Exports—commodities: peanuts and peanut products, fish, cotton
lint, palm kernels
Exports—partners: Belgium, Japan, Senegal, Hong Kong, France,
Switzerland, UK, US, Indonesia (1997)
Imports: $207 million (f.o.b., 1997)
Imports—commodities: foodstuffs, manufactures, raw materials,
fuel, machinery and transport equipment
Imports—partners: Cote d'Ivoire, Hong Kong, UK, Germany,
Netherlands, France, Belgium (1997)
Debt—external: $426 million (1995 est.)
Economic aid—recipient: $45.4 million (1995)
Currency: 1 dalasi (D) = 100 butut
Exchange rates: dalasi (D) per US$1—10.947 (December 1998), 10.643 (1998), 10.200 (1997), 9.789 (1996), 9.546 (1995), 9.576 (1994)
Fiscal year: 1 July—30 June