Current account balance:
$-342 million (2005 est.)
Exports:
$1.949 billion f.o.b. (2005 est.)
Exports - commodities:
clothing and textiles, sugar, cut flowers, molasses
Exports - partners:
UK 32.3%, France 20.7%, US 11.7%, Madagascar 6.2%, Italy 5.3% (2005)
Imports:
$2.507 billion f.o.b. (2005 est.)
Imports - commodities:
manufactured goods, capital equipment, foodstuffs, petroleum
products, chemicals
Imports - partners:
France 12.1%, South Africa 11%, India 7.2%, Finland 6.1%, China 6%,
Germany 5.3%, Bahrain 5.2%, Singapore 4.1% (2005)
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$1.366 billion (2005 est.)
Debt - external:
$3.246 billion (2005 est.)
Economic aid - recipient:
$42 million (1997)