Dominican Republic | Imports and Exports | World | ALL COMMODITIES | Value (US$) and Value Growth, YoY (%) | 2007 - 2018

Exports structure from Dominican Republic in 2018 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 20% (1.92 billion US$): 71 - Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metals, metals clad with precious metal and articles thereof; imitation jewelry; coin
• 10.4% (984 million US$): 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
• 10% (947 million US$): 90 - Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof
• 9.3% (874 million US$): 24 - Tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes
• 7.06% (664 million US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
• 4.84% (454 million US$): 61 - Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, knitted or crocheted
• 4.29% (403 million US$): 72 - Iron and steel
• 3.36% (316 million US$): 08 - Edible fruit and nuts; peel of citrus fruit or melons
• 3.31% (311 million US$): 64 - Footwear, gaiters and the like; parts of such articles
• 2.33% (219 million US$): 18 - Cocoa and cocoa preparations

What did Dominican Republic export in 2018?

Dominican Republic's Top Exports in 2018:

• 15.3% ($1.44 billion): 7108 - Gold (including gold plated with platinum) unwrought or in semi-manufactured forms, or in powder form.
• 8.85% ($831 million): 9018 - Instruments and appliances used in medical, surgical, dental or veterinary sciences, including scintigraphic apparatus, other electro-medical apparatus and sight-testing instruments.
• 7.79% ($732 million): 2402 - Cigars, cheroots, cigarillos and cigarettes, of tobacco or of tobacco substitutes.
• 7.45% ($700 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.
• 4.85% ($456 million): 7113 - Articles of jewellery and parts thereof, of precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal.
• 3.89% ($365 million): 3926 - Other articles of plastics and articles of other materials of headings 39.01 to 39.14.
• 3.74% ($352 million): 6109 - T-shirts, singlets and other vests, knitted or crocheted.
• 2.5% ($235 million): 7202 - Ferro-alloys.
• 2.23% ($210 million): 0803 - Bananas, including plantains, fresh or dried.
• 2.18% ($205 million): 1801 - Cocoa beans, whole or broken, raw or roasted.

Imports structure to Dominican Republic in 2018 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 18.6% (4.14 billion US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 8.17% (1.81 billion US$): 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
• 8.11% (1.8 billion US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 6.85% (1.52 billion US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• 6.83% (1.51 billion US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
• 3.25% (721 million US$): 30 - Pharmaceutical products
• 3.16% (702 million US$): 72 - Iron and steel
• 3% (666 million US$): 48 - Paper and paperboard; articles of paper pulp, of paper or of paperboard
• 2.54% (564 million US$): 71 - Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metals, metals clad with precious metal and articles thereof; imitation jewelry; coin
• 2% (444 million US$): 73 - Articles of iron or steel

What did Dominican Republic import in 2018?

Dominican Republic's Top Imports in 2018:

• 10.7% ($2.38 billion): 2710 - Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, other than crude; preparations not elsewhere specified or included, containing by weight 70 % or more of petroleum oils or of oils obtained from bituminous minerals, these oils being the basic constituents of the preparations; waste oils.
• 4.1% ($910 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.
• 3.83% ($851 million): 2711 - Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons.
• 3.06% ($680 million): 2709 - Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, crude.
• 2.64% ($586 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.
• 2.1% ($467 million): 7113 - Articles of jewellery and parts thereof, of precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal.
• 1.72% ($382 million): 3926 - Other articles of plastics and articles of other materials of headings 39.01 to 39.14.
• 1.63% ($363 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.
• 1.25% ($279 million): 1005 - Maize (corn).
• 1.19% ($265 million): 7207 - Semi-finished products of iron or non-alloy steel.