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El Salvador’s trade is shaped by a well-developed textile and apparel manufacturing sector that supplies finished garments largely for export, alongside a persistent and substantial trade deficit. As of 2023, the country exported roughly 6.5 billion dollars in goods while importing nearly 15.6 billion dollars, a gap financed in large part by remittances from Salvadorans […]
Ecuador’s economy relies heavily on a narrow set of commodity exports, chief among them crude petroleum, farmed shrimp, and bananas, which together account for the bulk of the country’s roughly 31 billion dollars in annual goods exports. As of 2023, the United States was Ecuador’s leading export market, absorbing more than a quarter of total […]
The Dominican Republic runs one of the more open economies in the Caribbean, and its trade is overwhelmingly oriented toward the United States. As of 2025, the United States purchased roughly 53 percent of Dominican exports and supplied a similarly large share of its imports, making it by far the country’s largest trading partner. India, […]
Dominica’s trade reflects the realities of a small island economy: heavily import-dependent, with exports concentrated in a handful of niche products. As of 2023, the country’s leading export markets were Iceland, Antigua and Barbuda, France, the United States, and Saint Lucia, while its principal sources of imports were the United States, Trinidad and Tobago, China, […]
Cuba’s trade relationships have been shaped for more than six decades by the United States embargo imposed in 1960, forcing the island to build commercial ties elsewhere in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. Its economy imports far more than it exports, relying heavily on fuel, food, machinery, and pharmaceuticals from abroad while selling nickel, medical […]
