Dominica
Foreign trade
Dominica is well known for its exports of bananas, which reflect over a quarter of the country's commodity export revenues (26%). Soap and cleaning products account for almost a third of exports (29%). Other exports include vegetables (3.7%), paint (3.1%), and perfume (13.7%).
In 2000 Dominica's imports were distributed among the following categories:
| Consumer goods | 15.5% |
| Food | 19.3% |
| Fuels | 9.5% |
| Industrial supplies | 30.0% |
| Machinery | 15.7% |
| Transportation | 9.9% |
| Other | 0.1% |
Principal trading partners in 2000 (in millions of US dollars) were as follows:
| COUNTRY | EXPORTS | IMPORTS | BALANCE |
| United Kingdom | 13 | 11 | 2 |
| Jamaica | 13 | 2 | 11 |
| France | 5 | 3 | 2 |
| United States | 4 | 55 | -51 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 3 | 24 | -21 |
| Barbados | 3 | 5 | -2 |
| St. Lucia | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Japan | n.a. | 9 | n.a. |
| Canada | n.a. | 6 | n.a. |
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