_#_Imports: $1.1 billion (c.i.f. 1990);
commodities—machinery and transport equipment, chemical products, manufactured goods, fuel and oil, foodstuffs;
partners—US 39%, Japan 9%, CACM, Venezuela, Mexico
_#_External debt: $2.8 billion (1990)
_#_Industrial production: growth rate 2.9% (1989); accounts for 15% of GDP
_#_Electricity: 668,000 kW capacity; 2,023 million kWh produced, 380 kWh per capita (1990)
_#_Industries: agricultural processing (sugar and coffee), textiles, clothing, wood products
_#_Agriculture: most important sector, accounting for nearly 30% of GDP, over 60% of the labor force, and two-thirds of exports; principal products include bananas, coffee, timber, beef, citrus fruit, shrimp; importer of wheat
_#_Illicit drugs: illicit producer of cannabis, cultivated on small plots and used principally for local consumption; transshipment point for cocaine
_#_Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $1.4 billion; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments (1970-88), $1,027 million