JSEZA eyes bigger slice of China trade

JAMAICA is looking at ways to turn its rapidly growing import trade with China into more business at home, targeting everything from automotive components and energy storage equipment to air conditioning systems, electronics and light machinery, for possible assembly and other value-added work on the island.

With imports from China almost doubling in four years to US$878.6 million in 2025, the Jamaica Special Economic Zone Authority (JSEZA) says the size of that trade is exposing opportunities for Jamaica to capture some of the value now going overseas.

But the plan is not to try to make everything Jamaica imports.