_#_Unemployment rate: 6.8% (1990 est.)
_#_Budget: revenues $68 billion; expenditures $76 billion, including capital expenditures of $7 billion (1990)
_#_Exports: $107.8 billion (f.o.b., 1989);
commodities—agricultural products, processed foods and tobacco, natural gas, chemicals, metal products, textiles, clothing;
partners—EC 74.9% (FRG 28.3%, Belgium-Luxembourg 14.2%, France 10.7%, UK 10.2%), US 4.7% (1988)
_#_Imports: $104.2 billion (c.i.f., 1989);
commodities—raw materials and semifinished products, consumer goods, transportation equipment, crude oil, food products;
partners—EC 63.8% (FRG 26.5%, Belgium-Luxembourg 23.1%, UK 8.1%), US 7.9% (1988)
_#_External debt: none
_#_Industrial production: growth rate 4.8% (1990 est.); accounts for 25% of GDP