Extreme Import Bottlenecks
The tables below show Pakistan'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.
Pakistan
121 bottlenecks| # | Partner | HS Code | HS Description | Year | Share (%) | Value (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Afghanistan | 0707 | Cucumbers and gherkins; fresh or chilled | 2025 | 100.00% | 15,293,005 |
| 2 | Afghanistan | 0809 | Apricots, cherries, peaches (including nectarines), plums and sloes, fresh | 2025 | 100.00% | 10,075,293 |
| 3 | Iran | 2716 | Electrical energy | 2025 | 100.00% | 33,576,019 |
| 4 | United Arab Emirates | 1514 | Rape, colza or mustard oil and their fractions; whether or not refined, but not chemically modified | 2025 | 100.00% | 96,858,839 |
| 5 | Indonesia | 2702 | Lignite; whether or not agglomerated, excluding jet | 2025 | 99.96% | 33,822,348 |
| 6 | China | 1006 | Rice | 2025 | 99.94% | 58,341,125 |
| 7 | 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) | 2025 | 99.94% | 17,408,232 |
| 8 | Morocco | 3103 | Fertilizers; mineral or chemical, phosphatic | 2025 | 99.94% | 34,348,724 |
| 9 | China | 5516 | Woven fabrics of artificial staple fibres | 2025 | 99.85% | 64,436,371 |
| 10 | China | 7410 | Copper foil (whether or not printed or backed with paper, paperboard, plastics or similar backing materials) of a thickness (excluding any backing) not exceeding 0.15mm | 2025 | 99.79% | 21,570,536 |
| 11 | China | 6001 | Fabrics; pile fabrics, including long pile fabrics and terry fabrics, knitted or crocheted | 2025 | 99.77% | 265,179,573 |
| 12 | China | 6214 | Shawls, scarves, mufflers, mantillas, veils and the like (not knitted or crocheted) | 2025 | 99.71% | 14,127,066 |
| 13 | China | 7020 | Glass; articles n.e.c. in chapter 70 | 2025 | 99.61% | 23,903,318 |
| 14 | Bangladesh | 5303 | Jute and other textile bast fibres (not flax, true hemp and ramie), raw or processed but not spun; tow and waste of these fibres, including yarn waste and garnetted stock | 2025 | 99.50% | 10,270,113 |
| 15 | China | 7614 | Aluminium; stranded wire, cables, plaited bands and the like, (not electrically insulated) | 2025 | 99.48% | 36,383,514 |
| 16 | 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 | 2025 | 99.47% | 1,955,171,652 |
| 17 | China | 5510 | Yarn (other than sewing thread) of artificial staple fibres, not put up for retail sale | 2025 | 99.22% | 17,382,299 |
| 18 | China | 7213 | Iron or non-alloy steel; bars and rods, hot-rolled, in irregularly wound coils | 2025 | 99.21% | 24,361,685 |
| 19 | China | 9609 | Pencils (not of heading no. 9608), crayons, pencil leads, pastels, drawing charcoals, writing or drawing chalks and tailors' chalks | 2025 | 99.15% | 12,139,851 |
| 20 | China | 8410 | Turbines; hydraulic water wheels and regulators therefor | 2025 | 99.10% | 34,938,827 |
| 21 | China | 5515 | Woven fabrics of synthetic staple fibres, n.e.c. in chapter 55 | 2025 | 99.03% | 40,897,578 |
| 22 | China | 5801 | Fabrics; woven pile and chenille fabrics, other than fabrics of heading no. 5802 or 5806 | 2025 | 98.89% | 56,981,200 |
| 23 | 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 | 98.86% | 22,792,226 |
| 24 | China | 7018 | Glass beads, imitation pearls, precious or semi-precious stones and similar glass smallwares, statuettes and other ornaments of worked glass; glass microspheres not exceeding 1mm in diameter | 2025 | 98.70% | 19,219,223 |
| 25 | China | 5804 | Tulles and other net fabrics; not including woven, knitted or crocheted fabrics; lace in the piece, in strips or in motifs, (other than fabrics of headings 60.02 to 60.06) | 2025 | 98.50% | 48,355,891 |
| 26 | China | 6406 | Footwear; parts of footwear; removable in-soles, heel cushions and similar articles; gaiters, le.g.ings and similar articles, and parts thereof | 2025 | 98.48% | 29,759,944 |
| 27 | China | 6104 | Suits, ensembles, jackets, dresses, skirts, divided skirts, trousers, bib and brace overalls, breeches and shorts (not swimwear), women's or girls', knitted or crocheted | 2025 | 98.30% | 10,784,678 |
| 28 | China | 7227 | Steel, alloy; bars and rods, hot-rolled, in irregularly wound coils | 2025 | 98.11% | 65,285,577 |
| 29 | China | 8301 | Padlocks and locks (key, combination, electrically operated) of base metal; clasps and frames with clasps incorporating locks, of base metal, keys for any or the foregoing articles, of base metal | 2025 | 97.93% | 44,429,049 |
| 30 | Morocco | 2809 | Diphosphorus pentaoxide; phosphoric acid; polyphosphoric acids, whether or not chemically defined | 2025 | 97.52% | 474,266,574 |
| 31 | China | 7117 | Imitation jewellery | 2025 | 97.08% | 13,395,459 |
| 32 | China | 6111 | Garments and clothing accessories, babies'; knitted or crocheted | 2025 | 97.00% | 16,165,309 |
| 33 | China | 7010 | Carboys, bottles, flasks, jars, pots, phials, ampoules, containers of glass of a kind used for the conveyance or packing of goods; preserving jars of glass; stoppers, lids and other closures of glass | 2025 | 96.56% | 29,498,964 |
| 34 | China | 6103 | Suits, ensembles, jackets, blazers, trousers, bib and brace overalls, breeches, shorts (not swimwear); men's or boys', knitted or crocheted | 2025 | 96.42% | 14,114,758 |
| 35 | China | 7606 | Aluminium; plates, sheets and strip, thickness exceeding 0.2mm | 2025 | 96.24% | 54,172,799 |
| 36 | China | 5407 | Woven fabrics of synthetic filament yarn, including woven fabrics obtained from materials of heading no. 5404 | 2025 | 96.14% | 256,145,859 |
| 37 | 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 | 2025 | 95.87% | 26,520,888 |
| 38 | China | 8546 | Electrical insulators of any material | 2025 | 95.70% | 10,667,427 |
| 39 | China | 2926 | Nitrile-function compounds | 2025 | 95.55% | 52,561,556 |
| 40 | Argentina | 1507 | Soya-bean oil and its fractions; whether or not refined, but not chemically modified | 2025 | 95.49% | 294,727,982 |
| 41 | China | 8534 | Circuits; printed | 2025 | 95.15% | 19,623,921 |
| 42 | 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 | 95.14% | 53,641,753 |
| 43 | Netherlands | 0701 | Potatoes; fresh or chilled | 2025 | 95.08% | 11,203,345 |
| 44 | 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 | 2025 | 94.71% | 33,491,791 |
| 45 | China | 8505 | Electro-magnets; permanent magnets, intended permanent magnets; electro-magnetic, permanent magnet chucks, clamps, similar; electromagnetic couplings, clutches, brakes; electro-magnetic lifting heads | 2025 | 94.65% | 14,145,789 |
| 46 | China | 5403 | Artificial filament yarn (other than sewing thread), not put up for retail sale, including artificial monofilament of less than 67 decitex | 2025 | 94.59% | 125,490,422 |
| 47 | China | 5907 | Textile fabrics; otherwise impregnated, coated or covered; painted canvas being theatrical scenery, studio back-cloths or the like | 2025 | 94.34% | 11,373,209 |
| 48 | China | 5208 | Woven fabrics of cotton, containing 85% or more by weight of cotton, weighing not more than 200 g/m2 | 2025 | 94.27% | 154,961,754 |
| 49 | China | 8507 | Electric accumulators, including separators therefor; whether or not rectangular (including square) | 2025 | 94.09% | 222,914,752 |
| 50 | China | 7013 | Glassware of a kind used for table, kitchen, toilet, office, indoor decoration or similar purposes (other than of heading no. 7010 or 7018) | 2025 | 94.01% | 14,707,869 |
| 51 | China | 5210 | Woven fabrics of cotton, containing less than 85% by weight of cotton, mixed mainly or solely with man-made fibres, weighing not more than 200 g/m2 | 2025 | 93.71% | 10,696,092 |
| 52 | China | 7411 | Copper tubes and pipes | 2025 | 93.56% | 73,489,584 |
| 53 | Japan | 5502 | Artificial filament tow | 2025 | 93.29% | 20,933,902 |
| 54 | China | 2102 | Yeasts (active or inactive); other single-cell micro-organisms, dead (but not including vaccines of heading no. 3002); prepared baking powders | 2025 | 93.21% | 11,208,069 |
| 55 | China | 2921 | Amine-function compounds | 2025 | 93.21% | 129,973,841 |
| 56 | China | 8504 | Electric transformers, static converters (e.g. rectifiers) and inductors | 2025 | 92.97% | 564,882,368 |
| 57 | China | 7408 | Copper wire | 2025 | 92.70% | 18,673,671 |
| 58 | China | 0906 | Cinnamon and cinnamon-tree flowers | 2025 | 92.66% | 13,591,938 |
| 59 | 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 | 2025 | 92.56% | 38,016,391 |
| 60 | China | 2831 | Dithionites and sulphoxylates | 2025 | 92.51% | 23,222,648 |
| 61 | China | 7312 | Stranded wire, ropes, cables, plaited bands, slings and the like, of iron or steel, not electrically insulated | 2025 | 91.78% | 27,391,677 |
| 62 | China | 6404 | Footwear; with outer soles of rubber, plastics, leather or composition leather and uppers of textile materials | 2025 | 91.38% | 20,027,636 |
| 63 | China | 2906 | Alcohols; cyclic, and their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives | 2025 | 91.37% | 17,390,256 |
| 64 | Indonesia | 1511 | Palm oil and its fractions; whether or not refined, but not chemically modified | 2025 | 91.07% | 3,506,546,892 |
| 65 | China | 8532 | Electrical capacitors; fixed, variable or adjustable (pre-set) | 2025 | 90.85% | 14,231,117 |
| 66 | 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 | 90.61% | 29,310,929 |
| 67 | China | 8529 | Transmission apparatus; parts suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of heading no. 8524 to 8528 | 2025 | 90.56% | 137,884,778 |
| 68 | China | 8474 | Machinery for sorting, screening, separating, washing, crushing, grinding, mixing or kneading earth, stone, ores in solid form, shaping, moulding machinery for solid mineral fuels | 2025 | 90.32% | 69,820,363 |
| 69 | China | 2941 | Antibiotics | 2025 | 90.22% | 154,265,039 |
| 70 | China | 5902 | Textile fabrics; tyrecord of high tenacity yarn of nylon or other polyamides polyesters or viscose rayon | 2025 | 90.16% | 18,625,277 |
| 71 | China | 5401 | Sewing thread of man-made filaments, whether or not put up for retail sale | 2025 | 90.15% | 31,623,854 |
| 72 | China | 4202 | Trunks; suit, camera, jewellery, cutlery cases; travel, tool, similar bags; wholly or mainly covered by leather, composition leather, plastic sheeting, textile materials, vulcanised fibre, paperboard | 2025 | 89.54% | 21,061,284 |
| 73 | China | 8309 | Stoppers, caps, lids (including crown corks, screw caps, pouring stoppers); capsules for bottles, threaded bungs, bung covers, seals and other packaging accessories, of base metal | 2025 | 89.54% | 13,236,622 |
| 74 | China | 7607 | Aluminium foil (whether or not printed or backed with paper, paperboard, plastics or similar backing materials) of a thickness (excluding any backing) not exceeding 0.2mm | 2025 | 89.32% | 89,152,747 |
| 75 | China | 8714 | Vehicles; parts and accessories of heading no. 8711 to 8713 | 2025 | 89.11% | 49,759,292 |
| 76 | China | 5806 | Fabrics; narrow woven, other than goods of heading 5807; narrow fabrics consisting of warp without weft assembled by means of an adhesive (bolducs) | 2025 | 88.38% | 15,583,417 |
| 77 | Malaysia | 1203 | Copra | 2025 | 88.10% | 17,973,449 |
| 78 | China | 6804 | Millstones, grindstones, grinding wheels, etc without frameworks, for grinding, sharpening, polishing, etc and parts thereof, natural stone, agglomerated natural or artificial abrasives or of ceramics | 2025 | 87.98% | 19,346,685 |
| 79 | China | 7219 | Stainless steel; flat-rolled products of width of 600mm or more | 2025 | 87.96% | 161,424,817 |
| 80 | China | 5903 | Textile fabrics impregnated, coated, covered or laminated with plastics, other than those of heading no. 5902 | 2025 | 87.63% | 85,126,242 |
| 81 | China | 8447 | Knitting machines, stitch-bonding machines and machines for making gimped yarn, tulle, lace, embroidery, trimmings, braid or net and machines for tufting | 2025 | 87.58% | 119,151,007 |
| 82 | 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 | 2025 | 87.47% | 145,626,263 |
| 83 | Kenya | 0902 | Tea | 2025 | 87.44% | 553,991,085 |
| 84 | 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 | 2025 | 87.09% | 43,116,413 |
| 85 | China | 7210 | Iron or non-alloy steel; flat-rolled products, width 600mm or more, clad, plated or coated | 2025 | 86.84% | 389,954,028 |
| 86 | China | 8525 | Transmission apparatus for radio-broadcasting or television, whether or not incorporating reception apparatus or sound recording or reproducing apparatus; television cameras, digital cameras and video camera recorders | 2025 | 86.72% | 33,142,386 |
| 87 | China | 5205 | Cotton yarn (other than sewing thread), containing 85% or more by weight of cotton, not put up for retail sale | 2025 | 86.28% | 288,114,759 |
| 88 | China | 3206 | Colouring matter and preparations thereof n.e.c. in heading no. 3203, 3204, 3205; inorganic products, kind used as luminophores whether or not chemically defined | 2025 | 86.24% | 77,436,238 |
| 89 | China | 5402 | Synthetic filament yarn (other than sewing thread), not put up for retail sale, including synthetic monofilament of less than 67 decitex | 2025 | 86.07% | 532,510,105 |
| 90 | China | 8467 | Tools; for working in the hand, pneumatic, hydraulic or with self-contained electric or non-electric motor | 2025 | 86.03% | 12,904,077 |
| 91 | China | 7007 | Safety glass, consisting of toughened (tempered) or laminated glass | 2025 | 85.77% | 11,848,207 |
| 92 | China | 8308 | Clasps, frames with clasps, buckles, buckle-clasps, hooks, eyes, eyelets etc for clothing & accessories, footwear, jewellery, wrist-watches, books, awnings, leather goods, travel goods, saddlery etc, tubular etc rivets, beads, spangles, of base metal | 2025 | 85.77% | 21,299,903 |
| 93 | 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 | 85.38% | 79,521,052 |
| 94 | 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 | 85.29% | 98,511,645 |
| 95 | 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 | 2025 | 85.28% | 18,787,694 |
| 96 | China | 1206 | Sunflower seeds; whether or not broken | 2025 | 85.21% | 16,764,212 |
| 97 | China | 7217 | Wire of iron or non-alloy steel | 2025 | 85.21% | 10,228,491 |
| 98 | China | 8450 | Household or laundry-type washing machines; including machines which both wash and dry | 2025 | 85.07% | 17,989,718 |
| 99 | Iran | 7201 | Pig iron and spiegeleisen in pigs, blocks or other primary forms | 2025 | 84.81% | 10,535,760 |
| 100 | China | 5509 | Yarn (other than sewing thread) of synthetic staple fibres, not put up for retail sale | 2025 | 84.54% | 90,682,983 |
| 101 | China | 3827 | Mixtures containing halogenated derivatives of methane, ethane or propane, not elsewhere specified or included | 2025 | 84.52% | 13,332,054 |
| 102 | China | 7315 | Chain and parts thereof, of iron or steel | 2025 | 84.15% | 17,587,502 |
| 103 | China | 8462 | Machine-tools (including presses) for working metal by forging, hammering or die forging (excluding rolling mills); machine-tools (including presses, slitting lines and cut-to-length lines) for working metal by bending, folding, straightening, flattening, | 2025 | 84.08% | 13,655,819 |
| 104 | Morocco | 2510 | Natural calcium phosphates; natural aluminium calcium phosphates and phosphatic chalk | 2025 | 84.06% | 110,725,200 |
| 105 | China | 6005 | Fabrics; warp knit (including those made on galloon knitting machines), other than those of headings 60.01 to 60.04 | 2025 | 83.54% | 24,652,034 |
| 106 | China | 8542 | Electronic integrated circuits | 2025 | 83.54% | 20,819,650 |
| 107 | China | 8517 | Telephone sets, including smartphones and other telephones for cellular/wireless networks; other apparatus for the transmission or reception of voice, images or other data (including wired/wireless networks), excluding items of 8443, 8525, 8527, or 8528 | 2025 | 83.48% | 1,799,390,103 |
| 108 | China | 8702 | Vehicles; public transport passenger type | 2025 | 83.40% | 173,584,845 |
| 109 | China | 8506 | Cells and batteries; primary | 2025 | 82.97% | 14,875,575 |
| 110 | Afghanistan | 0806 | Grapes; fresh or dried | 2025 | 82.35% | 57,724,055 |
| 111 | China | 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 | 2025 | 82.34% | 11,517,577 |
| 112 | China | 3921 | Plastic plates, sheets, film, foil and strip n.e.c. in chapter 39 | 2025 | 82.17% | 49,421,812 |
| 113 | Malaysia | 2306 | Oil-cake and other solid residues; whether or not ground or in the form of pellets, resulting from the extraction of vegetable or microbial fats or oils, other than those of heading no. 2304 or 2305 | 2025 | 82.09% | 13,002,787 |
| 114 | China | 8414 | Air or vacuum pumps, air or other gas compressors and fans; ventilating or recycling hoods incorporating a fan; gas-tight biological safety cabinets whether or not fitted with filters | 2025 | 81.79% | 389,278,865 |
| 115 | China | 8523 | Discs, tapes, solid-state non-volatile storage devices, smart cards and other media for the recording of sound or of other phenomena, whether or not recorded, including matrices and masters for the production of discs, excluding products of Chapter 37 | 2025 | 81.72% | 151,795,041 |
| 116 | China | 9608 | Pens; ball-point, felt tipped, other porous tipped pens; fountain pens, stylograph pens duplicating stylos, propelling or sliding pencils; parts of the foregoing, excluding those of heading no. 9609 | 2025 | 81.20% | 13,124,511 |
| 117 | China | 9506 | Gymnastics, athletics, other sports (including table tennis) or outdoor games equipment, n.e.c. in this chapter, swimming pools and paddling pools | 2025 | 81.07% | 18,459,212 |
| 118 | China | 3102 | Fertilizers; mineral or chemical, nitrogenous | 2025 | 81.02% | 22,190,457 |
| 119 | China | 8711 | Motorcycles (including mopeds) and cycles; fitted with an auxiliary motor, with or without side-cars; side-cars | 2025 | 80.96% | 55,839,337 |
| 120 | China | 8428 | Lifting, handling, loading or unloading machinery; n.e.c. in heading no. 8425, 8426 or 8427 (e.g. lifts, escalators, conveyors, teleferics) | 2025 | 80.91% | 48,411,529 |
| 121 | China | 8480 | Moulding boxes for metal foundry, moulding patterns, moulds for metals (excluding ingot moulds), metal carbides, glass, mineral materials, rubber or plastics | 2025 | 80.57% | 44,814,167 |
China: 103 occurrences
Afghanistan: 3 occurrences
Morocco: 3 occurrences
Indonesia: 2 occurrences
Iran: 2 occurrences
Malaysia: 2 occurrences
Argentina: 1 occurrence
Bangladesh: 1 occurrence
Japan: 1 occurrence
Kenya: 1 occurrence
Netherlands: 1 occurrence
United Arab Emirates: 1 occurrence
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