Reunion Business
• Main exports: Sugar, rum and molasses, perfume essences and lobster.
• Main imports: Manufactured goods, food, tobacco, machinery and equipment, raw materials and petroleum products.
• Main trade partners: France, Japan, Comoros Islands, Germany and Italy.
Economy
The service sector, including transport, telecommunications, finance and tourism, provides three-quarters of the country’s economic output. Tourism has grown particularly rapidly in recent years, and is now worth about US$300 million annually to the island’s economy.
However, the Réunion economy is far from self-sustaining and relies on large injections of aid from France and, more recently, the European Union, to cover its trade and budgetary deficits (as an integral part of France, Réunion belongs to the EU). The most pressing problem for the government is a very high level of unemployment, which has been around 35 to 40% for the last decade.
Business Etiquette
Office hours: Mon-Fri 0800-1200 and 1400-1800.
Business Contacts
5 bis rue de Paris, BP 120, 97463 Saint-Denis, Réunion
Tel: 942 000.
Website: www.reunion.cci.fr
Délégation Régionale au Commerce, à l’Artisanat et au Tourisme
Préfecture de la Réunion, Avenue de la Victoire, 97400 Saint-Denis, Réunion
Tel: 407 758.
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