Imports: total value: $443.4 million (f.o.b., 1997 est.) commodities: machinery and equipment, fuels, food products, industrial consumer goods, chemicals, building materials, sugar, tea partners: Russia 34%, China 15% (1996)
Debt-external: $500 million (1996 est.)
Economic aid: recipient: ODA $250 million (1998 est.)
Currency: 1 tughrik (Tug) = 100 mongos
Exchange rates: tughriks (Tug) per US$1-812.09 (December 1997), 789.99 (1997), 548.40 (1996), 448.61 (1995), 412.72 (1994)
Fiscal year: calendar year
Communications
Telephones: 89,000 (1995 est.)
Telephone system:
domestic: NA
international: satellite earth station-1 Intersputnik (Indian Ocean
Region)
Radio broadcast stations: AM 12, FM 1, shortwave 0