machinery and equipment, petroleum products, capital goods, foodstuffs, consumer goods

Imports - partners:

France 16.7%, China 8.8%, Netherlands 6.4%, Spain 6%, Belgium 5.4%,
US 5.1%, Brazil 4.5% (2008)

Debt - external:

$NA

Exchange rates:

ouguiyas (MRO) per US dollar - NA (2007), 271.3 (2006), 267.04 (2005), 265.8 (2004), 263.03 (2003)

Communications ::Mauritania

Telephones - main lines in use:

76,400 (2008) country comparison to the world: 152