Imports - partners: US 52%, Mexico 13%, UK 5% (1997)
Debt - external: $380 million (1997)
Economic aid - recipient: $23.4 million (1995)
Currency: 1 Belizean dollar (Bz$) = 100 cents
Exchange rates: Belizean dollars (Bz$) per US$1 - 2.0000 (fixed rate)
Fiscal year: 1 April - 31 March
@Belize:Communications
Telephones - main lines in use: 29,600 (1996)
Telephones - mobile cellular: 1,237 (1995)
Telephone system: above-average system domestic: trunk network depends primarily on microwave radio relay international: satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)