Exports - partners:
US 22.9%, Switzerland 6.9%, China 4.1%, Japan 4%

Imports:
$1.123 trillion
note: external imports, excluding intra-EU trade (2003)

Imports - commodities:
machinery, vehicles, aircraft, plastics, crude oil, chemicals,
textiles, metals, foodstuffs, clothing

Imports - partners:
US 15.1%, China 9.7%, Japan 6.7%, Switzerland 5.6%

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$NA

Currency (code):
euro, British pound, Danish kroner, Swedish kroner, Cypriot pound,
koruny (Czech Republic), krooni (Estonia), forint (Hungary), lati
(Latvia), litai (Lithuania), Maltese liri, zloty (Poland), koruny
(Slovakia), tolar (Slovenia)

Currency code:
EUR

Exchange rates:
euros per US dollar - 0.81 (2004), 0.89 (2003), 1.06 (2002), 1.12
(2001), 1.09 (2000)

Fiscal year:
NA

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