partners—EC 25%, US 19%, USSR and Eastern Europe 17%, Japan 10%
_#_Imports: $24.8 billion (c.i.f., FY90);
commodities—petroleum, capital goods, uncut gems and jewelry, chemicals, iron and steel, edible oils;
partners—EC 33%, Middle East 19%, Japan 10%, US 9%, USSR and Eastern Europe 8%
_#_External debt: $69.8 billion (1990 est.)
_#_Industrial production: growth rate 8.4% (1990); accounts for about 25% of GDP
_#_Electricity: 70,000,000 kW capacity; 245,000 million kWh produced, 290 kWh per capita (1990)
_#_Industries: textiles, food processing, steel, machinery, transportation equipment, cement, jute manufactures, mining, petroleum, power, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, electronics
_#_Agriculture: accounts for about 30% of GNP and employs 67% of labor force; self-sufficient in food grains; principal crops—rice, wheat, oilseeds, cotton, jute, tea, sugarcane, potatoes; livestock—cattle, buffaloes, sheep, goats and poultry; fish catch of about 3 million metric tons ranks among the world's top 10 fishing nations
_#_Illicit drugs: licit producer of opium poppy for the pharmaceutical trade, but some opium is diverted to illicit international drug markets; major transit country for illicit narcotics produced in neighboring countries