Dominica | Imports and Exports | World | ALL COMMODITIES | Value (US$) and Value Growth, YoY (%) | 2006 - 2012

Exports structure from Dominica in 2012 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 44% (16.4 million US$): 34 - Soap, organic surface-active agents, washing preparations, lubricating preparations, artificial waxes, prepared waxes, polishing or scouring preparations, candles and similar articles, modeling pastes, dental waxes and dental preparations with a basis of plaster
• 12.1% (4.51 million US$): 49 - Printed books, newspapers, pictures and other products of the printing industry; manuscripts, typescripts and plans
• 10.2% (3.81 million US$): 85 - Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles
• 9.38% (3.47 million US$): 25 - Salt; sulfur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement
• 5.02% (1.85 million US$): 08 - Edible fruit and nuts; peel of citrus fruit or melons
• 4.17% (1.54 million US$): 32 - Tanning or dyeing extracts; tannins and their derivatives; dyes, pigments and other coloring matter; paints and varnishes; putty and other mastics; inks
• 3.4% (1.25 million US$): 07 - Edible vegetables and certain roots and tubers
• 2.02% (748 thousand US$): 33 - Essential oils and resinoids; perfumery, cosmetic or toilet preparations
• 1.24% (461 thousand US$): 22 - Beverages, spirits and vinegar
• 1.11% (414 thousand US$): 73 - Articles of iron or steel

What did Dominica export in 2012?

Dominica's Top Exports in 2012:

• 44% ($16.4 million): 3401 - Soap; organic surface-active products and preparations for use as soap, in the form of bars, cakes, moulded pieces or shapes, whether or not containing soap; organic surface-active products and preparations for washing the skin, in the form of liquid or cream and put up for retail sale, whether or not containing soap; paper, wadding, felt and nonwovens, impregnated, coated or covered with soap or detergent
• 12% ($4.45 million): 4907 - Unused postage, revenue or similar stamps of current or new issue in the country in which they have, or will have, a recognised face value; stamp-impressed paper; banknotes; cheque forms; stock, share or bond certificates and similar documents of title.
• 6.4% ($2.37 million): 2517 - Pebbles, gravel, broken or crushed stone, of a kind commonly used for concrete aggregates, for road metalling or for railway or other ballast, shingle and flint, whether or not heat-treated; macadam of slag, dross or similar industrial waste, whether or not incorporating the materials cited in the first part of the heading; tarred macadam; granules, chippings and powder, of stones of heading 25.15 or 25.16, whether or not heat-treated
• 4.1% ($1.51 million): 8518 - Microphones and stands therefor; loudspeakers, whether or not mounted in their enclosures; headphones and earphones, whether or not combined with a microphone, and sets consisting of a microphone and one or more loudspeakers; audio-frequency electric amplifiers; electric sound amplifier sets
• 4.04% ($1.49 million): 3210 - Other paints and varnishes (including enamels, lacquers and distempers); prepared water pigments of a kind used for finishing leather
• 3.12% ($1.15 million): 0714 - Manioc, arrowroot, salep, Jerusalem artichokes, sweet potatoes and similar roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, fresh, chilled, frozen or dried, whether or not sliced or in the form of pellets; sago pith.
• 3.08% ($1.14 million): 8525 - Transmission apparatus for radio-telephony, radio-telegraphy, radio-broadcasting or television, whether or not incorporating reception apparatus or sound recording or reproducing apparatus; television cameras; still image video cameras and other video camera recorders; digital cameras
• 2.98% ($1.1 million): 2505 - Natural sands of all kinds, whether or not coloured, other than metalbearing sands of Chapter 26.
• 2.85% ($1.05 million): 0803 - Bananas, including plantains, fresh or dried
• 1.24% ($459 thousand): 8503 - Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the machines of heading 85.01 or 85.02

Imports structure to Dominica in 2012 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 22% (47 million US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 6.23% (13.2 million US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 5.91% (12.5 million US$): 85 - Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles
• 4.07% (8.62 million US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• 3.51% (7.45 million US$): 22 - Beverages, spirits and vinegar
• 3.16% (6.71 million US$): 02 - Meat and edible meat offal
• 2.86% (6.07 million US$): 48 - Paper and paperboard; articles of paper pulp, of paper or of paperboard
• 2.83% (6 million US$): 15 - Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes
• 2.63% (5.59 million US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
• 2.6% (5.51 million US$): 04 - Dairy produce; birds eggs; natural honey; edible products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included

What did Dominica import in 2012?

Dominica's Top Imports in 2012:

• 20% ($43 million): 2710 - Petroleum oils and oils from bituminous minerals, not crude; preparations n.e.c. containing by weight 70% or more of petroleum oils or oils from bituminous minerals; these being the basic constituents of the preparations; waste oils
• 2.56% ($5.44 million): 0207 - Meat and edible offal, of the poultry of heading 01.05, fresh, chilled or frozen.
• 1.67% ($3.55 million): 2202 - Waters, including mineral waters and aerated waters, containing added sugar or other sweetening matter or flavoured, and other non-alcoholic beverages, not including fruit or vegetable juices of heading 20.09.
• 1.65% ($3.51 million): 2523 - Portland cement, aluminous cement, slag cement, supersulphate cement and similar hydraulic cements, whether or not coloured or in the form of clinkers
• 1.65% ($3.5 million): 8703 - Motor cars and other motor vehicles principally designed for the transport of persons (other than those of heading 87.02), including station wagons and racing cars
• 1.62% ($3.43 million): 1502 - Fats of bovine animals, sheep or goats, other than those of heading 15.03.
• 1.59% ($3.36 million): 1101 - Wheat or meslin flour
• 1.54% ($3.26 million): 0402 - Milk and cream, concentrated or containing added sugar or other sweetening matter.
• 1.38% ($2.94 million): 8525 - Transmission apparatus for radio-telephony, radio-telegraphy, radio-broadcasting or television, whether or not incorporating reception apparatus or sound recording or reproducing apparatus; television cameras; still image video cameras and other video camera recorders; digital cameras
• 1.29% ($2.74 million): 2711 - Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons