commodities—machines and vehicles 25%, food and beverages 23%, basic manufactures 18%, raw materials and fuels 11%, chemicals 6%;
partners—Australia 36%, Japan 13%, NZ 10%, France 8%, Fiji 5% (1987)
_#_External debt: $30 million (1990 est.)
_#_Industrial production: growth rate NA%
_#_Electricity: 17,000 kW capacity; 30 million kWh produced, 180 kWh per capita (1990)
_#_Industries: food and fish freezing, forestry processing, meat canning
_#_Agriculture: export crops—copra, cocoa, coffee, and fish; subsistence crops—copra, taro, yams, coconuts, fruits, and vegetables
_#_Economic aid: Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments (1970-88), $565 million
_#_Currency: vatu (plural—vatu); 1 vatu (VT) = 100 centimes
_#_Exchange rates: vatu (VT) per US$1—109.62 (January 1991), 116.57 (1990), 116.04 (1989), 104.43 (1988), 109.85 (1987), 106.08 (1986), 106.03 (1985)