Exports—commodities: manufactured goods, fuels, chemicals; food,
beverages, tobacco
Exports—partners: EU countries 56% (Germany 12%, France 10%,
Netherlands 8%), US 12% (1997)
Imports: $304 billion (f.o.b., 1998)
Imports—commodities: manufactured goods, machinery, fuels,
foodstuffs
Imports—partners: EU countries 53% (Germany 14%, France 10%,
Netherlands 7%, Ireland 5%), US 13% (1997)
Debt—external: $NA
Economic aid—donor: ODA, $3.4 billion (1996)
Currency: 1 British pound (L) = 100 pence
Exchange rates: British pounds (L) per US$1—0.6057 (January 1999), 0.6037 (1998), 0.6106 (1997), 0.6403 (1996), 0.6335 (1995), 0.6529 (1994)
Fiscal year: 1 April—31 March