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.
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.
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1
United States
Share of Jamaica's imports29 per centChangedown 20 per cent on 2022USD 1.2bnin 2024 -
2
China
Share of Jamaica's imports27 per centChangeup 30 per cent on 2022USD 1.1bnin 2024 -
3
Japan
Share of Jamaica's imports8 per centChangeup 31 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 318min 2024 -
4
Turkey
Share of Jamaica's imports3 per centChangedown 65 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 116min 2024 -
5
Dominican Republic
Share of Jamaica's imports3 per centChangeup 22 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 112min 2024 -
6
Spain
Share of Jamaica's imports3 per centChangeup 41 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 98min 2024 -
7
Brazil
Share of Jamaica's imports2 per centChangedown 4 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 83min 2024 -
8
United Kingdom
Share of Jamaica's imports2 per centChangeup 6 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 82min 2024 -
9
India
Share of Jamaica's imports2 per centChangedown 30 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 77min 2024 -
10
Thailand
Share of Jamaica's imports2 per centChangedown 15 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 73min 2024 -
11
Costa Rica
Share of Jamaica's imports2 per centChangedown 11 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 68min 2024 -
12
Germany
Share of Jamaica's imports2 per centChangedown 22 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 67min 2024 -
13
Netherlands
Share of Jamaica's imports2 per centChangedown 7 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 67min 2024 -
14
Canada
Share of Jamaica's imports2 per centChangedown 32 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 64min 2024 -
15
Colombia
Share of Jamaica's imports1 per centChangedown 17 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 53min 2024 -
16
Italy
Share of Jamaica's imports1 per centChangeup 20 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 46min 2024 -
17
Guatemala
Share of Jamaica's imports1 per centChangedown 18 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 44min 2024 -
18
South Korea
Share of Jamaica's imports1 per centChangedown 20 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 41min 2024 -
19
France
Share of Jamaica's imports1 per centChangedown 30 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 30min 2024 -
20
Mexico
Share of Jamaica's imports1 per centChangedown 79 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 26min 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 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.
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.