Agriculture—products: paddy rice, bananas, palm kernels, coconuts, plantains, peanuts; beef, chickens; forest products; shrimp
Exports: $548.84 million (1997)
Exports—commodities: alumina, aluminum, crude oil, lumber, shrimp
and fish, rice, bananas
Exports—partners: Norway 24%, Netherlands 22%, US 22%, France
9.5%, Japan 7.6%, UK 6.5% (1997)
Imports: $551.8 million (1997)
Imports—commodities: capital equipment, petroleum, foodstuffs,
cotton, consumer goods
Imports—partners: US 48%, Netherlands 21.2%, UK 5.1%, Japan 4%
(1997)
Debt—external: $216 million (1996 est.)
Economic aid—recipient: $76.4 million (1995); note?the
Netherlands provided a $127 million aid package to Aruba and
Suriname in 1996
Currency: 1 Surinamese guilder, gulden, or florin (Sf.) = 100
cents