Agriculture: vegetables, fruits, wine, grain, sugar beets, sunflower seed, tobacco; meat, milk
Illicit drugs: illicit cultivator of opium poppy and cannabis; mostly for CIS consumption; transshipment point for illicit drugs to Western Europe
Exports: $720 million (1995)
commodities: foodstuffs, wine, tobacco, textiles and footwear,
machinery, chemicals
partners: Russia, Kazakstan, Ukraine, Romania, Germany
Imports: $822 million (1995)
commodities: oil, gas, coal, steel, machinery, foodstuffs,
automobiles, and other consumer durables
partners: Russia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Romania, Germany
External debt: $550 million (of which $250 million to Russia)
Economic aid:
recipient: ODA, $46 million (1993)
note: commitments, $1,335 million ($500 million disbursements),
1992-95
Currency: the leu (plural lei) was introduced in late 1993
Exchange rates: lei per US$1 - 4.5460 (January 1996), 4.4990 (1995), 4.2700 (1994), 3.6400 (1993), 0.4145 (1992), 0.0017 (1991)
Fiscal year: calendar year
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