Exports: $182 million (f.o.b., 1998)
Exports—commodities: diamonds, timber, cotton, coffee, tobacco
Exports—partners: Belgium-Luxembourg 36%, Cote d'Ivoire 5%, Spain 4%, Egypt 3%, France
Imports: $155 million (f.o.b., 1998)
Imports—commodities: food, textiles, petroleum products, machinery, electrical equipment, motor vehicles, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, consumer goods, industrial products
Imports—partners: France 30%, Cote d'Ivoire 18%, Cameroon 11%,
Germany 4%, Japan
Debt—external: $930 million (1997 est.)
Economic aid—recipient: $172.2 million (1995); note?traditional
budget subsidies from France
Currency: 1 Communaute Financiere Africaine franc (CFAF) = 100
centimes
Exchange rates: Communaute Financiere Africaine francs (CFAF) per
US$1—560.01 (December 1998), 589.95 (1998), 583.67 (1997), 511.55
(1996), 499.15 (1995), 555.20 (1994)