Agriculture: grains, potatoes, sugar beets, fruits, vegetables; livestock
Illicit drugs: important gateway for cocaine, heroin, and hashish entering Europe; European producer of illicit amphetamines and other synthetic drugs
Exports: $146 billion (f.o.b., 1995)
commodities: metal products, chemicals, processed food and tobacco,
agricultural products
partners: EU 73% (Germany 28%, Belgium-Luxembourg 13%, UK 9%),
Central and Eastern Europe 2%, US 5% (1994)
Imports: $133 billion (c.i.f., 1995)
commodities: raw materials and semifinished products, consumer
goods, transportation equipment, crude oil, food products
partners: EU 56% (Germany 21%, Belgium-Luxembourg 11%, UK 8.5%), US
8.6% (1994)
External debt: 0
Economic aid: donor: ODA, $2.525 billion (1993)
Currency: 1 Netherlands guilder, gulden, or florin (f.) = 100 cents
Exchange rates: Netherlands guilders, gulden, or florins (f.) per US$1 - 1.6365 (January 1996), 1.6057 (1995), 1.8200 (1994), 1.8573 (1993), 1.7585 (1992), 1.8697 (1991)
Fiscal year: calendar year
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