offshore assembly exports, coffee, sugar, textiles and apparel, gold, ethanol, chemicals, electricity, iron and steel manufactures

Exports - partners:

US 47.5%, Guatemala 14.2%, Honduras 11.5%, Nicaragua 4.6% (2008)

Imports:

$9.003 billion (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 95 $8.108 billion (2007 est.)

Imports - commodities:

raw materials, consumer goods, capital goods, fuels, foodstuffs, petroleum, electricity

Imports - partners:

US 29.9%, Guatemala 11.8%, Mexico 9.7%, China 4.5%, France 4.4% (2008)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold: