Sugar and honey and the products of sugarcane processing (molasses and rum) are the most sought-after commodities from Barbados (24%). Electrical equipment and other small manufactured items make up about a quarter of exports. Other primary exports include medicaments (11%), printed matter (4.0%), and pesticides and disinfectants (3.7%).
In 2000 Barbados's imports were distributed among the following categories:
Consumer goods | 22.8% |
Food | 14.9% |
Fuels | 11.5% |
Industrial supplies | 24.0% |
Machinery | 17.2% |
Transportation | 9.3% |
Other | 0.3% |
Principal trading partners in 2000 (in millions of US dollars) were as follows:
COUNTRY | EXPORTS | IMPORTS | BALANCE |
United States | 43 | 480 | -437 |
United Kingdom | 36 | 93 | -57 |
Trinidad and Tobago | 36 | 190 | -154 |
Jamaica | 19 | n.a. | |
Guyana | 7 | 9 | -2 |
Canada | 6 | 48 | -42 |
Venezuela | 1 | 7 | -6 |
Germany | 1 | 18 | -17 |
Japan | n.a. | 60 | n.a. |
Brazil | n.a. | 19 | n.a. |
France | n.a. | 17 | n.a. |
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