Imports: $2.8 billion (c.i.f., 1999)
Imports - commodities: machinery and equipment, raw materials, fuels; consumer goods
Imports - partners: US 39%, Colombia 11%, Japan 9%, Venezuela 5%,
Mexico 3% (1998)
Debt - external: $15.3 billion (1999)
Economic aid - recipient: $695.7 million (1995)
Currency: 1 sucre (S/) = 100 centavos
Exchange rates: sucres (S/) per US$1 - 24,860.7 (January 2000), 11,786.8 (1999), 5,446.6 (1998), 3,988.3 (1997), 3,189.5 (1996), 2,564.5 (1995)
Fiscal year: calendar year
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Telephones - main lines in use: 748,000 (1995)