heries products 5.9% (1992)
partners:
US 22%, Japan 18%, Singapore 8%, Hong Kong 5%, Germany 4%, Netherlands
4%, UK 4%, Malaysia, France, China (1992)
Imports:
$37.6 billion (c.i.f., 1992)
commodities:
capital goods 41.4%, intermediate goods and raw materials 32.8%,
consumer goods 10.4%, oil 8.2%
partners:
Japan 29.3%, US 11.4%, Singapore 7.6%, Taiwan 5.5%, Germany 5.4%,
South Korea 4.6%, Malaysia 4.2%, China 3.3%, Hong Kong 3.3%, UK (1992)
External debt:
$33.4 billion (1991)
Industrial production:
growth rate 9% (1992); accounts for about 26% of GDP
Electricity:
capacity:
10,000,000 kW
production:
43.75 billion kWh
consumption per capita:
760 kWh (1992)
Industries:
tourism is the largest source of foreign exchange; textiles and
garments, agricultural processing, beverages, tobacco, cement, light
manufacturing, such as jewelry; electric appliances and components,
integrated circuits, furniture, plastics; world's second-largest
tungsten producer and third-largest tin producer
Agriculture:
accounts for 12% of GDP and 60% of labor force; leading producer and
exporter of rice and cassava (tapioca); other crops - rubber, corn,
sugarcane, coconuts, soybeans; except for wheat, self-sufficient in
food
Illicit drugs:
a minor producer of opium and marijuana; major illicit trafficker of
heroin, particularly from Burma and Laos, for the international drug
market; eradication efforts have reduced the area of cannabis
cultivation and shifted some production to neighboring countries;
opium poppy cultivation has been affected by eradication efforts; also
a major drug money laundering center
Economic aid:
recipient:
US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $870 million; Western
(non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments (1970-89), $8.6
billion; OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89), $19 million
Currency:
1 baht (B) = 100 satang
Exchange rates:
baht (B) per US$1 - 25.446 (December 1993), 25.400 (1992), 25.517
(1991), 25.585 (1990), 25.702 (1989)
Fiscal year:
1 October-30 September

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Railroads:
3,940 km 1.000-meter gauge, 99 km double track
Highways:
total:
77,697 km
paved:
35,855 km (including 88 km of expressways)
unpaved:
gravel, other stabilization 14,092 km; earth 27,750 km (1988)
Inland waterways:
3,999 km principal waterways; 3,701 km with navigable depths of 0.9 m
or more throughout the year;