Exports: $25.8 million (f.o.b., 1996 est.)
Exports—commodities: cashews 95%, fish, peanuts, palm kernels,
sawn lumber (1994)
Exports—partners: Spain 35%, India 30%, Thailand 10%, Italy 10%
(1995)
Imports: $63 million (f.o.b., 1996 est.)
Imports—commodities: foodstuffs, transport equipment, petroleum
products, machinery and equipment (1994)
Imports—partners: Portugal 29.2%, Thailand 8.4%, Netherlands
8.4%, US 7.5% (1996)
Debt—external: $953 million (1996 est.)
Economic aid—recipient: $115.4 million (1995)
Currency: 1 Communaute Financiere Africaine franc (CFAF) = 100 centimes; note—on 1 May 1997, Guinea-Bissau adopted as its currency the CFA franc following its membership into the BCEAO
Exchange rates: Communaute Financiere Africaine francs (CFAF) per
US$1—566.65 (January 1999), 589.95 (1998), 583.67 (1997);
Guinea-Bissauan pesos (PG) per US$1— 26,373 (1996), 18,073 (1995),
12,892 (1994)
note: as of 2 May 1997, Guinea-Bissau has adopted the CFA franc as
the national currency following its membership in BCEAO