Exports: $48.3 million (f.o.b., 1993)
commodities: bananas, soap, bay oil, vegetables, grapefruit, oranges
partners: UK 55%, CARICOM countries, Italy, US
Imports: $98.8 million (f.o.b., 1993)
commodities: manufactured goods, machinery and equipment, food,
chemicals
partners: US 25%, CARICOM, UK, Japan, Canada
External debt: $92.8 million (1992)
Industrial production: growth rate -10% (1994 est.); accounts for 7% of GDP
Electricity: capacity: 7,000 kW production: 30 million kWh consumption per capita: 347 kWh (1993)
Industries: soap, coconut oil, tourism, copra, furniture, cement blocks, shoes
Agriculture: accounts for 30% of GDP; principal crops - bananas, citrus, mangoes, root crops, coconuts; bananas provide the bulk of export earnings; forestry and fisheries potential not exploited
Illicit drugs: transshipment point for narcotics bound for the US and
Europe; minor cannabis producer
Economic aid:
recipient: Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral
commitments (1970-89), $120 million
Currency: 1 EC dollar (EC$) = 100 cents