Imports:
$750 million f.o.b. (2004 est.)
Imports - commodities:
capital equipment, petroleum, foodstuffs, cotton, consumer goods
Imports - partners:
US 29.3%, Netherlands 17.5%, Trinidad and Tobago 12.7%, China 6.5%,
Japan 5.2%, Brazil 4.3% (2005)
Debt - external:
$504.3 million (2005 est.)
Economic aid - recipient:
$46 million Netherlands provided $37 million for project and
program assistance, European Development Fund $4 million, Belgium $2
million (2003)
Currency (code):
Surinam dollar (SRD)
Currency code:
SRG
Exchange rates:
Surinamese dollars per US dollar - 2.7317 (2005), Surinamese
guilders per US dollar - 2.7336 (2004), 2.6013 (2003), 2.3468
(2002), note, during 1998, the exchange rate splintered into four
distinct rates; in January 1999 the government floated the guilder,
but subsequently fixed it when the black-market rate plunged; in
January 2004, the government introduced the Surinamese dollar as
replacement for the guilder, tied to a US dollar-dominated currency
basket
Fiscal year:
calendar year
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