Imports:
$604 million f.o.b. (2002)
Imports - commodities:
capital equipment, petroleum, foodstuffs, cotton, consumer goods
Imports - partners:
US 31.5%, Netherlands 18.2%, Trinidad and Tobago 12.5%, China 6.8%,
Japan 6.4% (2003)
Debt - external:
$321 million (2002 est.)
Economic aid - recipient:
Netherlands provided $37 million for project and program
assistance, European Development Fund $4 million, Belgium $2 million
(1998)
Currency:
Surinamese guilder (SRG)
Currency code:
SRG
Exchange rates:
Surinamese guilders per US dollar - NA (2003), 2,346.75 (2002),
2,178.5 (2001), 1,322.47 (2000), 859.437 (1999)
note: during 1998, the exchange rate splintered into four distinct
rates; in January 1999 the government floated the guilder, but
subsequently fixed it when the black-market rate plunged; the
government currently allows trading within a band of SRG 500 around
the official rate
Fiscal year:
calendar year
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