commodities—textiles 44%, sugar 40%, light manufactures 10%;
partners—EC and US have preferential treatment, EC 77%, US 15%
_#_Imports: $1.2 billion (f.o.b., 1989);
commodities—manufactured goods 50%, capital equipment 17%, foodstuffs 13%, petroleum products 8%, chemicals 7%;
partners—EC, US, South Africa, Japan
_#_External debt: $670 million (December 1989)
_#_Industrial production: growth rate 12.9% (FY87); accounts for 25% of GDP
_#_Electricity: 233,000 kW capacity; 420 million kWh produced, 375 kWh per capita (1989)
_#_Industries: food processing (largely sugar milling), textiles, wearing apparel, chemicals, metal products, transport equipment, nonelectrical machinery, tourism
_#_Agriculture: accounts for 10% of GDP; about 90% of cultivated land in sugarcane; other products—tea, corn, potatoes, bananas, pulses, cattle, goats, fish; net food importer, especially rice and fish