Barbados - Foreign trade

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.