Agriculture - products: rice, wheat, oilseed, cotton, jute, tea, sugarcane, potatoes; cattle, water buffalo, sheep, goats, poultry; fish
Exports: $44.5 billion (f.o.b., 2001)
Exports - commodities: textile goods, gems and jewelry, engineering goods, chemicals, leather manufactures
Exports - partners: US 22.8%, Hong Kong 5.8%, Japan 5.3%, UK 5.3%,
Germany 4.6% (2000)
Imports: $53.8 billion (f.o.b., 2001)
Imports - commodities: crude oil, machinery, gems, fertilizer, chemicals
Imports - partners: Benelux 8.5%, US 8%, UK 6.2%, Japan 5.7%, Saudi
Arabia 4.6% (2000)
Debt - external: $100.3 billion (end-March 2001)
Economic aid - recipient: $2.9 billion (FY98/99)
Currency: Indian rupee (INR)