Exports—commodities: livestock, sorghum, textiles, food, small
manufactures
Exports—partners: Ethiopia 67%, Sudan 10%, US 8%, Italy 4%, Saudi
Arabia, Yemen (1996)
Imports: $514 million (1996 est.)
Imports—commodities: processed goods, machinery, petroleum
products
Imports—partners: Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, Italy, United Arab
Emirates (1996)
Debt—external: $46 million (1996 est.)
Economic aid—recipient: $149.9 million (1995)
Currency: 1 nafka = 100 cents
Exchange rates: nakfa per US$1 = 7.6 (January 1999), 7.2 (March
1998 est.)
note: following independence from Ethiopia, Eritrea continued to use
Ethiopian currency until November 1997 when Eritrea issued its own
currency, the nakfa, at approximately the same rate as the birr,
i.e., 7.2 nakfa per US$1
Fiscal year: calendar year