Agriculture—products: vegetables, fruits, wine, grain, sugar beets, sunflower seed, tobacco; beef, milk
Exports: $633 million (f.o.b., 1998)
Exports—commodities: foodstuffs, wine, tobacco, textiles and
footwear, machinery
Exports—partners: Russia 58%, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Belarus,
Romania, US, Germany, Italy (1997)
Imports: $1.02 billion (f.o.b., 1998)
Imports—commodities: oil, gas, coal, steel, machinery, chemical products, metals, metal products, foodstuffs, automobiles, other consumer durables
Imports—partners: Russia 26%, Ukraine 20%, Belarus, Romania,
Germany, Italy (1997)
Debt—external: more than $1.2 billion (February 1999)
Economic aid—recipient: $100.8 million (1995); note?$547 million
from the IMF and World Bank (1992-99)
Currency: the Moldovan leu (MLD) (plural lei) was introduced in
late 1993