Imports in Dominican Republic decreased to 2526.20 USD Million in December from 2541.70 USD Million in November of 2024. This dataset provides - Dominican Republic Imports - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

In 2021, the Dominican Republic imported 2.1 billion U.S. dollars' worth of petroleum oil, which made it the main imported product category in the Caribbean country. In that same year, vehicles for passenger transportation amounted to a total import value of almost 1.2 billion dollars, making it the second-most imported product. It was closely followed by petroleum gas, which made up approximately 1.07 billion dollars of imports. These three product categories, along with crude petroleum oils and packaged medicaments encompassed the Dominican Republic's main imported products in 2021.

The Dominican Republic's total Imports in 2024 were valued at US$32.69 Billion, according to the United Nations COMTRADE database on international trade. The Dominican Republic's main import partners were: the United States, China and Spain. The top three import commodities were: Mineral fuels, oils, distillation products; Machinery, nuclear reactors, boilers and Vehicles other than railway, tramway. Total Exports were valued at US$12.92 Billion. In 2024, The Dominican Republic had a trade deficit of US$19.77 Billion.

Imports of cars from the United States into the Dominican Republican amounted to approximately *** million U.S. dollars in 2020, representing around **** percent of car imports into the Latin American country. That same year, car imports from Japan into the Dominican Republic reached a value of around **** million dollars.

With an exports value of approximately ** million U.S. dollars, the United States was the largest exporter of printed reading books into the Dominican Republic in 2017. Spain was the second largest provider of printed reading books with a figure at almost **** million U.S. dollars.

The United States was the leading country of origin for pharmaceutical imports into the Dominican Republic in 2024, with an import value of approximately *********** U.S. dollars. That year, India was the second country for pharmaceutical imports into the Caribbean nation, which amounted to around *********** U.S. dollars. The country was followed by Germany, Switzerland and Mexico.

Top Import Products of Dominican republic with Import value and Year on Year growth comparison

Dominican Republic imports for 2023 were 34.58 billion US dollars, a 5.31% decline from 2022.

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<li>Dominican Republic imports for 2022 were <strong>36.52 billion US dollars</strong>, a <strong>25.09% increase</strong> from 2021.</li>
<li>Dominican Republic imports for 2021 were <strong>29.20 billion US dollars</strong>, a <strong>42.45% increase</strong> from 2020.</li>
<li>Dominican Republic imports for 2020 were <strong>20.50 billion US dollars</strong>, a <strong>17.52% decline</strong> from 2019.</li>
</ul>Imports of goods and services represent the value of all goods and other market services received from the rest of the world. They include the value of merchandise, freight, insurance, transport, travel, royalties, license fees, and other services, such as communication, construction, financial, information, business, personal, and government services. They exclude compensation of employees and investment income (formerly called factor services) and transfer payments. Data are in current U.S. dollars.

United States Imports from Dominican Republic was US$7.73 Billion during 2024, according to the United Nations COMTRADE database on international trade. United States Imports from Dominican Republic - data, historical chart and statistics - was last updated on July of 2025.

In 2019, the Dominican Republic ranked as the leading importer of tobacco in Latin America, with a trade value of around 420 million U.S. dollars. That same year, the Caribbean country was also among the main tobacco exporters in the region, only surpassed by Brazil.

This horizontal bar chart displays net energy imports (% of energy use) by date using the aggregation average in Dominican Republic. The data is about countries per year.

The United States was the largest importer of printed reading books from the Dominican Republic in 2017, with a total of ****** thousand U.S. dollars. The second ranked country was Haiti with about 315 thousand U.S. dollars.

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In 2024, pharmaceutical exports from the Dominican Republic amounted to over *********** U.S. dollars. The United States, imported a value of around ************U.S. dollars, ranking first in the list of leading countries of destination for pharmaceutical products exported from the Caribbean nation and representing over ***percent of the total value of these exports. The Netherlands ranked second, importing pharmaceuticals from the Dominican Republic for over ***********dollars in 2023.

In 2023, Dominican Republic imported approximately **** million U.S. dollars worth of toys, games, and sport equipment from China. This placed the Asian giant as the leading origin of imports of these products for the Caribbean country. United States ranked second, with the imports of toys, games, and sport goods into Dominican Republic amounting to around ** million U.S. dollars.

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Dominican Republic DO: Arms Imports: SIPRI Trend Indicator Values (TIV) data was reported at 0.000 TIV in 2016. This records a decrease from the previous number of 1,000,000.000 TIV for 2015. Dominican Republic DO: Arms Imports: SIPRI Trend Indicator Values (TIV) data is updated yearly, averaging 5,000,000.000 TIV from Dec 1960 (Median) to 2016, with 37 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 51,000,000.000 TIV in 2010 and a record low of 0.000 TIV in 2016. Dominican Republic DO: Arms Imports: SIPRI Trend Indicator Values (TIV) data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Dominican Republic – Table DO.World Bank.WDI: Defense and Official Development Assistance. Arms transfers cover the supply of military weapons through sales, aid, gifts, and those made through manufacturing licenses. Data cover major conventional weapons such as aircraft, armored vehicles, artillery, radar systems, missiles, and ships designed for military use. Excluded are transfers of other military equipment such as small arms and light weapons, trucks, small artillery, ammunition, support equipment, technology transfers, and other services. Figures are SIPRI Trend Indicator Values (TIVs) expressed in US$ m. at constant (1990) prices. A '0' indicates that the value of deliveries is less than US$0.5m.; ; Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Arms Transfers Programme (http://portal.sipri.org/publications/pages/transfer/splash).; Sum; Data for some countries are based on partial or uncertain data or rough estimates.