Exports—partners: US 39.7%, Caricom countries 24.5%, Latin
America 10.3%, EU 8.2% (1997)
Imports: $3.3 billion (c.i.f., 1997)
Imports—commodities: machinery, transportation equipment,
manufactured goods, food, live animals
Imports—partners: US 52.2%, Latin America 16.5%, EU 13.8%, Japan
3.6% (1997)
Debt—external: $2.8 billion (1997 est.)
Economic aid—recipient: $121.4 million (1995)
Currency: 1 Trinidad and Tobago dollar (TT$) = 100 cents
Exchange rates: Trinidad and Tobago dollars (TT$) per US$1—6.2761 (January 1999), 6.2840 (1998), 6.2517 (1997), 6.0051 (1996), 5.9478 (1995), 5.9249 (1994)
Fiscal year: 1 October-30 September
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