partners—US 55%, UK 7%, Jamaica 5%
_#_Imports: $935 million (c.i.f., 1988);
commodities—crude petroleum 64%, food, manufactures;
partners—Venezuela 52%, Nigeria 15%, US 12%
_#_External debt: $701.2 million (December 1987)
_#_Industrial production: growth rate NA%
_#_Electricity: 125,000 kW capacity; 365 million kWh produced, 1,990 kWh per capita (1990)
_#_Industries: tourism (Curacao and Sint Maarten), petroleum refining (Curacao), petroleum transshipment facilities (Curacao and Bonaire), light manufacturing (Curacao)
_#_Agriculture: hampered by poor soils and scarcity of water; chief products—aloes, sorghum, peanuts, fresh vegetables, tropical fruit; not self-sufficient in food
_#_Economic aid: Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments (1970-88), $428 million