Exports - commodities:
coffee, vanilla, shellfish, sugar, cotton cloth, chromite,
petroleum products
Exports - partners:
France 31.5%, US 31%, Germany 8.8% (2005)
Imports:
$1.544 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)
Imports - commodities:
capital goods, petroleum, consumer goods, food
Imports - partners:
France 16.7%, China 10.6%, Iran 8%, Mauritius 6.6%, Hong Kong 5%,
South Africa 4.9% (2005)
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$563 million (2006 est.)
Debt - external:
$4.6 billion (2002)
Economic aid - recipient:
$354 million (2001)
Currency (code):
Madagascar ariary (MGA)
Currency code:
MGF