Country Matrix
For 2021, 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: 2021(98 in Danger Zone)[3 Critical Goods]| Value \ Share | >= 30% | >= 40% | >= 50% | >= 60% | >= 70% | >= 80% | >= 90% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| >= 10 mln USD | 845(98)[3] | 635(69)[2] | 485(53)[2] | 326(38)[2] | 228(27) | 153(16) | 79(9) |
| >= 50 mln USD | 194(24)[1] | 154(19) | 122(14) | 89(10) | 61(7) | 44(3) | 18 |
| >= 100 mln USD | 94(11)[1] | 78(8) | 65(7) | 52(7) | 36(5) | 26(2) | 9 |
| >= 200 mln USD | 49(7)[1] | 38(4) | 33(4) | 26(4) | 16(3) | 11(1) | 5 |
| >= 500 mln USD | 19(4)[1] | 14(2) | 13(2) | 11(2) | 9(1) | 6 | 3 |
Danger Zone Bottlenecks (98 records, >= 30% share, >= 10 mln USD)
| # | Partner | HS Code | HS Description | Year | Share (%) | Value (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United Arab Emirates | 230641 | Oil-cake and other solid residues; whether or not ground or in the form of pellets, resulting from the extraction of low erucic acid rape or colza seed oils | 2021 | 100.00% | 11,619,305 |
| 2 | United Arab Emirates | 290122 | Acyclic hydrocarbons; unsaturated, propene (propylene) | 2021 | 98.87% | 20,458,621 |
| 3 | Ukraine | 720120 | Iron; non-alloy pig iron containing by weight more than 0.5% of phosphorus, in pigs, blocks or other primary forms | 2021 | 97.83% | 24,145,683 |
| 4 | United Arab Emirates | 071340 | Vegetables, leguminous; lentils, shelled, whether or not skinned or split, dried | 2021 | 96.38% | 46,047,632 |
| 5 | United Arab Emirates | 071390 | Vegetables, leguminous; n.e.c. in heading no. 0713, shelled, whether or not skinned or split, dried | 2021 | 96.03% | 12,169,264 |
| 6 | Bahrain | 391723 | Plastics; tubes, pipes and hoses thereof, rigid, of polymers of vinyl chloride | 2021 | 94.45% | 41,277,363 |
| 7 | United Arab Emirates | 482290 | Paper pulp, paper or paperboard; bobbins, spools, cops and similar supports, other than of a kind used for winding textile yarn (whether or not perforated or hardened) | 2021 | 93.42% | 29,193,828 |
| 8 | Kuwait | 392111 | Plastics; plates, sheets, film, foil and strip, of polymers of styrene, cellular | 2021 | 92.85% | 10,141,004 |
| 9 | United Arab Emirates | 740819 | Copper; wire, of refined copper, of which the maximum cross-sectional dimension is 6mm or less | 2021 | 92.28% | 49,877,081 |
| 10 | United Arab Emirates | 700600 | Glass of heading no. 7003, 7004 or 7005; bent, edge-worked, engraved, drilled, enamelled or otherwise worked, but not framed or fitted with other materials | 2021 | 89.74% | 15,118,649 |
| 11 | United Arab Emirates | 481014 | Paper and paperboard; coated with kaolin or other inorganic substances, for printing/writing/graphics, having 10% or less by weight of total fibres got mechanical/chemi-mechanical process, sheets, sides 435mm or less by 297mm or less, unfolded, | 2021 | 88.49% | 39,323,752 |
| 12 | United Arab Emirates | 721070 | Iron or non-alloy steel; flat-rolled, width 600mm or more, painted, varnished or coated with plastics | 2021 | 87.33% | 39,371,574 |
| 13 | United Arab Emirates | 710691 | Metals; silver, unwrought, (but not powder) | 2021 | 84.56% | 15,747,698 |
| 14 | Bahrain | 760120 | Aluminium; unwrought, alloys | 2021 | 84.48% | 300,858,320 |
| 15 | Bahrain | 720711 | Iron or non-alloy steel; semi-finished products of iron or non-alloy steel; containing by weight less than 0.25% of carbon, of rectangular (including square) cross-section, width less than twice thickness | 2021 | 83.53% | 182,523,238 |
| 16 | United Arab Emirates | 210410 | Soups and broths and preparations therefor | 2021 | 81.65% | 51,027,737 |
| 17 | Bahrain | 730810 | Iron or steel; structures and parts thereof, bridges and bridge-sections | 2021 | 79.79% | 94,009,145 |
| 18 | Russian Federation | 293371 | Heterocyclic compounds; lactams; 6-hexanelactam (epsilon-caprolactam) | 2021 | 79.35% | 15,237,500 |
| 19 | United Arab Emirates | 710812 | Metals; gold, non-monetary, unwrought (but not powder) | 2021 | 79.28% | 2,920,097,688 |
| 20 | United Arab Emirates | 721632 | Iron or non-alloy steel; I sections, hot-rolled, hot-drawn or extruded, of a height of 80mm or more | 2021 | 78.96% | 27,258,912 |
| 21 | United Arab Emirates | 843049 | Boring and sinking machinery; not self-propelled | 2021 | 77.61% | 497,064,256 |
| 22 | United Arab Emirates | 721420 | Iron or non-alloy steel; bars and rods, hot-rolled, hot-drawn or hot-extruded, containing indentations, ribs, grooves or other deformations produced during the rolling process or twisted after rolling | 2021 | 77.49% | 194,378,475 |
| 23 | United Arab Emirates | 760110 | Aluminium; unwrought, (not alloyed) | 2021 | 77.24% | 13,094,851 |
| 24 | United Arab Emirates | 390422 | Vinyl chloride, other halogenated olefin polymers; plasticised poly(vinyl chloride), in primary forms, mixed with other substances | 2021 | 71.33% | 16,150,647 |
| 25 | Bahrain | 730120 | Iron or steel; angles, shapes and sections, welded | 2021 | 70.75% | 19,888,859 |
| 26 | Kuwait | 110100 | Wheat or meslin flour | 2021 | 70.64% | 39,610,515 |
| 27 | United Arab Emirates | 760410 | Aluminium; (not alloyed), bars, rods and profiles | 2021 | 70.13% | 33,189,243 |
| 28 | Russian Federation | 854610 | Electrical insulators; of glass | 2021 | 69.79% | 15,276,089 |
| 29 | United Arab Emirates | 390140 | Ethylene polymers; in primary forms, ethylene-alpha-olefin copolymers, having a specific gravity of less than 0.94 | 2021 | 69.26% | 12,436,124 |
| 30 | Kuwait | 271113 | Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons; liquefied, butanes | 2021 | 68.83% | 14,104,522 |
| 31 | Kuwait | 271112 | Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons; liquefied, propane | 2021 | 67.81% | 14,420,700 |
| 32 | United Arab Emirates | 721030 | Iron or non-alloy steel; flat-rolled, width 600mm or more, electrolytically plated or coated with zinc | 2021 | 67.77% | 52,872,395 |
| 33 | Russian Federation | 230320 | Beet-pulp, bagasse and other waste of sugar manufacture; whether or not in the form of pellets | 2021 | 64.83% | 22,504,597 |
| 34 | Ukraine | 151219 | Vegetable oils; sunflower seed or safflower oil and their fractions, other than crude, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified | 2021 | 64.49% | 13,086,368 |
| 35 | Ukraine | 151211 | Vegetable oils; sunflower seed or safflower oil and their fractions, crude, not chemically modified | 2021 | 64.14% | 109,614,443 |
| 36 | United Arab Emirates | 482110 | Paper and paperboard; labels or all kinds, printed | 2021 | 63.79% | 13,873,505 |
| 37 | United Arab Emirates | 740811 | Copper; wire, of refined copper, of which the maximum cross-sectional dimension exceeds 6mm | 2021 | 61.33% | 802,099,517 |
| 38 | United Arab Emirates | 940690 | Buildings; prefabricated, not of wood | 2021 | 60.93% | 30,737,982 |
| 39 | United Arab Emirates | 160290 | Meat preparations; of meat, meat offal or the blood of any animal, n.e.c. in heading no. 1602 | 2021 | 58.93% | 18,594,948 |
| 40 | United Arab Emirates | 480261 | Uncoated paper and paperboard (not 4801 or 4803); over 10% by weight of mechanical or chemi-mechanical processed fibre, in rolls | 2021 | 58.09% | 39,089,179 |
| 41 | Bahrain | 760511 | Aluminium; (not alloyed), wire, maximum cross-sectional dimension exceeds 7mm | 2021 | 58.03% | 89,104,290 |
| 42 | United Arab Emirates | 090230 | Tea, black; (fermented) and partly fermented tea, in immediate packings of a content not exceeding 3kg | 2021 | 57.29% | 56,905,519 |
| 43 | United Arab Emirates | 903289 | Regulating or controlling instruments and apparatus; automatic, other than hydraulic or pneumatic | 2021 | 55.57% | 63,484,896 |
| 44 | Bahrain | 760429 | Aluminium; alloys, bars, rods and profiles, other than hollow | 2021 | 55.25% | 17,627,909 |
| 45 | United Arab Emirates | 340213 | Organic surface-active agents; non-ionic (other than soap), whether or not put up for retail sale | 2021 | 54.75% | 51,176,151 |
| 46 | Kuwait | 842191 | Centrifuges; parts thereof, including parts for centrifugal dryers | 2021 | 52.63% | 11,866,457 |
| 47 | United Arab Emirates | 390120 | Ethylene polymers; in primary forms, polyethylene having a specific gravity of 0.94 or more | 2021 | 52.56% | 41,342,319 |
| 48 | 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) | 2021 | 52.50% | 43,383,365 |
| 49 | Bahrain | 701912 | Glass fibres; (including glass wool), rovings | 2021 | 51.91% | 42,436,114 |
| 50 | Bahrain | 481820 | Paper articles; handkerchiefs, cleansing or facial tissues and towels | 2021 | 51.50% | 22,374,913 |
| 51 | United Arab Emirates | 390390 | Styrene polymers; in primary forms, n.e.c. in heading no. 3903 | 2021 | 50.68% | 11,758,657 |
| 52 | United Arab Emirates | 390210 | Propylene, other olefin polymers; polypropylene in primary forms | 2021 | 50.15% | 45,723,779 |
| 53 | Kuwait | 190211 | Food preparations; pasta, containing eggs, uncooked, not stuffed or otherwise prepared | 2021 | 50.03% | 10,618,178 |
| 54 | United Arab Emirates | 240311 | Tobacco; smoking, water pipe tobacco as specified in Subheading Note 1 to this Chapter, whether or not containing tobacco substitutes in any proportion | 2021 | 49.29% | 20,017,729 |
| 55 | United Arab Emirates | 841583 | Air conditioning machines; containing a motor driven fan, other than window or wall types, not incorporating a refrigerating unit | 2021 | 48.37% | 19,949,515 |
| 56 | United Arab Emirates | 853521 | Electrical apparatus; automatic circuit breakers, for a voltage exceeding 1000 volts but less than 72.5kV | 2021 | 48.20% | 55,229,041 |
| 57 | United Arab Emirates | 481810 | Paper articles; toilet paper | 2021 | 48.02% | 40,951,549 |
| 58 | United Arab Emirates | 392321 | Ethylene polymers; sacks and bags (including cones), for the conveyance or packing of goods | 2021 | 47.16% | 14,814,217 |
| 59 | United Arab Emirates | 853529 | Electrical apparatus; automatic circuit breakers, for a voltage of 72.5kV or more | 2021 | 45.89% | 62,742,400 |
| 60 | United Arab Emirates | 190120 | Food preparations; mixes and doughs for the preparation of bread, pastry, cakes, biscuits and other bakers' wares | 2021 | 45.60% | 38,031,168 |
| 61 | United Arab Emirates | 320890 | Paints and varnishes; based on polymers n.e.c. in heading no. 3208, dispersed or dissolved in a non-aqueous medium | 2021 | 45.46% | 33,666,570 |
| 62 | United Arab Emirates | 690723 | Ceramic tiles; flags and paving, hearth or wall tiles other than those of subheadings 6907.30 and 6907.40, of a water absorption coefficient by weight over 10% | 2021 | 45.44% | 35,533,453 |
| 63 | United Arab Emirates | 330510 | Hair preparations; shampoos | 2021 | 44.92% | 51,924,107 |
| 64 | Bahrain | 040630 | Dairy produce; cheese, processed (not grated or powdered) | 2021 | 42.86% | 134,091,609 |
| 65 | United Arab Emirates | 730300 | Cast iron; tubes, pipes and hollow profiles | 2021 | 42.67% | 36,063,709 |
| 66 | United Arab Emirates | 392590 | Plastics; builders' ware, n.e.c. or included in heading no. 3925 | 2021 | 42.52% | 20,747,103 |
| 67 | Bahrain | 848790 | Machinery parts; not containing electrical connectors, insulators, coils, contacts or other electrical features, n.e.c. in chapter 84, other than ships' or boats' propellers and blades therefor | 2021 | 42.20% | 17,468,900 |
| 68 | Qatar | 281512 | Sodium hydroxide (caustic soda); in aqueous solution (soda lye or liquid soda) | 2021 | 41.66% | 31,710,877 |
| 69 | United Arab Emirates | 721049 | Iron or non-alloy steel; flat-rolled, width 600mm or more, (not corrugated), plated or coated with zinc (not electrolytically) | 2021 | 40.11% | 77,852,727 |
| 70 | United Arab Emirates | 761090 | Aluminium; structures (excluding prefabricated buildings of heading no. 9406) and parts of structures, n.e.c. in heading no. 7610, plates, rods, profiles, tubes and the like | 2021 | 39.72% | 43,183,383 |
| 71 | United Arab Emirates | 071320 | Vegetables, leguminous; chickpeas (garbanzos), shelled, whether or not skinned or split, dried | 2021 | 39.55% | 18,542,453 |
| 72 | United Arab Emirates | 721391 | Iron or non-alloy steel; bars and rods, hot-rolled, in irregularly wound coils, n.e.c. in heading no. 7213, of circular cross-section measuring less than 14mm in diameter | 2021 | 38.96% | 63,740,066 |
| 73 | United Arab Emirates | 320649 | Colouring matter; other preparations n.e.c. in item no. 3206.4 | 2021 | 38.09% | 11,442,161 |
| 74 | United Arab Emirates | 200599 | Vegetable preparations; vegetables and mixtures of vegetables n.e.c. in heading no. 2005, prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, not frozen | 2021 | 37.42% | 27,150,294 |
| 75 | United Arab Emirates | 570330 | Carpets and other textile floor coverings; tufted, of man-made textile materials (other than polyamides), whether or not made up | 2021 | 37.23% | 46,709,811 |
| 76 | United Arab Emirates | 711319 | Jewellery; of precious metal (excluding silver) whether or not plated or clad with precious metal, and parts thereof | 2021 | 36.98% | 521,416,246 |
| 77 | United Arab Emirates | 210112 | Preparations with a basis of extracts, essences or concentrates or with a basis of coffee | 2021 | 36.81% | 19,448,610 |
| 78 | United Arab Emirates | 620630 | Blouses, shirts and shirt-blouses; women's or girls', of cotton (not knitted or crocheted) | 2021 | 35.85% | 14,319,528 |
| 79 | Kuwait | 160290 | Meat preparations; of meat, meat offal or the blood of any animal, n.e.c. in heading no. 1602 | 2021 | 35.81% | 11,298,658 |
| 80 | Syria | 150910 | Vegetable oils; olive oil and its fractions, virgin, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified | 2021 | 35.77% | 35,951,237 |
| 81 | United Arab Emirates | 030211 | Fish; fresh or chilled, trout (Salmo trutta, Oncorhynchus mykiss, Oncorhynchus clarki, Oncorhynchus aguabonita, Oncorhynchus gilae, Oncorhynchus apache and Oncorhynchus chrysogaster), excluding fillets, fish meat of 0304, and edible fish offal of 0302.9 | 2021 | 35.38% | 13,300,119 |
| 82 | Bahrain | 720310 | Ferrous products; obtained by direct reduction of iron ore, in lumps, pellets or similar forms | 2021 | 34.89% | 718,322,842 |
| 83 | United Arab Emirates | 110311 | Cereal groats and meal; of wheat | 2021 | 34.70% | 10,717,203 |
| 84 | United Arab Emirates | 760429 | Aluminium; alloys, bars, rods and profiles, other than hollow | 2021 | 34.39% | 10,973,892 |
| 85 | Ukraine | 230320 | Beet-pulp, bagasse and other waste of sugar manufacture; whether or not in the form of pellets | 2021 | 34.28% | 11,899,694 |
| 86 | United Arab Emirates | 160100 | Meat preparations; sausages and similar products, of meat, meat offal, blood or insects, and food preparations based on these products | 2021 | 32.87% | 22,435,588 |
| 87 | United Arab Emirates | 381220 | Plasticisers, compound; for rubber or plastics | 2021 | 32.84% | 22,506,088 |
| 88 | United Arab Emirates | 392190 | Plastics; plates, sheets, film, foil and strip, other than cellular | 2021 | 32.44% | 33,609,827 |
| 89 | United Arab Emirates | 820750 | Tools, interchangeable; (for machine or hand tools, whether or not power-operated), tools for drilling (other than rock) | 2021 | 32.34% | 18,320,328 |
| 90 | United Arab Emirates | 151190 | Vegetable oils; palm oil and its fractions, other than crude, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified | 2021 | 32.32% | 38,061,542 |
| 91 | United Arab Emirates | 030617 | Crustaceans; frozen, shrimps and prawns, excluding cold-water varieties, in shell or not, smoked, cooked or not before or during smoking; in shell, cooked by steaming or by boiling in water | 2021 | 32.26% | 13,723,222 |
| 92 | United Arab Emirates | 890520 | Floating or submersible drilling or production platforms | 2021 | 32.01% | 211,858,994 |
| 93 | Kuwait | 220210 | Waters; including mineral and aerated, containing added sugar or other sweetening matter or flavoured | 2021 | 31.33% | 24,196,148 |
| 94 | Ukraine | 721631 | Iron or non-alloy steel; U sections, hot-rolled, hot-drawn or extruded, of a height of 80mm or more | 2021 | 31.11% | 11,153,793 |
| 95 | Bahrain | 381220 | Plasticisers, compound; for rubber or plastics | 2021 | 31.06% | 21,285,060 |
| 96 | United Arab Emirates | 390421 | Vinyl chloride, other halogenated olefin polymers; non-plasticised poly(vinyl chloride), in primary forms, mixed with other substances | 2021 | 30.96% | 17,724,626 |
| 97 | Russian Federation | 151211 | Vegetable oils; sunflower seed or safflower oil and their fractions, crude, not chemically modified | 2021 | 30.75% | 52,552,043 |
| 98 | Syria | 070200 | Vegetables; tomatoes, fresh or chilled | 2021 | 30.12% | 48,067,550 |
Partner frequency summary:
United Arab Emirates: 65 occurrences
Bahrain: 13 occurrences
Kuwait: 8 occurrences
Ukraine: 5 occurrences
Russian Federation: 4 occurrences
Syria: 2 occurrences
Qatar: 1 occurrence
Critical Goods in table:
271112 - Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons...
271113 - Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons...
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.