Extreme Import Bottlenecks
The tables below show United Rep. of Tanzania'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.
United Rep. of Tanzania
31 bottlenecks| # | Partner | HS Code | HS Description | Year | Share (%) | Value (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 8605 | Railway or tramway coaches; passenger coaches, luggage vans, post office coaches and other special purpose railway or tramway coaches, not self-propelled (excluding those of heading no. 8604) | 2025 | 100.00% | 20,460,444 |
| 2 | Viet Nam | 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 | 2025 | 99.93% | 119,408,632 |
| 3 | South Africa | 0808 | Apples, pears and quinces; fresh | 2025 | 99.91% | 12,992,439 |
| 4 | China | 3818 | Chemical elements doped for use in electronics, in the form of discs, wafers or similar forms; chemical compounds doped for use in electronics | 2025 | 99.64% | 12,646,462 |
| 5 | China | 5209 | Woven fabrics of cotton, containing 85% or more by weight of cotton, weighing more than 200g/m2 | 2025 | 99.56% | 16,082,752 |
| 6 | China | 8901 | Cruise ships, excursion boats, ferry-boats, cargo ships, barges and similar vessels for the transport of persons or goods | 2025 | 99.14% | 26,479,691 |
| 7 | China | 8201 | Tools, hand; spades, shovels, mattocks, picks, hoes, forks, rakes; axes, bill hooks etc; secateurs and pruners of any kind; scythes, sickles, hay knives, hedge shears, timber wedges and other tools used in agriculture, horticulture, forestry | 2025 | 98.36% | 13,477,031 |
| 8 | China | 3207 | Pigments, prepared; opacifiers, colours, vitrifiable enamels, glazes, engobes (slips), liquid lustres etc as used in the ceramic enamelling or glass industry; glass frit and powder, granules or flakes | 2025 | 97.19% | 67,587,696 |
| 9 | China | 7213 | Iron or non-alloy steel; bars and rods, hot-rolled, in irregularly wound coils | 2025 | 94.77% | 54,382,308 |
| 10 | China | 5407 | Woven fabrics of synthetic filament yarn, including woven fabrics obtained from materials of heading no. 5404 | 2025 | 94.55% | 71,745,700 |
| 11 | Türkiye | 2503 | Sulphur of all kinds; other than sublimed, precipitated and colloidal sulphur | 2025 | 94.28% | 12,580,156 |
| 12 | China | 5603 | Nonwovens; whether or not impregnated, coated, covered or laminated | 2025 | 94.09% | 14,715,945 |
| 13 | USA | 4911 | Printed matter, n.e.c., including printed pictures and photographs | 2025 | 93.72% | 50,678,895 |
| 14 | China | 5503 | Synthetic staple fibres, not carded, combed or otherwise processed for spinning | 2025 | 91.48% | 26,632,459 |
| 15 | China | 8518 | Microphones and their stands; loudspeakers, mounted or not in their enclosures; headphones and earphones, combined or not with a microphone, and sets of a microphone and one or more loudspeakers; audio-frequency and electric sound amplifiers and sets | 2025 | 91.29% | 13,181,256 |
| 16 | China | 6402 | Footwear; with outer soles and uppers of rubber or plastics (excluding waterproof footwear) | 2025 | 90.61% | 35,092,742 |
| 17 | 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 | 90.60% | 33,494,857 |
| 18 | China | 7216 | Iron or non-alloy steel, angles, shapes and sections | 2025 | 90.30% | 23,535,443 |
| 19 | China | 7606 | Aluminium; plates, sheets and strip, thickness exceeding 0.2mm | 2025 | 90.00% | 11,903,729 |
| 20 | China | 8716 | Trailers and semi-trailers; other vehicles, not mechanically propelled; parts thereof | 2025 | 89.46% | 194,751,496 |
| 21 | South Africa | 7214 | Iron or non-alloy steel; bars and rods, not further worked than forged, hot-rolled, hot drawn or hot-extruded, but including those twisted after rolling | 2025 | 88.47% | 24,078,913 |
| 22 | China | 7305 | Iron or steel (excluding cast iron); tubes and pipes (e.g. welded, riveted or similarly closed), having circular cross-sections, external diameter of which exceeds 406.4mm, not seamless | 2025 | 87.86% | 161,003,766 |
| 23 | Kenya | 1704 | Sugar confectionery (including white chocolate), not containing cocoa | 2025 | 87.71% | 24,682,813 |
| 24 | China | 4202 | Trunks; suit, camera, jewellery, cutlery cases; travel, tool, similar bags; wholly or mainly covered by leather, composition leather, plastic sheeting, textile materials, vulcanised fibre, paperboard | 2025 | 86.99% | 12,709,368 |
| 25 | China | 8546 | Electrical insulators of any material | 2025 | 86.81% | 11,415,398 |
| 26 | Zambia | 1005 | Maize (corn) | 2025 | 86.14% | 46,206,308 |
| 27 | Malaysia | 1511 | Palm oil and its fractions; whether or not refined, but not chemically modified | 2025 | 86.12% | 136,233,640 |
| 28 | China | 7209 | Iron or non-alloy steel; flat-rolled products, width 600mm or more, cold-rolled (cold-reduced), not clad, plated or coated | 2025 | 83.05% | 57,498,301 |
| 29 | China | 5903 | Textile fabrics impregnated, coated, covered or laminated with plastics, other than those of heading no. 5902 | 2025 | 82.91% | 12,550,137 |
| 30 | China | 3817 | Mixed alkylbenzenes and mixed alkylnaphthalenes, other than those of heading no. 2707 or 2902 | 2025 | 80.31% | 31,926,147 |
| 31 | China | 8427 | Fork-lift and other works trucks; fitted with lifting or handling equipment | 2025 | 80.30% | 23,359,407 |
China: 23 occurrences
South Africa: 2 occurrences
Kenya: 1 occurrence
Malaysia: 1 occurrence
Türkiye: 1 occurrence
USA: 1 occurrence
Viet Nam: 1 occurrence
Zambia: 1 occurrence
Legend:
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