube salmon (Hucho hucho), excluding fillets, fish meat of 0304, and edible fish offal of subheadings 0302.91 to 0302.99 | 2025 | 98.12% | 13,266,803 |
| 7 | Switzerland | 910121 | Wrist-watches; (not electrically operated), automatic winding, whether or not incorporating a stop-watch facility, case of precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal | 2025 | 97.26% | 16,918,128 |
| 8 | Brazil | 200911 | Juice; orange, frozen, unfermented, (not containing added spirit), whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter | 2025 | 96.66% | 15,067,196 |
| 9 | Faroe Isds | 030499 | Fish meat, excluding fillets, whether or not minced; frozen, n.e.c. in item no. 0304.9 | 2025 | 96.01% | 11,141,232 |
| 10 | USA | 290110 | Acyclic hydrocarbons; saturated | 2025 | 95.86% | 325,411,210 |
| 11 | Denmark | 240319 | Tobacco; smoking, other than water pipe tobacco, whether or not containing tobacco substitutes in any proportion | 2025 | 95.25% | 25,247,177 |
| 12 | United Kingdom | 840682 | Turbines; steam and other vapour turbines, (for other than marine propulsion), of an output not exceeding 40MW | 2025 | 95.13% | 12,742,166 |
| 13 | Germany | 860711 | Railway or tramway locomotives or rolling stock; parts, driving bogies and bissel-bogies | 2025 | 95.12% | 12,038,420 |
| 14 | Sweden | 440712 | Wood; coniferous species, of fir (Abies spp.) and spruce (Picea spp.), sawn or chipped lengthwise, sliced or peeled, whether or not planed, sanded or finger-jointed, of a thickness exceeding 6mm | 2025 | 94.90% | 106,437,925 |
| 15 | Netherlands | 060120 | Plants, live; bulbs, tubers, tuberous roots, corms, crowns and rhizomes, in growth or in flower, chicory plants and roots other than of heading no. 1212 | 2025 | 94.87% | 15,736,631 |
| 16 | Belarus | 151519 | Vegetable oils; linseed oil and its fractions, other than crude, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified | 2025 | 94.43% | 18,513,287 |
| 17 | Sweden | 480419 | Kraft paper and paperboard; kraftliner, uncoated, bleached, in rolls or sheets, other than that of heading no. 4802 or 4803 | 2025 | 94.21% | 21,075,096 |
| 18 | China | 810411 | Magnesium; unwrought, containing at least 99.8% by weight of magnesium | 2025 | 94.15% | 36,445,906 |
| 19 | Netherlands | 847979 | Machinery and mechanical appliances; passenger boarding bridges, other than of a kind used in airports | 2025 | 93.55% | 14,779,586 |
| 20 | Netherlands | 180400 | Cocoa; butter, fat and oil | 2025 | 93.51% | 115,611,316 |
| 21 | Austria | 730210 | Iron or steel, railway or tramway track construction material; rails | 2025 | 93.35% | 25,048,362 |
| 22 | Sweden | 262019 | Slag, ash and residues; (not from the manufacture of iron or steel), containing mainly zinc, other than hard zinc spelter | 2025 | 93.23% | 42,954,066 |
| 23 | Senegal | 261400 | Titanium ores and concentrates | 2025 | 92.04% | 65,729,894 |
| 24 | Brazil | 210220 | Yeasts; inactive, other single-cell micro-organisms, dead | 2025 | 91.85% | 116,682,559 |
| 25 | Spain | 070511 | Vegetables; cabbage (head) lettuce (lactuca sativa), fresh or chilled | 2025 | 91.85% | 19,963,584 |
| 26 | India | 292429 | Cyclic amides (including cyclic carbamates) and their derivatives; other than the derivatives and salts of ureines, 2-acetamidobenzoic acid (N-acetylanthancillic acid),ethinamate S, and alachlor (ISO) and their derivatives and salts | 2025 | 91.23% | 63,135,149 |
| 27 | Iceland | 854590 | Carbon; lamp carbons, battery carbons and other articles of graphite or other carbon, with or without metal, of a kind used for electrical purposes | 2025 | 90.79% | 21,788,561 |
| 28 | Finland | 310540 | Fertilizers, mineral or chemical; ammonium dihydrogenorthophosphate (monoammonium phosphate) and mixtures thereof with diammonium hydrogenorthophosphate (diammonium phosphate) | 2025 | 90.10% | 28,483,879 |
| 29 | Sweden | 480411 | Kraft paper and paperboard; kraftliner, uncoated, unbleached, in rolls or sheets, other than that of heading no. 4802 or 4803 | 2025 | 90.07% | 28,808,120 |
| 30 | Sweden | 730230 | Iron or steel, railway or tramway track construction material; switch blades, crossing frogs, point rods and other crossing pieces | 2025 | 89.24% | 21,542,126 |
| 31 | Germany | 740721 | Copper; bars, rods and profiles, of copper-zinc base alloys (brass) | 2025 | 89.02% | 53,021,063 |
| 32 | Netherlands | 060110 | Plants, live; bulbs, tubers, tuberous roots, corms, crowns and rhizomes, dormant | 2025 | 88.86% | 17,446,540 |
| 33 | USA | 080212 | Nuts, edible; almonds, fresh or dried, shelled | 2025 | 88.82% | 19,393,436 |
| 34 | United Kingdom | 780199 | Lead; unwrought, unrefined, not containing by weight antimony as the principal other element | 2025 | 88.12% | 29,696,858 |
| 35 | Switzerland | 910221 | Wrist-watches; whether or not incorporating a stop-watch facility, with automatic winding | 2025 | 88.10% | 39,235,577 |
| 36 | Sweden | 720449 | Ferrous waste and scrap; n.e.c. in heading no. 7204 | 2025 | 88.06% | 92,411,072 |
| 37 | China | 880622 | Unmanned aircraft; for remote-controlled flight only, for other than for carriage of passengers, with the maximum take-off weight of more than 250g but not more than 7kg | 2025 | 87.39% | 12,664,671 |
| 38 | Sweden | 440711 | Wood; coniferous species, of pine (Pinus spp.), sawn or chipped lengthwise, sliced or peeled, whether or not planed, sanded or finger-jointed, of a thickness exceeding 6mm | 2025 | 87.25% | 144,242,160 |
| 39 | Sweden | 240399 | Tobacco; other than homogenised or reconstituted or smoking | 2025 | 86.92% | 289,828,164 |
| 40 | China | 732111 | Cooking appliances and plate warmers; for gas fuel or for both gas and other fuels, of iron or steel | 2025 | 86.77% | 28,930,573 |
| 41 | China | 292241 | Amino-acids, other than those containing more than one kind of oxygen function, and their esters; lysine and its esters; salts thereof | 2025 | 86.40% | 25,395,210 |
| 42 | China | 853952 | Lamps; light-emitting diode (LED) light sources, light-emitting diode (LED) lamps | 2025 | 86.38% | 27,407,566 |
| 43 | China | 640192 | Footwear; waterproof, covering the ankle (but not the knee), rubber or plastic outer soles and uppers (not assembled by stitch, rivet, nail, screw, plug or similar) | 2025 | 86.30% | 13,815,208 |
| 44 | Brazil | 200919 | Juice; orange, not frozen, of a Brix value exceeding 20, unfermented, not containing added spirit, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter | 2025 | 86.25% | 11,573,228 |
| 45 | Poland | 700800 | Glass; multiple-walled insulating units of glass | 2025 | 86.24% | 72,329,401 |
| 46 | Sweden | 440141 | Wood; for fuel, sawdust and wood waste and scrap, not agglomerated; sawdust | 2025 | 86.13% | 26,842,806 |
| 47 | Sweden | 481810 | Paper articles; toilet paper | 2025 | 85.82% | 124,933,557 |
| 48 | China | 851714 | Telephone sets; other than smartphones, for cellular or other wireless networks | 2025 | 85.74% | 12,344,508 |
| 49 | China | 950450 | Games; video game consoles and machines, other than those of subheading 9504.30 | 2025 | 85.45% | 87,628,242 |
| 50 | China | 280469 | Silicon; containing by weight less than 99.99% of silicon | 2025 | 85.31% | 51,881,307 |
| 51 | China | 961700 | Vacuum flasks and other vacuum vessels, complete with cases; parts thereof other than glass inners | 2025 | 85.13% | 21,522,170 |
| 52 | USA | 901420 | Navigational instruments and appliances; for aeronautical or space navigation (excluding compasses) | 2025 | 84.91% | 45,428,040 |
| 53 | China | 950510 | Christmas festivity articles | 2025 | 84.87% | 34,479,382 |
| 54 | Sweden | 190510 | Food preparations; crispbread, whether or not containing cocoa | 2025 | 84.81% | 31,509,801 |
| 55 | China | 843319 | Mowers; for lawns, parks or sports-grounds, other than with the cutting device rotating in a horizontal plane | 2025 | 84.78% | 10,246,461 |
| 56 | Sweden | 481092 | Paper and paperboard; multi-ply, coated with kaolin or other inorganic substances only, for non-graphic purposes, n.e.c. in heading no. 4810, in rolls or sheets | 2025 | 84.55% | 11,428,831 |
| 57 | USA | 270111 | Coal; anthracite, whether or not pulverised, but not agglomerated | 2025 | 84.53% | 22,545,519 |
| 58 | China | 851310 | Lamps; portable, electric, designed to function by their own source of energy (excluding lighting equipment of heading no. 8512) | 2025 | 84.37% | 23,795,573 |
| 59 | USA | 080232 | Nuts, edible; walnuts, fresh or dried, shelled | 2025 | 83.93% | 12,806,702 |
| 60 | France | 880211 | Helicopters, except unmanned; of an unladen weight not exceeding 2000kg | 2025 | 83.91% | 11,794,666 |
| 61 | Spain | 070410 | Vegetables, brassica; cauliflowers and broccoli, fresh or chilled | 2025 | 83.88% | 29,588,337 |
| 62 | Germany | 290944 | Ether-alcohols and their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives; monoalkylethers of ethylene glycol or of diethylene glycol n.e.c. in heading no. 2909 | 2025 | 83.81% | 12,766,878 |
| 63 | United Kingdom | 841121 | Turbo-propellers; of a power not exceeding 1100kW | 2025 | 83.79% | 35,165,813 |
| 64 | Denmark | 170199 | Sugars; sucrose, chemically pure, in solid form, not containing added flavouring or colouring matter | 2025 | 83.55% | 74,942,215 |
| 65 | Singapore | 293499 | Nucleic acids and their salts, other heterocyclic compounds, n.e.c. in heading number 2934 | 2025 | 83.50% | 56,727,476 |
| 66 | Poland | 100590 | Cereals; maize (corn), other than seed | 2025 | 83.48% | 26,065,616 |
| 67 | Germany | 901813 | Medical, surgical instruments and appliances; magnetic resonance imaging apparatus | 2025 | 83.23% | 21,681,907 |
| 68 | Canada | 300242 | Vaccines, toxins, cultures of micro-organisms (excluding yeasts) and similar products; for veterinary medicine | 2025 | 82.96% | 63,888,164 |
| 69 | Brazil | 281820 | Aluminium oxide; other than artificial corundum | 2025 | 82.94% | 1,162,892,150 |
| 70 | Slovakia | 870350 | Vehicles; with both compression-ignition internal combustion piston engine (diesel or semi-diesel) and electric motor for propulsion, incapable of being charged by plugging to external source of electric power | 2025 | 82.94% | 22,625,940 |
| 71 | 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 | 2025 | 82.83% | 764,370,636 |
| 72 | France | 320418 | Dyes; carotenoid colouring matters and preparations based thereon | 2025 | 82.79% | 11,338,007 |
| 73 | Germany | 310240 | Fertilizers, mineral or chemical; ammonium nitrate with calcium carbonate or other inorganic non-fertilizing substances, mixtures thereof | 2025 | 82.71% | 42,083,777 |
| 74 | Kenya | 060311 | Flowers, cut; roses, flowers and buds of a kind suitable for bouquets or ornamental purposes, fresh | 2025 | 82.26% | 41,990,800 |
| 75 | Sweden | 721661 | Iron or non-alloy steel; angles, shapes and sections, cold-formed or cold-finished, obtained from flat-rolled products | 2025 | 81.85% | 15,076,284 |
| 76 | Sweden | 480256 | Uncoated paper and paperboard (not 4801 or 4803); printing, writing or graphic, 10% or less by weight of mechanical or chemi-mechanical processed fibre, weight 40-150g/m2, in sheets 435mm or less by 297mm or less (unfolded) | 2025 | 81.27% | 12,140,095 |
| 77 | Germany | 930190 | Military weapons; other than revolvers, pistols, and arms of heading 9307, n.e.c. in heading 9301 | 2025 | 81.08% | 24,154,825 |
| 78 | China | 611300 | Garments made up of knitted or crocheted fabrics of heading no. 5903, 5906 and 5907 | 2025 | 81.04% | 15,925,928 |
| 79 | Chile | 890200 | Fishing vessels, factory ships and other vessels; for processing or preserving fishery products | 2025 | 80.75% | 89,833,391 |
| 80 | France | 841111 | Turbo-jets; of a thrust not exceeding 25kN | 2025 | 80.54% | 32,293,587 |
| 81 | United Kingdom | 030244 | Fish; fresh or chilled, mackerel (Scomber scombrus, Scomber australasicus, Scomber japonicus), excluding fillets, fish meat of 0304, and edible fish offal of subheadings 0302.91 to 0302.99 | 2025 | 80.44% | 187,509,233 |
| 82 | Japan | 730424 | Steel, stainless; seamless, casing and tubing, of a kind used in drilling for oil or gas | 2025 | 80.09% | 162,077,754 |
China: 15 occurrences
Sweden: 15 occurrences
Germany: 6 occurrences
USA: 6 occurrences
Brazil: 4 occurrences
France: 4 occurrences
Netherlands: 4 occurrences
United Kingdom: 4 occurrences
Spain: 3 occurrences
Denmark: 2 occurrences
Iceland: 2 occurrences
India: 2 occurrences
Poland: 2 occurrences
Switzerland: 2 occurrences
Austria: 1 occurrence
Belarus: 1 occurrence
Canada: 1 occurrence
Chile: 1 occurrence
Faroe Isds: 1 occurrence
Finland: 1 occurrence
Japan: 1 occurrence
Kenya: 1 occurrence
Senegal: 1 occurrence
Singapore: 1 occurrence
Slovakia: 1 occurrence
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