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Data: UN Comtrade, 2023 · snapshot 2026-07-19
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ATLAS · TRADE FLOWS · BARBADOS

What Barbados Trades

In 2023, Barbados sold about $476M of goods to the rest of the world and bought about $2.1B in return. Its biggest customer was United States ($88M, 19% of exports); its biggest supplier, United States ($814M). The map above draws each partner as an arc sized by value; the full lists are below. Bilateral goods trade from UN Comtrade, exports FOB and imports CIF.

GOODS EXPORTED$476M
GOODS IMPORTED$2.1B
TOP PARTNERUnited States

Where Barbados sends its goods

Barbados’s biggest export markets — the countries it sells the most goods to, by value (FOB).

1United States18.5%$88M
2Jamaica7.2%$34M
3Trinidad and Tobago7.1%$34M
4Guyana5.5%$26M
5St. Lucia4.1%$20M
6Canada4.0%$19M
7St. Vincent and the Grenadines2.7%$13M
9Grenada2.2%$11M
11France2.0%$10M
12Dominica1.3%$6M
13St. Kitts and Nevis1.1%$5M
14Bahamas, The0.8%$4M
15Suriname0.7%$3M
17Curacao0.6%$3M
18Sweden0.5%$2M
19British Virgin Islands0.5%$2M
21Netherlands0.4%$2M
22Belize0.4%$2M
24Panama0.2%$1M
25China0.2%$1M

Top 25 partners by value. Shares are of total exports. 68.0% of exports is drawn on the map; the rest is trade logged against non-country groupings.

Where Barbados buys its goods

Barbados’s biggest suppliers — the countries it buys the most goods from, by value (CIF, including shipping).

1United States38.0%$814M
2Trinidad and Tobago21.5%$461M
3Netherlands6.5%$140M
4United Kingdom4.8%$104M
5China3.5%$76M
6Japan2.6%$56M
7Panama2.3%$48M
8Jamaica2.0%$44M
9Canada2.0%$42M
10Spain1.1%$24M
11Mexico0.9%$20M
12Germany0.9%$20M
13New Zealand0.9%$18M
14France0.8%$18M
16Cayman Islands0.7%$15M
17Costa Rica0.7%$14M
19Turkiye0.6%$14M
20Sweden0.5%$12M
21Italy0.5%$11M
22Guyana0.5%$11M
23Brazil0.5%$11M
24India0.5%$10M
25Colombia0.5%$10M

Top 25 partners by value. Shares are of total imports. 99.9% of imports is drawn on the map; the rest is trade logged against non-country groupings.

Trade flows of other countries

China · United States · Germany · Japan · Netherlands · Italy · France · Korea, Rep.