Exports: $3.6 billion (f.o.b., 2001 est.)

Exports - commodities: cocoa 33%, coffee, timber, petroleum, cotton, bananas, pineapples, palm oil, cotton, fish (1999)

Exports - partners: France 13%, US 8%, Netherlands 7%, Germany 7%,
Italy 6% (1999)

Imports: $2.4 billion (f.o.b., 2001 est.)

Imports - commodities: food, consumer goods; capital goods, fuel, transport equipment, raw materials

Imports - partners: France 26%, Nigeria 10%, China 7%, Italy 5%,
Germany 4% (1999)

Debt - external: $13.3 billion (2000 est.)

Economic aid - recipient: ODA, $1 billion (1996 est.)

Currency: Communaute Financiere Africaine franc (XOF); note - responsible authority is the Central Bank of the West African States

Currency code: XOF