Exports:
$1.783 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.)
Exports - commodities:
authentic jewelry, inorganic chemicals, miscellaneous consumer
goods, fruit, tobacco, construction minerals, electric power
machinery and switchgear, textile fibers, paper
Exports - partners:
Syria 24.9%, UAE 10%, Turkey 6.9%, Switzerland 6.7%, Saudi Arabia
5.3% (2004)
Imports:
$8.162 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.)
Imports - commodities:
petroleum products, cars, medicinal products, clothing, meat and
live animals, consumer goods, paper, textile fabrics, tobacco
Imports - partners:
Italy 11.2%, France 10.3%, Syria 9.8%, Germany 8.6%, China 5.8%, US
5.5%, UK 4.6% (2004)
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$16.3 billion (2004 est.)
Debt - external:
$15.84 billion (2004 est.)
Economic aid - recipient:
$2.2 billion received (2003), out of the $4.2 billion in soft loans
pledged at the November 2002 Paris II Aid Conference
Currency (code):
Lebanese pound (LBP)