Exports - commodities:
coffee, beef, shrimp and lobster, tobacco, sugar, gold, peanuts

Exports - partners:
US 60.7%, Mexico 8.6%, El Salvador 6.2% (2005)

Imports:
$2.865 billion f.o.b. (2005 est.)

Imports - commodities:
consumer goods, machinery and equipment, raw materials, petroleum
products

Imports - partners:
US 19.6%, Mexico 10.3%, Venezuela 9.5%, Costa Rica 8.5%, Guatemala
6.7%, El Salvador 4.5%, South Korea 4.1% (2005)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$727.8 million (2005 est.)

Debt - external:
$3.188 billion (2005 est.)

Economic aid - recipient:
$419.5 million (2005 est.)

Currency (code):
gold cordoba (NIO)

Currency code:
NIO