Exports: trade data are included with the statistics for Italy

Exports—commodities: building stone, lime, wood, chestnuts, wheat, wine, baked goods, hides, and ceramics

Imports: trade data are included with the statistics for Italy

Imports—commodities: wide variety of consumer manufactures, food

Debt—external: $NA

Economic aid—recipient: $NA

Currency: 1 Italian lira (Lit) = 100 centesimi; note—also mints its own coins

Exchange rates: Italian lire (Lit) per US$1—1,668.7 (January 1998),1,736.2 (1998), 1,703.1 (1997), 1,542.9 (1996), 1,628.9 (1995), 1,612.4 (1994)

Fiscal year: calendar year

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