partners—US 66%, EC 16%, Japan 11%
_#_Imports: $29.8 billion (c.i.f., 1990);
commodities—grain, metal manufactures, agricultural machinery, electrical equipment;
partners—US 62%, EC 18%, Japan 10%
_#_External debt: $96.0 billion (1990)
_#_Industrial production: growth rate 5.3% (1989); accounts for 27% of GDP
_#_Electricity: 27,600,000 kW capacity; 108,976 million kWh produced, 1,240 kWh per capita (1990)
_#_Industries: food and beverages, tobacco, chemicals, iron and steel, petroleum, mining, textiles, clothing, transportation equipment, tourism
_#_Agriculture: accounts for 9% of GDP and over 25% of work force; large number of small farms at subsistence level; major food crops—corn, wheat, rice, beans; cash crops—cotton, coffee, fruit, tomatoes; fish catch of 1.4 million metric tons among top 20 nations (1987)
_#_Illicit drugs: illicit cultivation of opium poppy and cannabis continues in spite of government eradication efforts; major link in chain of countries used to smuggle cocaine from South American dealers to US markets