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17 SEPTEMBER 2020 AL CIRCLE

Jamaica’s importation of Aluminium cans during 2017-20 reveals a positive trend

EDITED BY : RUPANKAR MAJUMDER 2MINS READ

According to the IMF, Jamaica's GDP grew 1% in 2019, against 1.9% in 2018. According to the updated IMF forecasts from 14th April 2020, due to the outbreak of the COVID-19, GDP growth is expected to fall to -5.6% in 2020 and pick up to 3.5% in 2021, subject to the post-pandemic global economic recovery. The economy of Jamaica is heavily reliant on services, accounting for 70% of the country's GDP. Jamaica’s primary natural resource is Bauxite.

Jamaica's import of Aluminium cans

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Jamaica is the 3rd largest packaged food market in the Caribbean, excluding Puerto Rico. It is also forecasted that Jamaican retail food market to expand to $857 million by 2021, an increase of nearly 35% or $222 million. The nation’s aluminium cans import during 2017-19 has been recorded at 66,998 tonnes and the revenue expended remained at $16.74 million. The import for 2020 has been marked at 57,225 tonnes and expenditure to stand at $7.75 million. However, when 2020 analysed import volume and expenditure gets assorted to the preceding three years it depicts 172,449 and $24.49 million respectively.

Jamaica's import of Aluminium Cans

In 2017, the country’s aluminium cans import stood at 21,377 tonnes, with expenditures occurred at $3.29 million, whereas in 2018 the demand soared to 45,621 tonnes, a rise by 113.41% and the expenditure tick-up to $6.77 million.

Aluminium cans import of Jamaica in 2019, also revealed growth by 5.71%, as the import volume rose to 48,226 tonnes, while expenditures remained marginally low at $6.68 million.

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The projected for 2020 has been analysed with growth by 18.66%, as the import volume to drive up and remain at 57,225 tonnes and expenditures to outreach at $7.75 million.

The major trading nations for Jamaica’s importation of Aluminium cans are USA, Netherlands, Dominican Rep., China, etc.

 

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