Country Matrix
For 2020, 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: 2020(44 in Danger Zone)| Value \ Share | >= 30% | >= 40% | >= 50% | >= 60% | >= 70% | >= 80% | >= 90% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| >= 10 mln USD | 381(44) | 249(29) | 165(18) | 115(14) | 72(9) | 42(7) | 13(3) |
| >= 50 mln USD | 161(24) | 111(16) | 78(11) | 51(8) | 34(5) | 18(4) | 8(2) |
| >= 100 mln USD | 97(11) | 72(8) | 55(7) | 38(6) | 27(4) | 15(4) | 7(2) |
| >= 200 mln USD | 47(5) | 39(4) | 32(4) | 26(4) | 17(2) | 10(2) | 6(2) |
| >= 500 mln USD | 12(3) | 11(2) | 10(2) | 10(2) | 7(1) | 1(1) | 1(1) |
Danger Zone Bottlenecks (44 records, >= 30% share, >= 10 mln USD)
| # | Partner | HS Code | HS Description | Year | Share (%) | Value (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United Arab Emirates | 7408 | Copper wire | 2020 | 95.91% | 765,662,743 |
| 2 | United Arab Emirates | 1004 | Oats | 2020 | 92.96% | 12,331,393 |
| 3 | Bahrain | 7601 | Aluminium; unwrought | 2020 | 91.86% | 354,172,147 |
| 4 | Kuwait | 7206 | Iron and non-alloy steel in ingots or other primary forms (excluding iron of heading no. 7203) | 2020 | 86.04% | 24,514,399 |
| 5 | 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 | 2020 | 83.62% | 187,864,248 |
| 6 | Ukraine | 7201 | Pig iron and spiegeleisen in pigs, blocks or other primary forms | 2020 | 81.37% | 151,572,379 |
| 7 | United Arab Emirates | 7106 | Silver (including silver plated with gold or platinum); unwrought or in semi-manufactured forms, or in powder form | 2020 | 81.29% | 13,739,904 |
| 8 | 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 | 2020 | 74.28% | 62,560,619 |
| 9 | Bahrain | 7614 | Aluminium; stranded wire, cables, plaited bands and the like, (not electrically insulated) | 2020 | 72.89% | 32,262,984 |
| 10 | Bahrain | 2714 | Bitumen and asphalt, natural; bituminous or oil shale and tar sands; asphaltites and asphaltic rocks | 2020 | 68.77% | 220,777,055 |
| 11 | United Arab Emirates | 7108 | Gold (including gold plated with platinum) unwrought or in semi-manufactured forms, or in powder form | 2020 | 67.30% | 784,682,514 |
| 12 | Russian Federation | 2303 | Residues of starch manufacture, similar residues; beet-pulp, bagasse and other waste of sugar manufacture, brewing or distilling dregs and waste, whether or not in the form of pellets | 2020 | 66.55% | 22,562,761 |
| 13 | Kuwait | 1101 | Wheat or meslin flour | 2020 | 66.04% | 41,529,159 |
| 14 | United Arab Emirates | 7604 | Aluminium; bars, rods and profiles | 2020 | 62.95% | 61,227,681 |
| 15 | Ukraine | 1512 | Sun-flower seed, safflower or cotton-seed oil and their fractions; whether or not refined, but not chemically modified | 2020 | 57.68% | 70,346,303 |
| 16 | Bahrain | 7207 | Iron or non-alloy steel; semi-finished products thereof | 2020 | 57.48% | 162,945,720 |
| 17 | United Arab Emirates | 2104 | Soups and broths and preparations therefor; homogenised composite food preparations | 2020 | 50.57% | 50,374,459 |
| 18 | United Arab Emirates | 7407 | Copper; bars, rods and profiles | 2020 | 50.33% | 13,242,824 |
| 19 | United Arab Emirates | 7213 | Iron or non-alloy steel; bars and rods, hot-rolled, in irregularly wound coils | 2020 | 49.10% | 80,058,903 |
| 20 | 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 | 2020 | 48.23% | 14,239,482 |
| 21 | United Arab Emirates | 7310 | Tanks, casks, drums, cans, boxes and similar containers, for any material (excluding compressed or liquefied gas), of iron or steel, capacity not exceeding 300l, whether or not lined or heat-insulated | 2020 | 47.74% | 29,789,249 |
| 22 | United Arab Emirates | 2403 | Manufactured tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes n.e.c; homogenised or reconstituted tobacco; tobacco extracts and essences | 2020 | 47.66% | 18,964,894 |
| 23 | United Arab Emirates | 6810 | Cement, concrete or artificial stone; whether or not reinforced, articles thereof | 2020 | 47.59% | 16,440,075 |
| 24 | United Arab Emirates | 7303 | Tubes, pipes and hollow profiles, of cast iron | 2020 | 45.56% | 36,628,272 |
| 25 | Bahrain | 7605 | Aluminium wire | 2020 | 45.18% | 71,642,049 |
| 26 | United Arab Emirates | 0713 | Vegetables, leguminous; shelled, whether or not skinned or split, dried | 2020 | 44.50% | 64,666,614 |
| 27 | United Arab Emirates | 4911 | Printed matter, n.e.c., including printed pictures and photographs | 2020 | 42.74% | 16,406,370 |
| 28 | United Arab Emirates | 1602 | Prepared or preserved meat, meat offal, blood or insects | 2020 | 42.48% | 51,001,404 |
| 29 | United Arab Emirates | 7210 | Iron or non-alloy steel; flat-rolled products, width 600mm or more, clad, plated or coated | 2020 | 42.31% | 177,813,989 |
| 30 | Syria | 0909 | Seeds of anise, badian, fennel, coriander, cumin, caraway or juniper | 2020 | 39.14% | 13,464,196 |
| 31 | United Arab Emirates | 1601 | Sausages and similar products, of meat, meat offal, blood or insects; food preparations based on these products | 2020 | 38.89% | 27,487,280 |
| 32 | Russian Federation | 1003 | Barley | 2020 | 38.87% | 549,232,979 |
| 33 | United Arab Emirates | 8430 | Moving, grading, levelling, scraping, excavating, tamping, compacting, extracting or boring machinery, for earth, minerals, or ores; pile drivers and extractors; snow ploughs and snow blowers | 2020 | 36.50% | 98,905,448 |
| 34 | United Arab Emirates | 3305 | Hair preparations; for use on the hair | 2020 | 36.30% | 111,897,715 |
| 35 | United Arab Emirates | 3902 | Polymers of propylene or of other olefins, in primary forms | 2020 | 35.83% | 41,923,748 |
| 36 | United Arab Emirates | 3401 | Soap; organic surface-active preparations used as soap, skin washing, in bars, cakes, moulded pieces, shapes, liquid or cream, containing soap or not; for retail, paper, wadding, felt and nonwovens, impregnated, coated or covered with soap or detergent | 2020 | 34.87% | 97,949,746 |
| 37 | United Arab Emirates | 0902 | Tea | 2020 | 34.59% | 84,949,060 |
| 38 | United Arab Emirates | 3901 | Polymers of ethylene, in primary forms | 2020 | 34.55% | 115,861,240 |
| 39 | United Arab Emirates | 3208 | Paints, varnishes; (enamels and lacquers) based on synthetic polymers or chemically modified natural polymers, dispersed or dissolved in a non-aqueous medium | 2020 | 34.37% | 37,933,912 |
| 40 | 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 | 2020 | 33.12% | 26,567,021 |
| 41 | United Arab Emirates | 7605 | Aluminium wire | 2020 | 32.91% | 52,193,987 |
| 42 | United Arab Emirates | 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 | 2020 | 32.12% | 63,792,107 |
| 43 | 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 | 2020 | 30.94% | 31,197,914 |
| 44 | Russian Federation | 1512 | Sun-flower seed, safflower or cotton-seed oil and their fractions; whether or not refined, but not chemically modified | 2020 | 30.90% | 37,686,560 |
Partner frequency summary:
United Arab Emirates: 29 occurrences
Bahrain: 7 occurrences
Russian Federation: 3 occurrences
Kuwait: 2 occurrences
Ukraine: 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.