Exports - commodities:
foodstuffs, textiles, machinery
Exports - partners:
Russia 35%, Italy 11.7%, Germany 8.8%, Ukraine 8.5%, Romania 5.7%,
US 5.2%, Belarus 4.5%, Spain 4.1% (2002)
Imports:
$980 million f.o.b. (2002 est.)
Imports - commodities:
mineral products and fuel 32%, machinery and equipment, chemicals,
textiles (2000)
Imports - partners:
Russia 23.9%, Ukraine 13.4%, Germany 12.6%, Italy 8.3%, Romania
8.2% (2002)
Debt - external:
$1.3 billion (2002)
Economic aid - recipient:
$100 million (2000)
Currency:
Moldovan leu (MDL)
Currency code:
MDL
Exchange rates:
lei per US dollar - NA (2002), 12.87 (2001), 12.43 (2000), 10.52
(1999), 5.37 (1998)