Trade in a Bottle: Identifying Import Bottlenecks in International Trade

Extreme Import Bottlenecks

The tables below show Jamaica'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.

Jamaica

13 bottlenecks
#Partner HS Code HS DescriptionYearShare (%) Value (USD)
1USA0407Birds' eggs, in shell; fresh, preserved or cooked2025100.00%49,473,457
2USA2304Oil-cake and other solid residues; whether or not ground or in the form of pellets, resulting from the extraction of soya-bean oil2025100.00%44,880,081
3USA2815Sodium hydroxide (caustic soda); potassium hydroxide (caustic potash) peroxides of sodium or potassium202598.44%87,032,454
4USA1001Wheat and meslin202598.17%49,735,836
5Norway0305Fish, dried, salted or in brine; smoked fish, whether or not cooked before, or during the smoking process202595.81%28,581,737
6USA1005Maize (corn)202595.71%75,852,369
7Australia0204Meat of sheep or goats; fresh, chilled or frozen202594.75%19,799,878
8USA2710Petroleum 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 oils202592.43%813,508,500
9USA4407Wood sawn or chipped lengthwise, sliced or peeled, whether or not planed, sanded or finger-jointed, of a thickness exceeding 6mm202585.94%40,361,516
10USA8443Printing machinery; used for printing by means of plates, cylinders and other printing components of heading 84.42; other printers, copying machines and facsimile machines, whether or not combined; parts and accessories thereof202585.88%25,797,518
11USA2207Ethyl alcohol, undenatured; of an alcoholic strength by volume of 80% vol. or higher; ethyl alcohol and other spirits, denatured, of any strength202582.77%39,442,254
12USA0207Meat and edible offal of poultry; of the poultry of heading no. 0105, (i.e. fowls of the species Gallus domesticus), fresh, chilled or frozen202582.58%13,250,161
13USA8471Automatic data processing machines and units thereof, magnetic or optical readers, machines for transcribing data onto data media in coded form and machines for processing such data, not elsewhere specified or included202581.81%42,913,948

Partner frequency summary:

USA: 11 occurrences

Australia: 1 occurrence

Norway: 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.