Exports - partners: Germany 22%, Japan 12%, Italy 9%, UK 5% (1997 est.)
Imports: $1.25 billion (f.o.b., 1998 est.)
Imports - commodities: food and live animals, petroleum and petroleum products, chemicals, machinery, motor vehicles
Imports - partners: Italy 10%, US 9%, Japan 8%, Jordan 5% (1997 est.)
Debt - external: $10 billion (1997)
Economic aid - recipient: $367 million (FY95/96)
Currency: 1 birr (Br) = 100 cents
Exchange rates: birr (Br) per US$1 (end of period) - 8.2 (January 2000), 7.5030 (1998), 6.8640 (1997), 6.4260 (1996), 6.3200 (1995) note: since May 1993, the birr market rate has been determined in an interbank market supported by weekly wholesale auction; prior to that date, the official rate was pegged to US$1 = 5.000 birr
Fiscal year: 8 July - 7 July
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