sing, plywood, sugar milling, cement, shipbuilding, petroleum
refining

Industrial production growth rate: 4.5% (1994 est.)

Electricity:
capacity: 21,460,000 kW
production: 108 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 4,789 kWh (1993)

Agriculture: rice, wheat, corn, soybeans, vegetables, fruit, tea;
pigs, poultry, beef, milk; fish catch increasing, reached 1.4
million metric tons in 1988

Illicit drugs: an important heroin transit point; also a drug
money laundering center

Exports: $93 billion (f.o.b., 1994)
commodities: electrical machinery 19.7%, electronic products 19.6%,
textiles 10.9%, footwear 3.3%, foodstuffs 1.0%, plywood and wood
products 0.9% (1993 est.)
partners: US 27.6%, Hong Kong 21.7%, EU countries 15.2%, Japan 10.5%
(1994 est.)

Imports: $85.1 billion (c.i.f., 1994)
commodities: machinery and equipment 15.7%, electronic products
15.6%, chemicals 9.8%, iron and steel 8.5%, crude oil 3.9%,
foodstuffs 2.1% (1993 est.)
partners: Japan 30.1%, US 21.7%, EU countries 17.6% (1993 est.)

External debt: $620 million (1992 est.)

Economic aid: $NA

Currency: 1 New Taiwan dollar (NT$) = 100 cents

Exchange rates: New Taiwan dollars per US$1 - 27.4 (1995), 26.2
(1994), 26.6 (1993), 25.4 (1992), 25.748 (1991)

Fiscal year: 1 July - 30 June

Transportation
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Railways:
total: 4,600 km; note - 1,075 km in common carrier service and about
3,525 km is dedicated to industrial use
narrow gauge: 4,600 km 1.067-m

Highways:
total: 19,860 km
paved: 17,119 km (including 382 km of expressways)
unpaved: 2,741 km (1990 est.)

Pipelines: petroleum products 615 km; natural gas 97 km

Ports: Chi-lung (Keelung), Hua-lien, Kao-hsiung, Su-ao, T'ai-chung

Merchant marine:
total: 198 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 5,812,534
GRT/8,885,092 DWT
ships by type: bulk 50, cargo 29, combination bulk 3, combination
ore/oil 1, container 83, oil tanker 19, refrigerated cargo 11,
roll-on/roll-off cargo 2 (1995 est.)

Airports:
total: 38
with paved runways over 3 047 m: 8
with paved runways 2 438 to 3 047 m: 12
with paved runways 1 524 to 2 437 m: 4
with paved runways 914 to 1 523 m: 6
with paved runways under 914 m: 7
with unpaved runways 1 524 to 2 437 m: 1 (1995 est.)

Heliports: 1 (1995 est.)

Communications
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Telephones: 10,253,773 (1993 est.)

Telephone system: best developed system in Asia ou