Imports: $1.2 billion (1993) commodities: fuels and lubricants 19%, manufactured goods 18%, machinery and transport equipment 15%, food and live animals 14%, chemicals 11.4%, raw materials 10%, miscellaneous manufactured articles 8.0%, beverages and tobacco 3.5% (1990) partners: other former Yugoslav republics, Greece, Albania, Germany, Bulgaria
External debt: $840 million (1992)
Industrial production: growth rate -14% (1993)
Electricity: capacity: 1,600,000 kW production: NA kWh consumption per capita: NA kWh (1993)
Industries: low levels of technology predominate, such as, oil
refining by distillation only; produces basic liquid fuels, coal,
metallic chromium, lead, zinc, and ferronickel; light industry
produces basic textiles, wood products, and tobacco
Agriculture: meets the basic needs for food; principal crops are rice, tobacco, wheat, corn, and millet; also grown are cotton, sesame, mulberry leaves, citrus fruit, and vegetables; agricultural production is highly labor intensive
Illicit drugs: limited illicit opium cultivation; transshipment point
for Southwest Asian heroin
Economic aid:
recipient: US $10 million (for humanitarian and technical assistance)
EC promised a 100 ECU million economic aid package (1993)
Currency: the denar, which was adopted by the Macedonian legislature
26 April 1992, was initially issued in the form of a coupon pegged to
the German mark; subsequently repegged to a basket of seven currencies
Exchange rates: denar per US$1 - 39 (November 1994), 865 (October
1992)