Imports: $134.6 million (f.o.b., 1993)
commodities: foodstuffs, machinery and equipment, chemicals and
fertilizers, minerals and fuels
partners: US 36%, CARICOM 21%, UK 18%, Trinidad and Tobago 13%
External debt: $74.9 million (1993)
Industrial production: NA
Electricity: capacity: 16,600 kW production: 50 million kWh consumption per capita: 436 kWh (1993)
Industries: food processing, cement, furniture, clothing, starch
Agriculture: accounts for 14% of GDP and 60% of labor force; provides bulk of exports; products - bananas, coconuts, sweet potatoes, spices; small numbers of cattle, sheep, hogs, goats; small fish catch used locally
Illicit drugs: transshipment point for South American drugs destined
for the US and Europe
Economic aid:
recipient: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-87), $11 million;
Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-89), $81 million
Currency: 1 EC dollar (EC$) = 100 cents
Exchange rates: East Caribbean dollars (EC$) per US$1 - 2.70 (fixed rate since 1976)