Imports - partners: Argentina 25.4%, Brazil 24.5%, Uruguay 3.8% (2000)
Debt - external: $2.9 billion (2001 est.)
Economic aid - recipient: $NA
Currency: guarani (PYG)
Currency code: PYG
Exchange rates: guarani per US dollar - 4,783.0 (January 2002), 4,107.7 (2001), 3,486.4 (2000), 3,119.1 (1999), 2,726.5 (1998), 2,177.9 (1997); note - since early 1998, the exchange rate has operated as a managed float; prior to that, the exchange rate was determined freely in the market
Fiscal year: calendar year
Communications Paraguay
Telephones - main lines in use: 290,475 (2001)
Telephones - mobile cellular: 510,000 (2001)