Current account balance:
$-186 million (2006 est.)
Exports:
$513.1 million f.o.b. (2006 est.)
Exports - commodities:
tobacco 60%, tea, sugar, cotton, coffee, peanuts, wood products,
apparel
Exports - partners:
US 17.9%, South Africa 11.2%, Egypt 7.6%, Germany 7%, Netherlands
6.9%, Japan 4.8%, Russia 4.6%, Mozambique 4.3%, UK 4.2% (2005)
Imports:
$767.9 million f.o.b. (2006 est.)
Imports - commodities:
food, petroleum products, semimanufactures, consumer goods,
transportation equipment
Imports - partners:
South Africa 36.9%, Zambia 9.2%, Zimbabwe 7.7%, Mozambique 7.1%,
India 6.8%, Tanzania 4.9%, US 4% (2005)
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$175.5 million (2006 est.)
Debt - external:
$982.4 million (2006 est.)
Economic aid - recipient:
$401.5 million (2001)