Trade Profiles
2021 Trade in commercial services
Transport
Travel Other commercial services
Industrial property
Merchandise trade Agricultural products Nonagricultural products
Suriname
Suriname
GDP (million current US$, 2020) GDP per capita (US$, 2018-2020) Current account balance (% GDP, 2020) Trade per capita (US$, 2018-2020) Trade (% GDP, 2018-2020)
2 410 5 345 11.4 3 703 69.3
Rank in world trade, 2020 Merchandise excluding intra-EU trade Commercial services excluding intra-EU trade
Exports
135 109 181 155
Imports
162 137 149 123
MERCHANDISE TRADE Value
Million US$ Merchandise exports, f.o.b. Merchandise imports, c.i.f. Share in world total exports (%)
Annual percentage change
2020 2 345 1 329
2010-2020 1 0
2019 3 15
2020 0.01
Share in world total imports (%)
2020 10 -22 2020 0.01
Breakdown in economy's total exports
Breakdown in economy's total imports
By main commodity group, % (2019)
By main commodity group, % (2019)
Agricultural products: 14.7
Fuels and mining products: 4.4
Agricultural products: 12.6
Fuels and mining products: 10.9
Manufactures: 1.2
Other: 79.8
Manufactures: 59.9
Other: 16.6
By main destination, % (2019)
By main origin, % (2019)
United Arab Emirates: 36.7 Brazil: 2.4 China: 1.7
European Union: 10.2 Switzerland: 1.8 Other: 47.2
United States of America: 21.7 China: 8.5 Antigua and Barbuda: 5.8
European Union: 16.8 Trinidad and Tobago: 7.1 Other: 40.2
Agricultural Products Value
Top exported products (Million US$) HS2402 HS1006 HS0809 HS2208 HS0102
2019 . 37 23 23 15 4
Cigars, cheroots, cigarillos Rice Apricots, cherries, peaches Alcohol of less than 80% volume Live bovine animals
Value
Top imported products (Million US$) HS0207 HS2106 HS2202 HS2309 HS1512
2019
Meat and edible offal of poultry Other food preparations Waters containing added sugar Preparations of a kind used in animal feeding Sunflower-seed,or cotton oil
17 15 12 11 9
Share in economy's trade in agricultural products Exports 0%
20%
Imports 40%
0%
HS2402
HS0207
HS1006
HS2106
HS0809
HS2202
HS2208
HS2309
HS0102
HS1512
5%
10%
Million US$ Exports Imports
Value
2019 121 227
Annual percentage change
2010-2019 10 1
2018 15 8
2019 8 2
Non-Agricultural Products Value
Top exported products (Million US$) HS7108 HS4403 HS0304 HS0306 HS0303
Gold Wood in the rough Fish fillets and other fish meat Crustaceans whether in shell or not Fish, frozen, excluding fish fillet
2019
Top imported products (Million US$)
680 63 11 10 6
HS2710 HS8431 HS8704 HS8703 HS8429
Value 2019
Petroleum oils, other than crude Parts for machinery of 8425 to 8430 Motor vehicles for goods transport Motor cars for transport of persons Self-propelled bulldozers
190 91 81 52 48
Share in economy's trade in non-agricultural products Exports 0%
342
20%
40%
Imports 60%
0%
HS7108
HS2710
HS4403
HS8431
HS0304
HS8704
HS0306
HS8703
HS0303
HS8429
5%
10%
15%
Million US$ Exports Imports
Value
2019 1 336 1 462
Annual percentage change
2010-2019 17 2
2018 4 30
2019 -4 17
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Suriname TRADE IN COMMERCIAL SERVICES Value
Million US$ Commercial services exports Commercial services imports
Annual percentage change
2020
2010-2020
97 559 2020 0.00
Share in world total exports (%) Breakdown in economy's total exports
2019
2020
-7 21
-36 -31
-7 9
2020 0.01
Share in world total imports (%) Breakdown in economy's total imports
By main services item, % (2020)
By main services item, % (2020)
Transport: 29.7 Other commercial services: 54.5
Travel: 15.9 Goods-related services: 0
Transport: 16.3 Other commercial services: 64.8
By main destination
Travel: 10.7 Goods-related services: 8.2
By main origin
Value
FATS sales Inward (million US$) Outward (million US$)
Annual percentage change
2020 na na
2010-2020 na na
2019 na na
2020 na na
Transport Suriname
200
World
100 0
2010
2013
2016
Value
Million US$ Exports Imports
2020 29 91
Exports By sea (2020) By air (2020) By other (2020)
2020
Transport exports (Index 2010=100)
Value 18 11 0
2010-2020 -1 2
Share (%)
Annual percentage change 2019 -7 3
Imports By sea (2020) By air (2020) By other (2020)
63.1 36.9 0.0
2020 -27 -15
Value
Share (%)
74 17 0
81.2 18.8 0.0
Travel Suriname
200
World
Value
Million US$ Exports Imports
100 0
2010
2013
2016
2020 15 60
2010-2020 -13 4
Annual percentage change 2019 -7 -8
2020 -71 -31
2020
Travel exports (Index 2010=100)
Other Commercial Services and Goods-related Services Million US$
Exports of OCS by main item (2020) 4.5 4.8
Other commercial services Exports Imports
Other business services ICTs
17.2 73.6
Value
Insurance & pension
2010-2020
53 362
Annual percentage change
-8 11
2020
Goods-related services Exports Imports
Other
2020
2010-2020
0 46
na na
2019
2020
-7 33
-12 -29
2019
2020
na 25
na -56
INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY Patent applications Residents
na
Trademark applications, 2018
Non-residents
na
Total
na
World Trade Organization – Trade Profiles 2021
Residents
154
Non-residents
392
Industrial design applications, 2015 Total
546
Residents
na
Non-residents
28
Total
28
343