Jamaica | Imports and Exports | World | Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof | Value (US$) and Value Growth, YoY (%) | 2012 - 2023
The value of exports of commodity group 90 "Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof" from Jamaica totalled $ 1.82 million in 2023. Sales of commodity group 90 from Jamaica decreased by 33% in value terms compared to 2022. exports of commodity group 90 "Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof" decreased by $ 917 thousand (cumulative exports of commodity group 90 from Jamaica amounted $2.74 million in 2022)
Exports of commodity group 90 "Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof" amounted to 0.091% of total exports from Jamaica (cumulative merchandise exports from Jamaica totalled $ 2 billion in 2023). The share of commodity group 90 in total exports from Jamaica decreased by 0.053 p.p. compared to 2022 (it was 0.144% in 2022 and cumulative exports from Jamaica were equal to $ 1.9 billion).
Where does Jamaica export Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof?
Top export destinations of "Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof" from Jamaica in 2023:
- USA with a share of 44% (820 thousand US$)
- Cayman Islands with a share of 9.58% (174 thousand US$)
- Panama with a share of 8.94% (163 thousand US$)
- Bermuda with a share of 8.78% (160 thousand US$)
- South Africa with a share of 4.95% (90 thousand US$)
- Sweden with a share of 4.76% (86 thousand US$)
- Canada with a share of 3.31% (60 thousand US$)
- Hong Kong with a share of 3.06% (56 thousand US$)
- Netherlands with a share of 2.07% (37 thousand US$)
- Australia with a share of 1.64% (29 thousand US$)
Exports structure of 90 - Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof - from Jamaica in 2023 represented by the following main commodity groups:
- 48% (887 thousand US$): 9018 - Instruments and appliances used in medical, surgical, dental or veterinary sciences, including scintigraphic apparatus, other electro-medical apparatus and sight-testing instruments
- 10.2% (186 thousand US$): 9030 - Oscilloscopes, spectrum analysers and other instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking electrical quantities, excluding meters of heading 90.28; instruments and apparatus for measuring or detecting alpha, beta, gamma, X-ray, cosmic or other ionising radiations.
- 9.05% (165 thousand US$): 9031 - Measuring or checking instruments, appliances and machines, not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter; profile projectors
- 4.95% (90 thousand US$): 9016 - Balances of a sensitivity of 5 cg or better, with or without weights
- 4.59% (83 thousand US$): 9021 - Orthopaedic appliances, including crutches, surgical belts and trusses; splints and other fracture appliances; artificial parts of the body; hearing aids and other appliances which are worn or carried, or implanted in the body, to compensate for a defect or disability.
- 3.5% (64 thousand US$): 9014 - Direction finding compasses; other navigational instruments and appliances
- 3.17% (58 thousand US$): 9015 - Surveying (including photogrammetrical surveying), hydrographic, oceanographic, hydrological, meteorological or geophysical instruments and appliances, excluding compasses; rangefinders
- 1.97% (36 thousand US$): 9027 - Instruments and apparatus; for physical or chemical analysis (e.g. polarimeters, spectrometers), for measuring or checking viscosity, porosity, etc, for measuring quantities of heat, sound or light
- 1.91% (34 thousand US$): 9022 - X-ray, alpha, beta, gamma radiation apparatus; x-ray tubes, x-ray generators, high tension generators, control panels and desks, screens, examination or treatment tables, chairs and the like
- 1.9% (34 thousand US$): 9004 - Spectacles, goggles and the like, corrective, protective or other
The value of imports of commodity group 90 "Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof" to Jamaica totalled $ 98 million in 2023. Sales of commodity group 90 to Jamaica went up by 32% compared to 2022: imports of commodity group 90 "Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof" went up by $ 23 million (the value of imports of commodity group 90 to Jamaica was equal to $74 million in 2022)
Imports of commodity group 90 "Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof" accounted for 1.29% of total import flow to Jamaica (in 2023, total imports to Jamaica amounted to $ 7.59 billion). The share of commodity group 90 in total imports to Jamaica increased by 0.332 p.p. compared to 2022 (it was 0.959% in 2022 and cumulative imports to Jamaica were equal to $ 7.73 billion).
Where does Jamaica import Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof from?
Top trading partners (import of "Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof") of Jamaica in 2023:
- USA with a share of 54% (53 million US$)
- China with a share of 20% (20 million US$)
- Germany with a share of 4.59% (4.5 million US$)
- United Kingdom with a share of 2.32% (2.27 million US$)
- Spain with a share of 2.15% (2.11 million US$)
- Poland with a share of 1.79% (1.76 million US$)
- Italy with a share of 1.35% (1.32 million US$)
- France with a share of 1.29% (1.26 million US$)
- Canada with a share of 1.24% (1.21 million US$)
- India with a share of 1.14% (1.12 million US$)
Imports structure of 90 - Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof - to Jamaica in 2023 represented by the following main commodity groups:
- 21% (21 million US$): 9022 - X-ray, alpha, beta, gamma radiation apparatus; x-ray tubes, x-ray generators, high tension generators, control panels and desks, screens, examination or treatment tables, chairs and the like
- 19.7% (19.3 million US$): 9018 - Instruments and appliances used in medical, surgical, dental or veterinary sciences, including scintigraphic apparatus, other electro-medical apparatus and sight-testing instruments
- 12.9% (12.7 million US$): 9028 - Gas, liquid or electricity supply or production meters, including calibrating meters therefor
- 6.91% (6.78 million US$): 9027 - Instruments and apparatus; for physical or chemical analysis (e.g. polarimeters, spectrometers), for measuring or checking viscosity, porosity, etc, for measuring quantities of heat, sound or light
- 5.95% (5.84 million US$): 9026 - Instruments, apparatus for measuring or checking the flow, level, pressure of liquids, gases (e.g. flow meters, heat meters etc), not instruments and apparatus of heading no. 9014, 9015, 9028 or 9032
- 4.56% (4.47 million US$): 9001 - Optical fibres and optical fibre bundles; optical fibre cables other than those of heading 85.44; sheets and plates of polarising material; lenses (including contact lenses), prisms, mirrors and other optical elements, of any material, unmounted, other than such elements of glass not optically worked
- 4.39% (4.3 million US$): 9032 - Automatic regulating or controlling instruments and apparatus
- 4.05% (3.98 million US$): 9021 - Orthopaedic appliances, including crutches, surgical belts and trusses; splints and other fracture appliances; artificial parts of the body; hearing aids and other appliances which are worn or carried, or implanted in the body, to compensate for a defect or disability.
- 3.11% (3.05 million US$): 9031 - Measuring or checking instruments, appliances and machines, not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter; profile projectors
- 2.61% (2.56 million US$): 9003 - Frames and mountings for spectacles, goggles or the like, and parts thereof.
