What the Dominican Republic buys, and from whom.
The Dominican Republic imported USD 22bn of manufactured and processed goods in 2024, up 30 per cent on 2022. These are its twenty largest source countries. 4 of them ship enough, across enough product lines, to have a lane page of their own.
Trade year 2024, compared with 2022.
The twenty countries the Dominican Republic imports most from.
A lane page is written where the source ships USD 1bn or more a year across at least 50 product lines worth USD 1m each. For what the Dominican Republic is best placed to make itself, see Made here: Dominican Republic.
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1
United States
Share of the Dominican Republic's imports29 per centChangelevel with 2022USD 6.4bnin 2024 -
2
China
Share of the Dominican Republic's imports27 per centChangeup 39 per cent on 2022USD 5.9bnin 2024 -
3
Mexico
Share of the Dominican Republic's imports5 per centChangeup 324 per cent on 2022USD 1.2bnin 2024 -
4
Spain
Share of the Dominican Republic's imports5 per centChangeup 49 per cent on 2022USD 1.1bnin 2024 -
5
Brazil
Share of the Dominican Republic's imports3 per centChangedown 8 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 657min 2024 -
6
Japan
Share of the Dominican Republic's imports2 per centChangeup 95 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 543min 2024 -
7
Germany
Share of the Dominican Republic's imports2 per centChangeup 52 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 453min 2024 -
8
India
Share of the Dominican Republic's imports2 per centChangeup 36 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 395min 2024 -
9
Italy
Share of the Dominican Republic's imports2 per centChangeup 13 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 391min 2024 -
10
South Korea
Share of the Dominican Republic's imports2 per centChangeup 13 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 390min 2024 -
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Colombia
Share of the Dominican Republic's imports2 per centChangeup 19 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 353min 2024 -
12
Costa Rica
Share of the Dominican Republic's imports2 per centChangelevel with 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 333min 2024 -
13
Guatemala
Share of the Dominican Republic's imports1 per centChangeup 24 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 280min 2024 -
14
United Kingdom
Share of the Dominican Republic's imports1 per centChangeup 27 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 259min 2024 -
15
Turkey
Share of the Dominican Republic's imports1 per centChangedown 29 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 217min 2024 -
16
France
Share of the Dominican Republic's imports1 per centChangeup 6 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 201min 2024 -
17
Indonesia
Share of the Dominican Republic's imports1 per centChangeup 248 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 195min 2024 -
18
Argentina
Share of the Dominican Republic's imports1 per centChangenew since 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 175min 2024 -
19
Canada
Share of the Dominican Republic's imports1 per centChangeup 37 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 156min 2024 -
20
Thailand
Share of the Dominican Republic's imports1 per centChangeup 67 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 149min 2024
What crossed the border, what it was worth, and what it weighed.
Every figure on this page is from CEPII's BACI file, which reconciles what each pair of countries reports to the UN about the same shipment. Trade year 2024, compared with 2022. A line is one six-digit customs heading (HS 2022). Values are in US dollars at the border; growth is in current dollars, so part of any change is price, not volume.
Unit value. Unit values are customs values per tonne, declared at the border, not product prices. It is the value of a line divided by its declared weight, so it mixes grades, models and qualities under one heading. It is shown only where the weight is recorded, at least three source countries of USD 100k or more ship the line to the Dominican Republic with a weight, and the figure sits within a factor of five of the middle of those sources. Outside that band it is treated as a recording problem and left out.
Share is the United States's part of everything the Dominican Republic imported in that line, from every source. Sources counts the countries that shipped any of it.
Scope. Manufactured and processed goods, customs chapters 16 to 96, without ores, fuels, precious metals, scrap, raw farm output and one-off capital and defence purchases: the same rule as the Made here pages.
A record of trade, not a shopping list.
What this record does not say: what sells at retail, what margin a trade leaves, how crowded the marketplaces are, or how much of a flow is re-exported through entrepots such as Hong Kong and Singapore.
A large line is not proof of an opening, and a lower unit value from another country is not proof the goods are the same. Tariffs, standards, freight, payment terms, lead times and the plain fact that a supplier is good at it are all invisible here. Nothing on this page is a forecast, a recommendation or a promise. No supplier company is named, because the record holds none.
Source: CEPII BACI, HS22, version 202601. Edition of 2026-11-03.