Trade lanes

What Jamaica buys, and from whom.

Jamaica imported USD 4.0bn of manufactured and processed goods in 2024, down 18 per cent on 2022. These are its twenty largest source countries. 2 of them ship enough, across enough product lines, to have a lane page of their own.

Trade year 2024, compared with 2022.

By source

The twenty countries Jamaica 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 Jamaica is best placed to make itself, see Made here: Jamaica.

  1. 1

    United States

    Share of Jamaica's imports29 per cent
    Changedown 20 per cent on 2022
    USD 1.2bnin 2024
  2. 2

    China

    Share of Jamaica's imports27 per cent
    Changeup 30 per cent on 2022
    USD 1.1bnin 2024
  3. 3

    Japan

    Share of Jamaica's imports8 per cent
    Changeup 31 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 318min 2024
  4. 4

    Turkey

    Share of Jamaica's imports3 per cent
    Changedown 65 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 116min 2024
  5. 5

    Dominican Republic

    Share of Jamaica's imports3 per cent
    Changeup 22 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 112min 2024
  6. 6

    Spain

    Share of Jamaica's imports3 per cent
    Changeup 41 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 98min 2024
  7. 7

    Brazil

    Share of Jamaica's imports2 per cent
    Changedown 4 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 83min 2024
  8. 8

    United Kingdom

    Share of Jamaica's imports2 per cent
    Changeup 6 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 82min 2024
  9. 9

    India

    Share of Jamaica's imports2 per cent
    Changedown 30 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 77min 2024
  10. 10

    Thailand

    Share of Jamaica's imports2 per cent
    Changedown 15 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 73min 2024
  11. 11

    Costa Rica

    Share of Jamaica's imports2 per cent
    Changedown 11 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 68min 2024
  12. 12

    Germany

    Share of Jamaica's imports2 per cent
    Changedown 22 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 67min 2024
  13. 13

    Netherlands

    Share of Jamaica's imports2 per cent
    Changedown 7 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 67min 2024
  14. 14

    Canada

    Share of Jamaica's imports2 per cent
    Changedown 32 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 64min 2024
  15. 15

    Colombia

    Share of Jamaica's imports1 per cent
    Changedown 17 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 53min 2024
  16. 16

    Italy

    Share of Jamaica's imports1 per cent
    Changeup 20 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 46min 2024
  17. 17

    Guatemala

    Share of Jamaica's imports1 per cent
    Changedown 18 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 44min 2024
  18. 18

    South Korea

    Share of Jamaica's imports1 per cent
    Changedown 20 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 41min 2024
  19. 19

    France

    Share of Jamaica's imports1 per cent
    Changedown 30 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 30min 2024
  20. 20

    Mexico

    Share of Jamaica's imports1 per cent
    Changedown 79 per cent on 2022
    Lane pageunder the lane threshold
    USD 26min 2024
What this record says

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 Jamaica 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 Jamaica 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.

What it does not say

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.