Exports - partners:
US 3.5%, India 3.3%, South Korea 2.2% (2003)

Imports:
$5.126 billion (2003 est.)

Imports - commodities:
crude oil, machinery, chemicals

Imports - partners:
Saudi Arabia 30.7%, US 11.4%, Japan 7.8%, UK 5.7%, Germany 5.4%
(2003)

Reserves of foreign exchange & gold:
$1.785 billion (2003)

Debt - external:
$4.682 billion (2003)

Economic aid - recipient:
$150 million; note - $50 million annually since 1992 from each of
Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Kuwait (2002)

Currency:
Bahraini dinar (BHD)

Currency code:
BHD

Exchange rates:
Bahraini dinars per US dollar - 0.376 (2003), 0.376 (2002), 0.376
(2001), 0.376 (2000), 0.376 (1999)