Exports: $13.4 billion (f.o.b., 1994 est.)
commodities: manufactured goods, machinery and transport equipment,
chemicals, fuels, minerals, metals, agricultural products
(January-November 1994)
partners: Germany 28.7%, Slovakia 15.5%, Austria 7.9%, Italy 6.4%,
France 3.2%, Russia 3.2%, Poland 3.1%, UK 2.9%, Netherlands 2.4%,
Hungary 2.2%, US 2.1%, Belgium 1.3% (January-June 1994)
Imports: $13.3 billion (f.o.b., 1994 est.)
commodities: machinery and transport equipment, manufactured goods,
chemicals, fuels and lubricants, raw materials, agricultural products
(January-November 1994)
partners: Germany 24.1%, Slovakia 15.6%, Russia 9.8%, Austria 7.6%,
Italy 4.9%, France 3.6%, US 3.2%, Netherlands 2.9%, UK 2.8%, Poland
2.7%, Switzerland 2.2%, Belgium 2.0% (January-June 1994)
External debt: $8.7 billion (October 1994)
Industrial production: growth rate 4.9% (January-September 1994)
Electricity: capacity: 14.470,000 kW production: 56.3 billion kWh consumption per capita: 4,842 kWh (1993)
Industries: fuels, ferrous metallurgy, machinery and equipment, coal, motor vehicles, glass, armaments
Agriculture: largely self-sufficient in food production; diversified crop and livestock production, including grains, potatoes, sugar beets, hops, fruit, hogs, cattle, and poultry; exporter of forest products
Illicit drugs: transshipment point for Southwest Asian heroin and
Latin American cocaine to Western Europe
Economic aid:
donor: 1.4 million annually to IMF beginning in 1994
Currency: 1 koruna (Kc) = 100 haleru