Country Matrix
For 2015, 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: 2015(46 in Danger Zone)| Value \ Share | >= 30% | >= 40% | >= 50% | >= 60% | >= 70% | >= 80% | >= 90% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| >= 10 mln USD | 392(46) | 256(31) | 161(24) | 103(13) | 60(10) | 32(4) | 19(2) |
| >= 50 mln USD | 176(22) | 114(14) | 75(11) | 48(7) | 21(4) | 11(1) | 4 |
| >= 100 mln USD | 99(14) | 67(7) | 45(7) | 29(5) | 14(3) | 8(1) | 4 |
| >= 200 mln USD | 52(7) | 39(3) | 28(3) | 16(2) | 11(2) | 5 | 3 |
| >= 500 mln USD | 16(2) | 12 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
Danger Zone Bottlenecks (46 records, >= 30% share, >= 10 mln USD)
| # | Partner | HS Code | HS Description | Year | Share (%) | Value (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Qatar | 3817 | Mixed alkylbenzenes and mixed alkylnaphthalenes, other than those of heading no. 2707 or 2902 | 2015 | 93.88% | 11,551,750 |
| 2 | United Arab Emirates | 7106 | Silver (including silver plated with gold or platinum); unwrought or in semi-manufactured forms, or in powder form | 2015 | 90.04% | 15,667,807 |
| 3 | Bahrain | 7614 | Aluminium; stranded wire, cables, plaited bands and the like, (not electrically insulated) | 2015 | 84.56% | 151,846,729 |
| 4 | United Arab Emirates | 3806 | Rosin and resin acids and derivatives thereof; rosin spirit and rosin oils; run gums | 2015 | 81.46% | 18,862,181 |
| 5 | Qatar | 7601 | Aluminium; unwrought | 2015 | 78.83% | 88,038,438 |
| 6 | United Arab Emirates | 0102 | Bovine animals; live | 2015 | 74.08% | 17,547,379 |
| 7 | United Arab Emirates | 3212 | Pigments (metallic powders and flakes) dispersed in non-aqueous media in liquid or paste form, as used in manufacture of paints (including enamels); stamping foils, dyes etc in forms, packing for retail sale | 2015 | 73.47% | 28,690,817 |
| 8 | United Arab Emirates | 7612 | Aluminium casks, drums, cans, boxes etc (including rigid, collapsible tubular containers), for materials other than compressed, liquefied gas, 300l capacity or less, lined, heat-insulated or not | 2015 | 72.15% | 38,676,433 |
| 9 | Bahrain | 7604 | Aluminium; bars, rods and profiles | 2015 | 71.20% | 307,278,437 |
| 10 | United Arab Emirates | 7409 | Copper plates, sheets and strip; of a thickness exceeding 0.15mm | 2015 | 70.70% | 211,923,775 |
| 11 | Bahrain | 7605 | Aluminium wire | 2015 | 63.73% | 169,723,408 |
| 12 | United Arab Emirates | 0902 | Tea | 2015 | 60.94% | 155,986,018 |
| 13 | Ukraine | 1512 | Sun-flower seed, safflower or cotton-seed oil and their fractions; whether or not refined, but not chemically modified | 2015 | 60.18% | 65,610,418 |
| 14 | United Arab Emirates | 7008 | Glass; multiple-walled insulating units of glass | 2015 | 58.68% | 14,268,970 |
| 15 | United Arab Emirates | 7219 | Stainless steel; flat-rolled products of width of 600mm or more | 2015 | 58.43% | 109,123,302 |
| 16 | Bahrain | 3810 | Metal-pickling preparations; fluxes etc for soldering, brazing; welding powders, pastes of metal and other materials; preparations used as cores or coatings for welding electrodes or rods | 2015 | 58.38% | 27,751,684 |
| 17 | Kuwait | 7206 | Iron and non-alloy steel in ingots or other primary forms (excluding iron of heading no. 7203) | 2015 | 57.98% | 30,207,466 |
| 18 | United Arab Emirates | 4821 | Paper or paperboard labels of all kinds, whether or not printed | 2015 | 57.66% | 13,481,132 |
| 19 | Bahrain | 7301 | Iron or steel sheet piling, whether or not drilled, punched or made from assembled elements; welded angles, shapes and sections, of iron or steel | 2015 | 56.51% | 72,242,038 |
| 20 | Kuwait | 1101 | Wheat or meslin flour | 2015 | 55.54% | 38,654,621 |
| 21 | United Arab Emirates | 7408 | Copper wire | 2015 | 54.73% | 416,020,849 |
| 22 | Bahrain | 4415 | Packing cases, boxes, crates, drums and similar packings, of wood; cable-drums of wood; pallets, box pallets and other load boards, of wood; pallet collars of wood | 2015 | 53.10% | 10,487,204 |
| 23 | United Arab Emirates | 5703 | Carpets and other textile floor coverings (including turf); tufted, whether or not made up | 2015 | 52.97% | 86,190,621 |
| 24 | United Arab Emirates | 8903 | Yachts and other vessels; for pleasure or sports, rowing boats and canoes | 2015 | 50.06% | 17,153,228 |
| 25 | Syria | 0909 | Seeds of anise, badian, fennel, coriander, cumin, caraway or juniper | 2015 | 49.96% | 13,178,163 |
| 26 | United Arab Emirates | 7005 | Glass; float glass and surface ground or polished glass, in sheets, whether or not having an absorbent, reflecting or non-reflecting layer, but not otherwise worked | 2015 | 49.37% | 24,352,969 |
| 27 | Bahrain | 4818 | Toilet paper, width 36cm or less or cut to size/shape; handkerchiefs, tissues, towels, serviettes, bed sheets and similar household or hospital articles, apparel and clothing accessories of paper pulp, paper, cellulose wadding or webs of cellulose fibres | 2015 | 48.67% | 62,294,231 |
| 28 | United Arab Emirates | 1602 | Prepared or preserved meat, meat offal, blood or insects | 2015 | 46.95% | 66,314,980 |
| 29 | United Arab Emirates | 0713 | Vegetables, leguminous; shelled, whether or not skinned or split, dried | 2015 | 46.91% | 73,081,885 |
| 30 | United Arab Emirates | 7407 | Copper; bars, rods and profiles | 2015 | 44.72% | 44,153,831 |
| 31 | United Arab Emirates | 2523 | Portland cement, aluminous cement (ciment fondu), slag cement, supersulphate cement and similar hydraulic cements, whether or not coloured or in the form of clinkers | 2015 | 42.68% | 35,812,385 |
| 32 | United Arab Emirates | 1213 | Cereal straw and husks, unprepared; whether or not chopped, ground, pressed or in the form of pellets | 2015 | 39.06% | 12,354,829 |
| 33 | Ukraine | 7207 | Iron or non-alloy steel; semi-finished products thereof | 2015 | 38.46% | 234,024,125 |
| 34 | Bahrain | 2713 | Petroleum coke, petroleum bitumen; other residues of petroleum oils or oils obtained from bituminous minerals | 2015 | 36.87% | 170,488,628 |
| 35 | United Arab Emirates | 3907 | Polyacetals, other polyethers and epoxide resins, in primary forms; polycarbonates, alkyd resins, polyallyl esters and other polyesters, in primary forms | 2015 | 36.05% | 140,341,159 |
| 36 | United Arab Emirates | 0306 | Crustaceans; in shell or not, live, fresh, chilled, frozen, dried, salted or in brine; smoked, cooked or not before or during smoking; in shell, steamed or boiled, whether or not chilled, frozen, dried, salted or in brine | 2015 | 36.01% | 31,374,130 |
| 37 | Russian Federation | 1003 | Barley | 2015 | 36.00% | 727,958,124 |
| 38 | Bahrain | 3812 | Prepared rubber accelerators; compound plasticisers for rubber or plastics, n.e.c. or included; anti-oxidising preparations and other compound stabilisers for rubber or plastics | 2015 | 35.95% | 39,966,118 |
| 39 | United Arab Emirates | 7214 | Iron or non-alloy steel; bars and rods, not further worked than forged, hot-rolled, hot drawn or hot-extruded, but including those twisted after rolling | 2015 | 35.91% | 47,427,197 |
| 40 | United Arab Emirates | 7108 | Gold (including gold plated with platinum) unwrought or in semi-manufactured forms, or in powder form | 2015 | 35.42% | 1,828,106,498 |
| 41 | United Arab Emirates | 8905 | Light-vessels, fire-floats, dredgers, floating cranes, other vessels; the navigability of which is subsidiary to main function; floating docks, floating, submersible drilling, production platforms | 2015 | 35.01% | 211,543,740 |
| 42 | United Arab Emirates | 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 | 2015 | 33.02% | 18,800,312 |
| 43 | United Arab Emirates | 9406 | Buildings; prefabricated | 2015 | 32.87% | 48,226,379 |
| 44 | United Arab Emirates | 1806 | Chocolate and other food preparations containing cocoa | 2015 | 32.84% | 181,035,513 |
| 45 | United Arab Emirates | 1104 | Cereal grains otherwise worked (e.g. hulled, rolled, flaked, pearled, sliced or kibbled) except rice of heading no. 1006; germ of cereals whole, rolled, flaked or ground | 2015 | 32.30% | 14,738,184 |
| 46 | Russian Federation | 7201 | Pig iron and spiegeleisen in pigs, blocks or other primary forms | 2015 | 30.89% | 85,534,023 |
Partner frequency summary:
United Arab Emirates: 28 occurrences
Bahrain: 9 occurrences
Qatar: 2 occurrences
Ukraine: 2 occurrences
Kuwait: 2 occurrences
Russian Federation: 2 occurrences
Syria: 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.