Little is known about supply/demand characteristics of goat market in the Tropics. In Guadeloupe, meat goat demand is very high but meat supply is dramatically insufficient at the local level. High amounts of frozen carcass and meat are imported. Meat production improvement relies not only upon technical considerations but also upon market conditions. This work deals with marketing systems of, on the one hand, primary producers and on the other hand, butchers and urban markets. A survey was conducted on a sample of 3% of total goat breeders. Mostly, primitive production trends tend to be associated with unorganised marketing system: for 22% of farmers, goat production is not sufficiently relevant; for 28 % of breeders family consumption is prevailing. On the contrary, for 38 % of breeders intensive production is carried out and therefore selling is a complete activity. Twelve percent has a highly organised farming enterprise and have regular marketing channels and markets. Another survey was carried out upon 15 % of total butcher shops. They were grouped in 4 classes according to the economical characteristics of their enterprise: 40.6 % of them are traditional retail butchers; 12.5 % are selling carcass and cooked meat or food, another 12.5% are district market selling all kinds of meat and carcass and the last 34.4% of butchers are urban big markets selling mainly frozen imported meat.