Exports: $1.1 billion (f.o.b., 1997 est.)
Exports—commodities: cotton, soybeans, timber, vegetable oils,
meat products, coffee, tung oil
Exports—partners: Brazil 48%, Netherlands 22%, Argentina 9%, US
4%, Uruguay 3%, Chile 2% (1997)
Imports: $2.5 billion (c.i.f., 1996 est.)
Imports—commodities: capital goods, consumer goods, foodstuffs,
raw materials, fuels
Imports—partners: Brazil 29%, US 22%, Argentina 14%, Hong Kong 9%
(1995)
Debt—external: $1.3 billion (1996)
Economic aid—recipient: $180.4 million (1995)
Currency: 1 guarani (G) = 100 centimos
Exchange rates: guaranies (G) per US$—2,866.3 (January 1999), 2,755.7 (1998), 2,191.0 (1997), 2,062.8 (1996), 1,970.4 (1995), 1,911.5 (1994)