Extreme Import Bottlenecks
The tables below show Saudi Arabia'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.
Saudi Arabia
43 bottlenecks| # | Partner | HS Code | HS Description | Year | Share (%) | Value (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | India | 2621 | Slag and ash n.e.c. in chapter 26; including seaweed ash (kelp) and ash and residues from the incineration of municipal waste | 2024 | 99.98% | 11,339,764 |
| 2 | South Africa | 2602 | Manganese ores and concentrates, including ferruginous manganese ores and concentrates with a manganese content of 20% or more, calculated on the dry weight | 2024 | 99.25% | 35,591,588 |
| 3 | China | 9104 | Instrument panel clocks and clocks of a similar type for vehicles, aircraft, spacecraft or vessels | 2024 | 98.85% | 23,137,592 |
| 4 | Kuwait | 9706 | Antiques; of an age exceeding one hundred years | 2024 | 98.85% | 58,679,453 |
| 5 | Norway | 2820 | Manganese oxides | 2024 | 97.24% | 28,899,189 |
| 6 | Switzerland | 9101 | Wrist-watches, pocket-watches, stop-watches and other watches; with case of precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal | 2024 | 96.87% | 379,878,521 |
| 7 | China | 6702 | Flowers, foliage and fruit, artificial, and parts thereof; articles made of artificial flowers, foliage or fruit | 2024 | 96.36% | 42,992,790 |
| 8 | China | 8715 | Baby carriages and parts thereof | 2024 | 96.22% | 17,923,541 |
| 9 | 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 | 2024 | 96.05% | 2,092,482,972 |
| 10 | Brazil | 1701 | Cane or beet sugar and chemically pure sucrose, in solid form | 2024 | 95.66% | 1,194,957,899 |
| 11 | China | 8102 | Molybdenum; articles thereof, including waste and scrap | 2024 | 95.51% | 15,234,854 |
| 12 | China | 6006 | Fabrics; knitted or crocheted fabrics, other than those of headings 60.01 to 60.04 | 2024 | 95.17% | 60,849,802 |
| 13 | China | 9615 | Combs, hair-slides and similar; hairpins, curling pins, curling grips and hair curlers and the like, other than those of heading no. 8516 and parts thereof | 2024 | 95.05% | 27,573,132 |
| 14 | China | 3913 | Natural polymers (e.g. alginic acid) and modified natural polymers (e.g. hardened proteins, chemical derivatives of natural rubber), n.e.c. or included, in primary forms | 2024 | 92.83% | 74,231,201 |
| 15 | India | 2401 | Tobacco, unmanufactured; tobacco refuse | 2024 | 92.74% | 28,082,535 |
| 16 | China | 9504 | Video game consoles and machines, articles for funfair, table or parlour games, including pintables, billiards, special tables for casino games and automatic bowling alley equipment | 2024 | 91.31% | 325,424,247 |
| 17 | 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 | 2024 | 90.63% | 184,848,129 |
| 18 | China | 9605 | Travel sets; for personal toilet, sewing, shoe or clothes cleaning | 2024 | 90.59% | 17,677,133 |
| 19 | India | 7102 | Diamonds, whether or not worked, but not mounted or set | 2024 | 89.53% | 26,074,187 |
| 20 | China | 7208 | Iron or non-alloy steel; flat-rolled products of a width of 600mm or more, hot-rolled, not clad, plated or coated | 2024 | 89.29% | 1,814,984,337 |
| 21 | China | 6001 | Fabrics; pile fabrics, including long pile fabrics and terry fabrics, knitted or crocheted | 2024 | 89.14% | 27,315,001 |
| 22 | China | 8712 | Bicycles and other cycles; including delivery tricycles, not motorised | 2024 | 87.94% | 28,615,653 |
| 23 | China | 9617 | Vacuum flasks and other vacuum vessels, complete with cases; parts thereof other than glass inners | 2024 | 87.28% | 113,466,604 |
| 24 | United Kingdom | 9701 | Paintings, drawings and pastels, executed entirely by hand; not drawings of heading no. 4906 and not hand-painted, hand-decorated manufactured articles; collages, mosaics and similar decorative plaques | 2024 | 87.12% | 256,004,108 |
| 25 | China | 7904 | Zinc; bars, rods, profiles and wire | 2024 | 86.74% | 37,790,486 |
| 26 | China | 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 | 2024 | 85.85% | 149,136,945 |
| 27 | China | 8713 | Carriages for disabled persons; whether or not motorised or otherwise mechanically propelled | 2024 | 85.48% | 27,246,060 |
| 28 | Viet Nam | 0308 | Aquatic invertebrates other than crustaceans and molluscs, live, fresh, chilled, frozen, dried, salted or in brine; smoked aquatic invertebrates other than crustaceans and molluscs, whether or not cooked before or during the smoking process | 2024 | 84.72% | 12,142,316 |
| 29 | China | 9010 | Photographic (including cinematographic) laboratory apparatus and equipment, n.e.c. in chapter 90; negatoscopes; projection screens | 2024 | 84.52% | 25,197,074 |
| 30 | Germany | 8449 | Machinery; for manufacture or finishing felt or non-wovens in the piece or in shapes, including machinery for making felt hats, blocks for making hats | 2024 | 84.52% | 40,224,422 |
| 31 | China | 1206 | Sunflower seeds; whether or not broken | 2024 | 84.28% | 24,345,281 |
| 32 | China | 2823 | Titanium oxides | 2024 | 83.96% | 36,839,948 |
| 33 | 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 | 2024 | 83.93% | 238,303,968 |
| 34 | China | 8215 | Cutlery; spoons, forks, ladles, skimmers, cake-servers, fish-knives, butter knives, sugar tongs and similar kitchen or tableware | 2024 | 83.08% | 24,598,654 |
| 35 | USA | 3602 | Prepared explosives, other than propellent powders | 2024 | 83.05% | 18,919,595 |
| 36 | United Kingdom | 7204 | Ferrous waste and scrap; remelting scrap ingots of iron or steel | 2024 | 82.95% | 45,500,258 |
| 37 | China | 7227 | Steel, alloy; bars and rods, hot-rolled, in irregularly wound coils | 2024 | 82.89% | 15,367,281 |
| 38 | Indonesia | 0907 | Cloves (whole fruit, cloves and stems) | 2024 | 82.85% | 25,725,247 |
| 39 | China | 8513 | Lamps; portable, electric, designed to function by their own source of energy (e.g. dry batteries, accumulators, magnetos), excluding lighting equipment of heading no. 8512 | 2024 | 82.18% | 30,907,306 |
| 40 | China | 5705 | Carpets and other textile floor coverings; n.e.c. in chapter 57, whether or not made up | 2024 | 81.51% | 19,830,087 |
| 41 | Italy | 2826 | Fluorides; fluorosilicates, fluoroaluminates and other complex fluorine salts | 2024 | 81.32% | 13,076,205 |
| 42 | China | 8519 | Sound recording or reproducing apparatus | 2024 | 81.05% | 52,249,686 |
| 43 | Australia | 2837 | Cyanides, cyanide oxides and complex cyanides | 2024 | 80.59% | 14,076,787 |
China: 27 occurrences
India: 3 occurrences
United Kingdom: 2 occurrences
Australia: 1 occurrence
Brazil: 1 occurrence
Germany: 1 occurrence
Indonesia: 1 occurrence
Italy: 1 occurrence
Kuwait: 1 occurrence
Norway: 1 occurrence
South Africa: 1 occurrence
Switzerland: 1 occurrence
USA: 1 occurrence
Viet Nam: 1 occurrence
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