Dominican Republic | Imports and Exports | World | ALL COMMODITIES | Value (US$) and Value Growth, YoY (%) | 2012 - 2023

Exports structure from Dominican Republic in 2023 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 15.9% (1.89 billion US$): 71 - Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metals, metals clad with precious metal and articles thereof; imitation jewelry; coin
• 13% (1.55 billion US$): 90 - Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof
• 10.3% (1.23 billion US$): 85 - Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles
• 10.1% (1.21 billion US$): 24 - Tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes
• 5.66% (675 million US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
• 5.51% (658 million US$): 61 - Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, knitted or crocheted
• 5.07% (605 million US$): 30 - Pharmaceutical products
• 4.11% (491 million US$): 72 - Iron and steel
• 3.03% (362 million US$): 08 - Edible fruit and nuts; peel of citrus fruit or melons
• 1.76% (210 million US$): 18 - Cocoa and cocoa preparations

What did Dominican Republic export in 2023?

Dominican Republic's Top Exports in 2023:

• 12.7% ($1.51 billion): 9018 - Instruments and appliances used in medical, surgical, dental or veterinary sciences, including scintigraphic apparatus, other electro-medical apparatus and sight-testing instruments
• 9.84% ($1.17 billion): 7108 - Gold (including gold plated with platinum) unwrought or in semi-manufactured forms, or in powder form
• 8.69% ($1.03 billion): 2402 - Cigars, cheroots, cigarillos and cigarettes, of tobacco or of tobacco substitutes
• 7.57% ($903 million): 8536 - Electrical apparatus for switching or protecting electrical circuits, or for making connections to or in electrical circuits (for example, switches, relays, fuses, surge suppressors, plugs, sockets, lamp-holders, junction boxes), for a voltage not exceeding 1,000 volts
• 5.42% ($646 million): 7113 - Articles of jewellery and parts thereof, of precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal
• 4.43% ($529 million): 3006 - Pharmaceutical goods specified in Note 4 to this Chapter.
• 4.2% ($501 million): 6109 - T-shirts, singlets and other vests, knitted or crocheted.
• 2.67% ($318 million): 7202 - Ferro-alloys.
• 1.73% ($207 million): 3926 - Other articles of plastics and articles of other materials of headings 39.01 to 39.14
• 1.66% ($198 million): 0803 - Bananas, including plantains, fresh or dried

Imports structure to Dominican Republic in 2023 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 18.2% (5.72 billion US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 8.31% (2.6 billion US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• 7.92% (2.48 billion US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 7.46% (2.33 billion US$): 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
• 6.95% (2.18 billion US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
• 3.36% (1.05 billion US$): 30 - Pharmaceutical products
• 3.05% (956 million US$): 72 - Iron and steel
• 2.53% (793 million US$): 71 - Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metals, metals clad with precious metal and articles thereof; imitation jewelry; coin
• 2.36% (742 million US$): 73 - Articles of iron or steel
• 2.27% (713 million US$): 48 - Paper and paperboard; articles of paper pulp, of paper or of paperboard

What did Dominican Republic import in 2023?

Dominican Republic's Top Imports in 2023:

• 10.4% ($3.26 billion): 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
• 4.87% ($1.52 billion): 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
• 3.7% ($1.16 billion): 2711 - Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons
• 2.86% ($899 million): 3004 - Medicaments (excluding goods of heading 30.02, 30.05 or 30.06) consisting of mixed or unmixed products for therapeutic or prophylactic uses, put up in measured doses (including those in the form of transdermal administration systems) or in forms or packings for retail sale
• 2.44% ($765 million): 2709 - Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, crude
• 2.24% ($703 million): 3926 - Other articles of plastics and articles of other materials of headings 39.01 to 39.14
• 1.69% ($532 million): 8704 - Motor vehicles for the transport of goods
• 1.59% ($499 million): 2401 - Unmanufactured tobacco; tobacco refuse
• 1.32% ($413 million): 7207 - Semi-finished products of iron or non-alloy steel
• 1.28% ($403 million): 1005 - Maize (corn)