Imports - commodities: machinery and equipment, industrial supplies, foodstuffs
Imports - partners: Australia 27%, US 26%, New Zealand 14%, Fiji 12%,
Japan 9% (2000)
Debt - external: $192 million (1999)
Economic aid - recipient: $42.9 million (1995)
Currency: tala (WST)
Currency code: WST
Exchange rates: tala per US dollar - 3.5236 (January 2002), 3.4722 (2001), 3.2712 (2000), 3.0120 (1999), 2.9429 (1998), 2.5562 (1997)
Fiscal year: calendar year
Communications Samoa
Telephones - main lines in use: 8,183 (1998)