Trinidad and To­ba­go’s im­port cov­er has fall­en to its low­est lev­el in decades, de­clin­ing steadi­ly from over eight months cov­er in mid-2023 to just 5.4 months cov­er in Au­gust 2025.

Im­port cov­er mea­sures how many months a coun­try can pay for its im­ports us­ing its ex­ist­ing for­eign ex­change re­serves.

Ac­cord­ing to sta­tis­tics from the Cen­tral Bank, the coun­try’s for­eign re­serves were suf­fi­cient to cov­er 8.3 months of im­ports in June 2023. Since then, the buffer has erod­ed by near­ly three months, falling each quar­ter to reach its cur­rent low.