Extreme Import Bottlenecks
The tables below show USA'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.
USA
78 bottlenecks| # | Partner | HS Code | HS Description | Year | Share (%) | Value (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Canada | 2607 | Lead ores and concentrates | 2025 | 100.00% | 119,640,154 |
| 2 | Canada | 2716 | Electrical energy | 2025 | 100.00% | 2,267,967,173 |
| 3 | Canada | 0701 | Potatoes; fresh or chilled | 2025 | 99.96% | 361,173,239 |
| 4 | Canada | 0103 | Swine; live | 2025 | 99.92% | 632,653,842 |
| 5 | Canada | 1004 | Oats | 2025 | 99.91% | 343,823,995 |
| 6 | Canada | 4801 | Newsprint, in rolls or sheets | 2025 | 99.87% | 420,116,369 |
| 7 | Peru | 2510 | Natural calcium phosphates; natural aluminium calcium phosphates and phosphatic chalk | 2025 | 99.55% | 367,687,436 |
| 8 | Canada | 0105 | Poultry; live, fowls of the species Gallus domesticus, ducks, geese, turkeys and guinea fowls | 2025 | 99.33% | 43,658,904 |
| 9 | Canada | 8602 | Rail locomotives; (other than those of heading no. 8601), locomotive tenders | 2025 | 99.16% | 12,618,280 |
| 10 | South Africa | 2610 | Chromium ores and concentrates | 2025 | 98.75% | 50,074,118 |
| 11 | Canada | 2702 | Lignite; whether or not agglomerated, excluding jet | 2025 | 98.48% | 12,656,877 |
| 12 | Trinidad and Tobago | 7203 | Ferrous products obtained by direct reduction of iron ore and other spongy ferrous products, in lumps, pellets or the like; iron having a minimum purity of 99.94%, in lumps, pellets or similar forms | 2025 | 98.36% | 619,035,641 |
| 13 | Canada | 1514 | Rape, colza or mustard oil and their fractions; whether or not refined, but not chemically modified | 2025 | 98.33% | 3,040,703,126 |
| 14 | Canada | 2306 | Oil-cake and other solid residues; whether or not ground or in the form of pellets, resulting from the extraction of vegetable or microbial fats or oils, other than those of heading no. 2304 or 2305 | 2025 | 98.16% | 999,459,729 |
| 15 | Switzerland | 9101 | Wrist-watches, pocket-watches, stop-watches and other watches; with case of precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal | 2025 | 98.14% | 1,575,894,033 |
| 16 | Canada | 1001 | Wheat and meslin | 2025 | 98.03% | 693,141,149 |
| 17 | Canada | 2616 | Precious metal ores and concentrates | 2025 | 97.66% | 15,873,749 |
| 18 | Canada | 1003 | Barley | 2025 | 97.31% | 48,126,519 |
| 19 | Canada | 2829 | Chlorates and perchlorates; bromates and perbromates; iodates and periodates | 2025 | 96.48% | 162,197,993 |
| 20 | Canada | 4704 | Chemical wood pulp, sulphite, other than dissolving grades | 2025 | 96.47% | 278,220,723 |
| 21 | Ireland | 2937 | Hormones, prostaglandins, thromboxanes and leukotrienes, natural or reproduced by synthesis; derivatives and structural analogues thereof, including chain modified polypeptides, used primarily as hormones. | 2025 | 96.15% | 56,304,022,884 |
| 22 | China | 8304 | Office equipment; filing cabinets, card-index cabinets, paper trays and rests, pen trays, office-stamp stands and the like, of base metal, other than office furniture of heading no. 9403 | 2025 | 95.71% | 132,690,185 |
| 23 | Canada | 4707 | Waste and scrap of paper and paperboard | 2025 | 95.09% | 94,852,882 |
| 24 | China | 8715 | Baby carriages and parts thereof | 2025 | 94.71% | 279,309,364 |
| 25 | Switzerland | 9108 | Watch movements; complete and assembled | 2025 | 94.25% | 27,290,428 |
| 26 | China | 6702 | Flowers, foliage and fruit, artificial, and parts thereof; articles made of artificial flowers, foliage or fruit | 2025 | 94.01% | 1,005,648,048 |
| 27 | Canada | 2711 | Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons | 2025 | 93.33% | 12,237,484,587 |
| 28 | Canada | 0209 | Pig fat, free of lean meat, and poultry fat, not rendered or otherwise extracted, fresh, chilled, frozen, salted, in brine, dried or smoked | 2025 | 92.63% | 13,686,717 |
| 29 | China | 6601 | Umbrellas; sun umbrellas (including walking stick umbrellas, garden umbrellas and similar umbrellas) | 2025 | 92.63% | 398,139,849 |
| 30 | China | 3604 | Fireworks, signalling flares, rain rockets, fog signals and other pyrotechnic articles | 2025 | 92.43% | 505,991,320 |
| 31 | France | 4416 | Casks, barrels, vats, tubs and other coopers' products and parts thereof, of wood, including staves | 2025 | 92.37% | 186,664,873 |
| 32 | Canada | 1213 | Cereal straw and husks, unprepared; whether or not chopped, ground, pressed or in the form of pellets | 2025 | 91.65% | 11,906,964 |
| 33 | Canada | 2703 | Peat; (including peat litter), whether or not agglomerated | 2025 | 91.56% | 376,183,948 |
| 34 | Canada | 7501 | Nickel mattes; nickel oxide sinters and other intermediate products of nickel metallurgy | 2025 | 91.53% | 21,428,704 |
| 35 | Canada | 4410 | Particle board, oriented strand board (OSB) and similar board (e.g. waferboard) of wood or other ligneous materials, whether or not agglomerated with resins or other organic binding substances | 2025 | 91.16% | 1,827,633,266 |
| 36 | Portugal | 4503 | Cork; articles of natural cork | 2025 | 91.13% | 139,218,755 |
| 37 | Canada | 1507 | Soya-bean oil and its fractions; whether or not refined, but not chemically modified | 2025 | 90.36% | 145,708,441 |
| 38 | Mexico | 8603 | Railway or tramway coaches, vans and trucks; self-propelled tenders, other than those of heading no. 8604 | 2025 | 90.36% | 79,776,088 |
| 39 | China | 4903 | Children's picture, drawing or colouring books | 2025 | 90.02% | 455,121,548 |
| 40 | Canada | 3826 | Biodiesel and mixtures thereof; not containing or containing less than 70% by weight of petroleum oils or oils obtained from bituminous minerals | 2025 | 89.91% | 95,173,815 |
| 41 | China | 6502 | Hat-shapes; plaited or made by assembling strips of any material, neither blocked to shape, nor with made brims, nor lined, nor trimmed | 2025 | 89.73% | 10,069,216 |
| 42 | Canada | 4301 | Raw furskins (including heads, tails, paws, other pieces or cuttings, suitable for furriers' use), excluding raw hides and skins of heading no. 4101, 4102 or 4103 | 2025 | 89.49% | 15,401,253 |
| 43 | Canada | 8604 | Railway or tramway maintenance or service vehicles; whether or not self-propelled (e.g. workshops, cranes, ballast tampers, trackliners, testing coaches and track inspection vehicles) | 2025 | 88.70% | 30,009,381 |
| 44 | Canada | 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 | 2025 | 88.46% | 301,878,539 |
| 45 | China | 9617 | Vacuum flasks and other vacuum vessels, complete with cases; parts thereof other than glass inners | 2025 | 88.32% | 1,298,276,506 |
| 46 | Canada | 1214 | Swedes, mangolds, fodder roots, hay, lucerne (alfalfa), clover, sainfoin, forage kale, lupines, vetches and similar forage products, whether or not in the form of pellets | 2025 | 87.75% | 106,447,763 |
| 47 | India | 7104 | Stones; synthetic or reconstructed precious or semi-precious, whether or not worked or graded but not strung, mounted or set; ungraded synthetic or reconstructed precious or semi-precious stones, temporarily strung for convenience of transport | 2025 | 87.47% | 526,162,864 |
| 48 | Canada | 3817 | Mixed alkylbenzenes and mixed alkylnaphthalenes, other than those of heading no. 2707 or 2902 | 2025 | 86.89% | 91,168,335 |
| 49 | Canada | 4705 | Wood pulp obtained by a combination of mechanical and chemical pulping processes | 2025 | 85.96% | 77,777,656 |
| 50 | Italy | 2205 | Vermouth and other wine of fresh grapes, flavoured with plants or aromatic substances | 2025 | 85.89% | 127,204,322 |
| 51 | China | 9605 | Travel sets; for personal toilet, sewing, shoe or clothes cleaning | 2025 | 85.50% | 37,625,707 |
| 52 | Canada | 2708 | Pitch and pitch coke; obtained from coal tar or from other mineral tars | 2025 | 85.28% | 63,036,844 |
| 53 | Canada | 0102 | Bovine animals; live | 2025 | 84.92% | 1,821,342,202 |
| 54 | Mexico | 2203 | Beer made from malt | 2025 | 84.64% | 6,101,376,799 |
| 55 | Türkiye | 5406 | Man-made filament yarn (other than sewing thread), put up for retail sale | 2025 | 84.47% | 36,567,641 |
| 56 | Canada | 1002 | Rye | 2025 | 84.34% | 41,773,224 |
| 57 | China | 9610 | Slates and boards, with writing or drawing surfaces, whether or not framed | 2025 | 84.28% | 100,951,055 |
| 58 | Canada | 3104 | Fertilizers; mineral or chemical, potassic | 2025 | 83.85% | 2,992,668,018 |
| 59 | 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 | 2025 | 83.75% | 279,290,980 |
| 60 | Canada | 2503 | Sulphur of all kinds; other than sublimed, precipitated and colloidal sulphur | 2025 | 83.56% | 281,058,414 |
| 61 | Canada | 1204 | Oil seeds; linseed, whether or not broken | 2025 | 83.41% | 72,369,331 |
| 62 | Switzerland | 9102 | Wrist-watches, pocket-watches, stop-watches and other watches, other than those of heading no. 9101 | 2025 | 83.23% | 3,790,811,595 |
| 63 | Mexico | 6809 | Plaster or compositions based on plaster; articles thereof | 2025 | 83.00% | 284,562,693 |
| 64 | Canada | 8805 | Aircraft launching gear, deck-arrestor or similar gear, ground flying trainers; parts of the foregoing articles | 2025 | 82.49% | 438,448,593 |
| 65 | Indonesia | 1511 | Palm oil and its fractions; whether or not refined, but not chemically modified | 2025 | 82.47% | 1,491,133,650 |
| 66 | Japan | 3707 | Chemical preparations for photographic uses (other than varnishes, glues, adhesives and similar preparations); unmixed products for photographic uses, put up in measured portions or for retail sale | 2025 | 82.28% | 408,435,669 |
| 67 | Mexico | 0705 | Lettuce (lactuca sativa) and chicory (cichorium spp.) fresh or chilled | 2025 | 82.18% | 377,281,055 |
| 68 | Mexico | 8704 | Vehicles; for the transport of goods | 2025 | 82.03% | 34,187,965,322 |
| 69 | Germany | 5403 | Artificial filament yarn (other than sewing thread), not put up for retail sale, including artificial monofilament of less than 67 decitex | 2025 | 82.01% | 40,567,286 |
| 70 | Canada | 2806 | Hydrogen chloride (hydrochloric acid); chlorosulphuric acid | 2025 | 81.30% | 56,701,115 |
| 71 | Mexico | 0702 | Tomatoes; fresh or chilled | 2025 | 81.01% | 2,401,527,224 |
| 72 | China | 6603 | Trimmings, parts and accessories of articles of heading no. 6601 or 6602 | 2025 | 80.87% | 61,281,951 |
| 73 | 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 | 2025 | 80.68% | 656,237,932 |
| 74 | China | 9208 | Musical boxes, fairground and mechanical street organs, mechanical singing birds, musical saws and musical instruments n.e.c. in chapter 92; decoy calls of all kinds; whistles; call horns and other mouth-blown sound signalling instruments | 2025 | 80.62% | 17,356,653 |
| 75 | India | 8706 | Chassis; fitted with engines, for the motor vehicles of heading no. 8701 to 8705 | 2025 | 80.62% | 123,759,718 |
| 76 | Australia | 2612 | Uranium or thorium ores and concentrates | 2025 | 80.43% | 604,565,088 |
| 77 | Ireland | 3302 | Odoriferous substances and mixtures (including alcoholic solutions) with a basis of one or more of these substances, of a kind used as raw materials in industry; other preparations based on odoriferous substances, of a kind used for beverage manufacture | 2025 | 80.18% | 2,406,161,583 |
| 78 | Canada | 1520 | Glycerol, crude; glycerol waters and glycerol lyes | 2025 | 80.15% | 22,862,501 |
Canada: 40 occurrences
China: 14 occurrences
Mexico: 6 occurrences
Switzerland: 3 occurrences
India: 2 occurrences
Ireland: 2 occurrences
Australia: 1 occurrence
France: 1 occurrence
Germany: 1 occurrence
Indonesia: 1 occurrence
Italy: 1 occurrence
Japan: 1 occurrence
Peru: 1 occurrence
Portugal: 1 occurrence
South Africa: 1 occurrence
Trinidad and Tobago: 1 occurrence
Türkiye: 1 occurrence
Legend:
Highlight - the row matches a Danger Zone country and/or a Critical Goods HS code.
ABCBold red partner name - the import source country is flagged in the Danger Zone.
1234Bold lime HS code - the product code is flagged in Critical Goods.