commodities—crude oil and refined products, fertilizer, sulfur;
partners—US, Brazil, Turkey, Japan, France, Italy, USSR (1989)
_#_Imports: $10.3 billion (c.i.f., 1989);
commodities—manufactures, food;
partners—US, FRG, Turkey, UK, Romania, Japan, France (1989)
_#_External debt: $40 billion (1989 est.), excluding debt to Arab Gulf states
_#_Industrial production: NA%; manufacturing accounts for 10% of GDP (1987)
_#_Electricity: 9,902,000 kW capacity; 20,000 million kWh produced, 1,110 kWh per capita (1989)
_#_Industries: petroleum, chemicals, textiles, construction materials, food processing
_#_Agriculture: accounts for 11% of GNP but 30% of labor force; principal products—wheat, barley, rice, vegetables, dates, other fruit, cotton, wool; livestock—cattle, sheep; not self-sufficient in food output