Country Matrix
For 2008, the matrix below shows Saudi Arabia's number of import bottlenecks for different combinations of minimum import share (%) and minimum import value (USD). Red parentheses show bottlenecks from Danger Zone countries, and lime square brackets show bottlenecks involving Critical Goods.
Saudi Arabia
Year: 2008(55 in Danger Zone)| Value \ Share | >= 30% | >= 40% | >= 50% | >= 60% | >= 70% | >= 80% | >= 90% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| >= 10 mln USD | 650(55) | 462(47) | 338(34) | 246(24) | 149(15) | 91(14) | 48(7) |
| >= 50 mln USD | 167(14) | 122(12) | 92(9) | 71(7) | 44(5) | 27(5) | 17(4) |
| >= 100 mln USD | 86(7) | 62(5) | 45(4) | 33(4) | 20(2) | 10(2) | 5(1) |
| >= 200 mln USD | 39(4) | 21(2) | 16(2) | 12(2) | 9(1) | 4(1) | 3(1) |
| >= 500 mln USD | 14 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
Danger Zone Bottlenecks (55 records, >= 30% share, >= 10 mln USD)
| # | Partner | HS Code | HS Description | Year | Share (%) | Value (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Russian Federation | 720150 | Iron; alloy pig iron; spiegeleisen, in pigs, blocks or other primary forms | 2008 | 99.57% | 72,747,558 |
| 2 | United Arab Emirates | 110429 | Cereal grains; worked, other than rolled or flaked (e.g. Hulled, pearled, sliced or kibbled) of cereals, excluding oats and maize, and rice of heading no.1006 | 2008 | 98.39% | 51,822,465 |
| 3 | Ukraine | 151211 | Vegetable oils; sunflower seed or safflower oil and their fractions, crude, not chemically modified | 2008 | 93.82% | 33,876,042 |
| 4 | Bahrain | 760429 | Aluminium; alloys, bars, rods and profiles, other than hollow | 2008 | 92.31% | 294,020,101 |
| 5 | Syria | 070200 | Vegetables; tomatoes, fresh or chilled | 2008 | 91.00% | 42,465,386 |
| 6 | Bahrain | 761490 | Aluminium; stranded wire, cables, plaited bands and the like, (not electrically insulated), other than steel core | 2008 | 90.48% | 80,298,500 |
| 7 | Russian Federation | 810890 | Titanium; other than unwrought, n.e.c. in heading no. 8108 | 2008 | 90.48% | 11,422,681 |
| 8 | Bahrain | 760120 | Aluminium; unwrought, alloys | 2008 | 89.82% | 13,363,483 |
| 9 | Bahrain | 760421 | Aluminium; alloys, hollow profiles | 2008 | 89.06% | 30,962,972 |
| 10 | Bahrain | 760511 | Aluminium; (not alloyed), wire, maximum cross-sectional dimension exceeds 7mm | 2008 | 88.22% | 40,578,984 |
| 11 | Bahrain | 761410 | Aluminium; stranded wire, cables, plaited bands and the like, (not electrically insulated), with steel core | 2008 | 87.31% | 21,451,760 |
| 12 | Bahrain | 481820 | Paper articles; handkerchiefs, cleansing or facial tissues and towels | 2008 | 82.46% | 31,034,439 |
| 13 | United Arab Emirates | 481810 | Paper articles; toilet paper | 2008 | 81.53% | 21,310,693 |
| 14 | United Arab Emirates | 151190 | Vegetable oils; palm oil and its fractions, other than crude, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified | 2008 | 80.53% | 127,621,760 |
| 15 | United Arab Emirates | 570292 | Carpets and other textile floor coverings; woven, (not tufted or flocked), of man-made textile materials, (not of pile construction), made up, n.e.c. in item no. 5702.10 or 5702.20 | 2008 | 73.54% | 18,843,224 |
| 16 | United Arab Emirates | 151219 | Vegetable oils; sunflower seed or safflower oil and their fractions, other than crude, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified | 2008 | 69.26% | 29,634,170 |
| 17 | United Arab Emirates | 090230 | Tea, black; (fermented) and partly fermented tea, in immediate packings of a content not exceeding 3kg | 2008 | 66.49% | 109,923,337 |
| 18 | United Arab Emirates | 700529 | Glass; float glass and surface ground or polished glass, in sheets, non-wired, (other than coloured throughout the mass (body tinted), opacified, flashed or merely surface ground) | 2008 | 65.95% | 11,744,281 |
| 19 | United Arab Emirates | 840390 | Boilers; parts of central heating boilers (excluding those of heading no. 8402) | 2008 | 65.43% | 11,915,748 |
| 20 | Russian Federation | 283531 | Polyphosphates; sodium triphosphate (sodium tripolyphosphate), whether or not chemically defined | 2008 | 63.64% | 33,440,842 |
| 21 | United Arab Emirates | 180632 | Chocolate and other food preparations containing cocoa; in blocks, slabs or bars, (not filled), weighing 2kg or less | 2008 | 62.59% | 14,984,819 |
| 22 | Bahrain | 760410 | Aluminium; (not alloyed), bars, rods and profiles | 2008 | 62.15% | 33,935,242 |
| 23 | Russian Federation | 740710 | Copper; bars, rods and profiles, of refined copper | 2008 | 61.63% | 372,895,133 |
| 24 | Bahrain | 391723 | Plastics; tubes, pipes and hoses thereof, rigid, of polymers of vinyl chloride | 2008 | 60.48% | 13,298,683 |
| 25 | United Arab Emirates | 390120 | Ethylene polymers; in primary forms, polyethylene having a specific gravity of 0.94 or more | 2008 | 59.91% | 87,955,843 |
| 26 | United Arab Emirates | 701939 | Glass fibres; webs, mattresses, boards and similar non-woven products excluding mats and thin sheets | 2008 | 59.42% | 10,388,280 |
| 27 | United Arab Emirates | 392330 | Plastics; carboys, bottles, flasks and similar articles, for the conveyance or packing of goods | 2008 | 57.86% | 13,805,884 |
| 28 | United Arab Emirates | 840420 | Boilers; condensers, for steam or other vapour power units | 2008 | 57.46% | 22,682,695 |
| 29 | United Arab Emirates | 170199 | Sugars; sucrose, chemically pure, in solid form, not containing added flavouring or colouring matter | 2008 | 57.11% | 80,532,367 |
| 30 | Qatar | 381700 | Mixed alkylbenzenes and mixed alkylnaphthalenes, other than those of heading no. 2707 or 2902 | 2008 | 55.04% | 25,556,565 |
| 31 | Bahrain | 760110 | Aluminium; unwrought, (not alloyed) | 2008 | 54.73% | 13,148,550 |
| 32 | United Arab Emirates | 340220 | Washing and cleaning preparations; surface-active, whether or not containing soap (excluding those of heading no. 3401), put up for retail sale | 2008 | 52.84% | 15,398,153 |
| 33 | United Arab Emirates | 340111 | Soap and organic surface-active products; in the form of bars, cakes, moulded shapes, and paper, wadding, felt and nonwovens, impregnated, coated or covered with soap or detergent, for toilet use (including medicated products) | 2008 | 51.61% | 22,121,628 |
| 34 | Syria | 392099 | Plastics; plates, sheets, film, foil and strip (not self-adhesive), of plastics n.e.c. in heading no. 3920, non-cellular and not reinforced, laminated, supported or similarly combined with other materials | 2008 | 50.23% | 20,749,893 |
| 35 | Syria | 010410 | Sheep; live | 2008 | 48.48% | 177,978,889 |
| 36 | United Arab Emirates | 252321 | Cement; portland, white, whether or not artificially coloured | 2008 | 47.23% | 14,830,152 |
| 37 | United Arab Emirates | 210320 | Sauces; tomato ketchup and other tomato sauces | 2008 | 47.06% | 14,444,285 |
| 38 | Russian Federation | 100110 | - Durum wheat | 2008 | 47.03% | 37,551,514 |
| 39 | Kuwait | 110100 | Wheat or meslin flour | 2008 | 46.42% | 26,223,766 |
| 40 | United Arab Emirates | 300450 | Medicaments; containing vitamins or their derivatives, for therapeutic or prophylactic use, packaged for retail sale | 2008 | 45.17% | 86,117,708 |
| 41 | Kuwait | 701990 | Glass fibres; n.e.c. in heading no. 7019 | 2008 | 44.10% | 23,209,629 |
| 42 | United Arab Emirates | 690890 | -Other | 2008 | 43.94% | 79,003,032 |
| 43 | Bahrain | 760720 | Aluminium; foil, backed with paper, paperboard, plastics or similar backing materials, of a thickness (excluding any backing) not exceeding 0.2mm | 2008 | 43.59% | 16,606,421 |
| 44 | United Arab Emirates | 760110 | Aluminium; unwrought, (not alloyed) | 2008 | 42.72% | 10,264,279 |
| 45 | Kuwait | 730810 | Iron or steel; structures and parts thereof, bridges and bridge-sections | 2008 | 40.21% | 26,449,100 |
| 46 | United Arab Emirates | 721310 | Iron or non-alloy steel; bars and rods, hot-rolled, in irregularly wound coils, containing indentations, ribs, grooves or other deformations produced during the rolling process | 2008 | 40.09% | 10,184,279 |
| 47 | United Arab Emirates | 380891 | Insecticides; other than containing goods specified in Subheading Notes 1 & 2 to this Chapter; put up in forms or packings for retail sale or as preparations or articles | 2008 | 40.04% | 18,139,756 |
| 48 | Iran | 290220 | Cyclic hydrocarbons; benzene | 2008 | 38.83% | 200,135,450 |
| 49 | United Arab Emirates | 151710 | Margarine; excluding liquid margarine | 2008 | 38.44% | 12,897,616 |
| 50 | United Arab Emirates | 841989 | Machinery, plant and laboratory equipment; for treating materials by change of temperature, other than for making hot drinks or cooking or heating food | 2008 | 37.32% | 275,206,211 |
| 51 | United Arab Emirates | 180620 | Chocolate & other food preparations containing cocoa; in blocks, slabs or bars weighing more than 2kg or in liquid, paste, powder, granular or other bulk form in containers or immediate packings, content exceeding 2kg | 2008 | 36.44% | 34,047,243 |
| 52 | United Arab Emirates | 730810 | Iron or steel; structures and parts thereof, bridges and bridge-sections | 2008 | 35.79% | 23,542,963 |
| 53 | United Arab Emirates | 330510 | Hair preparations; shampoos | 2008 | 35.36% | 15,574,419 |
| 54 | Ukraine | 290290 | Cyclic hydrocarbons; n.e.c. in heading no. 2902 | 2008 | 34.89% | 14,590,952 |
| 55 | United Arab Emirates | 210500 | Ice cream and other edible ice; whether or not containing cocoa | 2008 | 31.77% | 10,956,280 |
Partner frequency summary:
United Arab Emirates: 29 occurrences
Bahrain: 11 occurrences
Russian Federation: 5 occurrences
Syria: 3 occurrences
Kuwait: 3 occurrences
Ukraine: 2 occurrences
Qatar: 1 occurrence
Iran: 1 occurrence
Legend:
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The number in red parentheses indicates bottlenecks from countries flagged in the Danger Zone.
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The number in lime square brackets indicates bottlenecks involving HS codes flagged in Critical Goods.