Illicit drugs: transshipment point for Southwest Asian heroin and
Latin American cocaine to Western Europe
Exports: $17.4 billion (f.o.b., 1995 est.)
commodities: manufactured goods, machinery and transport equipment,
chemicals, fuels, minerals, metals, agricultural products
partners: Germany 32.4%, Slovakia 16.1%, Austria 6.7%, Poland 5.3%,
Italy 4%, Russia 3.3%, Netherlands 2.8%, France 2.6%, UK 2.2%,
Hungary 2.1%, US 1.8%, Belgium 1.5% (January-September 1995)
Imports: $21.3 billion (f.o.b., 1995 est.)
commodities: machinery and transport equipment, manufactured goods,
chemicals, fuels and lubricants, raw materials, agricultural products
partners: Germany 26%, Slovakia 13.2%, Russia 9.2%, Austria 7%,
Italy 5.6%, France 4.1%, US 3.8%, Poland 3.1%, Netherlands 2.9%, UK
2.9%, Switzerland 2.1%, Belgium 2.0% (January-September 1995)
External debt: $14.9 billion (June 1995)
Economic aid: recipient: ODA, $27 million (1993)
Currency: 1 koruna (Kc) = 100 haleru
Exchange rates: koruny (Kcs) per US$1 - 26.967 (January 1996),
26.541 (1995), 28.785 (1994), 29.153 (1993), 28.26 (1992), 29.53
(1991), 17.95 (1990)
note: values before 1993 reflect Czechoslovak exchange rates
Fiscal year: calendar year
Transportation ———————
Railways:
total: 9,413 km
standard gauge: 9,316 km 1.435-m standard gauge (2640 km electrified)
narrow gauge: 97 km several narrow gauges (1995)