Imports - commodities:
machinery and transport equipment 29%, consumer goods 36%, raw
materials and semi-manufactures 32%, fuels, fish and salt (1999)

Imports - partners:
Denmark 53.8%, Norway 24.2%, Iceland 5.7% (2002)

Debt - external:
$64 million (1999)

Economic aid - recipient:
$55 million (annual subsidy from Denmark)

Currency:
Danish krone (DKK)

Currency code:
DKK

Exchange rates:
Danish kroner per US dollar - 7.89 (2002), 8.32 (2001), 8.08
(2000), 6.98 (1999), 6.7 (1998)

Fiscal year:
calendar year

Communications Faroe Islands

Telephones - main lines in use:
24,851 (1999)