commodities—food and beverages 30%, semiprocessed goods 23%, consumer goods 21%, phosphates 17%;
partners—EC 58%, India 7%, Japan 5%, USSR 3%, US 2%
_#_Imports: $5.9 billion (f.o.b., 1990 est.);
commodities—capital goods 24%, semiprocessed goods 22%, raw materials 16%, fuel and lubricants 16%, food and beverages 13%, consumer goods 9%;
partners—EC 53%, US 11%, Canada 4%, Iraq 3%, USSR 3%, Japan 2%
_#_External debt: $21 billion (1990)
_#_Industrial production: growth rate 4% (1989 est.); accounts for an estimated 20% of GDP
_#_Electricity: 2,262,000 kW capacity; 8,140 million kWh produced, 320 kWh per capita (1990)
_#_Industries: phosphate rock mining and processing, food processing, leather goods, textiles, construction, tourism
_#_Agriculture: 50% of employment and 30% of export value; not self-sufficient in food; cereal farming and livestock raising predominate; barley, wheat, citrus fruit, wine, vegetables, olives; fishing catch of 491,000 metric tons in 1987