Extreme Import Bottlenecks
The tables below show China'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.
China
52 bottlenecks| # | Partner | HS Code | HS Description | Year | Share (%) | Value (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Switzerland | 8603 | Railway or tramway coaches, vans and trucks; self-propelled tenders, other than those of heading no. 8604 | 2025 | 100.00% | 20,100,060 |
| 2 | Bangladesh | 5307 | Yarn of jute or of other textile bast fibres of heading no. 5305 | 2025 | 99.99% | 97,590,261 |
| 3 | Japan | 5405 | Artificial monofilament of 67 decitex or more, no cross-sectional dimension exceeds 1mm; strip and the like (e.g. artificial straw), of artificial textile materials of a width not exceeding 5mm | 2025 | 99.88% | 13,112,531 |
| 4 | Spain | 0210 | Meat and edible meat offal; salted, in brine, dried or smoked; edible flours and meals of meat or meat offal | 2025 | 99.51% | 35,488,791 |
| 5 | Indonesia | 0908 | Nutmeg, mace and cardamoms | 2025 | 99.39% | 124,979,746 |
| 6 | Russian Federation | 2524 | Asbestos | 2025 | 99.32% | 43,800,729 |
| 7 | New Zealand | 0208 | Meat and edible meat offal, n.e.c. in chapter 2; fresh, chilled or frozen | 2025 | 98.50% | 12,122,183 |
| 8 | Italy | 2002 | Tomatoes; prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid | 2025 | 98.33% | 10,277,297 |
| 9 | Australia | 0102 | Bovine animals; live | 2025 | 98.23% | 46,704,206 |
| 10 | Japan | 7111 | Base metals, silver or gold, clad with platinum; not further worked than semi-manufactured | 2025 | 97.77% | 13,361,928 |
| 11 | Chile | 0809 | Apricots, cherries, peaches (including nectarines), plums and sloes, fresh | 2025 | 97.50% | 3,659,920,321 |
| 12 | Indonesia | 0907 | Cloves (whole fruit, cloves and stems) | 2025 | 97.01% | 33,346,077 |
| 13 | Indonesia | 8111 | Manganese; articles thereof, including waste and scrap | 2025 | 96.43% | 47,998,894 |
| 14 | Thailand | 1102 | Cereal flours; other than of wheat or meslin | 2025 | 96.35% | 39,145,874 |
| 15 | China, Hong Kong SAR | 4707 | Waste and scrap of paper and paperboard | 2025 | 95.78% | 105,882,528 |
| 16 | Canada | 1205 | Rape or colza seeds; whether or not broken | 2025 | 94.78% | 1,286,884,587 |
| 17 | Japan | 2828 | Hypochlorites; commercial calcium hypochlorite; chlorites; hypobromites | 2025 | 94.68% | 15,774,379 |
| 18 | Switzerland | 9101 | Wrist-watches, pocket-watches, stop-watches and other watches; with case of precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal | 2025 | 94.17% | 742,501,731 |
| 19 | France | 0105 | Poultry; live, fowls of the species Gallus domesticus, ducks, geese, turkeys and guinea fowls | 2025 | 94.13% | 48,423,561 |
| 20 | Indonesia | 2704 | Coke and semi-coke; of coal, lignite or peat, whether or not agglomerated; retort carbon | 2025 | 93.80% | 107,784,413 |
| 21 | Türkiye | 2528 | Natural borates and concentrates thereof (whether or not calcined), but not including borates separated from natural brine; natural boric acid containing not more than 85 % of H3BO3 calculated on the dry weight | 2025 | 92.94% | 126,739,494 |
| 22 | Myanmar | 0703 | Onions, shallots, garlic, leeks and other alliaceous vegetables; fresh or chilled | 2025 | 92.76% | 10,186,500 |
| 23 | India | 0909 | Seeds of anise, badian, fennel, coriander, cumin, caraway or juniper | 2025 | 92.66% | 58,329,836 |
| 24 | Rep. of Korea | 2842 | Salts of inorganic acids or peroxoacids, n.e.c. including aluminosilicates whether or not chemically defined, but excluding azides | 2025 | 92.51% | 1,795,051,674 |
| 25 | Dem. People's Rep. of Korea | 6704 | Wigs, false beards, eyebrows and eyelashes, switches and the like, of human or animal hair or of textile materials; articles of human hair, n.e.c. or included | 2025 | 92.45% | 205,008,819 |
| 26 | Denmark | 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 | 92.10% | 3,131,524,287 |
| 27 | Indonesia | 1516 | Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their fractions, partly or wholly hydrogenated, inter-esterified, re-esterified or elaidinised, whether or not refined, but not further prepared | 2025 | 91.68% | 1,667,391,125 |
| 28 | Japan | 8702 | Vehicles; public transport passenger type | 2025 | 91.39% | 17,304,602 |
| 29 | China, Hong Kong SAR | 0101 | Horses, asses, mules and hinnies; live | 2025 | 91.16% | 294,268,909 |
| 30 | Japan | 2206 | Fermented beverages, n.e.c. in chapter 22; (e.g. cider, perry, mead, sake) | 2025 | 90.50% | 86,413,289 |
| 31 | Indonesia | 1517 | Margarine; edible mixtures or preparations of animal, vegetable or microbial fats or oils or of fractions of different fats or oils of this Chapter, other than edible fats and oils or their fractions of heading 15.16 | 2025 | 90.17% | 1,549,016,293 |
| 32 | Indonesia | 2702 | Lignite; whether or not agglomerated, excluding jet | 2025 | 90.09% | 8,498,426,699 |
| 33 | India | 0904 | Pepper of the genus piper; dried or crushed or ground fruits of the genus capsicum or of the genus pimenta | 2025 | 89.25% | 559,600,200 |
| 34 | Indonesia | 7201 | Pig iron and spiegeleisen in pigs, blocks or other primary forms | 2025 | 88.87% | 242,441,670 |
| 35 | Switzerland | 9102 | Wrist-watches, pocket-watches, stop-watches and other watches, other than those of heading no. 9101 | 2025 | 88.46% | 1,695,545,081 |
| 36 | Germany | 4812 | Filter blocks, slabs and plates of paper pulp | 2025 | 88.39% | 12,177,190 |
| 37 | Indonesia | 7218 | Stainless steel in ingots or other primary forms; semi-finished products of stainless steel | 2025 | 87.66% | 284,081,381 |
| 38 | Lao People's Dem. Rep. | 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 | 87.31% | 69,816,890 |
| 39 | Indonesia | 7501 | Nickel mattes; nickel oxide sinters and other intermediate products of nickel metallurgy | 2025 | 86.61% | 8,153,485,176 |
| 40 | New Zealand | 0405 | Butter and other fats and oils derived from milk; dairy spreads | 2025 | 85.70% | 1,044,219,567 |
| 41 | Poland | 8706 | Chassis; fitted with engines, for the motor vehicles of heading no. 8701 to 8705 | 2025 | 85.60% | 85,899,084 |
| 42 | Brazil | 1701 | Cane or beet sugar and chemically pure sucrose, in solid form | 2025 | 84.47% | 1,843,676,834 |
| 43 | Russian Federation | 4801 | Newsprint, in rolls or sheets | 2025 | 84.44% | 125,937,798 |
| 44 | Viet Nam | 5206 | Cotton yarn (other than sewing thread), containing less than 85% by weight of cotton, not put up for retail sale | 2025 | 83.26% | 268,134,521 |
| 45 | Netherlands | 0601 | Bulbs, tubers, tuberous roots, corms, crowns and rhizomes; dormant, in growth or in flower; chicory plants and roots other than roots of heading no. 1212 | 2025 | 83.00% | 207,702,617 |
| 46 | Indonesia | 7219 | Stainless steel; flat-rolled products of width of 600mm or more | 2025 | 82.51% | 1,762,894,697 |
| 47 | Rep. of Korea | 2808 | Nitric acid; sulphonitric acids | 2025 | 82.37% | 15,224,021 |
| 48 | Dem. Rep. of the Congo | 8105 | Cobalt; mattes and other intermediate products of cobalt metallurgy, cobalt and articles thereof, including waste and scrap | 2025 | 81.43% | 1,821,177,788 |
| 49 | France | 8109 | Zirconium; articles thereof, including waste and scrap | 2025 | 81.12% | 31,557,104 |
| 50 | Austria | 4813 | Cigarette paper, whether or not cut to size or in the form of booklets or tubes | 2025 | 80.90% | 58,571,299 |
| 51 | South Africa | 2610 | Chromium ores and concentrates | 2025 | 80.80% | 4,976,002,768 |
| 52 | Rep. of Korea | 2837 | Cyanides, cyanide oxides and complex cyanides | 2025 | 80.48% | 18,300,581 |
Indonesia: 11 occurrences
Japan: 5 occurrences
Rep. of Korea: 3 occurrences
Switzerland: 3 occurrences
China, Hong Kong SAR: 2 occurrences
France: 2 occurrences
India: 2 occurrences
New Zealand: 2 occurrences
Russian Federation: 2 occurrences
Australia: 1 occurrence
Austria: 1 occurrence
Bangladesh: 1 occurrence
Brazil: 1 occurrence
Canada: 1 occurrence
Chile: 1 occurrence
Dem. People's Rep. of Korea: 1 occurrence
Dem. Rep. of the Congo: 1 occurrence
Denmark: 1 occurrence
Germany: 1 occurrence
Italy: 1 occurrence
Lao People's Dem. Rep.: 1 occurrence
Myanmar: 1 occurrence
Netherlands: 1 occurrence
Poland: 1 occurrence
South Africa: 1 occurrence
Spain: 1 occurrence
Thailand: 1 occurrence
Türkiye: 1 occurrence
Viet Nam: 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.