Exports:
$365 million f.o.b. (2003 est.)
Exports - commodities:
cotton, cattle, gum arabic
Exports - partners:
US 67.8%, China 21.5%, Portugal 4.3% (2004)
Imports:
$500.7 million f.o.b. (2004 est.)
Imports - commodities:
machinery and transportation equipment, industrial goods, petroleum
products, foodstuffs, textiles
Imports - partners:
France 21.9%, Cameroon 16.1%, US 10.8%, Portugal 10.4%, Germany
6.4%, Belgium 4.6% (2004)
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$652.7 million (2004 est.)
Debt - external:
$1.1 billion (2000 est.)
Economic aid - recipient:
$238.3 million received; note - $125 million committed by Taiwan
(August 1997); $30 million committed by African Development Bank;
ODA $150 million (2001 est.)
Currency (code):
Communaute Financiere Africaine franc (XAF); note - responsible
authority is the Bank of the Central African States