Exports:
$503.4 million f.o.b. (2004 est.)
Exports - commodities:
tobacco 60%, tea, sugar, cotton, coffee, peanuts, wood products,
apparel
Exports - partners:
South Africa 13.5%, US 12%, Germany 11.6%, Egypt 8.4%, UK 6.6%,
Mozambique 4.5% (2004)
Imports:
$521.1 million f.o.b. (2004 est.)
Imports - commodities:
food, petroleum products, semimanufactures, consumer goods,
transportation equipment
Imports - partners:
South Africa 37.3%, India 8.1%, Mozambique 7.7%, Zimbabwe 7.2%,
Tanzania 4.6%, Germany 4.1% (2004)
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$160.5 million (2004 est.)
Debt - external:
$3.129 billion (2004 est.)
Economic aid - recipient:
$540 million (1999)
Currency (code):
Malawian kwacha (MWK)