Electricity - exports: 16 million kWh (1998)
Electricity - imports: 57 million kWh (1998)
Agriculture - products: bananas, coffee, citrus; beef; timber; shrimp
Exports: $1.6 billion (f.o.b., 1999 est.)
Exports - commodities: coffee, bananas, shrimp, lobster, meat; zinc, lumber
Exports - partners: US 73%, Japan 4%, Germany 4%, Belgium, Spain (1998)
Imports: $2.7 billion (f.o.b., 1999 est.)
Imports - commodities: machinery and transport equipment, industrial raw materials, chemical products, fuels, foodstuffs
Imports - partners: US 60%, Guatemala 5%, Netherlands Antilles, Japan,
Germany, Mexico, El Salvador (1998)
Debt - external: $4.4 billion (1999)