Imports: total value: $27.7 billion (f.o.b., 1996) commodities: machinery and equipment 38.2%, manufactured goods 19.3%, raw materials and fuels 12.4%, and food 5.6% (1996) partners: EU 61.1%, CEFTA 16.3%, Slovakia 11.8%, EFTA 2.2% (1996)
Debt-external: $20.7 billion (1996)
Economic aid: $NA
Currency: 1 koruna (Kc) = 100 haleru
Exchange rates: koruny (Kcs) per US$1-35.357 (January 1998), 31.698 (1997), 27.145 (1996), 26.541 (1995), 28.785 (1994), 29.153 (1993) note: values before 1993 reflect Czechoslovak exchange rates
Fiscal year: calendar year
Communications
Telephones: 3,349,539 (1993 est.)
Telephone system:
domestic: NA
international: satellite earth stations-2 Intersputnik (Atlantic and
Indian Ocean regions)
Radio broadcast stations: AM NA, FM NA, shortwave NA