Extreme Import Bottlenecks
The tables below show El Salvador'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.
El Salvador
30 bottlenecks| # | Partner | HS Code | HS Description | Year | Share (%) | Value (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 7206 | Iron and non-alloy steel in ingots or other primary forms (excluding iron of heading no. 7203) | 2025 | 100.00% | 51,831,500 |
| 2 | USA | 5201 | Cotton; not carded or combed | 2025 | 100.00% | 76,374,774 |
| 3 | USA | 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 | 2025 | 99.92% | 20,794,293 |
| 4 | Guatemala | 0704 | Cabbages, cauliflowers, kohlrabi, kale and similar edible brassicas; fresh or chilled | 2025 | 99.89% | 13,582,833 |
| 5 | USA | 0203 | Meat of swine; fresh, chilled or frozen | 2025 | 98.48% | 64,072,693 |
| 6 | Nicaragua | 1202 | Ground-nuts; not roasted or otherwise cooked, whether or not shelled or broken | 2025 | 97.97% | 11,822,141 |
| 7 | China | 7213 | Iron or non-alloy steel; bars and rods, hot-rolled, in irregularly wound coils | 2025 | 97.64% | 30,898,556 |
| 8 | Brazil | 4703 | Chemical wood pulp, soda or sulphate, other than dissolving grades | 2025 | 97.49% | 42,932,390 |
| 9 | Nicaragua | 0201 | Meat of bovine animals; fresh or chilled | 2025 | 97.24% | 164,161,320 |
| 10 | USA | 9999 | Commodities not specified according to kind | 2025 | 96.71% | 57,948,493 |
| 11 | USA | 6309 | Textiles; worn clothing and other worn articles | 2025 | 96.66% | 71,030,646 |
| 12 | Guatemala | 2105 | Ice cream and other edible ice; whether or not containing cocoa | 2025 | 95.90% | 18,649,251 |
| 13 | Guatemala | 0709 | Vegetables; n.e.c. in chapter 07, fresh or chilled | 2025 | 95.25% | 12,895,605 |
| 14 | United Arab Emirates | 7601 | Aluminium; unwrought | 2025 | 94.86% | 15,975,284 |
| 15 | Guatemala | 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 | 2025 | 93.81% | 47,475,997 |
| 16 | Spain | 1509 | Olive oil and its fractions; whether or not refined, but not chemically modified | 2025 | 92.90% | 14,427,392 |
| 17 | Mexico | 2402 | Cigars, cheroots, cigarillos and cigarettes; of tobacco or of tobacco substitutes | 2025 | 92.85% | 22,271,277 |
| 18 | China | 7228 | Alloy steel bars, rods, shapes and sections; hollow drill bars and rods, of alloy or non-alloy steel | 2025 | 91.50% | 12,962,444 |
| 19 | China | 7117 | Imitation jewellery | 2025 | 89.64% | 15,725,052 |
| 20 | 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 | 2025 | 89.57% | 21,080,215 |
| 21 | USA | 2710 | Petroleum oils and oils from bituminous minerals, not crude; preparations n.e.c, containing by weight 70% or more of petroleum oils or oils from bituminous minerals; these being the basic constituents of the preparations; waste oils | 2025 | 89.53% | 1,621,369,853 |
| 22 | USA | 2304 | Oil-cake and other solid residues; whether or not ground or in the form of pellets, resulting from the extraction of soya-bean oil | 2025 | 89.01% | 102,270,025 |
| 23 | China | 9505 | Festive, carnival or other entertainment articles, including conjuring tricks and novelty jokes | 2025 | 88.70% | 13,755,698 |
| 24 | Rep. of Korea | 7225 | Alloy steel flat-rolled products, of a width 600mm or more | 2025 | 87.83% | 154,463,192 |
| 25 | USA | 2711 | Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons | 2025 | 82.94% | 428,512,211 |
| 26 | Guatemala | 0701 | Potatoes; fresh or chilled | 2025 | 82.41% | 19,347,517 |
| 27 | Nicaragua | 0713 | Vegetables, leguminous; shelled, whether or not skinned or split, dried | 2025 | 82.07% | 47,960,511 |
| 28 | USA | 2713 | Petroleum coke, petroleum bitumen; other residues of petroleum oils or oils obtained from bituminous minerals | 2025 | 81.33% | 29,053,932 |
| 29 | China | 8539 | Lamps; electric filament or discharge lamps, including sealed beam lamp units and ultra-violet or infra-red lamps, arc lamps, light-emitting diode (LED) light sources | 2025 | 80.44% | 12,303,377 |
| 30 | China | 7604 | Aluminium; bars, rods and profiles | 2025 | 80.10% | 17,832,191 |
USA: 9 occurrences
China: 8 occurrences
Guatemala: 5 occurrences
Nicaragua: 3 occurrences
Brazil: 1 occurrence
Mexico: 1 occurrence
Rep. of Korea: 1 occurrence
Spain: 1 occurrence
United Arab Emirates: 1 occurrence
Legend:
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