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.