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Table 3: CARIFORUM’S Country-wise Top Export Items

Share in 2019 (%)

Total Exports 2019 (US$ mn)

HS Code

Top 5 Export Items

Exporter

21.6

71 Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones 85 Electrical machinery and equipment 24 Tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes 90 Optical, photographic, cinematographic equipment

11.5

Dominican Republic

9.5

9,963.50

9.5

72 Iron and steel

5.2

51.1

27 Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation

29 Organic chemicals 28 Inorganic chemicals

15.1 10.3

Trinidad and Tobago

11,021.20

72 Iron and steel

5.9

31 Fertilisers

4

89 Ships, boats and floating structures

28

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71 Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones 86 Railway or tramway locomotives 84 Machinery, mechanical appliances 71 Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones 44 Wood and articles of wood 68 Articles of stone, plaster, cement 26 Ores, slag and ash

Guyana

3,842.20

13.3 11.7

7.1

68.6

4.8 4.3 4.2 2.6

Suriname

1,461

26 Ores, slag and ash

3

Fish and crustaceans

89 Ships, boats and floating structures

45.1

17

27 Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation

Bahamas

1,544.20

29 Organic chemicals

13.3

3

Fish and crustaceans

5.6 5.5

39 Plastics and articles thereof

Source: ITC Trademap; India Exim Bank Analysis

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