U.S. NONTRADITIONAL AGRICULTURAL EXPORTS TO LAC

Annual
Growth Rate (%)

1985

1990

1991

1992

1993

1994

1995

1995

1990-1995*

Caribbean

Anguilla

0

744

965

688

746

869

1,147

24.2

9.0

Antigua

0

4,229

4,684

4,237

3,963

4,598

4,823

4.7

2.7

Aruba

0

11,177

15,338

13,199

20,212

14,820

13,173

-12.5

3.3

Bahamas

77,102

81,895

83,576

81,547

64,944

49,251

63,402

22.3

-5.0

Barbados

13,055

16,979

16,288

14,273

15,565

17,009

22,077

23.0

5.4

Bermuda

13,264

16,561

13,134

14,994

16,567

14,610

13,145

-11.1

-4.5

British Virgin Islands

0

2,256

1,576

1,219

1,111

1,216

1,881

35.4

-3.6

Cayman Islands

4,654

6,383

6,372

5,570

6,250

6,690

7,238

7.6

2.5

Dominica

0

1,916

3,565

4,122

2,194

3,329

3,138

10.4

Dominican Republic

74,627

122,368

132,716

151,517

130,794

172,331

202,219

-0.1

10.6

Grenada

0

1,976

1,766

1,291

1,132

1,030

1,431

-6.3

Guadeloupe

0

3,473

3,321

4,730

3,779

3,665

4,758

8.4

6.5

Haiti

18,957

24,581

20,465

4,872

7,290

8,699

22,219

4.9

-2.0

Jamaica

50,506

129,766

147,361

123,380

94,658

88,237

138,343

9.8

1.3

Leeward and Windward Is.

13,087

0

0

0

0

0

0

Montserrat

0

474

388

333

297

254

255

0.0

-11.7

Neth Antilles

27,325

39,071

41,422

34,682

41,990

48,617

33,468

-3.0

St Christopher-Nevis

0

1,944

1,543

1,654

1,451

1,293

1,491

0.1

-5.2

St Lucia

0

4,373

4,807

3,641

8,200

4,978

4,563

-332.0

0.9

St Vincent and Grenadines

0

2,324

2,720

2,210

2,145

1,905

1,941

10.2

-3.5

Trinidad and Tobago

45,733

54,466

65,285

50,899

53,051

54,312

81,795

-0.5

8.5

Turks and Caicos Islands

165

602

967

1,611

509

607

890

4.0

8.1

Regional Total

338,475

527,558

568,259

520,669

476,848

498,320

623,397

4.4

3.4

Central America

Belize

4,459

8,775

8,940

10,972

14,610

11,255

9,844

-14.3

2.3

Costa Rica

85,425

155,950

157,144

187,243

189,707

206,926

222,799

7.1

7.4

El Salvador

73,809

73,052

58,570

72,647

72,247

84,654

106,629

20.6

7.9

Guatemala

78,834

123,660

137,268

167,156

148,765

171,817

194,075

11.5

9.4

Honduras

47,532

73,414

76,721

76,514

79,580

93,230

105,269

11.4

7.5

Nicaragua

7,524

5,463

17,885

14,329

9,860

17,634

19,875

11.3

29.5

Panama

116,272

134,525

136,577

156,369

148,554

148,639

170,646

12.9

4.9

Regional Total

413,855

574,839

593,105

685,230

663,323

734,155

829,137

11.5

7.6

South America

Argentina

178,669

341,060

460,426

571,227

630,487

710,497

792,332

10.3

18.4

Bolivia

6,770

8,810

11,991

18,034

20,115

27,859

35,109

20.6

31.9

Brazil

505,296

926,322

986,747

956,266

1,198,202

1,673,044

2,259,614

26.0

19.5

Chile

139,343

247,346

303,946

321,781

346,485

377,162

467,175

19.3

13.6

Colombia

332,557

502,588

512,132

576,882

607,245

735,578

947,365

22.4

13.5

Ecuador

119,217

137,522

190,936

158,998

152,792

198,545

248,807

20.2

12.6

Falkland Islands

0

0

0

4

0

0

0

French Guiana

568

17,850

11,486

15,858

973

7,150

4,261

-67.8

-24.9

Guyana

2,872

4,198

4,671

9,189

10,537

14,191

13,056

-8.7

25.5

Paraguay

5,331

13,450

14,861

13,759

18,889

24,458

32,467

24.7

19.3

Peru

98,080

131,925

154,645

163,861

160,149

207,535

252,884

17.9

13.9

Suriname

22,957

66,144

46,505

38,732

29,585

19,261

57,945

66.8

-2.6

Uruguay

17,855

43,708

34,967

46,922

47,342

74,093

96,856

23.5

17.3

Venezuela

438,021

522,479

686,016

641,714

578,965

521,976

715,977

27.1

6.5

Regional Total

1,867,537

2,963,404

3,419,331

3,533,228

3,801,767

4,591,349

5,923,849

22.5

14.9

Mexico

1,471,722

2,439,343

2,793,961

3,302,670

3,607,790

4,566,062

4,401,539

-3.7

12.5

LAC Total

4,091,589

6,505,144

7,374,656

8,041,797

8,549,728

10,389,886

11,777,922

11.8

12.6